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I mailed a package of history books to a history-buff friend who was hospitalized with pneumonia.

To a fan-friend in Hungary with whom I share due South fandom and Good Omens fandom I mailed some Chicago souvenirs to represent due South and an Aziraphale/Crowley pin to represent Good Omens.

With the USPS five days ago resuming accepting mail to Canada, I mailed "Happy New Year and More Joy Day" cards to the Canadians on my Christmas list who weren't getting mail at Christmas-time.

What I did for More Joy Day:

made a donation to SquidgeWorld

provided a bagful of groceries to fill the Little Free Food Pantry at my local library

made a batch of home-made fudge for my next-door neighbor and another batch for my co-workers


Additionally, this weekend verushka70 and I will have our annual More Joy Day weekend meal together and I will be giving her the due South zines I picked up for her from the publisher of the former Requiem Publications.

What I've done for More Joy Day:

On Friday:
baked "peanut butter and honey" dessert bars for my co-workers for joyful snacking
and
distributed masks that say "I Love My Library" to proclaim the joy of libraries
and
through Patreon gave money to songwriter-singer Shirley Serban to support her joyful song-parody creativity (note about Shirley Serban: her home-page title actually does contain the word "joy" and you can click here to go to her home-page, titled "Relyriced Songs to Bring Joy to These Times ).

Saturday:
verushka70 and I had a More Joy Day dinner together, which was joyful for several reasons. There was, of course, that we were celebrating More Joy Day itself by getting together for it, but also we were celebrating the joy that after a house-hunt of several years she had purchased a house this past month and we were having our dinner in that new house. Additionally, for me, it was the joy of the first time since before the pandemic that I was visiting with a friend in their home and the first time since before the pandemic that I was getting to eat a home-cooked meal made by someone else for me as opposed to my own constant cooking for myself since the pandemic.


donated to a charitable organization after asking for MJD founder's choice and sdwolfpup chose Books To Prisoners, whose website says: "Books To Prisoners is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster a love of reading behind bars, encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-empowerment, and break the cycle of recidivism. We believe that books are tools for learning and for opening minds to new ideas and possibilities, and engage incarcerated individuals with the benefits of reading by mailing tens of thousands of free books to inmates across the country each year."

What I've done for More Joy Day:

sought out older posts on LJ and DW to which I gave new attention and appreciation in comments

sent handwritten More Joy Day cards and fannish buttons to the due South Seekrit Santa mods

gave a pair of Yaktrax Traction Cleats to a fan-friend who had expressed concern about walking on icy sidewalks during the Chicago winter

made maple-chocolate fudge and gave it to some of my co-workers

made oatmeal-pumpkin bread and gave it to some of my neighbors

(Still in the works: I was going to send Canada-themed masks to some dSC6D fen, but I haven't finished with the masks yet.)

Along with getting the gratification of spreading joy on More Joy Day,I got Things!

In alphabetical order: amedia gave me super-nice comments on my fic, petra wrote a porny fannish limerick for me, ritaj540 sent me a box of chocolates from a famous chocolatier near her home-town, and spikesgirl58 sent me an LJ v-gift. THANK YOU KINDLY, MY FRIENDS!

I did fic pimpage to promote the MCU bisexual!Natasha fic of a first-time fic writer: details in this DW post of mine.

I made a memorial donation in memory of a fan-friend's deceased daughter to an animal welfare organization that was a favorite of the daughter (and due South fen will further appreciate that I specified the organization's Franklin Fund).

This one counts as two More Joy Day actions: I commissioned a single-copy run of a fan-friend's Big Bang fic to be made into a hard-copy zine by Requiem Publications (it benefits the fic writer to have a zine copy of their fic and the commission money benefits my favorite fannish publisher).

I emailed some food-and-drink recipes to a co-worker who had previously expressed interest in my cooking and my drink-mixing.

It's almost time again to celebrate the fandom holiday of More Joy Day, begun by sdwolfpup in January of 2008. If you already know about it, get ready to spread joy -- and if you don't know about it then read about it on Fanlore and then get ready to spread joy.

Happy More Joy Day! I've done some MJD things today but am still doing more, so I aim to be back here on the weekend to post in detail about joy shared.

What I did for More Joy Day:

I'm a librarian in Acquisitions and Collection Management at a public library. A few days before More Joy Day we received Dessa's book My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love...and that very same day...oh synchronicity...a member of my DW Circle remarked that she is really into Dessa. So, for More Joy Day I sent that fangirl two copies of Dessa's book, telling her to keep one and pass one on as a More Joy Day thing to another fan.

I commissioned fannish gifts. I commissioned the zine publisher Requiem Publications to make for china_shop and to make for mergatrude personalized custom zine copies of their entire Cruiseliner'verse series.

I made a special dinner. A friend of mine is doing the Whole30 diet for the month of January, and I invited her over for a More Joy Day dinner where I cooked an entire Whole30-compliant meal to give her one day out of the month that she could get such a meal without having to make it for herself. (And as a "bonus joy" after dinner we binge-watched four hours of due South.)