11/4
i'm thankful that one of my best friends at work used the phrase "wind me up" and to have had the opportunity to think about how accurate that metaphor feels for being frustrated and stressed and annoyed, how winding up leads to being "wound up," which when you're a child can sometimes be gleeful, an emotion-free energy explosion, but by adulthood feels like your insides, gut to brain, twisted up into a knot, as blood struggles to pulse through. i'm thankful, then, for the benediction of "unwinding," which is what i believe the weekend is for.
i'm thankful that i had a very good day of work on friday and i'm thankful as i am very often that i work the place i work and with the people i work with. i'm thankful that the big test of the project i've been working on for six months went well, that it didn't explode or break down and that people seemed to like it and to have appreciated the choices i made (which was meaningful, because i made the choices thinking of them). i'm thankful to celebrate my good day d and i had pizza from the good pizza place on friday night, then we bought fun snacks on saturday, and i made some more hopeful donations to democrats in close races.
i'm thankful that miso has recovered from being spayed and is back to normal, after a day where she was so pitiful and sad and not like herself. i'm thankful that she is a little less bitey than she used to be and i'm thankful that even when she is bitey she is still cute. i'm thankful that she is still small and easy to pick up and carry, which is important because even though she has gotten better at going on walks, there are still times when she absolutely will not go any further. i'm thankful we are having hot dogs for dinner. i'm thankful for the gift of an extra hour to do nothing much at all in.
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