Since I have always shared with you when I feel down or anxious, I thought it only fair to also tell you when I was feeling pretty good. And by good I mean neutral. Which for me, is good. There’s no big in your face rah-rah, life is so amazing, it’s just sort of an overall sense of this is OK right now.

Monday

Quiet day. Work, camera club, home.

When I got to work in the morning, this lil fella climbed out of my steering wheel column. Sorry he’s so out of focus, I was trying to do it fast before he moved away.

Tuesday

Another quiet day. This is sort of the theme right now. We’re between events at work, I haven’t been going out much, the weather is mild. Quiet times suit me.

It had been overcast all day but I just had a feeling about the sunset so I drove up to the little nearby beach. And was rewarded.

Wednesday

I was off for Yom Kippur. The forecast was for rain all day so I didn’t have any Out in the World plans, but I had a short To Do list and looked forward to some Reading on the Sofa time.

PLUS, remember the cognac bag I had missed on Nordstrom, making all other bags pale in comparison?? I found it LIKE NEW on Poshmark for a third of the price! I grabbed that sucker right up. Now let’s hope I like it as much in person.

Thursday

Back to work. Went to a small, local animal sanctuary for camera club.

My computer tried to kill me but I prevailed.

Friday

I left work early with a fever and sore throat. Nothing to see here.

Saturday

Fever fog sleep ouch ugh.

sunday

Fever finally gone, sore throat has turned into sharp, painful cough. My body hurts from too much time lying down over the past two days so I’m sitting up at the computer, but mostly just with my head in my hands. I wish someone would make me a cup of hot tea. So much for my productive 3-day weekend 🙁

I just crawled off the sofa to say thanks for reading this week’s very boring blog 🙁

What I read

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. This has been on my list for a long time, so the expectation was high. It really was like a journal of the year following her husband’s death, during which the daughter was also in a life-threatening situation for some time. Suffice it to say she had a LOT on her plate. I like her writing – it’s straight-forward and honest. There were some wonderful lines (that if I had the energy to go down the two steps to the bookcase for the book, I would share with you), for me, the best part, but also the hardest part was…her acknowledging that she could have done better while her husband was still alive. Been less stubborn, done more things his way, not be so strident about always being right. Those are hard admissions – and the book is a good reminder to anyone who still has their significant other/child/friend/dog/boss that NOW is the time to make some concessions for the relationship. I always remember a question from some relationship thing I read ages ago – Would You Rather Be Right…or Happy? 4.69/5

The Story of a Marriage: A Novel by [Greer, Andrew Sean]

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer. Greer also wrote the Max Tivoli (Benjamin Buttons-esque) book I read about a month ago. He is a lovely writer. He writes the kind of sentences that make you go back and reread them just because they sound so nice. The book was an interesting premise with surprises throughout…and an ending that leaves you (or me, anyway) not really sure what the truth was. 4.49/5

See ya next week!