Saturday, May 11

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Truly glorious weather, and no wind.

My husband and his parents working really hard on the fencing rebuild. They are doing a great job.

Being allowed to be pretty autonomous today, and I feel a lot better for it. I got some sleep last night, and decided to work on the garden today, since the fencing job really didn't need me.

I got one very grown-in with grass part of the vegetable garden cleaned out, and that's a good thing.

We went to the dump (officially the transfer station), and I always like going to the dump. Today I intercepted a man throwing out several concrete lawn items. I took a bird bath, and the woman who works at the dump took some fountains. I remembered to take a whole bunch of those plastic pots that you get when you buy a shrub or a plant, and set them aside for any gardeners to take. They weren't useful to me, and they don't get recycled.

On the way to the dump, we also picked up a giant bag of old clothes that has been sitting in the ditch in the same spot all winter. It really bothered me to see that kind of trash every time I drove by it, and now it's gone.

Making some very good food today. Quinoa with stir fry veggies and coconut milk, and spinach salad. Very good tasting, very filling. I'm grateful to have good food.

Noticing how my recent food changes are starting to become the new normal now. As a snack, I had a small serving of not sweetened muesli with unsweetened almond milk, and it did not taste boring and weird like it did a month or so ago. Now it tastes good, and it didn't seem like a small serving. Two months ago, that would have been part of eating a few other things as snacks to go with it, like crackers and cheese, and a banana too. Nothing awful, but if you were to evaluate how many calories that really is, it's a lot more than a person needs as a snack.

I'm grateful not to be freaking from introvert stress today.