« growing up and other exciting things | Main | Be anxious for what? »

Monday, March 20, 2006

It's Monday

Kat does this thing on Mondays where she lists a few positive things in her life. I figure, hey, if any day needs something like this, it's Monday, right?

Actually, things have been pretty good for me for a while. I'm a happy lady. And why shouldn't I be?

Just a few things that have made me happy lately (ooh! a list!):

• I have an array of machines that do much of my work for me. I am especially grateful for the dishwasher. That swish-swash-swish can still fill my heart with joy even after five years of hearing it.
  
• Speaking of heartwarming, yesterday was our twelfth wedding anniversary. Since we've been celebrating pretty much full-bore for the past month and a half or so, it was OK that we spent yesterday afternoon apart -- T helped a friend who is moving to another state in a mere two weeks or so (note: he, like T, collects cars and their paraphernalia. It has been snowing every weekend since the middle of February, which has put a cold, wet, white damper on any outdoor interstate-moving-related work. Read: still much to do.), and I cleaned our bedroom which was only a slightly less desperate task. We did go out to dinner, all four of us, even though we had multiple child-minding offers. It is our family's birthday, after all. Then we came home and watched The Cat From Outer Space, had brownies and ice cream, and crashed into bed. We are so happening.
  
• We are all in excellent health (and we're very good walkers, too. I wonder how many posts of mine do not have a Jane Austen reference in them somewhere?).
  
• I finally defrosted and cleaned out our refrigerator. And I mean really cleaned it out, not just emptied the unidentifiable moldy messes out of the Rubbermaid containers that have been shoved to the back of the shelves for who knows how long. It now smells pleasantly clean and is actually white on the inside. Who knew? Such a good feeling; it gives me a little jolt of satisfaction every time I open it (easily pleased? why do you ask?). Also, I'd forgotten what the house sounded like without the fridge running.
  
• I am married to the best person on the planet, and I'm exponentially more in love with him than I was when we got married and thought we loved each other as much as was humanly possible.
  
• School has been going well, and my kids love me in spite of my multiple mothering flaws (will they ever have clean socks in their drawers on a regular basis? do they even know what that's like?)
  
• The photographer's block is gone. woo hoo! Probably because in spite of our freakish weather for the past month, wildflowers are bursting out all over. Run for your lives!
  

See? So what if the house gets messy again as soon as I clean it? So what if dpchallenge still hates my photos? So what if our tenant is moving away in July and we're kind of wondering where our grocery money will come from if we don't get someone else in there right away? All the important stuff is covered, right?

Comments

Posted by: Kat with a K at March 20, 2006 12:53 PM

Posted by: debi at March 20, 2006 01:36 PM

Posted by: jenn at March 20, 2006 02:33 PM

Posted by: debi at March 20, 2006 02:47 PM

Posted by: Maria at March 20, 2006 11:05 PM

Posted by: Shannon at March 21, 2006 08:17 PM

Post a comment