Today is a good day, also painful, but a good day
Today was a great day and a painful day.
Great:
My husband's best friend who is also my best friend's husband landed a dream job, after a long spell of unemployment. Considering that both husband and wife had been unemployed and relying on her unemployment payments, this is huge and thrilling and exciting. Also, they got offered a place to live after living with her parents. A mutual friend's grandmother was moved from her huge house to a nursing home, and the huge empty house needs tenants. The mutual friend's mother will be the landlord, and my best friends will get cheap rent. They move in next month. Also, he will have an amazing, high-paying job. I am almost delirious with joy for them.
This is minor and insignificant, but it made me happy:
I needed fish food, so I went to the Congressional Plaza shopping center, home of the nearest Whole Foods and Ulta. I learned that a Bark! store would be opening next to the Whole Foods in September, which means that I have another local shop for organic cat food (the other shop being Pawlitics in the King Farm center). I also found out that Ulta now carries Tarte Cosmetics, which is one of my top favorite high-end cosmetic lines. I had been hoping for years that Ulta would start carrying Tarte, since I can rarely get to Sephora. I got my wish. The Tarte representative liked me so much that she gave me a huge coupon and a free sample. I wound up getting eyeshadow, eyeliner, and lipgloss, for less than half the original price, plus free mascara. What makes me smile is that several months ago, I actually had a dream that I walked into Ulta and saw a Tarte display. Sometimes precognition is only useful in hindsight.
Also, Whole Foods had a drinkable kefir yogurt with pomegranate, blueberry, and acai. On sale. Awesome. Also, Whole Foods was offering Castor & Pollux Ultramix dry cat food at a major discount, so I picked up a bag for the upstairs bowl, because even though we have plenty of dry food in the house, the discount was ending tomorrow and was impossible to pass up, and the food will go quickly. And then Rose found the bag and chewed a hole in it. She really likes the dried fruit pieces. I poured the bag into a Snapware container since the food bowl is still half full of Blue Buffalo kibble. Oh, Rose, you're so silly. In conclusion: I saved money all over the place on useful things.
Painful:
Yesterday's fibro flare, riding on the back of cerebral palsy spasticity, carried long into the day, and I forced myself to push beyond what I knew I could do. I was proud of myself, but when I got home I screamed into a pillow. I took a Soma, which helped enough, and I exercised lightly and stretched and meditated and took the proper supplements (MSM, CoQ10, Cayenne, Turmeric, Fish Oil, Magnesium, Vitamin D, Calcium). I wish I could say it made me all better. I am doing my best. I am still smiling. I am being beaten up from the inside, but I am still smiling.
Great:
My husband's best friend who is also my best friend's husband landed a dream job, after a long spell of unemployment. Considering that both husband and wife had been unemployed and relying on her unemployment payments, this is huge and thrilling and exciting. Also, they got offered a place to live after living with her parents. A mutual friend's grandmother was moved from her huge house to a nursing home, and the huge empty house needs tenants. The mutual friend's mother will be the landlord, and my best friends will get cheap rent. They move in next month. Also, he will have an amazing, high-paying job. I am almost delirious with joy for them.
This is minor and insignificant, but it made me happy:
I needed fish food, so I went to the Congressional Plaza shopping center, home of the nearest Whole Foods and Ulta. I learned that a Bark! store would be opening next to the Whole Foods in September, which means that I have another local shop for organic cat food (the other shop being Pawlitics in the King Farm center). I also found out that Ulta now carries Tarte Cosmetics, which is one of my top favorite high-end cosmetic lines. I had been hoping for years that Ulta would start carrying Tarte, since I can rarely get to Sephora. I got my wish. The Tarte representative liked me so much that she gave me a huge coupon and a free sample. I wound up getting eyeshadow, eyeliner, and lipgloss, for less than half the original price, plus free mascara. What makes me smile is that several months ago, I actually had a dream that I walked into Ulta and saw a Tarte display. Sometimes precognition is only useful in hindsight.
Also, Whole Foods had a drinkable kefir yogurt with pomegranate, blueberry, and acai. On sale. Awesome. Also, Whole Foods was offering Castor & Pollux Ultramix dry cat food at a major discount, so I picked up a bag for the upstairs bowl, because even though we have plenty of dry food in the house, the discount was ending tomorrow and was impossible to pass up, and the food will go quickly. And then Rose found the bag and chewed a hole in it. She really likes the dried fruit pieces. I poured the bag into a Snapware container since the food bowl is still half full of Blue Buffalo kibble. Oh, Rose, you're so silly. In conclusion: I saved money all over the place on useful things.
Painful:
Yesterday's fibro flare, riding on the back of cerebral palsy spasticity, carried long into the day, and I forced myself to push beyond what I knew I could do. I was proud of myself, but when I got home I screamed into a pillow. I took a Soma, which helped enough, and I exercised lightly and stretched and meditated and took the proper supplements (MSM, CoQ10, Cayenne, Turmeric, Fish Oil, Magnesium, Vitamin D, Calcium). I wish I could say it made me all better. I am doing my best. I am still smiling. I am being beaten up from the inside, but I am still smiling.