Tuesday and Thursday

Tuesday was one of the best days of my life. It had been planning to go over to Beth's to watch the inauguration, but I didn't really make it all the way to the door and ended up on the couch asleep. Stacy stopped by to see what we were up to and we ended up listening to the event on NPR together, squeeing and giggling a lot.

After all of the hubub died down, we decided to go to the coast together and took Baldr with us. It was a fabulous day, full of good conversation, giggling, and running around on the sand.

From Beauty

Matt and I went to dinner on Broadway and during dinner a spontaneous parade of people carrying flags and cheering walked past.

Then we went to Stacy's birthday party and that was all kinds of fun. All kinds. That includes friends, cuddling, tickling, cats, fire, cheesecake, surprises, and many other kinds that I won't list here.

And I realized that the long winter that Master Chi'ang warned us about is finally coming to an end and that makes me so very, very happy.

This morning I had breakfast with Beth and then biked to Paul's to sing with Beth and Paul. Today isn't over and it's still pretty damn awesome. Why haven't I been biking or singing for the past few years?

running running running

I was planning to write a state of the Vera address, but apparently I had other things to do away from the computer. The address should be forthcoming.

Today Matt, Baldr, and I went to the dog park and ran ourselves silly. Baldr had a chance to chase another malamute around and there were several labs and retrievers that wanted to wrestle with him. But the best part of all of that was chasing him around the park. Matt and I took turns playing tag with Baldr until he was too tired to stand up. It was great!

Day (maybe I should stop counting because I missed a few days) 15 Gratitude:
running really fast until I'm out of breath and giggly

I knew this would happen...

I made it a third of the way through the month before hitting writer's block. I've had three or four grumpy evenings and bad night's sleep, which of course, leads to tiredness and feeling generally delicate. Blah. So I guess today I'll list something I'm grateful about in general, every day, and try not to take it for granted.

Day 12 Gratitude:
Baldr and Zhenya offer me unconditional love, every day, all the time, no matter what

failure

So I blew the experiment on the second day. That doesn't mean I didn't have something to write about, I just got home really late and forgot to sit down and write it. So here's what yesterday's entry would have been, and I swear it's not a cop-out.

So yeah, on Saturday I wrote about family. Last night I had dinner with those same cousins. It was low key, we watched some Star Wars, and hung out for a while while I wrestled with their dog and we talked about the world. So again:

Day 2 Gratitude:
Family

Today I started off with an odd morning... It was light out, because of the time change, and Matt was still in Portland, so I had to get Baldr fed and walked before I went to work. It was fun! I handled my time a lot better than I usually do in the mornings. I think I might see if I can walk Baldr in the mornings a few more days. And then I decided that today's mantra would be "Today is a good day." It seemed to work. I made a new friend and we had all kinds of great conversations about music, video games, and bad jokes. I actually kind of had fun at my dead-end warehouse temp job.

Day 3 Gratitude:
"Today is a good day."