Ever since Christmas and the apparently cursed trip back, I’ve felt out of sorts.  I’m not good with change in general (it’s something I’m trying to get better at), but ever since that trip, I’ve felt like there have been too many things flying at me all at once and I hadn’t been able to catch a single one of them.  (This is a particularly good metaphor if you’ve ever actually seen me try to catch something- my lack of hand-eye coordination is not exaggerated.)

But then this weekend, sometime around Saturday evening/late afternoon, I suddenly felt like things were starting to get back to normal.  It was one of those odd moments when the tiny voice inside of me suddenly said “ah.”  Maybe it was the fact Mike, who had just picked up a book on mountain biking trails in Western Washington (at the LIBRARY no less- yes, we finally got freaking library books), was setting up the indoor bike trainer thing I got him for Christmas and I find something comforting in watching him tinker around with bikes, or maybe it was the fact that both of us had some actual free time during the past weekend thanks to some big projects at work finally wrapping up, but I finally felt like the universe was giving me a brief whisper of reassurance again.

It’s not that I think that everything is suddenly going to be easy from here on out- I’m never that optimistic.  (And truth be told, shortly after I had this nice sunny moment, we futilely tried to go see Avatar, which we didn’t know was sold out until after we had paid for parking.  Ugh.)  But I’m starting to feel on kilter again, and that says a lot.

And since I’m in such a fuzzy wuzzy mood tonight, here are some other things that make me happy.

Met a friend for breakfast on Saturday at Homegrown, where they give you a mini cup of oatmeal with every breakfast sandwich.  Mini!  Oatmeal!  What could be better?

Mike complimented my cooking.  In a public forum.  WTF.  (And in case you’re wondering what goes into these inspirational tacos, it’s leftover roast chicken simmered in store-bought salsa thrown in a corn tortilla with cheddar cheese and some so-old-they-might-have-been-icky leftover beans and grilled onions and pepper.  Yup, that’s what I have to do to get positive feedback around here.)

This graffiti by my bus stop makes me immeasurably happy.