Some of the things for which I’m grateful this week.

1. Going to see The Blue Note 7 this afternoon at orchestra hall with G.
2. A great night at The Glock last night, $30 in tips and even though I was really tired and though I played “meh,” more people said thank you or commented on how much they enjoyed my playing than other nights.
3. A great meeting Saturday morning with the State Rep from the district the church is in. Topic: Health Care Reform
4. PC brought GG who told a very moving and powerful story of how public assistance health coverage has made such a huge change in her life and the lives of her children.
5. Fun debrief with MG at The Glock. She loved the restaurant, stayed once I started playing and hung out with G and MA and her husband DA (whom I met for the first time)
6. Making every single outragous deadline that was set for us at Evil Corporate Job and being able to document that the reason two of those trainings didn’t launch was specifically because other departments didn’t make their deadlines.
7. These goofy boys of mine that think that getting their homework done is more important than slacking off. Or doing chores too, but that’s a different list.
8. Getting to direct the choir this morning because SB was on vacay.
9. Getting to work from home two days this week
10. Having great performance evaluation conversations with teh people who report to me
11. Going to a happy hour with G and friends from his work on Friday
12. Weather that has been “early spring-ish” but at least hasn’t snowed…. this week
13. Good design meeting with the remodelers about the bathroom. Still not convinced I’m going to do that. Having a hard time spending money on that when maybe will need to spend it on DS1′s college bills? Or just SAVE it. But the design was good and it’s not that expensive a project. If I can just think it through.
14. This next week looks good from a balance perspective. Hopefully, I’ll be able to both clean the house (a bit) AND relax. We’ll see.
15. It’s four years ago this week that Libby the Wonder Poodle was diagnosed with Addison’s disease. she’s doing very well thanks to a little pill twice a day. Now if she’s just back to sleeping through the night.
16. Mom and Sister have decided they don’t want to come for Easter. Since it’s a year that the boys are with Mark I might just follow their lead and sleep all afternoon and maybe go to a dinner and a movie on my own (I’m pretty sure G will be busy with his youngest son, up in Fargo)
17. G. I’m just daily grateful for him in my life, right now.