1. A clean start. Today was not only the day our housekeeper comes and scrubs up after us (much needed, much appreciated!) but t was also the day that our fiber tv tech person came out to see why we had a black screen. All the diagnostics hadn’t helped, nor restarting, so we had to have the actual person come out. She ended up having to replace all our boxes on our main tv, so everything on our dvr was wiped out. It’s not a huge loss, as just having a dvr is such a luxury, all things considered. But now there is nothing in our dvr, and we can start all over collecting shows and movies we want to watch. Today, we got a clean start. It’s nice.
2. Since our fiber tv was down yesterday, we ended up binging a bunch of season 1 episodes of The Wire, which neither my boyfriend nor I had seen. Back in the day, I was a big Homicide fan, but when The Wire came out, I didn’t have HBO. It’s really interesting to see the differences in the story and the sets between the NBC show and the HBO one (the budget for HBO is clearly a lot bigger!), but it was nice to see some familiar faces and interesting to be back in Baltimore fighting crime.
3. I had a rough start to the week. Monday night, I had a huge panic attack, and I was struggling to find something that would help pull my head out of the anxiety. It wasn’t until Tuesday afternoon that I realized that one of my favorite authors, Anne Lamott, had a new book coming out. I’ve requested a review copy, but it comes out Tuesday, so I doubt they’ll approve that. It’s okay though, because it comes out Tuesday, so I can buy it. But I did find an excerpt from it and read that right away, and in those few pages, she was able to pull me out of my anxiety and back into my real self. For those moments I was reading from her new book, I didn’t have to worry about whether I was breathing. I didn’t have to remind myself to pull my shoulders down from my ears. I didn’t have to work to relax my jaw. That night, I listened to one of her books (Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers), and that night I slept soundly and deeply (like the guy below, but less adorable). I woke up feeling a thousand percent better and made it through the rest of the week without incident. It was such a relief to let go of all that anxiety that had been building up, and I am grateful.
*what is making me happy this week
