Tag: dailyprompt

I like to get so absorbed in an activity that I lose track of time. Long bike rides, gardening, and reading in a park can be great. Perhaps it reminds me of summer vacation as a kid when the days felt so long and I could do whatever I wanted, mixed with chores I enjoyed like listening to music while mowing the lawn in an evening glow, or raking leaves while thinking of a story I was writing or excitedly waiting for an installment in a show I followed. Time was irrelevant back then, food magically appeared, and finances were never even thought about. I would like to live more like that now, but responsibilities are greater as an adult. It is something we’ve had to give up in our time-crunch working life, so doing things that can take as much time as they’d like feels great.

Learn the Sinhalese language (curly alphabet!), play violin by ear while listening to a playlist of songs I wanted to try, spend time caring for and propagating my plants, read a book before bed, gather a notebook of recipes I’ve never made but that could inspire me on a day I don’t know what to cook.

Can’t say I’d change anything in the magical sense, that’s what personal growth is for! For example, my arms are weaker than my legs, so it gives me something to work on in the gym! 💪

I’ve been working on personal growth with my career as I study for my real estate licence exam, and in mental and physical health I’m making strides that at times felt slow and emotionally challenging but I am seeing great progress.

As we say in metro Detroit about one of our major highways, treat yourself like I-75: never stop working on yourself no matter how inconvenient it is for everyone else 😁 I’m sure people wouldn’t mind a magical wand for that trek of road though.

The number one is still recovering from my sprained ankle 3 weeks ago, specifically walking slowly and stretching my calf which is sore after such long neglect. My pace is slower than usual but it feels great to not be in the boot! More pertinent to tomorrow as a time constraint is making moussaka from scratch, since I won’t have time Wednesday. I’ve got my groceries and will take that on then!

Not much right now. I’ve got a sprained foot and injured wrist, so my physical limitations mostly keep me limited to reading, gaming, and sitting on my patio among my plants and flowers.

Food (especially fruit), nature, hugs, and sunshine (especially with fluffy clouds mixed in it)!

Yoshimi battles the pink robots by The Flaming Lips.

I would like a non-European centric encyclopedia of world knowledge and wisdom from the sources our forefathers overlooked, including the various historical, cultural, ecological, and entertainment views they held (and also how those have changed and adapted over time). There are so many people out there I know nothing about, so I’d love to be educated!

I got a hand written recipe to make Japanese pork cutlets (tonkatsu) and in my first attempt to make it, I smoked the apartment out so badly that I could barely see through the smoke layer, opened both my front door and patio door, and had to put bags over the smoke detectors to prevent them from going off. Sometimes during that year living in Japan I would cook for 1-2 hours, throw the inedible attempt into the garbage, then hop on my bike to get dinner at a family restaurant. It took a lot of fails to finally become a confident cook!