Reasons I’m Happy Today
1. For the first time in my life, I have the financial wherewithal to consider buying my own house. (And I didn’t need a man to help me get there.)
2. We have a fun weekend planned. We’re celebrating my youngest son’s ninth birthday, partially by having lunch at a place where I can get the awesomest seafood curry in the world. My boyfriend is taking us out for Mothers’ Day, and I’m going to pick the place that makes the best hamburgers in town. (I love to eat, dang it.)We’re celebrating the fact that it’s the weekend, just like we do every week. Starting with tonight, when we will finish the LOTR movie marathon we’ve been conducting all week.
3. By the end of the summer, I will have a house. Most likely, that house will have a garden. My oldest son will have his own room. My bathroom will have a garden tub! We’ll have a backyard with a fence. I’ve never had a fenced backyard before! If we’re lucky, we’ll have a… No, I can’t say it. Saying it might jinx it. So I won’t say anything.
(Gameroom!)
4. My kids are smart and funny. Also, they’re beautiful and tall.
5. I have a boyfriend who’s a good person. And I love him very much.
6. I have three books. Three books that I wrote. Even if I never sell another book again and have to be a Corporate American Peon for the rest of my life in order to pay my mortgage, I can be proud of what I’ve done.
7. I will be able to control the flow of tree roaches and mice into and out of my house. No more calling the landlord who never comes. I will be my own landlord, dang it. And I will be a good, responsible one, too. I am not a slumlord! Something to be proud of!
8. I usually do go to lunch with friends, and they always make me laugh and listen to my whining with stalwart patience while we’re there. Thank God for my friends, especially when they’re being my friends over good-tasting food.
(I’m home. I’m eating. Everything’s gonna be okay.)
