Last night I was in the kitchen quickly browning some taco meat before swim practice, and the nightly local news came on. In the first 30 seconds, they announced the top 3 stories for the evening. They were: 1) a heart-wrenching report of a 7 year old girl who drowned over the weekend in a nearby river 2) the story…
Spring + The Happiness Equation At least the flowers in my yard got the memo that it’s spring, because the weather seems to have forgotten this week. My current local temp is 30 degrees, with a high of 43 today. The rest of the week looks marginally better in the low 50’s (but that means the high). All of this…
I feel very grateful right now that I ended up having a really great day yesterday (despite my #mondayfail start). Some good things: 🔷 I was at a transition point for work (finished one big section of something on Friday, was about to start a new one yesterday). So I decided to take an hour or so and did a…
So after my very tired morning yesterday, I had a very tired day. 🙂 Surprising. 🙂 But I’m actually proud of myself, because I felt very in tune to how I was feeling and what I needed. I think past versions of myself might have tried to “power through”, or say, “No excuses, toughen up!!”. Maybe it’s that I’m closer…
I’m happy to report that my crabby mood basically dissolved into thin air after I hit publish on my post yesterday morning. So, either the time spent writing/reflecting on the happiness equation WORKED or the good mood fairy flew by and dusted me with happy dust. Either way, my day rocked. Errands and work: After dropping the boys at the…
