Yesterday’s Besst was hard to choose; was it…

– N was back at work and I was back at work at the same time! She is fabulous to work with and it was delightful to see her.

– I got a lot accomplished…those nagging things that wear you down a little because you’re dreading doing them. Done.

– Talked myself out of being pissed off, which is huge. Historically, if I get in a snit it turns into a death spiral of piss where I wind up sulking, overeating, and then raining all over my best friends and putting THEM in bad moods, too. This time, I walked it back really quickly and avoided the drama.

– A while ago I made a list of fun things I like to do: embroidery, working on genealogy, playing Civilization Revolution. Stuff like that. I swore that each evening after work I’d do SOMETHING I actively like, as opposed to doing what I normally do, which is come home, view all the stuff I have to do (as opposed to the stuff I like to do), and then park on the couch all night reading Cracked. (Which is awesome, by the way, but it’s like eating a lot of candy. Fun while you’re doing it, but when you’re done you realize you ATE THE ENTIRE BAG OF FUN SIZES  and have nothing to show for it.)

Last night, I ate dinner and then picked something off the list and then did it, without torturing myself with a bunch of shoulds about chores and such. Again, huge. (By the way, I watched a movie that I had downloaded onto my iPad for a recent business trip. I used my boss new headphones that could cancel out the end of the world. The movie was ‘eh’ but the sound was fabulous.)

I declare a many-way tie.

© E. Stocking Evans 2014