The "go fix a minor annoyance" togetherness topic
There's something small that you've been meaning to do but, for whatever reason, you haven't done it. Rather than just forgetting about it, however, your brain has decided to make it take up a minor amount of space in your awareness -- not enough to make it an immediate concern or something you plan to act on, but still just enough to be annoying.
Well, this is your call to address the issue head on! Pull that mental splinter out and get rid of it for good!
Maybe you need to...
- change an air filter
- tighten your showerhead
- go through that stack of mail
- box up a return
- put more air in your bike tires
- rearrange a bookshelf
- throw out some expired cans
- vacuum behind the couch
- clean the dust out of your computer fan
- etc.
Whatever it is, this topic is your call to GO DO THE THING.
And then, come back here and tell us what you did.
One minor annoyance solved for only one person? Not a big deal.
LOTS of minor annoyances solved for LOTS of different people? GIGANTIC DEAL!
This topic is our space to communally revel in the glorious shared feeling of being slightly more annoyance-free, together.
IMPORTANT: Clearing up multiple annoyances is explicitly allowed!
Nothing I have to do right now, but I recently went to the doctor about a medical issue that's been annoying me for almost 5 years, but not enough to do something about it. Well, of course, after a 10 minute examination, it turned out to be a tiny problem that went away within a week with medication. Could've made the past few years of my life a tiny bit better if I went to the doctor earlier, but I'm glad to have it resolved now.
By the way, the issue you're describing in your post is something that the Getting Things Done task management system made much better for me. I highly recommend you try it if you haven't.
Hopefully this is not too off topic.
I become a smoker after being interned in a mental hospital where smoking was nearly impossible to avoid under an otherwise tedious and oppressive environment.
I would like a way to not annoy my wife by smell of tobacco in my body.
I never smoke at home.
Yes I'm going to stop but even the doctors agre that we have other very serious things to fix right now and stop smoking would only cause unnecessary stress at this point.
Asking for help is completely in scope for the topic, and I think that it's very kind of you to want to solve an annoyance for someone else.
I'm hopeful that you get some good tips.
Thus far I have:
Cleared out dust from under my bed. Was it part of what was aggravating my allergies, or is copious spring/summer pollen what's destroying me? I have no way of knowing, but I figured it can't hurt.
Refilled the hand soap next to my kitchen sink. I mean, I could certainly just keep using the dish soap for handwashing like I have been ever since that hand soap ran out, but if I've got the two containers already, why not refill them?
Changed the batteries on my air quality meter. One of those minor things that's super easy to do, but I always forget to bring the batteries down whenever I'm in my basement, and going down JUST to replace the batteries feels like a bigger task than it actually is for some reason?