Quick List

Smile:

• being thanked for doing my job by a colleague (nice to be recognised...)
• having mid week wind down drinks at home with friends for a days debrief (I'm liking daylight savings more and more)
• winding down for the end of year close down (close to 3 weeks off - yee hah!)

Snarl:

• silly discussions that lead to people being cranky with each other!
• contemplating going home for a family meet and greet, and realising it is my family that will be the weird one (we'll need someone to be the ringmaster to at least divert attention)
• things to do list at work getting longer and longer and longer
• not knowing bureaucratic decisions I need for closure on certain things

what a way to start the morning...

I thought I would be ok on Monday - had a minor issue on the weekend that I thought would be fine by this morning... alas not to be!

Snarl:

• the way I woke up this morning... grrrrr!

Starting the morning with a funny

There's no better way to start the day than with a laugh, especially when its a cartoon, of the economic and political variety, poking fun of the current "global financial/economic crisis"...

So for the list:
Smile:

• incredibly inciteful/insightful comedy stylings from Kevin Dunne, from motherjones
• then of course, kudos to the cat for sitting patiently whilst I pat her and for the occassional purr

Snarl:

• the other way my morning started (including, hearing some random heave chunks next door whilst I was in the privacy of the bathroom, one piece of advice - that'll learn you! and thankfully it all happened next door!)
• early morning wake ups when I wanted to sleep in

More smiles...

Well here's one for the record books - more than 1 post on a day, especially given the difficulties I have in already updating on a frequent and regular basis.

The smile I have today is (and the spent-most-of-my-life-living-in-QLD-and-go-for-the-Maroons-but-now-living-in-NSW in me is not liking this post)

• daylight savings

There's nothing like good company, sitting outside, sipping a good cold white wine while the sun sets at about 8:30 at night. Ah bliss. If only every day of the week could be like the weekends!

Smile

Smile is:

• seeing someone you love get their mojo back!

Yee ha...

tying up loose ends...

Whilst I'd initially envisaged that this would work more in a list like fashion, where I jot down quickly the smiley and/or snarly things that happened in my day, writing in whole sentences also seems to be a lil cathartic.

I'm in the middle of tying up the loose ends of this year. In hindsight, I really have had a year I could be snarly about - 2 major surgeries (one of which was very unexpected, and neither was really wanted), ongoing problems with a medical issue, not being able to concentrate well on uni, issues with the bf (at times), and some other things I don't feel obliged to comment on... but at the moment I'm feeling rather calm about it all, and instead of harbouring the hurt and anger and all those snarly feelings, I'm sorting out the things that need to be sorted.

So if there was a list I think there would be one things on it:

Snarl:

• bureaucracy involved in getting things sorted!

That is all...

on the wagon... of updating this blog

not really in a smiley or snarly mood... just so so...

finally out of my shell and getting around to catching up with friends and answering the phone/messages when people call (a major step from where I was a couple of weeks ago).

Sorting out the uni stuff a little bit at a time... I'm still feeling heavy about it.

Post operation stuff sucks! I'm still in pain, and the stuff that sometimes exudes is pretty gross... still can't wait til the swelling dies down, and stuff returns to normal...