The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. -- MT

• Organize my schedule and make time for myself mentally and physically.
  • Schedule decent hours of sleep [ 5< but 8>] so I can "hopefully" feel more energetic and I'm clear minded.
  • Eating at set hours.
  • Make a hour or two a day to work out.
  • Making a day a week Isa-day.
• Continuously working out.
  • Yoga.
  • Pilates.
  • Cardio.
  • Jukari.
• Maintain nutritional balance.

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one -- KH

• Incorrectly pulled espresso shots and badly made coffee.
• Disorderly creative space.
• Garish decor.
• Being unproductive.
• Sleeping for more than 7 hours a day.
• Being late.
• Heavy meals; especially loaded with meats.
• Being approached by strangers.
• Nonsensical conversations.
• Public restrooms.
• Realizing I'm lacking something the exact moment I need it.
• Not understanding something, whether a theory or an assignment.
• Kindness, particularly my own, being taken advantage of.
• People who stare.

• After 5 they have to sleep in their own beds.
• Avoid physical force at all costs
• Build a pillow fort on rainy nights and a tree fort for sunny days
• Camp in the backyard.
• Cook and bake with them.
• Enroll them in music [classical first, then at 12 they can select their own instrument]
• Enroll them in sports and physical activities.
• Foster healthy eating habits [low intake of fried, carbs, high on veggies, fruits]
• Give each one a unique name. Something from years past or remarkable characters.
• Grow a garden so they appreciate the work that goes into fresh produce.
• Have pets around so they never ask for one [except maybe a pony]

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex. -- OW

• A warm bubble bath.
• Breakfast foods at all hours.
• Bubble tea in summer days.
• Dogs with doe eyes or fluff balls [ex: rottweiler; ex: mini poodles]
• Feeding birds.
• Foreign films & foreign dramas.
• Inconspicuously people watching.
• Making silly faces.
• Mellow music; ranging from modern indies to oldies like Sinatra and Billie Holiday.
• Mint ice cream, preferably not food colored.
• Naked make-up application.
• Naps, but no longer than 90 minutes or I feel as if I wasted valuable time.
• Old books harboring the musty library smell.