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Hey, timing. [Apr. 27th, 2012|10:35 pm]
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Today I was feeling utterly physically miserable again*, and it was bleeding over into the rest of my outlook, as it will tend to do. I characterized it in e-mail to a friend as the "YOU RUIN EVERYTHING, PUKERELLA!" mindset. And in the midst of this, a friend took the time to tell me that she appreciated a thing I had put effort into.

It was not, like, the hugest deal ever. She did not make me a giant wall-sized cardboard card with glitter to say thank you, and my effort was not Augean Stables-level either. But I did a thing that took effort when I don't have a lot to spare, and she took the time to not only appreciate it when she didn't have a lot of effort to spare either but to use her words to say so, and you know what? That ended up mattering quite a lot in the fight to keep the physical stuff from dragging down everything else.

So if you can, tell me about something in your life with good timing lately. We like the good timing. Yay good timing.

*Seriously one of the worst weeks I've had for awhile, in physical terms. There is a queue of stuff I am totally capable of doing that is taking forEVAR because of the amount of time body-wrangling. Whee. We'll get there. But it takes awhile.
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[User Picture]From: vcmw
2012-04-29 05:07 pm (UTC)

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I remembered just in time two weeks ago to ask J. about getting time off on the 28th. So he got his request in on the very last morning possible, and got time off. Which meant he could join me at my Aunt Mary's 50th birthday party yesterday! It was a lovely party and my great-Aunt Mary and my mom's godmother also known by me as Aunt Mary were also in attendance, so that was the first time since I was a teenager that I've gotten to see all three Aunt Mary's at once. J. hadn't met any of my great-Aunts or great-Uncles before, and they had a good time together, and the weather cooperated by being just sunny enough for bocce and croquet on my grandmother's lawn, which we got to play with some of the neighbor's little kids. Everyone ate ridiculous New England quantities of food had a good time. So hurray for remembering just in time to ask J. to get the day off!