Things that make me happy

  • Things that make me happy with chronic health challenges (written in 2023)
  • Wall art of mine on my wall
  • Comfy socks
  • Comfy apple watch bands
  • Stockings that are broken in a bit but dont have holes
  • Certain handcreams and face lotions
  • My water bottles
  • Checking off things or logging done things like meals, medicines, walking, drinking water, etc. 
  • Journaling makes me feel better
  • Watercolor
  • Moving paints around, putting paint on paper, trying new paints and specific sketchbooks I love
  • Helping people
  • Sharing my art to a positive feedback of people who it makes happy
  • Accomplishing something
  • Reading a good book (which those are hard to find, so I re-read a lot, same with movies)
  • Being clean (showered, etc) for the day
  • Fingernails and toes that were trimmed a week ago
  • A good book and a cup of tea
  • A cup of tea and a good youtube video
  • A very specific kind of expensive chocolate, and a great gluten-free dairy-free soy-free cashew sweet-and-salty ice cream (sorry to mention food)
  • Learning about photography, on location natural lighting, camera lens choice, sony camera lenses (emount), apertures and fstops, editing photos when they dont have to all look the same but for artistic vision
  • The color yellow
  • Certain happy color palettes
  • I’m going though a pink and orange phase at the moment
  • My favorite color is blue though
  • Getting paints (watercolor) in the mail
  • Watercolor colors, color itself, pigments, color theory, light, visual harmony and proper composition, straight horizon lines in the ocean, the color blue
  • Writing
  • & not just having to be one thing, not being in a creative box, helping people, etc.
  • Hmmm…making lists?