Weekly Small Pleasures #96

This week has been a pre-move week, which is always an emotional rollercoaster to stress town. But I tried managing stress and anxiety with some nature runs, some coffee runs, and some good music and TV. Here are some of the good moments of my week:

1. Trail run achievement and post-run ice cream. Twice. Since I haven’t been able to go to the gym this month, I had to do some exercise and decided to go on a trail run. I’m not a runner. The most I’ve ran in months is a mile. I ended up running 3 miles on a rocky and hilly trail and felt great. I did that two days this week and followed each run with local ice cream cause that’s how I live. F-it mode. Ok, sometimes.

2. More great music. This week I became a new fan of the band: Get Set Go.

And one more… such a lovely song:

3. Coffee and cookies + caffeine high + good mood. I’m beginning to think I should drink coffee more often. This week I had TWO iced coffees in a row (which were kinda large too), that is more than twice as much caffeine I’m used to (considering I normally drink black tea), and it put me in a great mood. It made me feel excited for things to come which was probably just my heart beating faster and my mind got confused, in a good way, by how my body was physically reacting to the uptake of caffeine. A good mood is rare for me, neutral mood is the norm, so when I’m actually in a good or excited mood, is very much welcome. I did feel jittery at some point and didn’t sleep awesome but I think it was worth it.

4. Awesome Netflix find. One morning this week I woke up feeling like I just didn’t want to leave bed and decided to not leave bed and instead watch something on Netflix on my laptop to lift up my mood. I came across a 2008 British TV show called The Inbetweeners. Watched two episodes and it was exactly what I needed. Made me laugh a lot, I love British humour. And they play tons of music I like, major bonus.

I hope you had a great week!

See what others were happy about:
This week’s small pleasures: episode 20 – Thistles and Kiwis

Weekly Small Pleasures – Blog Event

Share your happiness!

I find that the small things that make us happy every day are easily forgotten.

This blog event is simply about remembering and sharing those small things that made you happy during the week; things that made you smile, made you laugh, made you do a happy dance, made your heart smile…

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