Monday Five Countdown

No chit-chat today - let's get this thing rolling!

Five Things I'm Grateful For

1. The dogs are still being relatively good. There has been an accident here or there but NO daily crate peeing (no crate peeing at all!).

2. It's the final week of the quarter at work so next week is break week, which means lots of quiet and I get to listen to music every day.

3. I got really good comments from my research professor on my research proposal. With the little amount of time I'm actually dedicating to my schoolwork these days, it feels good when I'm still getting stuff right.

4. I'm still so happy to have pants that fit. I bought them weeks and weeks ago but there isn't a morning that I'm not happy to put them on.

5. I'm grateful that my friends and family are generally healthy and safe. I still think about Japan every day (I hope you do, too) and I simply cannot imagine going through what those people are going through.

Four Things I Can't Stop Thinking About

1. Nate's birthday party. It's less than 8 weeks away now and there's a lot to be done in the house before I'll feel it's party-ready.

2. I want a shellac manicure. (I know, it's inconsequential, but I keep thinking about it.)

3. Teaching. I'm co-teaching a new class starting two weeks from today and I have yet to hear from or meet my co-instructor and it's making me nervous. It's a bit of a complicated class so we need to start planning and I have several other time-consuming projects I'm working on.

4. Japan. After 9/11, as I drove to work every day and saw NYC still smoking, I wondered if people were still thinking about us in October, November, December... I hoped they were, but I knew their lives were also back to a lot of the everyday norm. That's how it is for me. My life is pretty normal, but I do still think about Japan often.

Three Things I Want To Accomplish This Week

1. Clean/disinfect the kitchen floor. I didn't get to it last week (although I did buy the supplies) and probably won't do this until the weekend because it's snowing today (UGH, wtf??) and it's supposed to rain/snow on Wednesday and Thursday, too. What's the point of cleaning when the dogs are going to make it all a mess in a day or two?

2. Clean the bathroom. It's.... ick.

3. Finish all the work I have by the deadlines for all of them.

Two Things I Am Working To Be Positive About

1. Jobs. Where are they? Can the hubby have one, please?

2. All the work I have to do. It's much better than having nothing to do, but I'm close to overloaded so I really have to work hard to stay on top of things for the next few weeks.

One Random Thing

1. I am so flunking the no soda thing. I have had a bunch of soda - but the one thing I am sticking to is no soda at home. I'm doing really well with that so far, so that's a big step.

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