To the good!

After traipsing across the country for seven months, I appreciate so many little luxuries.  I try to make daily happy lists in my head, to keep my morale from sagging into self-pity.  Sometimes my lists are lame, citing hackneyed blessings like health and food and a car – but today, I thanked God for:

·         Full-length mirrors:  We haven’t had one for the majority of our marriage, and it’s amazing what ease it adds to our mornings!

·         Butter knives: Have you ever tried to spread organic (read: stiff), crunchy (read: even stiffer) peanut butter across a loaf’s worth of crumbly bread, using only a flimsy, plastic wannabe-knife?  Yeah.

·         Evenly-hot water:  Our hotel homes have offered, respectively, psycho-water that switched temperature, either scalding or freezing you mid-shower, dead water that stank and never (ever) got warm, and spastic water that would glug an icky mixture of hot and cold, continuously.

·         Tea/winter/hydration:  It is amazingly easy to keep hydrated now that I’m always chilled, and constantly hovering over a steamy cup of herbal tea.  And the snow makes the world look so tolerable in spite of the weighty, grey skies.

·         Tetris :  Even tho’ I play far too much, some days I’m not sure how I’d cope without this outlet.  =)

Happy Monday!