What made you brought you joy this week
What brought me joy today
What brought me joy today
What brought me joy today:
Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling
What made me happy this week:
Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling:
1. Made cinnamon rolls
2. Worked on 3 gift tax returns
3. Increased my withholding
4. Got a Pap smear
5. Tried on new dresses
6. Danced to Johnny Cash & June Carter
7. Drank lemon drop martinis
8. Played Bingo
9. Admired the stars & moon
You know what I did today?
Dusted a really grody dust-covered ceiling fan in Peter’s condo.
Then vacuumed *cough cough*
Then also changed the AC filter.
Paid for the ambulance ride I took back in March when I wasn’t breathing right.
Then did my breathing exercises.
Looked for and failed to find a flower press kit at Aldi that some Insta Aldi influencer said would be there.
Then researched flower press kits on Etsy. Haven’t bought anything yet. Would I walk more if I looked for flowers to press? Hmmm.
Noted Mike & Nadine are organizing a thing in July.
Then researched bike trails in Minnesota.
Remembered Mary McDonald is in Duluth and the weather is glorious there in July.
Took a walk in the unusually glorious mid-April weather we’re having here.
Then called Sean to discuss the weather, the condo, Minnesota, and his bum knee.
Then I stretched my hamstrings.
What I didn’t do?
Work much. Or give a mouse a cookie.
Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling
1. we need to take some vacations. That’s why we bought this super expensive van.
2. Sean and I both appear confident. Even to each other. And I think sometimes that makes us think the other is not feeling unloved or uncertain in our relationship, and then we miss opportunities to comfort and support each other.
today I wrote to Sean:
“You’re very supportive through my “am I an invalid /oh shit I’m getting old /oooops I forgot to lose weight” stage of my life the past few years.
Thank you.
Skechers are nice and comfy. But I do feel a bit dowdy.
Since I’m not spending $3000 to go to NYC, I’m spending a few hundred on shoes and dresses for Boca.”
Relatedly, I bought bunch of girly shoes today:
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Used up Ultra gift card on eyeliner and curly hair product
Partially used a B&N card for new Frederick Backman book
Cleaning out my purse is rewarding!
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I did not win last week's lottery.
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Post tax season:
I have a massage scheduled tomorrow, plus planning time in a shoe store. I am not normally a big shoe shopper, but my cute shoe ratio is very pathetic right now.
Other things I have planned to look forward to once I have more free time:
Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling
Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling
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.
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