Recovery and weekend and stuff

[serene]

Last weekend was the definition of eventful: an evacuation; a visit from my mother and her fiance; a high-social-cost (albeit delightful) convention; a sick kid.

This weekend, not so much. I think I left the house once. I spent yesterday napping and hanging out online and nursing some pain that was not terrible, but tiring. Today, the pain was a lot less, but I'm short of breath, enough that I had to stop several times on our walk, and that doesn't happen.

So then I was sitting here thinking of posting about what a good weekend I'd had, and it hit me how low my bar for "good weekend" has gotten. If I don't hurt too much; if I don't have houseguests; if I don't have to evacuate from a potential tsunami; hey, good weekend! I have to laugh at myself: either I'm all kinds of pollyanna or my life sucks more than I think it does.

It does feel like a good weekend, though, despite the rough stuff, because I don't feel sad and defeated, just ouchy and out of breath. The physical stuff sometimes drains me emotionally, but this weekend it's not touching my mood, and I couldn't tell you why. I'll take it, though.

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On the work front, they've offered me a couplefew more hours a week and I've said yes, but reserved the right to change my mind once school starts in the fall.

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And speaking of school, some paperwork stuff has gone astray, and I'm hoping it doesn't mess me up. I've been accepted, but that's based on their having received some stuff they appear from their website not to have received yet. I'll call them tomorrow and try to straighten it out. Oy.


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I plotted out a mystery novel today in about a half hour. Don't know how it'll look to me in the morning, but I liked it when I was working on it today. I wish I were better at finishing writing projects. This may be why I like poetry; I can finish a poem.

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I don't know how to make things better in Japan (or Sudan or any of the other places MSF/DWB goes), but I trust Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to help. I also like that they don't do targeted donations; this frees them to put the money where it's needed most.

Comments

[vito_excalibur]

I think you just have a talent for enjoying yourself/setting up a life that you enjoy on a baseline level! So you don't need for stuff to *happen* to enjoy yourself.

[hel]

Perhaps the days getting longer, and the clock change meaning more sunlight you actually see, and the weather getting nicer? A lot of ppl I know are finding their moods better the past few days. :)