well, at least:

 - Asked a friend at church what to do about the pecan tree bits (large branch that came down and I had to cut up). Turns out her grown grandson does carving and wood-turning as a hobby, and has a fireplace, so she and several others in her family are coming later today to haul it off. I'm glad; the city would have just landfilled it and then charged me for hauling it off. Pecan wood is good wood and I was wondering if I could think of someone who smoked meat to take it off my hands (except there are lichens on most of the branches and lichen smoke probably isn't good to ingest)

There's also a branch from earlier (sigh) up on the little flat roof of my sewing room and they are going to either hold the ladder for me to go up and get it down, or maybe they'll insist on doing it for me (depends on if it's her and her husband - both of whom are a good bit older than I am - or her grandson, who is a good bit younger and also pretty athletic)

- I made a big cup of "Treat Yo' Self" (yes, a Parks and Rec fandom blend) tea for lunch* and that also helped a bit. I bought a little tiny trial tin of this my most recent Adagio order and just now I ordered a full-sized tin, I like it that well.

I tend to take tea "builder's style" these days - steep it a while so it's strong, but then add sweetener and milk to it, and this one is good with milk.

(*Rooibos chocolate, rose petal, caramel flavor, regular black tea....and I forget what else, but it's all sweet things)

I also ordered one called "Breakfast at Swanson's" but haven't tried it yet; I don't think it will take milk or sugar as it has Lapsang Souchong in it, which has a strong smoky smell. (I am not sure I will like this one; I ordered a Bohea tea a while back and wound up giving it to my mom because it smelled like I remembered my paternal grandfather's pipe smelling, and when made up into tea....it tasted kind of like bacon.)

- And I got my workout in and that may have helped more than anything. Both because I feel less guilty for not having worked out for a couple days but also I do think getting up and moving around improves mood.

- I finished the first sock for my mom, and in a bit (after doing some more practice and changing into work-appropriate clothes)  I am going to work on the second one. I probably just need to make myself relax this afternoon and do something that feels productive like working on the sock. Not going to clean; I doubt the electrician can get here tomorrow afternoon and if he could, I could just clean off that side of the counter and apologize for the rest of the place being a mess. Because I get so tired of my life being "Yay, I can relax now!" but then "NOPE here is this other unpleasant task you must do"

- And while I DOUBT it will happen Monday, my stuffed Okapi ("Miss Thang") is on her way. FedEx is claiming a Monday arrival but as it was last tracked this morning in Tennessee, and Build-a-Bear often does that silly "smartpost" thing where they hand off to USPS for the last-mile delivery (and that adds anywhere from one to three days), at least I have that to look forward to this week.

Also, if I can get out from under work next weekend, I might go to Sherman - it's probably about time for a new Simply Knitting to be out, and there are some things at the natural-foods store I could use.

I need to keep setting myself little things to look forward to or the daily grind of life gets to be really hard to bear.