This is my life

An hour left before the weekend, and I figure it's time for some Good Things:

• An hour left until the weekend, natch!


• lunch with the girls tomorrow


• A really productive week at work. My to-do list is still longer than it was on Monday, but I got 5 incidents closed yesterday alone, and that makes this a good week


• My garden is growing. The hostas are getting bigger, all the tree type plants came back really well, and even the asiatic lilies survived the winter - I can't wait until they bud and bloom! (What? It's my first year with a garden to watch bloom in 20 years!)


• I managed to snag a ticket home for a week this summer on points, and I've even got the approved vacation time for it. Two whole weeks off, one in Newfoundland, and one here. Yay!

So, what's going well in your world?

Y'know, even though work this week had me alternating between whimpering in pain ("please don't give me something else to be done by yesterday, please!") and wanting to kill someone ("I'm only one person dammit!"), it's actually been a good week on the personal stuff.

Heh. It just occurred to me that those were both actual quotes from me over the last week. So, yeah, work was hell. For the first time that I can ever remember, I actually interrupted someone (three different someones, on three different occasions, actually) mid sentence with "Do you really need me for this? 'Cause I have work to do."

However, the weekend is now here, and I'm gonna do a good things list.

• I've actually managed to cut, hem, and hang my drapes in the main room. Yay for progress on getting the apartment looking like I actually mean to live here for a while.


• On that front, I've also actually managed to unpack another box. Now, all that's left is two boxes that don't get unpacked (to-small clothes that I want to fit into again, and my box of crafting stuff - leftover wool, cross stitch kits, etc.), 3 smallish boxes of pictures and knickknacks, a box of winter scarfs and mitts, and a box of Magic:The Gathering cards that I haven't figured out what to do with. Progress, of a sort.


• It's a very nice, sunshiny day out.


• I have a new video card and a new hard drive, just sitting there and waiting for me to have the time to take my system apart and play.


• My Big Sister is havin' a baby! Woo-hoo! She's extremely excited and happy about it, and the pregnancy seems to be going very well, so this is the bestest of all possible news. *g*
  

Yeah, there's some good stuff in my life. *g*

This week, this is the bestest of news!

I Have Air Conditioning!

Many thanks to lordzowy for his help in installing the beast. I can now breathe in my apartment. This is sooo good.

True, it still needs a couple of brackets that will be installed once I make a trip to Canadian Tire after supper, but it's in the window, it's in solidly, and it's running. What more could I ask for?

My baby sister's getting married! Woo-hoo!
(She may be over 30, but she'll always be baby-sis to me. *g*) The wedding's not going to happen until the spring of 2006, but I still feel like throwing some confetti!

She's even promised me that the bridesmaid's dresses will be "reasonable". She's the best.

I like the way mycrazyhair has been posting "good things" on an almost daily basis. It's a certain mood-lifter, for one thing. I thought I'd start to do the same. Focus on the positive, y'know? So here goes, good things in the last 24 hours:

• Beautiful sunshiny days
  
• Fresh asparagus, fresh strawberries - just fresh veggies and berries in general.
  
• The people I work with. Just, overall good.
  
• Long conversation with a friend that I don't seem to talk to often enough. (Thanks for calling, R)
  
• Beautiful days
  
• Sitting on my balcony with a glass of wine (and Ella on the stereo) in the early evening, soaking up the spring air.
  
• Pretty summertime clothes that make me feel good.
  
• No socks necessary!
  
• Plans for a Canada's Wonderland trip with my sister.
  
• Did I mention the weather...?