I'm OK Your OK
Hello Hip mamas,
here are some tiredass gratitudes on a cold November night in Blighty.
1. Brains, I got some, I took em for granted, I kinda lost them for a spell, I gottem back! My neurons are well wired, I'm not boasting they just are and they won't last forever so ENJOY!
2. Taking a mental health day without feeling the need to offer labrynth excuses.
3. Spotify, the best free music site ever I am getting a classical music education and I am loving the ballet music and russian folk stuff too. The Nutcracker grand pas de deux makes my heart swell.
4. Roasted, salted cashew nuts.
5. Clean clothes, clean floors, clean windows, i deserve em and so do you
6. Microscopes I like em I always get a little thrill when things my eye is not desigened to see come into focus and I discern microarchitecture. Cells are crazy beautiful and make the most complicated manufactured object we have look like a Tonka toy. There is an elegant simplicity to their workings that we may never hope to emulate. I think its good we have some limits!
7. Yoga
8. My kid being named most promising ballet student of the year, being awarded a book token in school for academics, being put forward for her next ballet exam, helping me fold laundry, getting stroppy and then apologising, growing, growing in every way.
9. The sartorialist, I dress for comfort, speed and price is a REAL issue so I love looking at this site cause its real people looking super chic. I wanna reclaim my look but I am time and cash poor , plus slightly overpadded at the moment!
10. MIT opencourse ware if you or yours are interested in maths or science please look at this site I am doing the bio and chem course over christmas for fun cause I have 4 WEEKS OFF !!!!!! 2 WITH NO KID AT HOME!!!!!!
11. One more: Roman history I am reading a book about it and I am moved. I like the idea of a republic, I like their dedication to an ideal and self belief, I dislike their chauvanism and flinty eyed savagery.
"perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim"
Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you
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This is a great list!
"Do not forget. Remember and warn."
-- Plaque fixed to the hollow shell of Sarajevo's National Library
i've been looking for good sites. DRAT! not available in my country.... ass...
and thank you for reminding me about MIT's open course ware, that's so awesome.
great list. happy thanksgiving.
you named a lot of reasons to be very happy. Good to see your post.
Flinty-eyed savagery......lol.... that's awesome.
I checked out The Sartorialist while putting off homework just now, but then thought of your quote "Be patient and tough, someday this pain will be useful to you" and decided to get the hell off of the Internet.
Sometimes I wish that I had a major where I could have an excuse to look through microscopes!
Okay, off to the pain of self-discipline! 
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Thank you Susan, this is a great site!