What's New(ish)
The Scary Thing
This is old but Luke had a leg spasm thing a while ago, where his whole leg was kicking for well over a minute. My brain immediately said "Heart attack! Seizure!" but when I called Lums Pond Animal Hospital they reassured me and told me what danger signs to watch out for. After it was over I sat on the floor with him and cried for a good 5 minutes despite the fact that there were people downstairs - that's how scared I was.The Adorable Thing
While she sometimes frustrates us with the ongoing house training, Toast is getting more active and more playful. My favorite times are when I take her to my parents' house to run in the yard and she flies around in a bizarre splay-legged gallop, before throwing herself into the grass to roll around. (I had a really cute video for this, but then I destroyed my phone and now I will be uploading nothing for a while.)The Life Improvement Thing
After thinking about it for months, I finally took over the library/unoccupied 3rd bedroom for my home office and I love it so much! I feel guilty about "stealing it" because there's 3 of us and the basement is the "computer room," but I think of all of us, I work at my computer the most frequently and I game loudly never, so I'll keep reminding myself of that until the guilt fades. Every day that I use my computer I'm just awash in happy feelings about this new space. We also just painted it AND I have a new printer (Goodbye Staples!), so the good vibes are strong.
The Social Thing
We have been seriously social lately. Normally this much social stuff would spur me into an introverted hibernation, but working from home 3 days a week means I have less social interaction on a regular basis and more energy for other activities. Cool stuff we've done: Disney trip with family (amazing), Party at the Pen: The Masquerade (a bit anticlimactic), MMRBQ rock concert (it rained but we stuck it out for several hours), and beach weekend!
The Injured Thing
While Disney was amazing, I did have an incident on a water slide. The immediately alarming thing was a head injury (I slammed it against the side of the tube and lost hearing in one ear for half an hour or so), but after that subsided (and my hearing came back), I started to notice pain in my chest, high on the right side. I ignored it for a week or so, then tried to do yoga with my mom and completely effed myself up. Now I'm avoiding all exercise that uses chest or shoulder muscles until this pulled muscle/bruised rib/whatever it is heals itself. When I googled the various options, they all had the same treatment, so I figure there's no point in getting it officially diagnosed, but patience is not my strong suite and I'm chafing at the prohibition of what was my only consistent exercise routine.
The Business Thing
My clientele has been fluctuating quite a bit - my bread and butter one month is nonexistent the next, BUT I've had a pretty steady workflow overall, and almost always something to work on. I think the longest I've gone this year without any projects was 2 weeks a month or so ago. I know I should set more ambitious goals (in order to keep my income on par with my spending), but for now I'm really enjoying my work life balance, and having projects from 3 or fewer clients per week makes it easy to keep up with the invoices.
The Exciting Thing
MY SISTER IS A DOCTOR TODAY!!! Depending what time you're reading this, I'm either watching her graduate from medical school, or I'm helping her celebrate with family. So so proud of the hard-working, compassionate woman she turned out to be.
The Upcoming Thing
June is my birthday month (turning 29 on the 29th). I used to be all stodgy and try to ignore it, because birthdays as an adult tend to suck, but guess what! They suck a lot more when I try to ignore them, so now I make a big fuss and have more fun. This month I'll be tackling all (or most) of the happiness suggestions people have made, so I'll be alternately running around trying various exercises, and relaxing with books, art, and bubble baths. June is also the Read My Books Challenge, and I have a few but these are the ones I've had since 2015 and desperately need to get off my to do list:
- You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero (Kindle)
- Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku (Paper)
- May Cause Miracles by Gabrielle Bernstein (Paper) - I might not follow the 40 day workbook, but I'd like to have actually read through them.
What have you been up to?
