What simple pleasures are you focusing on right now to get by?

Grind? Friend.

Lots of lovely joints and wanking.

I was about to say, tons and tons of cannabis

I've had Mystery Science Theater 3000 on as background noise pretty much 24/7 for a couple of weeks. It's comforting. I've done some satisfying cooking and I've been enjoying tea and online puzzles. Trying not to dwell or ruminate or predict. The only thing I can control, is me, and where I put my attention.

I’m really enjoying Apple’s anti woke ad featuring a white family. I hope we can finally get away from this trend of every goddam fucking TV show and commercial needing to be loaded to the brim with “people of color.”

Is box wine considered a simple pleasure?

I am enjoying chocolate cordials filled with name brand liquor.

Honestly, “Wicked”. Ignoring the histrionic press tour, it’s a nice diversion, and seems to be very right for the moment. I’ve been enjoying the soundtrack now and then and have collected some of the swag. Just something nice to focus on.

R5 must absolutely hate Earth, it’s also choc-a-block with you know who

R6 I think that's more a basic pleasure.

Vaping weed and rewatching the X-Files.

I'm on a Stephen King reading binge. Fictional horror is a lot more entertaining than keeping up with the horrors of real life.

Looking at the pic at R7 of the mini chocolate liqueur bottles takes me back. I remember liking the ones filled with Dubonnet as a child but must confess to never having tried the liqueur as an adult as a drink.

Now I need to find a bar that serves Dubonnet so I can try it as an adult.

I'm re-watching entire old TV series. Just finished Judging Amy.

[quote]Is box wine considered a simple pleasure?

It's more of a cheap thrill fallowed by a bad headache.

Kitchen projects and Christmas, sometimes a combination. Maybe because I'm getting older (closer to death?) I've been preserving more and more. I've always done some but this year I've been particularly busy doing it. I found a shit ton of tomatoes on sale and I made 30 pints of passata. I've also preserved eggplant, caponata, roasted peppers, and white birch mushrooms. I also made orange marmalade. Right now I've got ginger and blackberries macerating in grain alcohol, soon to be "gingerello" (ginger liqueur) and blackberry liqueur. I've also made my own starter for dough. I'm making calzones tomorrow so I started the dough today. The starter helps make killer home pizzas.

We put the Christmas tree up and decorations up. Already watched a few movies.

The kitchen and Christmas converge with Christmas cookies. I'm running some test batches this week. I broke out my new cookie press last weekend and made two batches of spritz. Dangerous. I can't stop eating them. I'm also gonna make some white and dark chocolate peppermint bark soon too.

Losing two friends and the election has taken its toll this year.

R5 - it's tragically hilarious that your simple pleasure is watching an advertisement. Ah yes, the simple joys of appreciating a mega-corporation's marketing output. No finer human experience!

It’s been nothing but angst, fear, terror, disappointment and loss of a future on DL. I am just enjoying the DL.

I don’t know if you can call her a simple pleasure because she costs me an arm and a leg in vet bills, but my dog is my bestest.

Watching Homicide: Life on the Street on Peacock.

Fat Whore Special: Glen’s Frozen Custard, butterscotch flavor. May only be available in Western Pennsylvania.

Right now I'm making beef stew, a great comfort food.

My rim chair.

you're all I need to get by

POOSSAY!

Dustin: I love you. I got chills reading about the preserves and cookies you are making . It brought me back to Christmas memories as a young child . Thank you

Awww....thanks R25.

I forgot the eight pints of bread and butter pickles. I tried America's Test Kitchen's recipe on YouTube. Everyone liked them.

I’m really enjoying watching the lefties having meltdowns like toddlers on social media. I’m not sure why it’s so satisfying since I hate Trump, but their tears are delicious.

Yeah, R27 rated a block

I’d be enjoying some gummies but I’m on the job hunt and want to be clean for drug testing. CBD gems aren’t bad though.

Otherwise, I’m Christmas shopping online and planning a few overnight trips before the end of the year. I’m also reading a lot and goofing off with photography. If you’re not following American Squares on Instagram, go check it out. Her work is amazing.

I’m not sure it’s a pleasure, exactly, but I have a game on my phone that blocks most thoughts, it’s just repetitive movements, so I enjoy some time free from doom and gloom when I’m playing it.

Tonight I'm going to go see sixpence none the Richer in concert and I even sprung for the VIP meet and greet or whatever so that'll be cool too and then I get to come home and hang out with my cats which I'm also very excited about.

R31

They are from a town between Austin and San Antonio called New Braunfels that was founded by German settlers and still has German-language newspapers, if you want something to mention. Tell them you love going to Gruene (Greene) Hall or something.

R32 thanks I probably will weirdly I was going to ask them if they'd ever gotten chestnuts in Germany because of the whole thing at work today but now I don't know how I got to get out of here but I can't stop playing with the laser pointer my cats and I want them to be mad at me for stopping.

I quit my second job and spend that time laying in bed, watching movies with my new dog eating good fruitcake (me, not her). It's working for me, slowly very slowly but it's working.

Just staying in bed almost 24/7 under the covers.

Very nice, rescue-chick!

Well, I’m just glad someone sent a string message.

strong message* but the next one should be strung up

Your holiday preparations (and you) sound lovely, Dustin.

Cheers!

Play dates with my 4-year old & 2-year old niece & nephew. Unfortunately, their parents are right-wing, (converted) Orthodox Jews, so I suspect they will adopt their offensive politics.

R40 who the hell would convert to being an orthodox Jew?

Nuts, R41.

Sixpence None the Richer - now there's a band I haven't thought of in forever. Off to Spotify!

I'm finding recipes online and cooking them. You'd be surprised how many awful recipes are posted on A Taste of Home, etc. but this is my simple pleasure.

The past week I've been getting out my old Playgirls from the 90s instead of watching internet porn. Makes me nostalgic for college. I wonder what Doug Koziak looks like now.

Datalounge-scrolling, some cute “Dodo” Channel animal videos on YouTube, and a fairly girthy, chilled dildo that I’m currently fancying as a seat.

Raping and murdering trannies, bashing in their faces and slicing up their fannies.

^ sorry, I meant slicing up their faces and bashing in their fannies.

I live next to the ocean, so I listen to the sound of the waves.

Reading the Irish Sports Pages (all the wives of guys I know are dying), smoking and drinking weed, the occasional Bloody Mary, online Christmas shopping, trying to pay everything I can deduct before the end of the year, getting records and receipts ready for the accountant, trying to decide if we want to take a cruise to the Canary Islands in February or a transatlantic crossing to Rotterdam in April, squeezing fresh oranges for juice, and this week looking at the first round of incoming Christmas cards with family photos to see who's been naughty, nice, or on Wegovy this past year. I'm happy to see Donna in Tampa isn't hiding her once-big ass behind her kids this year and that JP in Philly got back some of the muscles he had in college (and has a really cute haircut for a married Dad in his 40's.)

I don't watch the news any more. That helps the most.

Getting my feet massaged

Getting extra sleep; taking long hot showers; watching daily episodes of“Family” with Sada Thompson; spoiling my dog and cat with extra treats, massages and general pampering; doing online puzzles; and painting/plastering in my house.

I'm watching Game of Thrones for the first time and watching porn.

Always reading. Sleeping. Making tea and hot chocolate. Cuddling with dogs. Podcasts. Hot showers. Cooking. Football. Gym. House things. Baking soon.

I’d like to live near Dustin.

Yes, R53 - you missed the calzones I made for dinner using my homegrown starter.

Watching Bizarre Foods and taking a bath every few hours and taking a Vicodin with a glass of wine every 4 hours. Except for those things, being sick sucks. All my housework Is getting behind, too.

3 cigarettes a day.

If I could stick to just 2 or 3 cigarettes per day, I'd probably smoke. However, it would soon be 1 pack a day.

Going to the gym 5 days a week, eating somewhere between 200 and 250 g of protein, not drinking, minimal simple carbs/sugar, prioritizing sleep, taking a 90 day vacation from Grindr/Scruff/Growlr, planning my downsizing and sale of my home.

Simple pleasures, though?

Killing the Ruling Class for sport.

R5 is blocked so I can't see what horrible things he said. I've only blocked maybe 4 posters. He must be one of the worst. I assume it's rightwing garbage.

Watching porn while smoking copious amounts of pot, silly!

Nice teas.

[quote] [R5] is blocked so I can't see what horrible things he said

The reply is not visible to everyone now, so you may or may not have the account on Ignore.

What a fucking a frau thread, just kill yourselves already.

Earrings

Caftans!

[quote] What a fucking a frau thread

That’s true that fraus like simple pleasures. I take pleasure from complex revenge scenarios that I orchestrate.

R54 Ok, Dustin, I know want to live next door.

An odd bottle of a good Saiternes and a Zoom bate.

British sitcoms and I gave up on being low carb..and actually LOST weight because I'm too fucking depressed and to eat a fucking thing. All I had yesterday was a handful of Trader Joe's stuffing seasoned popcorn and a can of orange soda laced with thc.

I’m lucky like that R57. But sweets…

And I ate my second batch of stocking stuffers.

Farting In public

Third batch of stocking stuffers made it.

Isolating. Reading. Writing . Working remotely. Separating from family. Went through bitter divorce. Finally moved. Live alone very modestly. Other people are over rated. DL is my people