Today I did a lot of cooking. It is one of my favorite things to do and something I am good at so I am trying to get back to it. When I moved to my current apartment I stopped cooking because I hate my kitchen. It is small and cramped and all the appliances are old and broken (stove light doesn’t work- oven is the size of a toy, garbage disposal is broken, upstairs tenants put in a washing machine without the appropriate connections so every time they do a load of laundry my kitchen sink fills up with whatever detergent (and dirt) filled laundry water is getting pumped out of their washing machine into the wrong pipes...the list goes on). But despite the fact that I can’t use my sink and all the other problems with my kitchen I’ve managed to get back to cooking and it feels good because it’s been over a year not doing something that I used to do every day since I was 20 that made me so happy.
@kindCherry4387:
Hello kind cherry
Working on things.
Trying to train myself to eliminate negative sources of “entertainment” that just make me angry/upset that I used to be addicted to. Twitter is one of them because it is an almost never ending source of bad news. I also finally blocked several people(celebrities/ public figures) that I used to hate-follow on social media, (meaning I followed them just to re-affirm to myself how much I hated them in a way?...which was actually just really toxic to myself and once I stopped/blocked them out it freed up so much mental space that I was spending being angry at people I could just stop focusing on). I feel like in a way I was addicted to stuff like that because it was entertaining and kind of helped me sift through bottled up resentment. In general I still have a lot of lifestyle things I need to chip away at..so just working at that.
