i always have a lot more fun tending to my plants when I'm high.
Also, all those items you listed are doubly better when you have either a tape recorder or notepad. thos're even more useful when shrooming and you want to remember the realizations you have.

The way I look at quality smoking sessions is that they need to make an impression such that you can remember it easily through the smoky memory veil. I'm not saying that pot effects memory, but anytime you're doing the same old things, they lull together in memory and nothing really sticks out. For that reason I always suggest that my friends and I smoke in unusual, spontaneous places. Like, "remember the time we toked that blueberry blunt in that ampitheater and we coughed so hard we both puked," or "remember in the desert on top of the precipice when we had to fight the wind to light our bowls." We tend not to recall memories like "remember when I beat you in smash bros. and we were all high..." since that is an indoor, uneventful experience.