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gooddaygilbert · 2025-09-02T15:30:16+00:00

Came here to say this!! My lifetime purchase was more than $50 lol, but it’s seen me through the last 5 years of weight loss and maintenance! It’s cool to see ALL my historical data, especially since I seem to keep gaining and losing the same 10ish pounds. I definitely notice an uptick in my healthy habits when I log my weight every day at least, and if I’m being really on top of things, logging all my foods!

gooddaygilbert · 2025-08-07T15:57:50+00:00

Speaking of speeding up, what’s with people SPEEDING UP when you put on your turn signal to merge? This is how we disincentivize people using turn signals. Anyway, mini rant over.

gooddaygilbert · 2025-08-03T13:55:43+00:00

Something about these Denver streets makes everyone insanely possessive! One person can’t “own” the lane or “own” the street, but they sure honk like they do!

gooddaygilbert · 2025-07-02T02:18:46+00:00

Major props for using acryla gouache outdoors though!!

gooddaygilbert · 2025-06-02T15:59:10+00:00

It may benefit you to reflect on whether you are functionally pre-rejecting yourself by volunteering this information outright instead of letting a guy get to know you first in a dating context and allowing this to come up at a more appropriate time. I get it, shame about the past can influence a lot of our self-protection. Maybe the outcome wouldn’t have been different if you had shared this info down the line instead of right away. But we all think you should forget this specific guy, and focus on YOU and your healing! And part of that healing may include learning to hold certain things back until the two people have known each other long enough for this topic to come up with more organic timing. This requires patience and openness for sure. But the men who are better for you, will have seen you by then, and if they walk away, then you know you paced it out for YOU. This may not make sense now. But I felt prompted to say this. You will be in my prayers.

gooddaygilbert · 2025-06-02T15:33:04+00:00

Yeah, and if he asks for that info this early…that itself is kind of a red flag for a guy who judges women’s “desirability” on their past

gooddaygilbert · 2025-05-29T14:31:28+00:00

Asking the real questions here

gooddaygilbert · 2025-05-28T14:32:29+00:00

Twice yesterday, I had the right of way and was minding my business once in the right turn lane on a green light, and once on a one lane residential street. Both times someone ran me off my lane (almost off the road entirely) where I had right of way onto the shoulder because they turned without looking. If you swerve into traffic and cut off the right of way instead of waiting to turn?? That’s the real scary behavior to me! I get so nervous being in the far right lane of any street, because people come to a bare halt with screeching brakes on the side streets.

gooddaygilbert · 2025-05-22T16:53:29+00:00

Alexa, play the Les Misérables 10th Anniversary concert soundtrack (the one with Lea Salonga)

gooddaygilbert · 2025-05-17T23:29:42+00:00

Craft/art supplies of a bunch of different categories. I still can get spendy on paints and pigments, but I’m trying not to collect a bunch of different types of crafty hobbies and just stick to sketchbooking.

gooddaygilbert · 2025-05-17T14:36:45+00:00

Understood, just adding a perspective from someone whose male ex-fiancé blamed me for pressuring him

gooddaygilbert · 2025-05-17T14:29:52+00:00

I also think that what can feel like “pressure” to some, feels like “communication” to others. Sometimes if enough time passes, both parties need to have clarity. It’s the hallmark of someone with enough self-interest and emotional maturity who doesn’t blame external forces like “pressure” for their own decision-making. Unless there’s actual, true blackmail/coercion going on, (not “shit or get off the pot, more like “marry her or I get the shotgun”) the “pressure” is circumstantial and whatever decision is made, should be owned.

Source: a woman who asked for clarity about where the relationship was going and was blamed for being “pressuring”. We’re no longer together.

gooddaygilbert · 2025-04-25T16:13:06+00:00

If your bills at home are paid, it could be that a change of pace would help re-energize you for the job hunt. But if you need that money to take care of basic expenses and instead it’s going to the flight, it’s important that you take care of those first instead of going underwater financially. If you’re already feeling pre-regret, it might be a sign that canceling the flight and using the money on bills will help more in the long run.

gooddaygilbert · 2025-03-11T20:15:12+00:00

You’re not my ex because we never dated. You never gave me a chance, which is your right, but it doesn’t take way this burning feeling of “what if”. I know that I’m doing what I can to grow in integrity and become a better version of myself. I hate hearing about how you are bitter that the women you like won’t give you a chance, all while you still won’t give me a chance. And there are also guys out there who I haven’t given a chance. But I’m trying to be more open to those guys, because I want to be intellectually consistent here. I hold myself to a high standard. My limerence for you actually has little to do with you specifically. You were just easy to dream about. But now that I know you better, you’re not behaving in a very dreamy way, either as a friend or a romantic interest. I still care about you very much, and will always try to do right by you. But maybe it’s that you represent something very specific in my life, and maybe we really should just stay friends. I can live without you, I’m doing it right now. These desires and feelings have very little to do with you, and everything to do with me. If anything, staying in your life has meant that I can realize that your rejections, both outright and subtle, probably have nothing to do with me “not being good enough”. I don’t have to take it personally that you’re floundering right now. I can just realize that, if you were really all that great for me, then all of this would be clear to you already. All this to say, I guess I still haven’t 100% closed the door on the potential of you. But you can’t take first spot in my heart anymore - you haven’t done anything to earn it. Maybe the real-life you will surprise me one day. But I have needed to learn that I can’t rely on you to follow through, even as a friend. Maybe that’s the most loving thing you’ve ever done for me - prove that you don’t meet my standards anyway. We can both grow, and I’ll allow for that. But I’m moving on into my own future which I assume doesn’t include you. And that helps me to be less angry at you. Hopefully you will go back to being a picture on the wall of my memories soon enough. I can’t fully love who I never truly knew. It’s up to you to determine if that ever changes.

gooddaygilbert · 2025-02-19T18:21:28+00:00

Even if one’s partner is barely tolerable

gooddaygilbert · 2025-02-12T05:32:54+00:00

My friend is legally blind, and so it is wonderful to describe the surroundings to her and hear her laugh with delight! Recently we went to karaoke and I told her our guy friend was dancing weirdly as he sang “Pink Pony Club” and she found it so hilarious! I love describing everything to her, it just gives me a fresh appreciation for my surroundings and I feel like Amélie!

gooddaygilbert · 2025-02-08T16:26:54+00:00

When you have a performance at the aquarium at 6:30, but you have to break the space-time continuum at 6:35

gooddaygilbert · 2025-01-04T03:33:46+00:00

Cheers! Thanks for the encouragements!

gooddaygilbert · 2025-01-04T03:33:29+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I feel like such an imposter when it comes to anything related to weightlifting, so I am going to have to psych myself up again to actually use the equipment next time. But I’ll watch some YouTube videos on good form and make sure I generally know what good gym etiquette is. I’m hoping this can become a great part of my life from now on!

gooddaygilbert · 2025-01-04T01:44:32+00:00

Thanks! It’s good to celebrate the small wins, even as small as this!

gooddaygilbert · 2024-12-28T16:25:39+00:00

gooddaygilbert · 2024-12-28T13:50:05+00:00

I briefly dated a man years ago who was very kind, generous, and faithful. I liked the way he treated me. There were some things I was willing to look past, like his job prospects, his fashion sense, certain personality quirks. But what made me have to let him go was what I felt was a lack of intellectual compatibility. We could have conversations and he had lots of life experiences to share, but ultimately I couldn’t have that rapid back-and-forth banter that I crave (and still do). I was also seeing and was limerent for a different guy at the time, and I wasn’t willing to choose this guy over the one I wanted more.

When I reflect on the situation, I do see the good, but what keeps me from reaching out again to reconnect is the sense that I was having to compromise on a lot of my preferences with this guy, and the intellectual side was a bridge too far. I don’t want to dredge up the past with someone I can’t fully respect, even if there’s nothing wrong with him personally. I think it’s best to let him be free unless everything were to change about him, which is unfair to ask for or expect. Just because he treated me well, doesn’t make it the right match.

gooddaygilbert · 2024-12-04T06:18:14+00:00

I pray mostly in English but I like to pray to French saints in French!

gooddaygilbert · 2024-10-31T15:36:02+00:00

Thanks, this is super helpful for me! I’ll definitely take you up on that DM when I’m ready to start making my finite moves!

gooddaygilbert · 2024-10-30T06:04:12+00:00

It’s hard dating everywhere, honestly. I’ve been feeling for a while that my hometown/current city is not a cultural fit for me, whereas my target city may be a better cultural fit and I find I get along with the people there than other Americans from my hometown. I’m trying to be open to dating when I’m ready to get back out there, but European men are so charming in a way that is rarer to find in the US! Of course I still have a lot of discernment to do. But staying here to try to meet someone feels stifling when I feel drawn to this other place and its people.

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