Today's anxiety win comes with a backstory (doesn't everything I say??). Yesterday, my mother-in-law cooked us an awesome supper and even did the dishes after she was done. Now, NO ONE (except probably my own mother) washes dishes to my ridiculous standards (not even Jeff), so I saw those dishes in the drying rack and thought I'd have to check them and likely end up re-washing some of them. But, last night, when Jeff was putting the dishes away, he told me that he actually found that some of them weren't cleaned very well, so he re-washed them. We came home from work tonight and I saw the dishes (that Jeff has now washed) dry and ready to be put away in the dish rack. I thought to myself that I would probably just re-wash them all just in case. Just to be sure. But I then quickly decided that, no, I would not. I trust jeff not to kill our family with unwashed dishes, so I'm going to let it go. And, in that moment, I effing won. #winning #winnerwinnerchickendinner
And here are some good things, yo.
1. The fact that it's Friday and this is a long weekend cannot be left off of the list. I am very excite (yes, I said excite) about this.
2. I am writing four articles for the alumni magazine at work and today I finished one of them. It's nearly twice as long as it's supposed to be, so I'm going to have to cut it down, and finishing only one of four means that I'm going to be writing the other three from home this weekend (which sucks ass), but I'm not going to focus on that. I'm going to focus on how in love I am with the first one I wrote. It's a lot. I'm a lot in love with it. (This is going to make chopping it in half significantly more difficult. I am now sentimentally attached. Wish me luck.)
3. I started trying to watch the Story of JonBenet Ramsey tonight and made it about 2 minutes in before I had to turn it off. They showed a photo of the crime scene. You can't see her little body, but you see a blanket, and I presume she's under it. And then in another shot, they showed her little hand and that was it. This, clearly, is not my "good thing" for the day, but it made me immensely thankful for my little boys, who are safe and warm in their beds. I just love them so much it actually hurts.
4. One more: our furnace was being a dillhole tonight and not working. We actually had to call a furnace guy out. (That's what they're called right? Furnace Guys? Yup, sounds right to me.) So there's $235-freaking-dollars that we'll never see again. Like almost all of my "good things" this is not in and of itself a good thing -- nor is it a good thing at all, really. But, we are able to pay for it without any difficulty. Maybe that seems dumb to say and silly to list as a good thing, but I think we are very fortunate to have a household income that can sustain unforeseen expenses which, somehow, always crop up. Thank you, for that, adulthood.
Also, why the eff do most of my good things start off by me talking about a bad thing?! What in god's name does that say about me anyway?
I am too tired to spell-check, so TAKE THAT!
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