In an effort to be more positive amidst all the negativity and bad stuff going on right now, what are you looking forward to?
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34772864
Whether it's a project you're working on, plans you have this weekend, an event you're going to, etc. What's something that's got you excited?
Very recent, I'm still in the glowy happy haze of it. My partner and I just got married and we've got an old, fixer-upper property that we plan to make into our own haven of weirdness haha I'm excited to keep building this wild life together.
That's so fire I wish I had an old fixer upper property, that's like literally my dream
Tried skiing and it was really fun. Surprisingly did not hurt myself wiping out or crashing into a tree.
Thinking of trying snowboarding next year.
I have a trip to Japan coming up very shortly that I'm looking forward to. Made a few Cafe reservations a little while ago, I'll be riding with a drift instructor around a few tracks at Ebisu Circuit, planning on visiting Nara to see the deer, going to a few PokeCenters, and visiting a bunch of second hand stores for books, games, and merch.
That's awesome! I have friends that are trying to set up a trip to Japan around november ish, I'd love to go but I dunno if I can afford it
I get to sing in three concerts in the next five weeks. All three are going to be very fun, and one of them is at Carnegie Hall!
Wow! Is that a career? What's the coolest place or thing you've performed?
Is that a career?
Nope, choral singing is something I do as a volunteer. But I do it a lot! Primarily with my local symphony chorus, another small local group, and occasionally on tours.
This will be my third time singing at Carnegie, which is always fun. Hard to say the coolest place I’ve performed, but definitely up there is the American cemetery in Normandy, France. Also Winchester Cathedral in the UK.
The coolest thing I’ve performed is also tough. Literally my first concert with the symphony chorus was a performance of The Two Towers. Like, the movie played while we performed the soundtrack. It was incredible. I’ve gotten to do a few of those movie concerts. I also really love when we get to do video game music, those concerts are always a blast. Getting to shout the grunts in the Dragonborn song from Skyrim on a stage is so cool.
And then of course there’s Carmina Burana which features O Fortuna which most people have heard somewhere, and Verdi’s Requiem which features the most terrifyingly awesome Dies Irae of all time. Staples like Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s 9th are always a blast.
I’m seriously privileged to have the talent and opportunity to participate in this stuff. It’s so much fun.
Tesla’s stock further dipping (sorry couldn’t resist).
I’m about to build my first PC, which will incidentally also be my first Linux daily driver. Very excited for this project! I’m sure it will have some challenges but I think it’s going to be a great machine.
I have an appointment to get my first tattoo this afternoon!
I have a cash poker game tonight with some friends, should be a good time!
The start of the baseball season! Go, Gunnar! Go, Adley! Go, Westy! Go, Mounty! Go, O's!
The weekend.
After years of trying to build a solid workout routine I've managed to do at least 40 min of cardio every morning for the last two months, to the point where I'm craving more.
I've started taking my writing seriously as well, and after some online courses have vastly improved over the last year. I'm working on a collection of short stories now.
The days are finally longer than the nights and I'm starting to see grass underneath the snow. I'm looking forward to start working in the vegetable garden and being able to have a nice cup of tea outside in the sun.
Enjoy it! We're going the opposite way now. One of the major downsides of living in the southern hemisphere is people forgot why the holiday season landed in the middle of winter. It was to give people something to look forward to and help them through the dark months... There is NOTHING like that during the winter here. It can be pretty bleak!
I guess you need to get your own version of the swedish summer vacation.
I'm going on a vacation to South Carolina with my girlfriend and her family for a week. I've never been there, so I'm excited to see what's in store
I am moving out of Texas. Our house goes on the market in a couple of weeks and once it's sold we'll be heading to New England.
Jealous. I will be stuck here for the foreseeable future.
I tried to stick out as long as I could, but we really have no choice anymore. I have a child with special needs and it's been a struggle to get him the services he is legally entitled to. Now without the Dept of Education things are only going to get worse.
I wish you well and hope you can get out soon.
My younger daughter's 3rd birthday is next week. That'll be pretty fun.
We're also going on a family vacation this summer across the country. We had been planning to fly, but after comparing prices we discovered it would be cheaper to rent an RV and make it a road trip. I'm looking forward to doing that with my kids.
Kicking addiction once and for all. No, I mean it, this will be the year I get my brain back.
Good luck on this difficult road to redemption!
I've been a vegetarian for a hundred years, but I've finally decided to go vegan and I'm kind of excited about it. I'm growing a garden from seeds I started inside, and my seeds have almost all sprouted.
Nice! There's a bunch of vegan communities on lemmy to check out too
Both for general info and also things like recipes
!homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org
Thanks!!
I’m getting married on Towel Day. To a woman who is excited that I wanted to get married on Towel Day.
Bad Ass. are towels a part of the dress code?
No but I think I’ll get them as gifts
Just uhhh, don't forget to bring a towel.
I'm sure a hoopy frood like you always knows where your towel is though.
May your wedding towels be full of nutrients!
Now I want a towel shaped cake
With mint frosting
In May my spouse and I are going away together for a few days without the kids for the first time in a decade.
The tulip and daffodil leaves are emerging in our gardens and soon we will have flowers.
Our church is starting up again this week & I love choir.
I am finally getting a surgery I have desperately needed for mental health and basic quality of life since the height of COVID. I didn't see it as a life threatening need-to-be-done so I waited until after the height of COVID to begin pursuing it.
I was scheduled for this surgery in February 2023, and when they took my blood tests, they had to cancel the surgery, because that's when the found out I had cancer. (Chronic Myeloid Leukemia)
My cancer treatment has been going very well, and now I am once again scheduled for this surgery with the blessing of my cancer doctor and the requirement of not taking my cancer medications for a week before the surgery and three weeks after the surgery. That is because my cancer medications increase bleeding and impact how long wounds take to heal. (Sprycel/Dasatinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor)
Here's hoping it goes well, I absolutely hate surgery, but I really need this done. I've been literally waiting for this moment for years, it's going to be a huge mental health boost.
And to be clear while I am indeed on the Blåhaj Lemmy, this is surgery is not about gender identity or gender affirming care. It's still important and impacting my mental health, however.
Gosh, the amount of strength life has required from you these past few years is incredible to imagine. I'm glad to hear your treatment is going well and I hope the surgery and recovery are smooth for you. It's great you're finally going to get it!
Thank you, I have honestly been through so much more than even that, and it has been so hard. I lost my place to live, the majority of my possessions, and I have just been broken, but I am trying to keep going. I think the hardest thing to lose was my bed. It took me until I was nearly 40 to afford my first bed, frame, mattress, and quality sheets, that was all my own and wasn't a hand-me-down of some kind. I am back to sleeping on a shitty 15 year old mattress I got for free that hurts my back and I have no idea when I'll be able to afford a bed again.
Every two weeks --- this next weekend being one such event ---, I have sushi with my grandma and my brother. I love sushi, my grandma, and my brother. Feeling stellar.
I can't wait to be able to garden again in a few weeks.
I'm so excited I wet my plants!
Roughly four months after being run over and rendered bed bound my mom is taking the next step in her recovery. Literally. She's been okayed to start walking. She recently went to her first physical therapy session and is working on getting that leg strength back. Still a ways from walking even with a walker but hey progress is progress.
My lemongrass plant that I tend to neglect is showing signs of life. Seriously I haven't changed the pot or soil of it in at least two years now. Not to mention the amount of times I forget to give it water. It's a miracle the poor thing has lasted this long really. But today I noticed some new growth so that's cool.
My best friend's getting married next month, and I'm the minister.
That's honestly really awesome. It's such an awesome thing to be able to do for a friend! Congratulations!
I have big plans for the spring and summer: multiple backpacking/camping trips in the mountains, a week-long family vacation, and (hopefully) getting back into mountain biking after a multi-year break. I can't wait!
Nice! Those sound like really solid plans. Anything with mountains instantly ignites my happy chemicals.
Absolutely. Like Gillian Welch sang, I've been in the lowlands too long.
A friend is smoking a brisket this weekend 🤤
I have some travels planned this year :)
I'm taking three days of annual leave between Easter and ANZAC day next month. I'll be out of the office eleven days straight. Time to properly unwind.
Just learned from my neighbor that the back door of the house I just bought floods during summer monsoons, so I'm going to spend the next few weekends digging a trench out to the street to give any future downpours a path away from my back door.
good neighbor
It's looking like it's going to be a good year for gaming.
Games I'm looking forward to:
Subnautica 2 The Outer Worlds 2 Death Stranding 2 (possibly. I'll wait for reviews) GTA 6 (Assuming there is an offline, kernal DRM free mode) Solarpunk Paralives
Timberborn’s experimental branch adds some cool shit and the mods are patching for compatibility. New gaming addiction.
If Subnautica 2 delivers on the multi player co-op, I could see it joining my primary LAN party rotation. Exciting stuff.
There's a conference in Albuquerque next week. Never been that far West before, and it beats going to work!
Our country is trialling the UTI vaccine. Think of other advancement we made since COVID.
Nothing fancy, but very efficient as far as I'm concerned.
What's been one of your favorite books so far this year?
Quite early in the year to pick one favorite, but so far I would say:
More sunlight as summer approaches, and enough heat that I can be outside without freezing to death. Can't wait until I can get the back patio set up, and see hummingbirds coming by again. Plus it'll be kayaking season, just in time for my sprained wrist to have hopefully healed.
I'm going on vacation *next Tuesday! We're driving south until it's aggressively springtime, and then we'll see what's next. Probably hiking, sleeping late, and waffle house. I'm a simple sort.
Edit- I have no concept of time. Boo.
Sometimes simple pleasures are the best and just what we need.
Small shout-out to
I'm excited that my company could break 2 million in revenue this year. 1.7 at the least.
Nice! You planning to celebrate?
Just by being relieved I won't need to worry about money for a bit haha.
I finally got a new dishwasher to replace the one that was spewing water, and my husband promised he'd tackle getting the laundry washing machine replaced with one that works soon. I'm very excited for when i get to stop going to the laundromat!
Looking forward to Blue Prince releasing. Looking forward to....something happening with Heaven's Vault. I'm hoping a new game and not just more books?? Hoping my dental abscess and enlarged spleen is nothing.
Death mostly
I appreciate the effort but I have to wonder if folks hanging inside Auschwitz had conversations like this.
what the fuck yo
Absolutely. Pandoras box released the moth for a reason, we can't all just 100% suffer
Nothing :(