Friday, November 8

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Being able to help my sweetie by moving sheets of styrofoam insulation into the basement.

We finally got water hooked up to the kitchen sink, so we got the dishes done today.

A good ride on River. He felt a little bracing in the jaw, so worked on that by backing up and getting him to soften and use his hind end. He was really good about halting and not moving off today, and staying straight when we rode off the rail on the quarter line.

My sweetie came with me to the barn. I'm glad he did, because if he didn't I would have been alone, and likely not have ridden. River was relaxed about being alone in the arena (sometimes he misses his mates), and it was super nice to have the arena to ourselves like this.

Coming home to a very cosy evening. With the basement being heated, the floor is warm now, and the house is staying warm even with just the electric heaters. It's wonderful to have a warm home.

That my kitties all like to snuggle with each other. There are three kitties (Sprite, Fatty, and Jones) that all like snuggling with each other, and often all of them are curled up together. They will spend hours snuggling and grooming each other. The fourth kitty, Celeste, only snuggles with Jones. It makes me happy to see my animals happy and content.

Watched more of "Good Omens", and I'm loving it. A really good adaptation of the book, with good production values. I hate it when someone makes a movie or series from a beloved book, but it's cheap looking or badly written.

Every now and then you notice yourself being happy. Just happy because it's warm, or your food was nice, or you're holding hands with someone special, and it's okay to just accept that happiness. I think we can almost be afraid of allowing ourselves to aknowledge a moment of happiness, because that might make life shit on us. Well, life is going to shit on us anyhow, and it doesn't seem to matter if we have a little happy moment or if it's already been shitting on us for months. So I'm going to accept that little happy moment, and in the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut, I will say "if this isn't nice, then I don't know what is".

This is a wonderful lecture by Vonnegut. Funny and insightful. https://youtu.be/GOGru_4z1Vc