Day 13

Today was amazing!  I had so much fun. I did Zuzka's Day 5, and boy was I frustrated with myself.  But I did it and I did the best I could, and I really took the time to remind myself that that's all that matters.  I kept my commitment to myself and I did the best I could do today.  

I rocked it at work today though!  We were slammed and I totally kept it cool, and even felt joyous as I worked!  And I made over $160!  Wow!  I'm really pleased with the job I did today.  And I had a great lunch, stopped eating when I was no longer hungry, and bought myself some dark chocolate with cherries :)

Things that were great today:  hot shower in the morning, followed by cold shower to wake myself up, wearing sexy black pencil skirt, finding out my roommate has decided to move out (which means I'll get her nice big bedroom!!  I was asking for this!!), eating an avocado for breakfast (totally sustained me for most of the morning, awesome!), nibbles of food here and there, having excellent interactions with customers from start to finish, meeting a new potential connection for my dad's business, lighting a birthday candle for a customer and bringing it out at the end of their meal as a surprise (I've never gotten to do that before!  Cool!), seeing my friend and his daughter come in for breakfast (she is so incredibly sweet!  I gushed!  So adorable, the way she asked for maple syrup on top of her pancakes was the most precious thing I'd ever heard!), tasting a fucking deliciously rich chocolate-rum torte, rocking the shit out of my workday, having the help of assistants on the floor (made everything soooo much easier) did I mention I rocked the shit out of my workday today??!  Making it home and taking a short nap with my pup, waking up and cooking up a delicious dinner of broccoli, asparagus, kidney beans, spinach, and portobello mushrooms, catching the bus jus in time, eating my dinner on the bus, acting for an experimental film class (doing repetitive motions, like opening and closing a box, and getting paid for it!), excellent conversations with the professor (a former classmate of mine in acting class), a potential new connection with someone who went to the same actin school in Paris that I'm looking at (how cosmic!), getting a ride down to the gym from the prof, working out and doing my best even though I was frustrated and tired, giving myself a good pep talk in the locker room, walking home and daydreaming about my new bedroom, coming home and letting my dog out, reading Things Are Going Great In My Absence, eating yogurt with honey and granola, bandaging up my gnarly knuckles, drinking water, lying down for bed, wearing my deliciously warm crocheted slippers, realizing I forgot to write up my report, doing it and remembering the joy of today and how much better life has been getting.

It really does help to make small commitments and keep them every day.  It has made a difference already, and I look forward to continuing these new habits and creating a new positive, productive way of living that becomes second nature to me.

Love,

Adrienne