I'm feeling very awesome, virtuous, accomplished and wise today. I shall explain:
Awesome - I'm happy, and generally feeling pretty good about life.
Virtuous - I've done all the things I was meant to do today.
Accomplished - I dealt with a blocked drain (turns out grass is not so good for drains... and that rubber gloves are the key!)
Wise - I'm watching Horizon which is about Nuclear Power and I am apparently not as stupid as I think I am... this is good.
Can you be very awesome? Or is awesome already so good that you can't be any better than it?
Things I have learnt today:
Having a little giggle with someone who is trying to do a very boring job makes both of you feel a bit better about things (the lady on the phone from the Business Decisions Centre department from JobCentre who has to ask boring questions to frustrated people all day long was amused that I can't read my own handwriting and that I blamed it on the fact that my dad is a G.P.)
Big things are much easier when done in small doses, for example tidying up the piles of rubbish all over my house. Thanks to my mother encouraging me on the phone I now have a clear(ish) living room floor and a clear staircase so I'm much less likely to break my neck in the night.
Turn off the goddamn oven!!!!! This is the third time I've done it and it is NOT good enough to think 'oh the kitchen is very hot... oh... the oven is on.' Next time it may well set the house alight, and we do not want this! Post-it note on the fridge methinks. (on the plus side, I'm clearly not paranoid... in that I obviously don't check whether my oven is turned off and nor do I panic about it when I'm out. Although, I may start....)
A fact I learnt today:
Elephants cry saltwater tears just like humans. I think this is really sad. I don't like thinking of animals experiencing the sad parts of life in the same way we do, like losing a family member... elephants grieve. I think it's distressing. But also, they experience the positive emotions, like love and joy, which they demonstrate when family members meet again after time apart, they touch tusks and they wrap their trunks around one another, like giving each other a hug. It's good to know that animals experience love in this way.
There you go!
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