Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession.

1. Olive. It's long been at the forefront of my mind that I'll likely have less time with her than I want. Throughout the whole "is it cancer? is it not cancer?" ordeal, I've been dealing with a pre-emptive sense of grief. She's been getting all the spoiling we can heap on her, and I take regular breaks to check on her and love on her. She knows it, too, little bugger. I actually get anxious on days where I have to be out of the house, because of all the what-ifs, and then I have little anxiety attacks. So. It's on my mind, pretty much constantly.

2. The news, politics. I keep up with what's happening far more than I used to.

3. The masks we wear. It's a never-ending source of introspection which parts of ourselves we cover up or reveal, and under what circumstances. I have a tendency towards analysis (Virgo, hello), and I think about what that means in my lives and my loved ones' lives a lot.

4. WHY CAN'T JASON PICK UP HIS DIRTY SOCKS AND PUT THEM IN A HAMPER? I mean, seriously. WHY?

5. Retail stuffs. Even though I stick to a reasonable non-essentials budget, I'm an impulse shopper. I'm a lot better than I used to be, but I'm still an impulse shopper. Just because I'm not buying it doesn't mean I'm not thinking of buying it.

6. Work. This is an all-encompassing thought process that includes "Did I order X?" "What's the deadline on X?" "How many weeks 'til the next update?" "What needs to be done in that time frame?" "When do I have time for photography / copy writing?" "When's the next PO trip?" "How many orders to I have to pack?" "Do I have enough envelopes?" And so on. I'm a one-woman business. I pretty much never stop thinking about work.

7. My spiritual landscape. I go back and forth on many things about the Gods. I'm pretty much settled on the idea that the concept of Divinity is so big that our little tiny human brains made up the Gods as a way to break the concept down into easy-to-digest archetypes that we can work with. But what beyond that? I know, from personal experience, that there are many things that are real, though we can't see or prove them. While I don't think I'll be punished for believing the wrong thing, my analytical nature keeps cycling on things-- always taking them apart and putting them together in new configurations. I don't think I'll ever have a rock solid take on things, and I actually think that's for the better.

Olive is feeling a lot better today. She's pretty much over her cold, and is up and at 'em and active. Eating like a horse, running around. I woke up to her furiously playing with a little toy mouse that used to belong to Squeaky, making weird but adorable cooing-gurgling noises at it.

Today, I have to get photos taken of the update. Descriptions are already written, so as soon as I get those pics edited, there will be new shinies to peruse and a last-minute-shoppers shipping code. Ta-da!