Life is good

1. I have a beautiful daughter who is smart and healthy.
2. I have amazing friends who support me, kick me when I need it, make me laugh, give me hugs and various cheeses, and wine with no whine.
3. I am getting healthier every day, working out regularly, walking and eating well (with the exception of a large amount of cheese today).
4. I have a great new job where they appreciate me, in a setting that itself is a good influence.
5. I have a great recently-left job where they appreciated me, taught me a tonne and remain good friends.
6. I have a super-supportive ex-husband, who is also a good friend.
7. I woke to a great, if ultimately meaningless, snog.
8. I have tickets to St. John's for June, a full week's vacation. Yay!
9. I have a very lovey cat who is hanging in there and is very snuggly if a bit yowly.

a puke green sofa

A few Weakerthan lyrics were resonating on my walk today:

a puke-green sofa and an outline to a complicated dream of dignity (from everything must go)

and, from Aside,

Rely a bit too heavily
On alcohol and irony
Get clobbered on by courtesy
In love with love and lousy poetry

And I'm leaning on this broken fence
Between past and present tense
And I'm losing all those stupid games
That I swore I'd never play
But it almost feels okay

Yesterday it was Mika's Interpretation.

It behooves me to wonder whether music plays a role in creating an emotional placebo effect. Does placebo even apply with such ephemerals?