Weekly Gratitude

September has been a hard month, but this week I’m feeling a lot more positive.

• Grateful for the trees outside my office window.
• Grateful for how comfy and bright the office is. It makes it so pleasant to do homework.

• Grateful for coffee and yerba mate. Something to look forward to when I wake up every morning.
• Grateful that, even though my phone wouldn’t turn on and I was afraid I would have to get a new one, Mark managed to fix it. Apparently there is a difference between a cell phone charger and a DS charger, even if they both fit in the plug.
• Grateful to wake up in a place where I feel safe and in control. Being able to leave a dish in the sink for a couple of hours, or fruit on the table, has taken so much stress away. And not having to kill bugs all day? Also a big stress relief.

• Grateful for carpet. Other than the last apartment, I’ve never lived without it. My mom is/was a carpet cleaner. I spent  my whole childhood sitting and taking naps on carpet. It’s so nice to have it again.
• Echo likes it, too.

• Grateful for Echo. She has Kennel cough this week but she’s being a trooper. She loves me even when I haven’t quite taken the time to get dressed yet. 
• Grateful for Mark, who did an awesome job putting the place together when we moved in. 
• Grateful for my parents, who have been giving me massive amounts of advice through this whole process, and to my mom especially who helped me move and spent the night so she could help me find a couch the next day (the couch we had became infested with roaches and we had to get rid of it.) Cleaning, packing, and moving a two bedroom apartment for 10 hours, non stop? We are awesome.

I’m trying to re-adjust my eco-friendly habits to this new apartment. I can’t have a compost here, so I’m looking for other alternatives. There’s a recycling bin (yay!) and, unless the HOA decides otherwise, I can keep my plants… though the move has been hard on them. I had to throw away the seedlings I was growing on the windowsill because they got infested with roaches, too, but I do have a tiny little cilantro plant sprouting outside. I hope I can keep it going!