enjoy my life every day

I really think one of the keys to happiness is finding pleasure in the small things. This morning I was quite tuned in to that.

- Slept in later than usual because my schedule allowed it
- Snuggled up to my husband in the extra half hour
- Nice shower gel & hot water
- Coffee, our great espresso machine is back in action!
- Luscious face cream
- Good fitting jeans
- New black sweaters
- A big warm winter coat
- Brisk walk around town for an hour
- Going to the post office and finding them friendly, helpful & not at all crowded!
- Listening to audiobooks
- Reading the newspaper on paper (not the net like usual)
- The really excellent green tea

Good tea
A good session w my very good counselor
Nice walk through Paris
Work went well and was easy
Fun and efficient trip to the market so we can eat well next week
A good lunch
Good green tea (Mariage Freres)
Handled a few errands that I’d been avoiding & all went smoothly
Listened to “Reading Lolita in Iran” during a good part of my errands
85% cocoa chocolate (3 squares)
An hour to read on the train as we headed out of town for the weekend
Browsing in an art store
My husband showing that he was very happy to see me & spend the weekend here
Taking a hot bath in a jaccuzi tub (in the hotel – it’s not even me who’ll have to clean it)
Looking forward to : two good dinners at nice restaurants, sleeping late & some gentle sightseeing this weekend!

slept late
read my book for an hour
had good coffee at breakfast
went to the hairdresser where I got a new ‘do & a scalp massage
had a nice healthy lunch
drank really nice tea
had a friend over to talk & served homemade cookies & roasted nuts
listened to an audiobook while making homemade liquid soap
went to the market where I found a few missing ingredients
ate sunflower seeds
dressed well, put on makeup & wore jewelry
made a nice quiche with some odds & ends in the fridge

Started with good tea
Enjoyed walking to errands around Paris today – great weather, lovely neighborhoods
Got a great view of a leaf-storm (leaves blowing overhead)
Ate a slice of my quiche for lunch (goat cheese, onions & bacon) – was very good!
Drank one of my favorite green teas
Got my hair done
Stopped at the art store & bought some stuff
Started reading a new good novel
Dinner w my sister & brother in law
Some time for me & my art projects this evening

...since I took it as a vacation day to make a long weekend, and we were at the summer house.

- slept in late – woke up well rested, the way you do on your third day of sleeping in
- read in the hammock
- drank a really excellent oolong tea
- played ping pong with my husband and stepson
- walked around the property on a short walk but one that was good for the spirit (and the environment, as we picked up trash people had left behind)
- read 130 pages of a book
- on the train home, enjoyed a beautiful sunset with vivid red clouds
- watched a silly chick flick on the train home
- read my nephew his bedtime stories
- talked with my sister
- drank a nice herbal tea before bed

I had good tea this morning
I walked to an errand and went out of my way to walk in patches of sunlight
The organic co-op had organic cream in stock again… yum!
I’m making Mexican for dinner
I did a few things on my to-do list that I’ve been dreading, and they weren’t as bad as I’d feared
I finally decided to throw out some fancy expensive green tea that I just don’t like instead of choking it down as I’d been doing
Cranked up the heater in my office so it was nice & toasty warm
Opened a wonderful new hand cream from Provence

I had a day of back-to-back medical appointments interspersed with various other errands that kept me running around from 8am until 4 and taking 12 subway rides.

I wrote out a schedule of what I had to get done at each place & got it all done.

What did I enjoy?
Being organized and handling it all
Reading almost 200 pages of a new book I brought with me this morning
Having brought green tea from home to enjoy
Listening to some podcasts while walking around
Getting to walk around Paris for a few hours – there are worse places to run errands
Following all the rules of French politeness so that everyone was nice to me
Stopping for an Evian mid afternoon when I needed a break
The efficiency of the metro system in Paris
Advancing things today for several goals, most importantly for the IVF (and things are looking good)

I had a day of back-to-back medical appointments interspersed with various other errands that kept me running around from 8am until 4 and taking 12 subway rides.

I wrote out a schedule of what I had to get done at each place & got it all done.

What did I enjoy?
Being organized and handling it all
Reading almost 200 pages of a new book I brought with me this morning
Having brought green tea from home to enjoy
Listening to some podcasts while walking around
Getting to walk around Paris for a few hours – there are worse places to run errands
Following all the rules of French politeness so that everyone was nice to me
Stopping for an Evian mid afternoon when I needed a break
The efficiency of the metro system in Paris
Advancing things today for several goals, most importantly for the IVF (and things are looking good)

- getting new bank system setup (could look at it as a pain, or as a new start)
- going to the market and having French vendors smile because they know me. Finding good eggs and cheese and meat and organic fruit & veggies.
- A big pot of herbal tea
- Having tried something new this morning (matcha green tea latte) even if I didn’t like it (I’ll stick w regular tea & keep drinking my green tea without milk)
- Tylenol, so my low grade headache can go away
- Having roses from my garden decorating my house

- walking around Paris… I always love this
- stopping at a good “traiteur” for lunch
- finding cheddar cheese in the store – I can make Mexican this weekend!
- Not having to cook for dinner because we’re getting takeout
- Having a really nice friend over for dinner
- Matcha green tea
- Having our house reasonably presentable all the time so that guests for dinner aren’t a stress
- Reading short stories on the metro
- having really nice doctors
- Having medical things going smoothly again
- Getting a nice card in the mail from my mom – with comics and articles cut from the newspaper
- Getting a good night’s sleep