pluses and minuses

[moominmolly]

+ Cafe near my office sells hot grits in the morning!
- The tub next to them apparently contains margarine, and now so do I
++ Ran a 5k on Sunday
- Stressed my knee a little bit
++++ Biked to the start
+++++++++ Have been biking ever since, after a 3-month hiatus
+++++++++ No seriously. Biking changes everything. I'm smiling.
- Lost one of my pink horns
+ Have made glow-in-the-dark light-up horns to replace them
-/+ Job not awesome, but not sucky
+ Have realized that "I don't like my job" -- not "I don't like being the person who does my job", but "I structurally disagree with the position, in the abstract, and would like to change it", and even have a plan for doing so, with my boss who I like
- Recently didn't get chosen for an awesome job at MIT
+ Have an all-day interview tomorrow for another cool-sounding job in Kendall Square
+ Natalie accepted to two good schools for first grade, after rejecting French school
+ Local neighborhood public school actually sort of bringing their hippie niche program to the whole schol and I love it there
+/- The luxury of multiple acceptable but very, very different school choices makes me tear my hair out
+ Been reorganizing my bedroom and it looks freaking awesome
+ Also I know where my sweaters are now, and nothing is mildewing
- Shelves don't fit around the water meter
+ Looking out the window at a dude in a rowboat in the sun, on the river, which is sparkling with reflected light, and feeling - just in this moment - simple and happy.

Comments

[gretchens.livejournal.com]

The School Thing: I am so freaking thankful I have no choice in it, because I know I would go totally insane with choices. It was so relieving to just go into 14th st and say "here ya go! 1 kid, ready for Kindergarten!" and be DONE.

The bedroom thing -- have you read "the Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin? I am reading it (well, my overdrive loan expired in chapter 8 and I am waiting for it to be available again to finish) but she started with a closet organization and keeps going back to how much energy it gave her, and it was really really inspiring. I kind of hate that I am loving a book with such a treacle-y title and objective, but then another of her recurring mantras through the book is "Be Gretchen," so it really speaks to me no matter how Pollyanna it is. Literally! ANyway, the book touches on both organization AND the maximizer vs satisficer dilemma, and so does this post, so I thought you might enjoy it.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I saw your tweet about closet organizing the other day WHILE I was at Home Depot buying shelves JUST LIKE THAT! But I didn't have anything to add, so I didn't add anything. :)

The book sounds kind of great - I will check it out, thanks!

[gretchens.livejournal.com]

Ooh! So did you manage to organize a standard, reach in 4 foot closet with them? I'd love to know how it worked out if you did.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a closet with a water meter in it, so I felt like a bit of a doofus when I realized they probably wouldn't fit. :) Ask me again in a week...

[harimad.livejournal.com]

If you post a pix or a sketch, I'll tell you if the expensive, uber-flexible, uber-easy to instal Elfa would fit around your water meter. Unless its a meter and a vertical pipe the answer is yes. If there's a pipe I still have ideas.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

What I got is basically an Elfa knockoff and... well, good lord. It's a meter and pipes that snake nearly randomly all up and down and around the back wall. I haven't given up yet, but I think that I will probably wind up custom sawing cutouts out of planks of wood.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

And btw, I am working up a long, hand-wringing post about school, because OMG.

[fengshui.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to hearing about the school situation.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

I love the Happiness Project, right down to feeling like I have to apologize for liking a book called "The Happiness Project" so much.

But it has, in fact, helped make me much happier, and helped me bring happiness into other people's lives as well.