Good stuff for a Monday*

1. Put on a short skirt (well, as short as I go: the bottom of the kneecaps) for the first time in a long time and realized, hey, my legs look better.

I think the hour of exercise every day is having a noticeable effect, finally.

2. It rained yesterday. It rained last night. It is not raining at the moment but I expect it will very likely rain again today.

3. We seem to have broken the back of summer. (Back when I lived within listening distance of Chicago AM radio, there was one host who used to talk about "breaking the back of winter" the first warm day of March. For me, winter has never been a problem: it is summer that I want gone as fast as possible). There are NO 100 degree temperatures predicted for the coming week; in fact, a couple days promise to be in the 80s. Yay Fall!

4. I only have evening commitments tonight (the class I teach) and Wednesday night (Youth Group) this week. Which means I get more rest and more downtime, which I am learning I desperately need.

5. A young relative who was faced with a difficult and unpleasant choice made what is probably the wisest decision in the particular situtation she is in. (No, it does not involve an unplanned pregnancy but I can't say more about it than that.)

6. I fixed the time/distance/speed meter on the cross-country ski exerciser. It turns out the little magnet that activated the whole thing had slipped out of its groove - when I pushed it back in, it worked again.

7. Refrained from putting any kind of scientist-smackdown on someone on Knitter's Review who was wailing about Pluto's demotion to a minor planet, about how her education was "ruined" by the "pencil-necks" now. (I could have gotten angry. I could have lectured at her about how if she really truly understood how science worked, she'd accept the change and realize that life moved on. I could have snarked about "oh, and when they discover a vaccine to prevent osteoporosis, will you refuse it, because it "ruins" your "education" for anything to change?") But no. I let it go. Breathe in and breathe out. I also refrained from responding to the people who were bleating about the cost of reprinting the textbooks. Um, could the teachers not explain it? Could they not open it up for discussion on how science actually works (It is not a "pile of facts" but rather a series of explanations that can and do change). But I didn't. Breathe in and breathe out.

I think that's my task for this month: work on letting go and not snapping at the people who fly their Foolish Flag (like a Freak Flag, but with foolishness* rather than Freak).

(*And in the spirit of letting go? I originally said "stupid flag" but decided that was too harsh. Breathe in, breathe out.)


(*Why do I usually feel good on Monday mornings? The Law of Society tells me I should not. I don't know whether it's having had a weekend to rest - as I am one of the "over 30 cows" - or having spent part of Sunday in the company of people who love and value me [at church], or the feeling of a New Beginning, or what)