#building good habits

[habitica]

GHOST, VAMPIRE, AND SPOOKY POTIONS NOW AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET!

Stop into the Market and browse this month’s Magic Hatching Potions! From now until November 21 you can snag the Ghost, Vampire, and Spooky Magic Hatching Potions and add some ghoulishly cute new friends to your stable!

Magic Hatching Potions work on any standard Pet egg. And Magic Hatching Potion Pets love every kind of Pet food, so they can grow into Mounts fast!

Don’t delay, be sure to check these potions out soon. When they’re gone, it will be a year until they return!

[sandyhibbard]

Building Habits to Support The Life You Want

Building Habits to Support The Life You Want Getting our lives and businesses geared up for success is all about cultivating those good habits that align with the kind of lifestyle we crave. It’s like wanting to conquer a marathon – you have to develop a habit of hitting the pavement, training hard, and breaking a sweat, right? Or if you’re after a life free from the corporate grind, it’s about…

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grab that toothbrush dattebayo

[himero-love]

i am happy enough in this world without them :)

[shorthaltsjester]

the mighty nein - critical role

this is a place where i don't feel alone. this is a place where i feel at home.

[beescake]

Sorry for the spam (^o^;) I just really like your blog

no need to apologize ayy!

in this corner we welcome all forms of enjoyment, regardless of whether you're a

happy to have yall here w me,

headin into homestuck 2024 :^)

[orangerosebush]

Artemis will disassemble and clean a fountain pen with the same level of intensity as Butler disassembling and cleaning one of his guns.

[abirddogmoment]

I love seeing Rory run in the field!! Bird dog doing bird dog things!! You said in the tags you had different training and priorities with her vs Mav re: offleash running like that. What kinds of things did you do differently with Rory to be comfortable having her offleash at a distance with reliable recall?

I was writing a whole novel but really it boils down to this chart. Under the cut because it's (vertically) long.

In short, it's just as much about what I didn't do with Maverick as what I did do with Aurora.

(Edited to add: I am extremely fortunate to live in the prairies where the kind of visibility I need is easy to find. Use my experience to inspire your own training if you like, but don't use it as a recipe. I have my own goals and my own priorities and those are likely different than yours.)

Maverick:

🔵 Supremely confident from day 1

🔵 Came home in August (extremely good and exciting time for outdoor adventures)

🔵 Prioritized specific sports behaviours over foundational building blocks like engagement and cooperation

🔵 Learned bad habits from my older dog at the time (prey drive > recall)

🔵 Was indiscriminately prey driven. If it moved, he wanted to kill it.

🔵 I phased out treats too fast and didn't want to use an ecollar or long line

🔵 I focused on "social media dog behaviours" (think like walking extremely close to me on trails) and got frustrated when we couldn't meet these rather than meeting my dog where he was at. This created a lot of frustration in our dog adventures.

🔵 I practiced recalls constantly when I didn't have to, making them a tedious behaviour for him. I would recall him 20-50 times a hike for everything from "you're too far away from me" to "I want to take a photo".

Aurora

🟣 Came to me a little insecure and looked to me for reassurance

🟣 Came home in December (a cold and relatively boring time for outdoor adventures)

🟣 I prioritized engagement, cooperation, and name recognition from day 1

🟣 Practiced good habits by walking offleash in the snow either alone or with Pike (amazing recall)

🟣 Is extremely birdy, but is very very focused. She easily calls off deer or people/dogs in the distance because she mostly cares about birds.

🟣 Literally always gets offered a high value snack for recalling or voluntary check ins (I will never phase this out, I will carry chunks of cheese on offleash walks for the rest of her life)

🟣 I never practice recalls if I don't need them. This one is hard to explain, but once Rory understood that long whistle = come back as fast as you can, I don't whistle unless I really need to. I recall her an average of 0-3 times per hike (*based on visibility or wildlife*) and trust her to make good decisions otherwise. I keep my eyeballs on her 100% of the time and choose areas with good visibility, but I don't recall her just for being far away.

🟣 I limit hikes where I have to nag her often (think, in the woods where I dont have a great line of sight and have to remind her to stay close to me) to a few times a month or less so she doesn't start getting frustrated about it.

🟣 I trust the training I put into her and choose to run her in areas with (relatively) reduced risk if she makes the "wrong" choice. I don't nitpick everything she does and I let her make her own choices, within reason.

🟣 I have an interrupter cue to ask her to stop doing something before I call her back (if she's digging a hole and I want her to move on, I use "Rory, enough! Here!") instead of whistling at her.

🟣 I don't force her attention on check ins. If she runs back to me and doesn't want a snack and wants to run straight back out, I let her run back out.

🟣 I have anticipatory cues for the end of a walk so I don't have to recall her when we get to the end of the field.

I want to say that it's nerve wracking to watch my dog sprint at full speed hundreds of yards away from me. I have to fight the impulse to recall her just because she's far away. It's an exercise in trust because I'm always worried about her going over the horizon, or running into a wildlife, or falling into a hole, but it's an important thing to work on if you have a dog that needs that trust to thrive.

Mav and I were a good team, but I never fully trusted him outdoors. I always had my finger on the ecollar buttons ready for him to do an evil and need to be vibrated. It was exhilarating to watch him in the field, but it wasn't really fun or relaxing.

Rory and I built a much stronger foundation of trust (I personally never would have been able to do this if I had more than one dog). She doesn't know any tricks yet, but I'm super confident in her recall and ability to take direction in the field, even when she's sprinting as fast as possible.

[australianklaviergavin]

My carpal tunnel and tendonitis want me dead in both arms, but my legs remain uninjured, so here's Kazuma, from memory and drawn with my foot. Is he not beautiful? Your beautiful son, Kazuma Asogi?

[bibannana]

Ahsoka *smiling*: We are gathered to celebrate the best man I know.

Anakin *preening to Padmé*: This is all for me-

Obi-wan *rolls his eyes*: Obviously you are mistaken, this is about me.

Ahsoka *hits spot light controls*: Master Plo Koon!

Wolffe *holding a cake that says #1 Dad General*: This was her idea.

104th *cheering*

Anakin and Obi-wan *blink dumbfounded*: Ah.

Taglist: @soliloquy-of-nemo @jiabeewrites @staycalmandhugaclone @nekotaetae @sexy-rex

[habitica]

BRAND NEW RACCOON PET QUEST + NEW SELECTIONS IN THE QUEST SHOP!

It’s time to come and check out what’s new in the Quest Shop! The selection of Pet Quests and Magic Hatching Potion Quests available for purchase has rotated and you’re sure to find something exciting for your Party to tackle.

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This month, we’re also featuring the Squirrel, Triceratops, Treeling, and Beetle Pet Quests! The Bronze Magic Hatching Potion quest is also available.

Visit the Quest Shop from the menu and snag these Quests before they’re rotated out on October 14. You won’t have another chance to grab these until next year, so don’t delay!

[f-imaginings]

I was reading kmky and I have a question about the “Good” dimension where Bill is used as a battery. How did that work? Cause didn’t Bill power up when Ford “worshipped” him? But this Ford from that dimension didn’t. Or at least not in the way Ford worshipped him. Idk I’m confused 😅 I don’t know how to ask this properly

The "good" dimension wasn't really meant to be all that good. I plan to explore it more in my what if spin off, but basically the Ford in that world still does worship Bill in the most toxic backhanded way possible. He still fell in love with him, and the betrayal just happened with much more intensity. Rather than banishing Bill's body he rebound it, after asking Bill to show him the converter and cuffs again so he could "tinker with them" to "make them better". I'll go into it in more detail in the spin off (and have already started on a chapter for that) but basically Ford then goes to build all of his success on this secret captivity of his cosmic lover's power. It's not the same sort of adoration but he is still thinking about Bill every single day. Every time he receives accolades or praise it's because of Bill powering the portal in the basement, and Ford knows it. He said it in the chapter, that Bill is the very bedrock of the foundation. He's someone who still vacillates between fussing over bill's condition (bringing a tv down there for him, then removing it when Bill pisses him off) and who covered the glass where bill's eyes were with tape so he doesn't have to look Bill in the eye after what he did to him, BUT THE IDIOT KEEPS PEELING THE TAPE BACK SO HE CAN STARE AT HIM!!!! He is still absolutely obsessed with Bill, they still make each other feel important, they've just become ten times as toxic and codependent on each other's regard. When our story's Ford comes through the worship increases and Bill gains more power BC that's two Stanford's both obsessed with killing or containing him. The bit at the end where he said "I've always wanted for us to be monsters together" and Stanford wanting that too was very purposeful. The temptation to drag each other down and just burn together is the core of their relationship and it's messy and nasty and shitty but it's also very them.

[brown-little-robin]

besties I fear I've treated my body like a brute force machine too long again

[dreamlogic]

got a good grade at the dentist today against all odds 😇 it's been uuuhhhh 8 years since my last check-up (i know, i know, i have a final boss-sized mental block against dental care), but i have NO new cavities, only a tiny bit of gum recession, and LESS gum inflammation than my last visit! all i need is a basic cleaning, to have a couple existing fillings touched up, and to be fitted for a night guard. the hygienist said she was "surprised and impressed" that my mouth was so healthy, which the dentist herself attributed to "very good home care." 😌😏

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[soaps-mohawk]

Since you mentioned your builds are always blue, i have to say its better than my guilty pleasure of hoarding SO MANY HOUSEPLANTS ‼️‼️

I want my house to be a jungle i stg so every sims build i do has a ton of plants. (Also been playing house flipper a lot and i wish there were more plant options)

Omg yes!!! I use an ungodly amount of houseplants sometimes because like what else is there to decorate with??? (I have so much CC that scrolling through clutter and decor is an overstimulating nightmare 😂, so plants it is)

I purposefully did a build that was like 90% plants one time it was gorgeous. Should find what save file it's in and put it on the gallery.