Hi comrades and welcome to the second weekly improvement megathread!
I am glad to see that there was a lot of engagement in the first megathread and that people were checking in throughout the week.
Same as the last week, here are some ideas for discussion:
- Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
- What would you like to do next week?
- What aspect of life would you like to improve?
- Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
- If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
- Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?
Good luck to everybody with your goals! 
Just checked my watch and I've been sober for 2 weeks officially. Donno how long I will go(legit hope I'm done but life sucks and shit happens). I feel like I'm gonna get urges here in the next week or 2. I wish I could just not think about it and let myself vibe but I've dealt with my drinking problem since I was 18. Here's to hoping.
We enlisted our friend who has amazing organizational and cleaning skills to help clean the fuck out of our oldest's room. Got that shit knocked out in 3 hours. She's coming over early to help a bit more before their Sunday DND session.
I got my character built for the Cairn one shot planned for this Friday. If it happens cool, if not then social anxiety go down mode activated. I wanna do it if the others are on board and the social anxiety is just part of me so I'll get over it lol. At least I can recognize it now amd manage it before severe attacks happen. Those fucking suck.
I'm on a pretty big reading streak out the gate for 2024. On book 4 for the year and went with Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg. This book is fucking powerful. You know how sometimes you end up reading a book at the right time? This has been that so far and I'm sure it's going to continue. I think I still have some unchecked biases towards the trans space and I feel like it's helping me see those so I can learn more and fix it at the door. I believe I'm an ally but there is still a lot I don't know. I wanna be more than an ally and start getting into activism and this book is basically telling me that.
I think that's it for the most part. We are still working on divergent design and open face stackable bins are fucking expensive. Like bruh, it's just fucking plastic. I think since they are geared towards teachers that it's priced like that on purpose. Fucking predatory pricing can go diaf.
Congrats on the 2 wks. :) Does the book make you sad? I've been cagey about reading that's very memoir-based bc it can send me spiraling if it's too sad.
I think so far it makes me more hopeful for a potential future that we can all have. Her speeches are good. I'm not even halfway through so I can't really speak fully on it.
Back to me being a hopeless romantic but it tugs at the parts of my brain where I hope we might have a full unity among trans, feminist, gay and other progressive cultures someday(I know Hexbear/lemmygrad and other comrade spaces are super supportive but I mean like the mainstream). I'm cishet and am fully aware of my privilege but am very sympathetic towards these groups and am learning more about their struggles and am constanty learning how to be a better ally. So I think that is why books like this are important to me, even if it might end on a sad note.
It does open up right away with a gut punch so it might be sad in the end.
And thanks!
That is a beautiful image of the future, certainly helps w the spiraling. :)
I don't wanna send you on something that might upset you though. Maybe check some full reviews first if you end up deciding to pick it up.
awesome work !