Lovely Day: rated an A-

The past few weeks have been less than stellar for a myriad of reasons which I will not go into boring detail about here. But it was enough to cause me to actually dream about trying to schedule an appointment with my therapist, however in my dream he had gotten remarried and was too busy and too happy with his own life, to see me at this critical juncture in my life. So, yeah. It's been a few of those kind of weeks.


That being said, after napping around the house yesterday for the majority of the afternoon, I had a very nice and quiet evening with the dog. We even went to bed at the very reasonable hour of 10pm. At some point in the middle of the night, he was causing our feet to be too hot and therefore was asked to move to the couch. Where he promptly started crying softly. Until...I reached out my arm to pet him — he snuggled down next to my hand and immediately started snoring. Every so often he would try to nestle more spoonishly into my hand, until my arm fell asleep and I had to retract it, sadly. Upon which, it was required of me to shove over, so he could climb into bed and lay his hand on the pillow where only moments before mine had rested so comfortably. Now my head was squashed between his and J's and while it may sound like I am complaining, I immediately fell into a blissful sleep..and  probably was smiling.


I woke up feeling rested and full of general aura of pleasantness. Caught a cab on the corner of Boerem Place and State Street, where I was able to not only able to get into the office in under fifteen minutes (thank you, Christopher Columbus!) my conference call with a colleague in Europe was not disconnected even one single time on the way into the city. 


The day was spent checking lots of stuff off of my list, which was highly satisfying. Finished a project I have been working on for at least five months. Finished in the sense, that I received final approval to send it to the printer. I met a childhood friend for lunch at 'Wichcraft. Had the tomato soup — it was that kind of cozy day. And in the late afternoon, went with my team to see the Matisse exhibit at the MoMA on the last day of the exhibition. The exhibit was pretty incredible...I particularly loved the sketch of the little goldfish where his mouth was a little round "o."

And then the evening has been spent leisurely eating dinner and leafing through design magazines, getting inspired. It's been very zen...until it started hailing with crazy sounding winds whipping across my 11th floor balcony, that is.