I woke up in a good mood today. Better than normal. It was the first time in a while I could even joke around with the guys at work. I’ve simply not been in the mood. The good mood sneaked up on me and dawned on me halfway through the day: “Hey, I’m actually HAPPY!”

I’m not an unhappy person. In fact, quite the opposite. But there has been so much stress in our lives lately, and given my obsessive personality, I’ve been way too focused on the negatives. I told myself last weekend I would start focusing on the good things, and I succeeded in some areas. Others, not so much. And when one of those areas takes up 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, it’s hard to let it go. Hopefully that will work itself out soon.

Some good things that happened this week:

It’s Friday and the weekend is upon us. That’s always good.

I got the laundry caught up. Small miracle I know. That was Tuesday. I’m behind again already. But hey. It was caught up for five minutes!

Jack and I are going to get a weekend away soon! Since Lunarpages so rudely ruined our last attempt to get away almost a year ago, we didn’t get to go away for our anniversary and we’ve gotten out of the habit of going away alone together twice a year. It was tough deciding where to go. We knew we wanted to go to Lincoln City but not where to stay. We thought about Inn at the Spanish Head but I didn’t like the many negative reviews. Someone suggested the Salishan Resort and I thought, ‘Great! We’ll just load up our golf bags and spend a weekend gol….’ then I stopped myself. We don’t even own a single golf club. (Maybe a putter, or was that for putt-putt golf?) Then I found a quaint little bed and breakfast that had excellent reviews and is right on the beach. They just happened to have the weekend we wanted open so it was meant to be. I can’t wait!

We’re getting a refund from the IRS!!! That’s a first in three years. I can’t complain about that.

Lots of good stuff to focus on. And we’ll keep taking things a day at a time.