udon yum

[susandennis]

It's damp and gray and chilly and just the very perfect day for the large container of udon with shrimp.  Yum.

Work is slow but steady.  I have a 2 p.m. meeting which will be canceled about 1:45, I predict and then I'll go get that haircut. 

No baseball tonight and none for the next whole lotta nights.  Since that's my only sport, I'm sport free until February/March.  I'm ok with that. 

Once, a long time ago, when I was at a crossroads in my life, a guy who was helping me decide what to do next told me to close my eyes and imagine my ideal self in 5 years.  He had me describe everything, what I was doing, how I felt about it, what I was wearing, the highs and the lows of my ideal self in 5 years.  At the time, I thought it was an idiot but I needed the help and I played along and I paid only the attention needed to get him to move on to the next thing.

However... 5 years later, I was in almost exactly the scenario I described to him that day.  Once I got over being freaked out by the realization, I repeated the exercise to myself many times over the years.  Sometimes the images were crystal clear and sometimes they were muddy and stupid.  But, I swear there's some kind of magic in there somewhere.

Cut to today when the life I have is a little bit better than the most ideal one I ever picked.  I did not get here by some meticulous plan or really any plan, rather by a long series of missteps and guesses and luck and good decisions and bad.  I'm actually amazed over and over again every time I think about what  cool life I have now and how I got here.

I'm amazed and so so so very grateful for everything, including this delicious soup.

Comments

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

    "No baseball tonight and none for the next whole lotta nights. Since that's my only sport, I'm sport free until February/March. I'm ok with that."

That's our situation too. The sports page in the paper is now the off-season baseball trade news section.

[photoholic62.livejournal.com]

This entry? Did you get the cut? Are you gorgeous-er now?

[howeird]

No baseball tonight and none for the next whole lotta nights
I guess you haven't heard of the ABL - Arena Baseball League. In your area the season starts November 12 at the Tacoma Dome, with the home team Evergreens hosting the Ellensberg Cowboys. Tivo it on KSTW Channel 11. The first 1000 fans will receive a free Norm Charlton bobble-head.