good things, dammit

[sabine]

I need to make a list of good things. Otherwise, I may go crazy with the annoyance of a multitude of annoying factors.

1. The coffee cart at work now has Pumpkin Spice Latte. Le yum.
2. I've been making an apple-grape salad and a bowl of greek yogurt with almonds in my new bento container every day this week. This is proving to be a good combination of food to keep me full and moderately happy until lunch.
3. HabitRPG is doing a pretty good job of keeping me on task. I use it mostly for my at-home to-do list instead of integrating it with my work list. That would be crazy talk.
4. I look like me today. Yes, it's colorful and more than a little eccentric, but I'm okay with that.
5. My new tattoo is healing nicely. It's in the dry and scabby stage, not yet to the itchy stage. I know the itchies are coming, but that's just a part of the healing process. Also, it's in a really good spot for hiding around people who don't appreciate ink. This was a good decision and a good use of my "money I made doing henna" stash. I figure if I save that cash and turn it into more body art, that's a good tradeoff.
6. Emi is super smart. Ox is cute and a snuggle bug.
7. Ox is learning more sounds! Emi is starting to read and write actual words other than her name. Sure her first written-by-herself word was "No", but that's still awesome.
8. Just because I can't be all the things all the time doesn't mean that I'm a terrible person. It means that I'm a person. Perfection is a myth - one that got sold to me at an early age and reinforced over and over - and I don't need to try to be perfect. (Usually)
9. I'm reading good books. Yay books!
10. I got my Myrtle dress cut out. Now to figure out the bodice origami to make it work. When it's done, I need to find a mustard yellow long sleeve t-shirt to wear under it. That will make it a good fall dress. Yus.
11. Lunch calls. Then 4.5 hours of back-to-back meetings. Ick. But lunch will be good. And I have a salad and tasty protein snacks in my office in case I can't get lunch before my noon meeting.

Focus on the positive. Keep breathing. Punt the jerkbrain with the boot of logic and reason. Not my monkeys, not my circus. Eye of the tiger. I got this.