• Massage night. Sri knows all the good spots.
  • Singing mantras together. Improvising. Lyra's and Sofia's beautiful voices. Waking up with new songs stuck in my head.
  • Ginger lemon tea. Roasted pumpkin seeds. Purple risotto with lemon zest and parmesan.
  • Lots of talks and practice therapy sessions confirming what I need most now: a clear goal. A direction. Priorities. Inner leadership - filling the vacant role of a director for my very own play. Lovingly guiding my own parts through tough times, emphasizing what I want and why.
  • Learning about the difference between needs and strategies.
  • Driving home with Ems; good conversation.
  • Coming home, talking with C. all night long, forgetting about time and space.
  • Writing short lists with little things that bring us joy for each other. Guessing correctly. Realizing that we know each other very well already.
  • Painting and drawing together, all three of us. Listening to old Christmas classics.
  • Hiding candy in our boots on 6 December. Leaving a trail of chocolate Santas to L.'s room.
  • Going to the city centre twice, spending time with C.'s friends. Seeing a play with the kids with the cutest little girl on Earth on my lap.
  • Mutual understanding, loving touch and massages, playfulness, matching each other's vibe (doing weird voices or silly dance moves), developing ideas for a novel together, coaching C. through work problems.
  • Solving the advent calendar puzzles together; working on my Christmas jigsaw puzzle. Also, I found a whole page with sudokus, crossword puzzles and other games in the trash and spent an hour happily working on every single one.
  • Motivating Findus the cat to come down from the tree. Seeing him surfing down from the bench with the boxes that are stored there.
  • Painting L.'s face with glitter stars and bats.
  • Cuddling. Letting AI come up with interactive bedtime stories. Telling L. about the Land of Milk and Honey where everything is made of candy. Sending him on a fantasy journey of a special Christmas Eve to help him fall asleep.
  • Making breakfast. Telling each other about our dreams. Singing together.
  • Baking cookies with L. Decorating them together with lots of chocolate and sugar confetti.
  • Honest appreciation for my cooking.
  • C. told me how hard it is to see me wasting my time, avoiding what has to be done. And sent me on a mission to visit a nearby school. I actually went inside and spontaneously talked to one of the people responsible for new hires! I'm going back there next week for a proper job interview.
  • Drawing a full image on coloured paper, switching up styles; being inspired by C.'s sediment drawings.
  • “You’ve got a freak flag, you just don’t fly it.” - one of my favourite lines of the annual trashy Christmas movie marathon.
  • A surprisingly nice day with my oldest friends. Lots of joking, real talk, card games, delicious food and a long walk.
  • Talking about Motivational Interviewing with Lena in the car.
  • Starting to make my vision board for 2025. Working until 3am.
  • Hugging my blanket. Breathing in fresh laundry smell.
  • A cute little video message from L.
  • Wearing an old pair of super comfy jeans.
  • Baking a very elaborate cake for C.'s birthday. One slice and you don't need any more food for days.
  • Giving him one of my paintings as a birthday gift. He really liked it when he saw me painting it in France and already asked if he could have it back then.
  • Roasted hazelnuts in toasted bread.
  • Making plans. Oh, the dopamine I get from envisioning my perfect life.
  • Falling asleep with my hand on C.'s chest underneath his soft and warm baby alpaca sweater.
  • Joking around with C. Being ourselves. Silly, childish, authentic. Emotional warmth.
  • Scratchy massage therapy for the three cats (who kept coming back for more).
  • Spending a few hours at the free school nearby. Learning about their concept. Meeting a few students, singing together. It was weird, but perhaps not in a bad way?
  • Braeburn apples.
dec 4 2024 ∞
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