I made a whole bunch of little projects for myself this month. Over the weekend I sat down to evaluate how I did. The scariest stuff was put off until the last minute. A few things just never became priorities. (I’m working on a project for a guy who runs a bar that does karaoke on Thursday nights. “Attend Karaoke” was an actual January goal of mine, which kind of sucks all the joy of this supposedly chill social outing. If I really want to go to karaoke, well, I’ll go to karaoke.)
At the beginning of the month I set out to write down stuff I was grateful for at the end of each day. It didn’t stick. I did, however, manage to cobble together a list of things at random intervals. That is: the first few nights of the year I did it. After that it was, “Crap, it’s been four days!” or more recently, “I’m a sobbing hot mess and this is the only thing I can think of to help me calm my shit.”
Still, it seems half-assed to only write these things down in a private notebook. If I’m really grateful I should publicly declare theset things. Also individually, to each — mostly inanimate — item on my list. Weekend project!
So here they are, in the order that I can find them while flipping through my notebook.
- My amazingly supportive parents
- Champagne
- Travel books and all of their amazing wanderlust-inspiring powers.
- Supportive, inspiring best friends.
- The (ever growing) amazing community of bloggers I have come to know and love.
- Twitter. Sounds silly, but holy shit, I am grateful for Twitter.
- My siblings
- Snark Squad
- Chocolate
- My space heater. [Our heater failed during the height of the polar vortex. BUT I STAYED WARM. Like a champion.]
- This notebook. [This blog, too, I guess. Sorry blog, I don’t want you to feel unloved.]
- Weird doodled on Snapchats from my sister.
- The stove
- My dog
- Fuzzy socks
- Colored pens
- All the cool, free ways to learn shit online
- Playing weird philosophical word games with the log instead of actually learning those things. [Off to the side I scribbled “Pizza is not defined.” I’m sure I found this hilarious at the time.]
- Nail polish
- DVR
- …the DVR when it’s working
- MY CAR
- Mid-day dance parties
- The fact that I’ve managed to mostly hold jobs where mid-day chair dance parties can be a thing
- The fact that I can now do full-fledged out-of-chair-on-my-feet mid-day dance parties.
- Books
- Book stores
- Friends who really do know the right thing to say all the time always
- Finding my people.
That’s that. A month’s worth of stuff I remembered to write down. It’s neat that it worked out to be 30, but this in no way represents 30 days of list-writing.
Thanks, world, for all that fun stuff. Please let me have more of it next month.
Love,
Nicole