Welcome to The Joy Report this week: The Great Plant Rescue of 2025, QT with my friend Jenn, Proposalpalooza, joy being attractive and repellent
I rescued all of the plants from a local restaurant that closed for remodeling and left them behind.
I went to the closed space with the owner and we discovered that all of the live plants had been left behind – it was so sad! He was kind enough to let me take them into be rehabilitated, which was crazy timing because just a few days before I had wished for more plants while taking care of my 3 at home! I’ve got them in recovery at home and at work at Thrive, and its so much fun to take a break from my screen to play in the dirt or prune some leaves.
I spent an afternoon catching up with a good friend – quality time we both needed!
My friend Jenn stopped by Thrive Coworking and we ended up turning “are you hungry/I could eat” into a two-stop tasting tour at Postino East and Joyride Tacos in Downtown Gilbert. It was a much needed few hours of catching up and doing what girls do best – yapping and enjoying a tasty treat.
If any of my friends need QT – text me. I might need and want to schedule it because I’m a calendar freak, but I love to spend time with anyone I care about.
I sent out three proposals for work that I would love to do – great people to work with and solid portfolio material.
I have a fun joke about how I can so easily brush off any kind of rejection in dating because I’m out here constantly courting and risking rejection in the form of being a service-based business owner who sends out proposals and hopes people say yes to paying her for work.
I’m really excited about the proposals I created – one for short form video content, one for social media management, and one for a one-off website update and new page build out. Each of the potential clients are in my wheelhouse (I specialize in “boring” companies like manufactured housing, plumbing, construction, business services) and are great people to work with that come recommended by people I like and respect a great deal. Each of the projects would also be fantastic work to have in my portfolio to drive future business!
I figured out that having genuine joy for life can be simultaneously attractive and repellent to people.
I think my joy for life is one of my best qualities, and know for a fact it’s something that people I’ve dated have found attractive about me especially early on.
Earlier this year a guy broke up with me, and told me that I “gave him too much grace”. For a long time this made me really angry every time I thought about it – why wouldn’t I give you grace, I adored you. Recently, something clicked in my head and I realized that my ability to accept and care for him regardless of how much he felt like he didn’t deserve it actually made the situation worse, not better.
