things that made me happy today

  • having the freedom to get to the office for my first meeting (10am), and therefore
  • waking up and getting ready over a leisurely period of time, with a nice breakfast (coffee! yogurt! banana! egg! avocado! i like to eat.)
  • commuting in sunshine. makes me so happy!
  • snack with a small box full of strawberries and blueberries i prepped in the morning  (mmmm feeling responsible AND healthy AND delicious. triple win.)
  • making chicken stock last night and seeing how wonderfully it came out this morning
  • will inviting me to a lunch date in distillery spontaneously today.
  • visualizing how my place will look once its re-done (why yes i just finished it all and here are some pretty photos of it as it is now but apparently i have design ADD)
  • working in the office with exposed brick walls and beams and general coolness of the atmosphere
  • getting another airbnb booking for march bringing my total in march to a reasonable amount of days and money
  • looking forward to 2 nights back in my condo/downtown

it’s so really, really AWESOME to have an evening by myself once in a while. got home from will’s at 4pm, and got LCBO, got tonic, got groceries, roasted a chicken and a whole head of cauliflower (mental cheers to scarf’s awesome birthday dinner). spread out ALL THE LAUNDRY like an explosion all over the floor, and ALL THE FOODs, and ALL THE SALADS, and then cleaned up ALL THE WIRES and it’s just so perfectly combining messy and neat, delicious and practical, fun and work – and i can’t imagine doing this “not alone” because in a large way the joy is that i know that i can just drop the big pile of towels and go back to internet.

of course, i don’t, at least not too much, so most chores are done, and lunch is thisclose to being packed, and bed is thisclose to being made, and i’m just so happy.