Chris

Today, I am grateful for my newly acquired sense of balance, or patience.  Which is odd, given that yesterday I was lonely, and today I have been FULL OF ITCHY, and neither lend themselves to balance.  But what's helped has been trying to be patient with myself, and remembering that forcing balance (by way of not letting myself feel lonely, frex) is not quite the way to go about it.

I am going to go back to scouring my skin with sandpaper, but it's nice to have that feeling of balance accessible, even when I am gritting my teeth, so.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

Yesterday, I was grateful for my hands continuing to work.  My life is partly through my hands, and so I am pleased that they function.

Today, I am grateful for my ears working, for I get to listen to Eskju Divine and get all teary.

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Today, I am grateful for my boyfriend.  He makes me wish I were more in touch with my own heart, so I could better express to him how and in what ways I love and appreciate him.

Which sounds surprisingly shmoopy for a relationship that only started this past March.  I'm okay with that.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

Today, I am grateful for my ginormous brain that takes unholy delight in forgetting mid-sentence how to parse a phrase.

Wait, no.

Today, I am grateful for kittens.  Oh kittens, what can't you do?

You cheer people up, you are floofy, and you rain terror on unsuspecting teensy tinesy ducklings in order to protect teensy tinesy cats!  Amazing!

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

A friend elsewhere engaged in a sort of project or pledge or what-have-you – to post daily something that you're grateful for.  I keep contemplating it, because my default setting is "too stuck in my head".  I think it'd be good for me, as it were, to remind myself of the world around me.

Today, I am grateful that I get to vote.  My ballot came in the mail today, which pleases me.  I wish there existed a factcheck.org for non-national politics (non-national because factcheck.org covers the Presidential part), but that's why wiki sites exist, I suppose – so I can create wikis.

*resists*

I won't say who I voted for in the primaries, but I will say I voted Democrat for both the Congressional and the Senatorial elections.  (FF's spellcheck says that latter is a word…?  Okay.) That's Jeff Merkley for US Senator, and Earl Blumenauer for Congress.

Tomorrow I'll be researching what all of the other positions are, whether there's a reason not to vote for the only person listed in a section (such as Martha L Walters, Judge of the Supreme Court, Position 7), and the various and sundry measures.  I'll also be buying a stamp off one of my roommates.  I may even figure out what the terms are for the House of Reps (these are congressfolk, yes? Stupid Civics class never tells me anything).  That's the danger of contextual definitions – I can't always tell if I'm using the right word.

I will not, not, be making a wiki or site or something to compare local candidates.  Dammit.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.