Y’all should know by now that when you don’t hear from me, I’m too grumpy to be around. I wrote a long, pissed-off, sad post last week and it was hideous. I couldn’t press PUBLISH on you, I just couldn’t.
So, I waited.
Thankfully, a session with bestest coach ever really helped re-orient me and I took some big action right after so things shifted a lot. I feel better about being at YOPOE knowing that the time will come in the not too distant future when I’ll depart.
Gratitude time:
1) Thank you, Universe for a nifty gizmo called Karma – it’s a WiFi hotspot where you pay for the data you use rather than be on a ‘use it or lose it’ plan. Why do I have this? So that I can do some of my PI stuff when it’s slow. I’ll bring my iPad and check in and do other stuff that I just can’t do on the tiny iPhone screen. I was getting peeved that there was a lot of down time with not much to do and here I have all this other stuff that needs doing. POOF! Done!
2) Thank you, Universe for new revelations that really just affirmed what I actually knew on some level.
3) Thank you Universe for teachers all over the place.
and 4) Pumpkin Spice is coming! 
It must be noted that this is a MASSIVE improvement over begging us to stab you in the head. (I gave an embarrassing amount of thought to how difficult that would be, as you’d have to stand very still for me to hit a soft spot in your skull. I came away thinking this act would do greater irreparable harm to my knife than to your head. Obviously I have watched too many Law and Order marathons.)
Every day in August I make note of something that makes me happy and I post about it. I find that this helps me accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and latch on to the affirmative. HEY! Johnny Mercer always makes me happy! I’ll have to remember that for my blog.