Gardening

Hear me out. Have you ever tried naps?

Making and eating pretzel bread.

It's a very temporary simple pleasure, because then I go to my doctor for a checkup and get sad because of all the pretzel bread lol

Finding some downtime to just lie down with my cats and cuddle them

Also coffee

Sitting on the porch in the middle of the night in October/November. With a blanket. Or any other cooler month.

People don't realize. That yes. You can bring a blanket outside. To your porch.

And no one is around at 3 am and it's so silent and eerie. And perfect. Even in the city, there is way less people. But outside the city it's dead silent. Like everyone disappeared.

It feels... Different than the rest of the time.

3-4 am is the most interesting hour of the day.

Try it next time you wake up with a full bladder in the middle of the night. Or have insomnia. Don't go back to bed. Instead Grab your blanket. Step outside.

Typing on a mechanical keyboard.

Lately, I've really been enjoying Lemmy and posts like this. All of it makes me feel like I'm still able to surf the web like I did 5-10+ years ago, interacting with other humans on the Internet in passing rather than a botnet like so many other popular sites.

I'm also a huge fan of cable management. I love the process of cleaning up my home/office to blend devices into the space.

Having a clean living space

Coffee. Cliché, I know, and I’m not even talking about the watching-James-Hoffman-videos-before-prepping-my-4000-dollar-espresso-machine type of habit. Just the few minutes of preparing a cup the way I like it, and finding a quiet couple of minutes to drink it.

Painting my nails. Self-care and temporary, wearable art all in one go.

Opening the blinds in the morning. My cat and I both bask in the sun for a few seconds before continuing with our day.

I WFH, so once I get everyone else out the door I take 10 min to sit on the back porch to drink my coffee. I don’t bring my phone or anything else. Just my coffee.

Sitting on the verandah with a beer, watching the rain come down, listening to that sound.

walking in a forest during fall with a little weed in my system

Fixing things. Doesn't matter what it is, but I find deep fulfillment and satisfaction in taking something that is seemingly beyond rescue and bringing it humming back to life with nothing but a wrench and a little hard work.

Watching the garbage trucks do their thing, lever door handles instead of knobs, watching the sunset/sunrise and local wildlife, taking a nap

Using a wire continuity tester, and hearing that sweet beep.

breathing

Doing Laundry

Hot showers in Winter. Cold showers in Summer.

Doing boring things fast

A simple, but guilty pleasure of mine is reading HackerNews story titles (and titles only, most of the time), and tooting sarcastic reactions about them. It's very therapeutic. (And for easier browsing, I made a HN-like website (read-only) for said toots of mine).

Bothering a cat. But in the loving way where they eye squish at you.

I also like homemade soft bread. So soft! So squishy! Delicious!

Sitting by my computer working on a hobby coding project, on a Sunday morning with a fresh cup of coffee next to me

a thick warm slice of bread in summer spread with butter and peanutbutter both almost to the point of melting

Board games and card games, but nothing as complicated as Magic The Gathering.

When I say card games I mean games like "World Changers". I don't play card games with regular decks (jack queen, king, joker etc)

Eating one of those mini pecan pies

Putting on a brand new pair of socks

Watching and listening to the birds. Where I live, we have a super rich and diverse bird population. It's kind of ridiculous. Across seasons and times of day, every bird species get their time to shine.

Nightingales, nightowls, cuckoos, blue tits, great tits, black birds, whooping swans, woodpeckers, cormorants, herons, finches, robins, grey geese, buzzards, larks, falcons, pheasants and on and on and on.

It makes me so happy to be alive.

Learning about the native environment around me

Walking on the beach off season. Mid-spring, when it's getting warmer and the beach area still didn't attract the crowds or mid-fall, when it's mildly chill and calm.

Writing a script and having it not destroy everything on first launch.

It's a great feeling.

I enjoy the simple pleasures of Daffy Duck

Playing music from the playlists I make for my ttrpg games I prepare, to get inspired and write down ideas for the next game. It is like having a mental trailer about an upcoming show that we'll see when we get together to play it.

waking and baking at the beach nearby me w primo weed and good iced coffee while molesting the beautiful men w my eyes.

Wearing slippers on a cold morning.

Having a nap in a sunbeam

I love spending time at mmy atelier be it working in my art, arranging my different art materials, chatting with other felllow artists who also have their spaces in the same antique buillding as me.♥️

Housing. What a luxury!

Seeing new and unexpected things to me, it's even better when less people experience it and best is "no one will ever believe this" stories

Car maintenance

Hearthstone Battlegrounds

Serendipity via memes

Paint by numbers! Great to just turn off brain and paint away

Animals! I love watching them, walking with my dogs.

A sandwich tastes better when you make it in your mouth.

Prepare cocktails and coffee

The susurros of people laughing and enjoying themselves nearby.

Chicken and blood sausages are historically for people looking to save some dough, but I find them very comforting & prefer them to almost anything else. Weed with Wife is always a big hit. I don't really need much going on.

Sweeping stairs

Homemade pizza, and some often unhinged (but delicious) topping creation to go along with it.

How can u say this and not pay the cable-management tax somewhere deep in the comment section