Today I’m Happy(er than yesterday): Day 6
Three things that make me happy today:
- Two parents and one teacher (so far) have volunteered to help out with the aforementioned community dinner, which makes me feel much better. One of the parents also informed me that the event is actually a week later than the date I was thinking, so that means I have an extra week to get this whole thing underway (albeit also an extra week to worry about it).
- I have a meeting with the principal of my six year old’s school, as well as an appointment with his counselor tonight. The principal meeting is happening because he punched a kid in the face and the counselor meeting is happening because we are trying to deal with the longer terms behavioral issues that have most recently culminated in the kid being punched in the face. Seemingly not something to be happy about, but I am very eager to be working toward resolution of these issues and these are necessary steps.
- I’ve been mulling over the idea that I should take a PhotoShop course because there are lots of webby graphic things I want to do but don’t know how. Of course, the fact that I have no means of running PhotoShop is also problemmatic, thus the intensity of my mulling. However, today I read a book review on a book about GIMP and I realized, “Hey! I use GIMP! I could probably read a book about it and learn a lot and then know how to do much of what I’ve been thinking I’d need a training course in PhotoShop to accomplish!” A $40 book instead of a $700 class on top of $700 software (not to mention a computer upon which to run it) makes me very happy indeed (plus it always makes me happy to have an excuse to buy a book!)
Something that would make me happier:
- Going back in time to uncancel a playdate I canceled because I thought that the other party secretly wanted to cancel. Turns out I was wrong (but too flustered in the moment to renege) and this is a family I really, really like and would like to hang out with more.
Solution:
- Really, it’s fine because this is the family with whom I am childswapping this weekend. He’s watching my kids on Friday evening and I’m watching his kids on Saturday afternoon. I think it’s reasonably likely that will lead to some hang out time or, at the very least, make more future hang out time likely.