As my dearest Mags has pointed out, it has been much too long since one of these has been posted and it is especially important in this shit storm of awful that everyone has been going through between winter and the state of our political system and serious life crap and the respiratory ick that has been attacking the midwest and nearly everyone I love. So here are some things I am loving on this week.
Planning a much needed vacation - Everyone knows that I almost never go on vacations due to work schedules, school schedules, and generally being broke all of the time. But every year I do something nice with a little chunk of my tax refund and this year I spent it on a plane ticket to Los Angeles. I will be spending a lovely weekend at the residence of Colby and Aaron and having adventures in a city and state I've never explored before. I'm really looking forward to that reward at the end of this semester.
Chicago plans - Mum and I are headed to Chicago the first couple of days of my break and I am already making lovely plans with monsters and moopits and kindred spirits and seeing monkeys on their birthday (she's going to be 5! how did this happen?!).
Spring break - I need it, I need my humans, I need a break from thinking about school.
Great job interviews - I had two really good job interviews over the past two weeks and, even if for some reason I don't get one of them, I felt really good about my skill level and confident in the work field which I haven't felt since the whole year of the gas lighting boss.
Puppies - When I get back to Illinois, there are 18 puppies waiting to be snuggled and oohed and aahed over. The sweet Daffodil had 5 boys and 3 girls and big girl Maisey had 6 girls and 4 boys. As always it will be so difficult not to put a deposit down on one but I really can't get one until next year.
Encouraging friends - My friends always know when I could really use a little message even when I don't say anything. Not a single one of us just leaves the others to fend for themselves and it's really a beautiful thing.
Pampering - I've really been missing all of the nice things I had in Chicago that I did for relaxation purposes so I went hunting on NC Groupon and found a couple of lovely places for reflexology, massages, and facials.
Cooking - I also decided to find a cooking class and am heading over to Sur la Table this weekend to learn how to make croissants, I'm so psyched about it.
