A Light-Hearted Start to Friday

I’m tired of dealing with heavy stuff so I’m giving myself the day off. No worrying about the fact that my mom did her usual passive-aggressive s**t last night. So onto light-hearted stuff for Friday -

Please check out two blogs today. The first is Perfect. She is a dear friend with remarkable insight (although she’d argue to me that she has no insight). I’m privileged to have walked this healing journey with her. She’s pulled me out of the ditches many times - sometimes climbing down with me to shove me up the side of the embankment. She just started blogging not long ago and I know she’d love to have feedback on her posts.

Also check out the Christmas edition of the Blog Against Child Abuse hosted by Imaginif. There is a lot of new (to me at least) posters there.

QUESTION for your tech-wizards - Blogger has made some changes, including not linking to non-blogger sites. So I’m contemplating switching to wordpress. Apparently I can transfer everything here to there. Anyone else done this? Have some hints?

And in the spirit of Lawyerchik who always manages to find 5 bright spots -

1. It’s FRIDAY! And I actually slept last night in my new house with the bed facing a different direction. Sleep is wonderful.
2. Playing with my daughter. We played “house” last night. I had to be the “baby” and my husband had to be the “daddy” - she got to be the Mommy. My role was to lie in her toddler bed, cry occasionally, be covered up with pillows and relax. Sounds like a plan to me. My poor husband had to scrunch himself up into her closet. Daughter is infatuated with her new closet. It’s her “fort” and she loves it. She pretended that was “Mommy and Daddy’s room” so she made Husband crawl in there - then get out to check on “baby” and the “doggie.”
3. We have our tree up and Christmas decorations out. This is my first year with a fireplace and a mantel. We’ve not had the chimney cleaned yet (and with 70 degree weather, haven’t wanted a fire anyway). But the look is nice.
4. Food - thank goodness for food at the holidays. I cooked for the first time in probably 3 weeks last night. It was yummy and my “new” (to me anyway) oven worked really well. I’m so close to home that I ran back at lunch and got the prep work done. Then put it in the oven after work and had dinner on the table when Husband and Daughter walked in. Well, okay - Daughter didn’t appreciate homemade chicken pot pie and mashed potatoes. So she had Dora Spagheti-os. But it’s the thought that counts!.
5. Zicam and Airborne (or generic equivalents) - wonder drugs. If you find yourself coming down with a cold or illness, start using them. I’ve been alternating them every 3 hours for the past several days. My cold is moving along much faster than usual and the symptoms aren’t nearly as bad as I know they would have been. I can even talk a bit today instead of just “croaking.”

Have a Happy Friday and weekend everyone! I’m going to try to leave on my ‘happy face’ for a little while today.