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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: At Last, Someone Appreciates My Dimmers

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

I laughed when I saw that someone appreciates a good dimmer system as much as I do. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.  Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts— Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Relax.

0:02.0

Let the fact that you've woken up to a cold shower just wash over you.

0:09.0

With British Gas Home Care cover, you can get your boiler repaired again and again, and an annual service is included too.

0:18.6

Repeat our mantra.

0:21.6

Home Care. Farm mantra, home care.

0:25.8

Such British Gas home care cover,

0:27.8

see website for terms.

0:31.1

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

0:35.0

Here's a little story that doesn't have much point, but it makes me happier every time I think of it.

0:41.0

As I go about my daily life, I often look on my phone for

0:45.1

photographs for the current date from previous years. So if it's April 22nd, I'll look

0:50.9

back through other photos throughout the years for April 22nd.

0:55.0

Recently I came across a photo that I took a year ago of something that made me laugh then and makes me laugh now.

1:02.0

My older daughter Eliza had a bunch of friends who were

1:05.3

shooting their own independent movie and they needed a place to film a

1:09.3

cocktail party. We agreed that they could use the living room of our apartment.

1:14.3

On the morning of the shooting, a bunch of people arrived. First came the people with the cameras

1:19.6

and the equipment for lighting and sound. Later the actors arrived. After saying hello I

1:25.7

stayed out of their way. They spent the whole day there, then the group packed up all

1:30.5

their equipment and left.

1:33.2

They were great guests who put all the furniture back exactly as it had been and also

1:37.8

left me a thank you card.

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