I turn my lights off just with words, which is especially nice with the bedroom light and the bathroom light. Most days I lie in the bath for at least half an hour, more like an hour, in low light, sometimes watching a film on a tablet on my bath table.
The road I live on, in inner London, easy walking distance to the financial district, is a ridiculously quiet pre-Victorian street with large private gardens. But because it’s social housing, my rent is very low, and my tenancy is permanent and can be passed on to my daughter.
My home office is THE tiniest space imaginable - a 65cm*80cm nook for the desk by the back door with my office chair blocking half the door. But it’s separate to any other room, which really helps when working from home, which I have done most of the time for ten years.
I have a beautiful, sexy, clever, thoughtful GF, who can cook, chat about deep stuff, and laugh like mad with me about utterly stupid things that would make no sense to anyone else. We have exactly the same somewhat unusual relationship goals, and we are in a position where they’re not only attainable but easy (most of the time).
We’re coming up to our first anniversary - yes, I met this remarkable woman during covid, but because we live walking distance to each other, and she lives alone, we were able to stay at each other’s houses regularly even during lockdown (totally legally).
There are lots of things about my life that are objectively terrible too, but overall I feel very lucky right now.