I’ve slacked off on my happiness project because the past couple days have been pretty rough.
Sunday was happy because I treated myself to a long, luxurious bubble bath complete with candles, Neil Young on the boombox, a margarita with a little paper umbrella, and a good book. Then I climbed into my clean, freshly made bed and slept really well. It was all very luxurious and lovely.
Monday was sort of nondescript. I honestly can’t quite remember what I did.
Tuesday was a very mixed bag– my happiness was getting up early to go on an 8 mile bike ride to the dam and back. It was beautiful perfect weather, not too cool, not too warm, I had my mp3 player of great music, and the scenery can’t be beat. Plus it felt good that it wasn’t too taxing– last time I did that route it really sucked the life out of me. But that was also the roughest day. To borrow Alex’s phrase, we “ended a significant stage” of our lives a couple days ago and very amicably ended our relationship. Not a lot of happiness there, but I can say I’m glad that it was handled in a respectful, calm, and friendly way and that we will continue hanging out. So that is my happiness for Tuesday.
Wednesday my happiness was getting to see friends who I don’t often see. One was in town from Knoxville, the other from Georgia, and we played Arkham Horror, one of my favorite board games based on H.P. Lovecraft’s literary universe. Board games based on spooky literature with awesome mythical creatures in it? Yes of course that’s one of my favorite things. We also ate sushi, played a neat video game where you kill nazi zombies, the new Resident Evil game, baked a cake honoring one of H.P. Lovecraft’s characters (Cthulu) and drank up some Irish carbombs. It was the perfect afternoon.
Yesterday my happiness was getting a swift kick in the pants that I’ve been slacking off on everything I need to get done this summer in terms of preparing for the GRE and my return to taking math in the fall. So I went into a flash card fury while watching Shakespeare in Love and felt somewhat better about my motivation by the end of the night.
Hope everyone out there (my fours of readers– my mom calls her readers her ’sevens’ but I doubt I have even that many) is find their own happiness here and there even when you have a bad day. Or better yet– that y’all aren’t having bad days.
My happiness today is that I checked back on your blog this morning and got to read a few weeks of your happy moments. Sorry to hear about you and Alex tho…. I think Emma and I will now go for a bike ride