For this week, my sidequests included telling a friend I was thankful for them, doing something to support my health or prosperity, and brewing a special drink.

I told a few friends that I was thankful for them, but mostly because I’m awful at being nice, I took a picture of the card and texted it to them. One of them just hearted the message, and the other resulted in this brief conversation:

The card conversations were specifically from BoredWalk’s Delve Deck. A few years prior to that I had also gone through The Shame of Life cards. I would text one every day to a handful of friends and we would have brief conversations giving our answers for the cards. I was a little inspired to go ahead and splurge on a new set. I wasn’t sure on the cards I had been considering so I did a search for conversation cards on Amazon and I’ll be trying the SO… cards next. It’s a shorter deck of 52 cards, but there’s a few different volumes/types, so as I reach the end of one I can buy the next, and take up at least half the year annoying my friends with random questions.

If it hasn’t become inherently obvious, I really love card prompts/games/challenges/extras. I’m not even sure why.

For the special drink! The weather in Oklahoma has been quite warm this week so it wasn’t quite the time for a brewed drink, but I had cream I needed to use and decided some legit cocoa was the way to go.

For cocoa, I’m a little loose on measurements and you can really probably proportion the ingredients however you want. Typically I use the cup I’m going to drink from to measure my cream and then add a tablespoon of cocoa and a tablespoon of sugar, but I wanted two cups so I used up my entire container of cream, and went ahead and did 3 tablespoons of cocoa, 3 tablespoons of sugar, and a tablespoon of instant espresso because why not? Put over medium to medium low heat and wisk constantly. Constantly!

It’s going to look like a hot mess at first that doesn’t seem like it will ever come together. Then it’s going to start to blend a bit better, but you’re going to think it still mostly looks like cream. Keep going. It will eventually darken and thin out, except for a light film that covers the top. It will quite legitimately look like cocoa. That’s when it’s ready. Also great with dehydrated marshmallows mixed in, but I didn’t have any more! Alas.

As for something to support my health or prospertiy, I figured it could be something small since these were supposed to be daily cards originally. I keep a habit tracker and try to do certain things most of the week, or at least a few times a week. I committed to choosing two of those habits and actually maintaining them the entire week. Specifically drinking at least 20 ounces of water daily and taking my allergy meds/supplements (calcium, vit d, fiber, collagen) daily. It’s not a huge thing, but I’ve been trying to not leave the stupid weekly pill tray full for weeks on end, and I did actually finish it out this time – it’s almost like an accomplishment?

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