So for the past few months, over on FB, I've been doing a short little daily gratitude post before I sign off for the night. I started ... oh around February ... nothing set in stone, nothing I force myself to do, I do miss days, and while at first I tried to catch up, I eventually realized that's not the point. The point is what was happening to me throughout the day. I would notice all these wonderful tiny things I used to take for granted, and basically ignore because I was so wrapped up in how bad everything else was going. And on days when things seemed absolutely miserable, I made myself find just a few things to be grateful for. The color of the sky on the way to work, the tastiness of the lunch Jacqueline made for me, Jacqueline's smile when I came home, the car getting me to work, heat in the house... very basic things some of them, but reminding myself that even when I felt *really* low, I still had things to find gratitude for, really changed my perspective...
Anyway, long story short, I decided I'd post them HERE as well, as just a beginning, to dip my toes back in the blogging waters... And mebbe even to expand a bit! So here is tonight's post, with some extra flair! ^-^
Soooo... today I was gonna get organized.
I was gonna schedule art and writing and job searching and clean my desk and art table and ... wait... aren't those ALWAYS on my list??? Yeah...
I failed.
HOWEVER, I did mail out 3 packages (I sold 3 out of 4 things I placed on eBay, YAY!), get some shopping done, make roasted garlic (omg yum), and roasted garlic hummus (omg I feel like I ate a whole head of garlic but it was so good!), and open a coconut (Woot! With a hammer!) and extract *some* of the meat (hardest part!). Many thanks to Jacqueline for taking over the job, AND, despite getting cut, not once, but twice, continuing to persevere til the job was done. *I* would have given up long before, and in fact I did! (And yes I have kissed the boo-boos and bandaged them...)
Today I also have gratitude for helpful friends (I got some treatments to try on my hairs to hopefully strengthen & moisturize them), cooler temps (perfect!), the veeries and chipping sparrows and goldfinches and hummingbirds (I so love the hearing & seeing them...), Bette Midler (watched Beaches & Gypsy tonight), and Wegman's Mojito Sorbet which tastes just as awesome as Baskin Robbins Daquiri Ice that I've not been able to find since they left the area... ^o^ (I think it's a dupe as they say in the nail polish world!)
So tell me...
What made your day awesome-sauce today?
