Tomorrow i celebrate my dog's eleventh Home Day. Home Day is the day you brought a pet home to live with you. I celebrate her birthday in October and her Home Day. I have kept a dog happy and healthy for eleven years! Woohoo! And we've been thru some tough times together. She is usually an easy dog but it's been hard nursing her thru several minor illnesses she's had. It's hard to care for a sick dog when i am sick myself. But we have made it! Eleven years!

Today was up and down. I've written here about how i usually feel miserable in the morning. It usually takes two or three tries to get up. But today i got right up on the first try and felt good. It was sunny out after dreary weekend weather, so that helped. I was a bit worried about a spontaneous hypomania.

But then i went in my support group's ZOOM social hour and got really angry at this very unpleasant woman who talked on and on and usurped the time, when i wanted to hear from some of the fun others. My anger passed in a few hours tho. It always does. I shouldn't panic when i get angry. "This too shall pass," i must remember. There's nothing to do about this woman as it's a social group, and anything goes.

I did some mindful meditation but i have mixed feelings about some of the reading i've done about it. It says, one one hand, to experience things with "beginner's mind," as if for the first time, and not thru the veil of your own expertise, which often thinks it knows more than it does. But then it says, on the other hand, to "trust" yourself and your own intuition and authority. So it seems conflicting.

I'm really excited about a plan i have to pay off my home in three years. I've had hard feelings about my home since it was so expensive, even tho it's a modest small one-bedroom apartment-condo and inexpensive relative to a detached family house, of course. It's been hard to enjoy it because of the mortgage weighing so heavily on me. But now that i'm nearing the end, i'm getting so excited! Soon this place will be mine, all mine!

I did my taxes last week and i am very intimidated about financial stuff so i was pretty nervous about it. But this year the government site has a feature where you can check on the progress of your tax return and i got the most welcome news that my filing has been accepted! I did it correctly! Yay!!!

Hugs to all!