Living in a post-communist country, sometimes the everyday bureaucracy sucks the very life out of you. To better cope with that (and not always feel like I'm living under a black cloud), I am trying to learn to celebrate the little joys in life.
Some of today's causes for joy:
1. Meeting today's "deadline" on the book I am currently working with. I always set daily deadlines for these projects to keep myself on track, but I always seem to overestimate what I can accomplish in a day and thus end up missing more "deadlines" than I meet. Staying on track so far for this project means that (1) I'm getting a better handle on what I can really handle each day and (2) I'm being more disciplined about pushing through until finished, even when I want to quit hours before.
2. EVERY dish in my kitchen is now clean. I realize that this doesn't seem like a big deal (and I SHOULD be able to say this every night!), but right now it is a big deal. I can go for months and always have a clean kitchen (and apartment, for that matter), but then something happens, I get behind, and it takes forever to dig out of the hole. It feels good to finally be out of the hole.
3. Mail in my mailbox. Okay, so it was just a magazine, but hey, at least there was something.
4. Lots of walking time. To the office this morning, back downtown to run errands this afternoon, back to the office, back home again. Tonight's next project is to rip all of my Christmas music onto my laptop and then onto my MP3 player...it just doesn't feel like Christmas yet, so I need some good Christmas music!
5. Information! We finally know the process that we have to go through to get my car registered. Of course, it will likely take several weeks to actually go through that process...but I'm excited to at least know WHAT we have to do, if not exactly HOW or WHEN.
6. Oh, yeah...nah, I think that one deserves a post of it's own...
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