My hair is perfect.

As for me, I'm pretty happy with the fact that I've been maintaining good work habits for a while now. I went through a big procrastination phase a few months back, which hasn't really happened to me in this job before, and it took a bit of righting the ship. But I did and life is a lot less stressful.

My optimism. Which seems to be paying off so far.

I have held down a job, or a number of jobs, in the same organization for 32 years. It ends today, but I have a nice pension. It staggers me that I came to the same building every weekday morning for that long, and that I am the most senior employee on the premises, at least until 4pm today.

I like that it's been at least an hour since I told myself how stupid I am. Does that count? It's pretty good for me. I credit the sunny, warm day we're having today, and opening the windows.

I taught myself to be an excellent home-style cook.

Mine's pretty similar to gaspode's. I've got into a good work routine which keeps things from getting away from me and which seems (for the most part) to keep my boss happy - or at least off my back. By staying on top of the work I'm able to enjoy my leisure time more.

I'm pretty happy about my life in general these days. Great marriage, the kid graduated from college, having fun restoring our house, can tolerate my job and I'm mostly still healthy. It took me until I was almost in my forties to really feel good about myself though. If you'd asked me the same question at 35, I wouldn't have really liked much about myself.

Ah, so that was teh Whelk I saw drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's.

I like the way I've overcome so many challenges in my life to get where I am. Still a long way to go, but I've gotten better at celebrating my victories without feeling like I'm resting on my laurels. Going easier on myself.

Good work habits, optimism, constantly challenging myself (officially learning CSS atm, as opposed to the kind of hacky way I've been putting things together in the past). Doing a pretty good job of telling the people in my life how I appreciate them, and how much.

Oh and I've been working tech at my improv theater, which involves setting the house music playlist for your night, and ppl have been asking me what songs I'm playing and also holding their phones up to ID the song (one fellow tech actually stormed the booth to add a track that I was playing to his playlist ASAP), and that feels pretty good.

I like that I've been able to focus on what's good. We have some rather significant problems that have been on-going and remain unresolved but I decided awhile ago that I wasn't going to miss today because of worry about tomorrow.

So I focus on all the great stuff that happens every single day:

- my parents calling me to say hi and let me know that they're thinking about me

- my tomato seedlings thriving and ready for transplant to the garden

- my little kid (who is "special needs" and faces some tough challenges) pulling me over to the window at night to show me the moon and the stars

- being able to walk across the room or across town under my own power instead of spending my days in a wheelchair as a friend does

I could go on and on. I'm not necessarily a sunny optimist but watching my mother in law unable to enjoy anything because she's so worried about "what if" made me see that all we really have is this moment, so I'm going to appreciate it.

I really like my relationship with my daughter. Her mother and have been divorced for 15 years, and there have been a lot of times that it would have been convenient to not see my ex anymore. I've had dinner with my girl every Wednesday since before the divorce, with vanishingly few exceptions, spend every other weekend with her, haven't missed birthdays or school recitals or any of that. I've also paid (significant) child support on time and in full every month (one more check to go!).

15 years now, and we still have dinner every Wednesday, and hang out and laugh and enjoy each others' company and talk. She's going off to college in the fall (full-tuition scholarship, woo!) and things are going to change, but I really like that we've maintained as good a relationship as we have.

I like that about myself--I like that it's good for her, and that she's become a wonderful young woman partially because of our relationship, all that, and I enjoy her company, I truly do; but I also look at myself and like that I've done this. I'm going through a second divorce now, and whenever the recent ex says bad things about me, I can always look at my relationship with my daughter and feel good.

I haven't killed anyone today. Yet. But it's only 6:34 am ...

I am really at peace with myself these days. And I like that I appreciate my life and my good fortune in having it and the most important aspects of it, my Bear and my work.

I haven't killed anyone today. = amen. My delivery lunch was 1.5 hours late and I had to call 3 damn times (only the 3rd time did he even bother to see if they had my order = no they didn't!) and I didn't kill anyone. GO ME GO ME GO MEEEEEEEEE

Huh. I had to really think about that. That I still indulge my urge to create.

Not an achievement as such, but after so much difficulty getting pregnant, I'm pleasantly surprised that I seem to be quite good at being pregnant - have had the usual discomforts and inconveniences but generally am gestating quite normally without problems. Gives me a nice sense of "hey I can do this!".