Happy Lady

Before I get going, I realized that in my last post, I said March 14, 2009 - I meant 2010 - it's only been a month and a half....not a year PLUS a month and a half. This is all still pretty new for us. But since the new year, I've never actually switched over to writing "2010" properly...it's May...hopefully I get it figured out some time soon.


Okay...so why am I a happy lady today? I have no flippin' idea. But I'm gonna go with it.

Last week had more bad days than usual...I'm not sure why - nothing bad happened - I was just down. I didn't do a great job of dealing with work stress and that made all the other stuff harder to deal with, too. I'm finding that I have to be pretty proactive about not getting too "down" about life...or it can get out of hand. Last week I sucked at that. Hopefully next week I will do better.

BUT...today has been great. I finished an accounting exam this morning and have spent the rest of the day working on projects, snuggling dogs, watching basketball and now (my favorite), watching the History Channel.

Reasons why I feel lucky today:

1. Matt - he makes life so much better than it would be without him. There are a million reasons why, but today it's because he has had me laughing almost non-stop.
2. My mom and Gary sound like they had an awesome day the other day...they went to the beach, had a lunch date...it reminds me that you can still have super fun days and good times even while you have lots of other nonsense on your mind...like cancer.
3. I asked my dad to come stay with us in early June - he sounded really excited - it made me excited too.
4. The dogs. They just can't get enough of my lap (or Matt's) - it always makes me feel loved!
5. Life - today has been great - but it's been pretty average - between my test, cleaning my bathroom, making some lemon curd, sewing some curtains, and watching some good, old fashioned TV - today reminded me that normal is good.

So there it is - a good day. And looking forward to a good one tomorrow as well.

On another note, my mom goes in on Monday to see if the radiosurgery on her brain has done any good - I'm nervous and excited to hear about how it is going and what the next steps are - I'm a girl who likes a plan :) Please keep her (and her brain) in your thoughts and prayers!