Smiling

I woke up with a smile this morning.

It sort of shocks me how much better I'm doing these last couple of days. The fact that I've almost slept through the night two nights in a row is probably helping. Spent my first whole evening in my new place last night (the previous days I'd gone other places after work - errands or out with family/friends) and actually enjoyed it. I ended up stretching out on the couch with my laptop, and watching some old episodes of Gray's Anatomy on DVD (I'm working my way through season 2 again).

I'm really hoping my family members come through and pool their resources towards the purchase of a television for my birthday at the beginning of next month. It will be nice to be able to turn it on and do something mindless in the evenings. Even if we don't get cable, we can always hook my laptop up to it and watch movies/tv on dvd on the bigger screen.

Work remains somewhat slow, which is why I'm sitting at my desk writing a blog post rather than doing actual work. There are actually several things on my list to be accomplished today, but most of them will take more than 5 minutes each, which leaves a lot of time left in the day.

I think I only have about 5 more boxes of stuff to unpack, and a closet to organize. Then I can hang the rest of my art, and settle properly into my bedroom. I'm liking the way it's turning out so far, and am looking forward to the finished result. I could actually live with the mess for quite a while. I have no trouble living out of suitcases or boxes. In fact, when I travel, I never unpack immediately upon my return home. It's not uncommon for my stuff to be in a suitcase on the floor for up to a couple weeks after my return. However, my new roommate (as in many other things) is exactly the opposite of me in this matter. She unpacks immediately. So, my remaining boxes are now all in my bedroom, instead of our living room, which should help her state of mind, and will probably motivate me to finish settling in, if only to avoid tripping over boxes every morning!

I'm hoping the modem that will allow us an internet connection will arrive in the mail in the next day or so. It'd be nice to be able to surf the web at home again. I've found an open wireless network with just enough signal that I can SLOWLY download my emails most days, but can't seem to send outgoing mail. It will be nice once I'm all reconnected!

In the meantime, it's sunny outside, I'm hanging out with one of my favorite people tonight, I'm munching on carrots for a mid-morning snack, I'm wearing jeans at work (the only good thing about stampede other than mini-donuts!), and the office is quiet (allowing me the freedom to sit here writing a blog post!). These are all things that are adding to my smile.