Hello hello!

How has your week been? Mine has been bloody busy, but bloody good. When life gives you lemons... work until 10pm each night, eat your weight in bao, and sneak some secondhand shopping in. That's how the saying goes, right? Well, that's how my week went, anyway. Plus, a new camera, reading a book I'm well overdue to read, and testing some new non-alcoholic drinks.

Now that I type all that... that's a pretty fabulous week. Lucky me. They're all things to pop on the list.

I've been keeping the list (for happy things big and small!) for a few years now. I find it's the best thing to reflect on when I'm feeling low. I keep it on my phone so I can always check it, and even back it up to my computer every month. That's how serious I am about the list. Funnily enough, this newsletter feels like it might serve a similar function of chronicling happy things big and small too. Do you keep track of the small things that make life brighter? I highly recommend it. Even if some of them become cryptic a long time later ('Big W person gave me the knickers') and some of them still make me cry ('My doctor told me she was proud of me').

Let me know if you do this, or are going to start doing it. I'd love to hear your teeny-tiny or hulkingly-massive nice things from the week.

Until next week!

Marina

(she/they)

P.S. I have a tattoo of lemons on my shin. My friend Nat once said to me, 'You know that saying about lemons? Well, life isn't giving you lemons, it's hurtling them at you'. This stuck with me for years, and I eventually got it inked on my bod!