Putting my bracelet on that my family gave me every time I leave the house. It makes me feel as if they’re with me.

A nice manly bubble bath lol

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Watching memes and weird videos with my kids and wife every evening before bed: Daily Dose of Internet, People are Awesome, Failarmy, pwnisher, 131216, You Suck at Cooking, Kotte Animation, etc.

Morning hugs with my partner, very first thing when I wake up. I tend to curl up to them and stay there for at least 5 - 10 minutes before starting my day.
I’m an early bird, but they’re a heavy sleeper so usually they don’t mind :)

Every day when I come home from work, I kneel on the top step of our stairs and call our dogs over. They sit on the landing and put their front paws on my shoulders while I scratch their sides and pet them. My wife has taken to calling this ritual “motivation.” The dogs really love having a couple minutes of solid attention when I come home and it’s a good way for me to switch gears into home-brain, since my work is very stressful and tends to take over.

Making tea gongfu style almost daily makes me happy.

It’s a relaxing ritual for me. And I get to enjoy good tea.

It’s also nice when my partner and friends join me, so that we can enjoy it together and have conversations over tea

Organizing. Monk from the TV show could get a lesson from me, the dude is amateur hour compared to my compulsive habits. i call it ‘managing my mind palace’ from Sherlock. Each tool, sprocket, wrench, shim, test lead, and whatever else has a place, purpose and also acts as a mnemonic device.

My wife has to sometimes stop me, I’ll get a mental tire spin and end up sorting the same items over and over into various patterns. kinda like a sorting algo to find the most efficient use of space, access and feasibility when needed or in use.

I used to do art as a distraction but the inherent free spirit blank canvas of it all didn’t help. i ended up just painting scenes of gratuitous violence. started giving myself event horizon vibes so i moved onto computers and trade craft because i didn’t like looking at myself in the mirror of art

Pretty simple: Every morning I watch at least one episode of a light headed tv show. Always start with something good in the day.

Eating M&Ms by color - it has absolutely no purpose and they’re bad for me, but oh so satisfying.

I always make time to sit outside at night during a full moon. It’s one of the most peaceful sights, for me at least.

No matter how hectic her morning, if I make myself a coffee, i bring it over so my SO can have a sip.

She loves coffee but can’t deal with too much caffeine.

Letting my hair air dry with a morning walk after showering.

Stretching before sleep and then again in the morning.

Enjoying some tea and good food while catching up on YT.

Combining booze and difficult games.

When I get home from work, I ask my dogs about their day and they freak tf out. I love it. My beagle gets especially wound up over it.

My nerdy dad liked to tell us to “watch out for orcs!” dropping us off places. I carried on the tradition, and even though he passed a couple years ago I get to enjoy his joke since my SO and I say it to each other all the time, or variations of it. If its a water related destination I like to evolve it to “watch out for orcas!”

We’ve been playing Baldurs Gate 3 lately so its been “watch out for mind flayers!” a couple times, but the point is just a silly reference to something we love, just to add some goofy fantasy to an otherwise normal day. I like to imagine Orcs popping up irl in goofy ways when I hear it, like one charging the car while I wait for the atm thinking its some great metal beast. Or taking all yhe ground beef at the grocery store for a “great feast!” Plus one box of twinkies. Dumb shit like that :)