flowers and birds and vitamins, please.

I'm not feeling 100% today... I've been battling some sort of illness. the throat is sort and whatnot. it's not awful, it's just not fun. and gargling salt water is yuck *screws up face*. weird, this is the second time I think I've gotten sick this year, which isn't normal for me. I'm pretty healthy. the husband says I'm overworking and not taking good care of myself. I'm going to go out on a limb and concede that he may have a point. work-aholism tends to run in my family a bit... which isn't a very good excuse, I know, but I only offer that tidbit to prove that I come by my habits honestly.

It's hard to complain about the work part... when you're self-employed, you have to work as it comes to you while attempting to maintain SOME boundaries that still need to be flexible or not as the occasion demands. Thankfully for our plumbing bill, our debt-snowball, and our psyches, work's been flowing in a steady stream the past few weeks. However, I'll be the first to say that I'm terribly undisciplined when it comes to routinely caring for my body and spirit. Work ethic I have in spades. The habit of stretching and challenging my body, feeding it well, fortifying it with vitamins and water, and giving it ample sleep I could greatly improve upon. I could also stand some practice at not allowing stress and worry to etch itself into my spirit and face.

I don't have the foggiest clue how to develop better self-care, other than to express my desire and try to do a little bit better today. I've just finished writing two episodes that are actually due Sunday... Sunday is our first anniversary, and since we've got other commitments this weekend I wanted to get these out of the way. I'm waiting to hear from a client that may or may not have a script for me to record this afternoon, and if she doesn't I think I might head to Magic Nails on Shepard for some eyebrow pruning and foot rubbing action while I sit in the chair and play with the massage remote control. maybe. or maybe I'll just go back to bed for a bit. we've got a finance team meeting at the church later, and husband has vowed to make me chicken-something for dinner. and then, hello weekend!

here are a few photos I took at the church yesterday... we helped with the Hospitality Apartments dinner, and I really enjoyed it. it was getting overcast outside and all of these colors were so vibrant.







p.s. I've enjoyed so much drinking my coffee from this birdy cup today... I got a set of four from my YaYa:



happy Friday, my fine-feathered friends.

**** addendum: last night I had cake left over from the Hospitality Apartment dinner... I'm trying out different ways of making homemade icing, and had baked both a chocolate and yellow cake (they were mixes, don't trip). I came home with some of the yellow, and decided to save one piece for husband and offer the rest to the men upstairs. I left it at the top of the stairs with a note that said "Men... please enjoy this cake!" and here's what I just discovered when I went to check the mail:



:)