Do you like to see how things work? I took my laptop apart once to replace the screen and it gave me so much anxiety, I was scared I wouldn't be able to put it back together again, but I did! It wasn't that hard.
I love learning how things work. Disassembling laptops is extremely stressful the first time (especially if it's your only pc) but it becomes fun when your realize that they're (usually) meant to be opened; it becomes stressful when you open items that aren't supposed to be, like anything that uses glue as a build material.
It also helps seeing things less like a magic box and more like a logic interaction between things, meaning i learn how to use them the right way.
And congratulations for fixing your laptop, it always seems harder that it actually is
Watching the blue jays at my bird feeder & birdbath
My first sip of tea in the morning
'60s music
Dogs and cats
Also horses - I moved to an area with a lot of horse farms and, from my second floor windows, sometimes I can see a horse or two hanging out in a paddock a couple of hills away
Fun new makeup (one of my most recent new palettes is this:)
One of my favorite things about this time of year is that I can finally sit outside with my laptop and work in my garden while watching the birds. Lots of times, deer will come around too if I am being quiet and still.
In the last couple of years, seeing my toddler do new things. Any new things. Jumping, saying "cake", eating a new food, today it was making toys talk to each other.
Overall, coding things. I'm incredibly newbie but wannabe game dev. Learning to code as I go copying tutorials and trying to tweak things and mash different ones together until it does what I want. I would spend an entire evening getting frustrated and not understanding error codes and pulling my hair out because invalid syntax and shit. Then finally it would do what I wanted it to do and I could physically feel my brain light up with buzzy happy-chemicals, big grins and jumping round the room like a kid on Xmas.
Then I'd start on the next minijob and break the whole fucking thing...
Seeing kids smile, hearing them laugh. Like, if I'm on the bus and I hear a baby laughing, with those early crackly chuckles they get, it just taps into something within me and brightens my mood. Very difficult to frown with such pure happiness around.
My dogs getting the zoomies
My husband dancing
A cup of strong hot coffee on a cold morning outdoors
Squirrels and bunnies playchasing
The sound of pigeons
My neighbor playing soccer with his kids in the rain
Everything about libraries
Good news from a long distance friend
Blazing hot sunny days
Perfectly ripe papaya
I aspire to love life as much as you do
I have chronic depression and OCD, but even on a cloudy day some rays of sun may shine
My wife's nice bottom, as she walks by. Always makes me smile. Love her to bits.
The Canadian election results. Especially if PP loses his own riding.
🤍🍁🤍
And he lost his riding pretty badly. Time to celebrate!
When my kid has a nice day
A cute plush
Crab rangoon
Seeing plants start to bloom
Friendly cats
Seeing someone embrace their curiosity about a subject
My stupid bearded dragon
Seeing someone clearly filled with joy
Younger people discovering a "retro" thing and thinking it's "cool"
Being able to answer a question because you have the niche knowledge to do so
Someone who is genuinely awed by sometimes you put a lot of time / effort into
Eating a juicy, crunchy, delicious apple that hits that craving just right!
Seeing a cool bug
There's more, but I'll stop for now (but lmk if you need a continuation).
Thai food
There we go; all better now.
Disassembling stuff. Usually electronics but also items with cool mechanisms like a clock
I like buying cheap stuff at a yard sale that doesn't quite work and then taking it apart to see if I can make it function again.
My greatest success was an old school oscillating fan that I've used for years since I got it for 50 cents.
Do you like to see how things work? I took my laptop apart once to replace the screen and it gave me so much anxiety, I was scared I wouldn't be able to put it back together again, but I did! It wasn't that hard.
I love learning how things work. Disassembling laptops is extremely stressful the first time (especially if it's your only pc) but it becomes fun when your realize that they're (usually) meant to be opened; it becomes stressful when you open items that aren't supposed to be, like anything that uses glue as a build material. It also helps seeing things less like a magic box and more like a logic interaction between things, meaning i learn how to use them the right way. And congratulations for fixing your laptop, it always seems harder that it actually is
Job offers
Not that I've seen any in ages
Otherwise.... Mmm cats. Cats are good
Wellbutrin
"If you can't make your own dopamine, store-bought is fine!" 💖
Any kind of new growth on my houseplants. Dogs.
When I stand on my head.
Parabolic mirrors work just as well
Psychedelics
One of my favorite things about this time of year is that I can finally sit outside with my laptop and work in my garden while watching the birds. Lots of times, deer will come around too if I am being quiet and still.
Porn
Pay gurry forn
In the last couple of years, seeing my toddler do new things. Any new things. Jumping, saying "cake", eating a new food, today it was making toys talk to each other.
Overall, coding things. I'm incredibly newbie but wannabe game dev. Learning to code as I go copying tutorials and trying to tweak things and mash different ones together until it does what I want. I would spend an entire evening getting frustrated and not understanding error codes and pulling my hair out because invalid syntax and shit. Then finally it would do what I wanted it to do and I could physically feel my brain light up with buzzy happy-chemicals, big grins and jumping round the room like a kid on Xmas.
Then I'd start on the next minijob and break the whole fucking thing...
Rotation
Forklifts
Lionel Playworld
Seeing kids smile, hearing them laugh. Like, if I'm on the bus and I hear a baby laughing, with those early crackly chuckles they get, it just taps into something within me and brightens my mood. Very difficult to frown with such pure happiness around.