On The Other Hand

[ladysprite]

I've been doing a lot of writing here about how difficult life has been lately - how rough work has been, how many tragedies my family and friends have been facing, and how hard it's been to bear up through all of it. But at the same time, life hasn't been all bad. So I should take a little time and mention the good things in my world.

Our garden is doing amazingly well; better than it has in years. umbran built new raised beds, and we moved them into better areas of the yard, and now we're (quite literally) reaping the benefits. The rabbits apparently decided to exclusively attack the spinach, and I'm happy with that tradeoff - we had record harvests of peas and green beans and wax beans, we're picking more cucumbers and tomatoes than we can eat, our broccoli has suddenly decided to make new heads this week, and by next week there should be eggplants and soybeans and some strange red and white marbled Italian beans that I saw that looked interesting.

We're going to Italy this fall. It's real, and planned and paid for. I still find that hard to believe; there's a part of me that still feels like it's not possible, but no matter what I believe, it's happening. Four days in Rome, four days in Venice. And we've even managed to find a full-day cooking class in Rome that sounds truly, epically amazing.

I have new crafting projects - a quick cross-stitch that is a blessed change of pace after the enormous afghan of doom, and for when that's done, a new spinning wheel to learn on and play with. And I'm trying to make more time to read, too.

I've got hope that things are looking up for umbran at work; there's a chance that he may be moving into a permanent position for the first time in far too long. It's not certain, but my fingers are crossed - that would be a blessing beyond my ability to explain. And another dear friend, a writer who has also had an unreasonably long run of bad luck, has finally managed to slide back into paying work, which makes me vicariously happy.

Things aren't perfect, but I'm managing to tread water. I slept last night, better and longer than I have in months. I've made it through yesterday and today without crying. I'm going to be okay. I may not be there now, but I can see it from here.....

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[arachne8x.livejournal.com]

Those are very good things.