As Happy As a Clam

I have spent today doing absolutely nothing remarkably productive.

It. was. fabulous.

I slept until 9:07am, went to the mall and dillydallied around for a few hours, redeemed my much awaited "free panty" coupon from Victoria Secret, picked up the little man from school, and ate yummy hibachi with the fam to celebrate Ryan's 16th birthday!

Speaking of Ryan, he is an absolute blessing...a testament to God's goodness. It's crazy to think that less than 1 year ago he was being life flighted to the trauma unit at Atlanta Medical after sustaining numerous injuries from an ATV accident. Praises for a year of incredible healing!

In other news, I am infatuated with American Idol. I find this insanely silly, seeing as how NO ONE watches this show anymore. Regardless, I anxiously await each Tuesday and Wednesday night and spend approximately 4 hours a week shouting at my TV. Between hollering comments about wardrobe misfortunes and throwing a private dance party to whatever song Danny, Kris, or Adam happen to be singing, I can hardly even follow who is doing what and when.

And now, I leave you with a random list of thoughts/ponderings from the week

• Have you ever had to force yourself to think positively about something? I have been practicing creating 1-positive-thought-a-day regarding my job. It has made a tremendous difference in my overall happiness (which has been seriously waning since, oh December or so). I make myself add one happy thought to my zebra print list each day and so far I have come up with the following blissful realizations: 1) I get to wear scrubs to work (at least when I am not rebelling from my job by wearing khakis and cute shirts); 2) My commute is approximately 2.5 songs long; 3) I am super-blessed to have Wonderful Wednesdays off! Right when I begin to feel defeated and start to whine, BAM, a day off! 4) I work with tons of amazing little people. They make me a better person and help me achieve my dream of making a difference in some small way; 5) I have fantastic health insurance; 6) I get to play. All day long. Having this as part of my job description makes me laugh out loud. It also makes me spend copious amounts of money on Fisher Price products; 7) I get to go to Chick-fil-a for lunch approximately 4 times per week. Some days we mix it up and go to Zaxby's, but that's rare; 8) I am fortunate enough to see kids with a variety of etiologies. One minute I am treating a kiddo with an articulation disorder, the next minute a bambino with a fluency disorder, and the next, a wee one with an auditory processing disorder. Variety truly is the spice of life; 9) I accrue approximately 5 hours of PTO every 2 weeks. I redeem approximately 6-8 hours of PTO every 2 weeks. Although this is not self imposed and makes me grumble, it does help achieve some sort of work-life balance; and 10) I am within an arms reach from unlimited amounts goldfish crackers all day long. Need I say more?
• I have prayed over the following verse all week. It comes from Matthew 6:19-34. My favorite translation is found in Eugene Peterson's "The Message". It reminds me: "Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up in what may or may not happen tomorrow (insert: elbow nudge to self). God will help you deal with whatever things come up when the time comes". This verse helps my impatience with certain things subside.
• I have 7 different bathroom cleaners under our bathroom counter. I want so badly to discover a magical cleaning potion that will clean our bathrooms by itself. Anyone know of any such product?
• Hubs recently enlightened me on something that I do that might just get under his skin just a wee bit. Apparently when I pluck my out-of-control eyebrows over our single sink vanity, the hairs often fall right on his sweet little toothbrush. Eww. We need a double vanity.

And with that hodgepodge of totally unrelated ramblings, I am off to sleepy town!