Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling
1. Slept in
2. Worked
3. Enjoyed fresh air and watched the dog play
4. Ate three spoonfuls of chocolate ice cream for lunch
5. Patted my son on the head
6. Laughed at JD Vance
7. Worked more
8. Ate fried chicken from a legendary local place
9. Went for a hike with daughter and her dog
10. Made it home for sunset & limoncello
11. Played online boardgames
12. Went to bed early
Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling
1. Slept in
2. Worked
3. Worked
4. Ate sushi
5. Bought a lottery ticket
6. Chatted with Barbara
7. Met a friendly little dog
8. Worked
9. Worked
10. Played online games
11. Went to bed early
Took 2 hours off tax prep to take son to classes. Then got long-craved-for salmon sushi, even sitting down and eating in a relaxed manner. Then did two quick errands. And wrote out postcards with compliments and love to 5 friends. Now to go pick up the boy and back to the grindstone.
Chores can wait until tomorrow.
1. Mattea: creative, loving, fun, healthy, recovering, honest, vulnerable, generous
2. Cathy Reitz: honest, healthy, generous, smart to get off social media
3. Diane P: brave, principled, smart, well-traveled, progressive, humble, charitable
4. Jessica: honest, loving, keeps things simple, sees the best of people, curious, open minded, adventurous, brave, strong
5. Stef: adventurous, smart, generous, honest, funny, fun, brave, well-traveled
I wrote this to Sean:
I just remembered I had a bad dream last night. That you and Nora and I went somewhere like a museum or theater, and we ended up sitting separately. And I was mad because it happened all the time because I always got lost. And I was mad because you guys never made any effort to come find me, I always had to track you guys down in past. So I decided to not waste my time trying to find you guys and I went and slept somewhere in a secret room in the theater. But then I had to leave and I decided to go to New York and get a really expensive hotel room and make you guys miss me. And I was figuring out on my phone how to disconnect you guys couldn’t track me down.
I don’t think this dream is about you guys. I think I want tax season to be over. 😆
I worked for 11 1/2 hours today. I worked to some degree on 18 returns — several of them big messy multi-million dollar returns — getting 7 of them far enough along for review. For most of the day, my brain was laser focused on organizing info, writing notes and emails, and reviewing that numbers matched.
But the important part is… now I’m baking brownies (Thinking of Kristi Dorney, as always when baking brownies). And finishing up Dungeon Crawler Carl book 3 on audio. Gotta find some pleasure where you can in the last two weeks of tax season. Especially using senses other than my poor tired eyes.
Also, when Peter and I dashed to the grocery store between showers this evening, we were treated to a magnificent rainbow. The photos don’t do it justice for how bright and sharp it was. We felt like we could reach out and touch it.
