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My sister changed her doctorate focus this year. Since then she has enjoyed her studies and lab work more. I am going to visit her since her professor sent her to a prestigious university for continued education becuase of her lab work.

I'm proud of her.

Yesterday my toddler comes up to me and says, "daddy, build block tower?" So I tell her to go get her blocks, which she does. We built a block tower, knocked it down (which makes her giggle), built it again, etc.

A decade ago I was in a horribly toxic marriage and honestly didn't think I would ever have kids. Today, I have an awesome wife and three kids. I love all of them and I enjoy getting to spend time with them. I never would have imagined myself being where I am today and I am reminded often that I am a very lucky man.

My partner of 12 years and mother of my children got citizenship in my home country a few days ago. It's been a long and difficult road to get here.

I met this really cool vegan online and I talk to them on the intenet

My daughter just started school. She's pretty stoked about it, and so are we.

My partner and I replaced the broken kitchen faucet all by ourselves, which might sound lame, but neither of us is a plumber, and it's glorious to have running water in the kitchen again.

Here are some sites to remind you that not everything in the world is bad, friend:

• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
• https://fixthenews.com/planet/
• https://www.positive.news/
• https://www.goodgoodgood.co/impact/environment

Found a woman that is exactly as weird and different as I am, which I thought was impossible, I was already fine with staying romantically alone my whole life :)

I am trying to quit all screens aside from workrelated things.

Picked up going outside and doing woodworking on my driveway. I have had such nice conversations with the people in the neighbourhood. Let's connect is a great thing.

My son had one question wrong on his mathematics final exam. He noticed that the grader took the point off on a question that he had originally wrong but had corrected. The grader fixed it when my son pointed it out, so he got a perfect score!

My dad has had good health news recently and is now retired. All this wasn't a given just a few years ago... I feel happy and relieved through him. I hope you do too

My life happened to end but I came back.

Additionally, since I'm from Europe I am not bankrupt due to that.

Am performer. My performance career is finally starting to take off doing what I love, and I'm now a frequent flier at a historic venue

Nose surgery to remove polyps and correct a septum deviation. I'm getting out of the hospital today. It's going to take a few weeks for me to fully heal but being able to breathe through the nose again is luxurious.

I’m taking my health a lot more seriously now, and haven been able to lose 10kg since may.

I was on Lemmy and saw a post where a user named TooManyPancakes (which is a lie!) asked everyone for some uplifting news to brighten their day.

It was a wonderful exchange! This caring person, with the poorly chosen user name, took time out of their day to reply to as many comments as they could, with uplifting affirmations of their own.

Completely made my day to see someone ask for help and then return it in kind, many times over. ❤️❤️❤️

I might have made a new friend in the real world! It’s quite exciting as that doesn’t happen often and I feel very lucky, if the friendship sticks.

I got hired!

Granted, my bike was stolen pretty much immediately, but still! I'm exited to potentially not be broke anymore, once that first paycheck comes in.

I finally unlocked the confidence to be the version of me that I want to be. Got the haircut I've always wanted, have it dyed the colour I want, I'm getting a new piercing soon, and I'm planning out the tattoo I'm going to get once I have some spare money. It's been a journey to get here, but I'm so fucking happy with who I am and I no longer feel the need to apologize for being comfortable as my self.

Gosh I totally feel that. Maybe something is going around.

I got to spend some time with my big sister. We had tea and talked awhile, then played Smash Bros. She apparently loves to spam Falcon Punch, so I got to see a lot of very entertaining slo-mo finishing blows. Like p-p-p-PAWWunchhh...

Good question, I feel slightly better now.

Me and my wife finally got an apartment after being homeless couch surfers for 6 months

I tried making mango sticky rice for the first time, and it came out great!

It's a really nice treat/dessert. It's a sort of very sweet rice pudding made with coconut milk, and rather simple to make

https://thefoodietakesflight.com/mango-sticky-rice/#recipe