Three Good Happenings Meme: Day One!
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mithenI've been tagged by kizzia , and it's just the kind of thing I can't resist (also, Kizzia is irresistible as well!)
Rules are: for five consecutive days post three positive things that have happened, plus tag three other people to do the same, so the positivity keeps growing. I might have a glitch in there because I'm flying internationally in the middle of these five days, so I'm going to pretty much lose a whole day, but will try to keep a decent schedule.
I'm going to tagnavaan , Zolac_no_miko, and prince0froses, with the caveat that if five consecutive days is tough, I'd much rather get five non-consecutive good things than nothing at all! :)
For today:
1. I bought a book by the group that does Our Bodies, Ourselves about menopause. I'm not there yet but my mother had a very rough transition and I want to try and be ready. So that made me feel very proactive and prepared.
2. I finished reading Koi to ha Yobenai in Japanese! It's a really sweet manga about a guy who's just been dumped by his money-grubbing boyfriend, who finds a stranger and a kitten freezing to death on the street and brings them home. Over the course of a year the roommates fall slowly in love, have ridiculous angsty complications, and end with an incredibly sweet and tender sex scene free of any of the noncon vibes that can crop up in such scenes (the nervous top actually checks a bunch of times to make sure he's not hurting the bottom and the bottom is enthusiastically consenting). It's adorable and has a cute kitten character and made me smile a lot, and I read it in Japanese with only occasional checks of a scanlation (which was off a lot of the time, so that made me feel good too!)
Here is a shot just after Junpei confesses his love to a flustered Ei, who decides to hide behind the kitten:
3. As I was typing this, I saw a hummingbird sipping from a bird of paradise flower, and it doesn't get much more positive than that. :)
kizzia , and it's just the kind of thing I can't resist (also, Kizzia is irresistible as well!)Rules are: for five consecutive days post three positive things that have happened, plus tag three other people to do the same, so the positivity keeps growing. I might have a glitch in there because I'm flying internationally in the middle of these five days, so I'm going to pretty much lose a whole day, but will try to keep a decent schedule.
I'm going to tag
navaan , Zolac_no_miko, and prince0froses, with the caveat that if five consecutive days is tough, I'd much rather get five non-consecutive good things than nothing at all! :)For today:
1. I bought a book by the group that does Our Bodies, Ourselves about menopause. I'm not there yet but my mother had a very rough transition and I want to try and be ready. So that made me feel very proactive and prepared.
2. I finished reading Koi to ha Yobenai in Japanese! It's a really sweet manga about a guy who's just been dumped by his money-grubbing boyfriend, who finds a stranger and a kitten freezing to death on the street and brings them home. Over the course of a year the roommates fall slowly in love, have ridiculous angsty complications, and end with an incredibly sweet and tender sex scene free of any of the noncon vibes that can crop up in such scenes (the nervous top actually checks a bunch of times to make sure he's not hurting the bottom and the bottom is enthusiastically consenting). It's adorable and has a cute kitten character and made me smile a lot, and I read it in Japanese with only occasional checks of a scanlation (which was off a lot of the time, so that made me feel good too!)
Here is a shot just after Junpei confesses his love to a flustered Ei, who decides to hide behind the kitten:
3. As I was typing this, I saw a hummingbird sipping from a bird of paradise flower, and it doesn't get much more positive than that. :)
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Date: 2014-09-11 01:47 am (UTC)Tal and I have the Trans Bodies, Trans Selves book, and while I can't attest to how useful the content is because I have trouble reading it sometimes it's very well compiled!
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Date: 2014-09-11 06:02 am (UTC)I picked up the iBook sample of the menopause book and when I saw that they were very dubious of hormone replacement therapy (but still even-handed enough to include people who had it and thought it was good) I decided to give it a try. It was written in 2006 and I think since then HRT has been almost entirely debunked (my mother got OBSCENE amounts of pressure to do it, it was ridiculous) but it seemed a good base attitude.
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Date: 2014-09-11 09:06 pm (UTC)YAY hummingbird! Never seen one on RL. Cool.
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Date: 2014-09-15 06:15 am (UTC)Hummingbirds! I don't see them often in Japan, but I saw THREE during my week in California. *happy sigh*
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