As part of trying to claw my way out of my misery, I have been forcing myself to try and focus on the positives, or at least the “neutrals”, instead of zeroing in on the negatives. Just because I refuse to “play happy” it doesn’t mean I can allow myself to wallow in the mud. The tendency is to ponder every aspect of the negatives because that is truly easier. But I have found some positive things to think about today. Here is a sample.
#1 – This morning when I walked into work my boss said “Hi sunshine” and I totally had to laugh to myself because he should have said “Hi dark stormy cloud.” At least I’m fooling someone, and I wasn’t even trying very hard.
#2 – We have a little bit more to go on with my dad…they are calling what happened unstable angina. I don’t know what that means and will proceed to learn a bit more, but it’s better than hearing the words “we don’t know” one more time. My dad also got a blood pressure cuff so he can monitor his ridiculously high b.p. and therefore have an idea of whether or not there’s a reason to panic. And we also learned that in the event of a heart attack, if you massage the area around the heart clockwise 100 times it can help. This is on my list of positive things because it makes me giggle. Nice advice. Anyway, more tests will be done on dad in the near future.
#3 – Throughout this house thing we have had a great banker whose name is Fred. Fred rocks. Nothing on the banking end has been even near stressful, and that’s pretty amazing.
#4 – I’m learning how to keep my house in a pretty clean, presentable condition at all times. This is clearly not rocket science, but it’s unfortunately not my forte. It has been exhausting good.
#5 – They aren’t lying when they say Raid kills bugs dead. This has been very pleasing in the last couple of days as I battle some spiders trying to take over my deck furniture. This will be a battle that any onlooking spiders will be talking about. It might even go down in spider history.
#6 – I tried a new place at lunch today – Rice Bowl Fusion on 33rd. It was really good…I had the Thai Green Curry. Tasty, spicy, and something different.
So there you have it. Some of the positives that I have been making note of today…
