Just happy!

Today, I'm happy. Just happy. It's great! I got to sleep in (until 8:45!!!), have a leisurely morning, said an unfamiliar prayer* which I really liked, leisurely breakfast, got to chat with my sister finally, worked on my awesome puzzle**, rest, relax, take care of some business, and tonight I get to go out to dinner with B and his friends followed by mini-golf. I haven't played mini golf in forever, and I'm planning on having fun with how bad I am tonight ;).

It's an amazing feeling of freedom to do only what will make me feel better, in the short term and in the long term. I AM SO GLAD I DECIDED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*The prayer this morning had this phrase that really sums up my goal for this fall:

"Send down, then, upon him Thy healing, and make him whole, and endue him with a constancy vouchsafed by Thee, and a tranquillity bestowed by Thy highness. Thou art, verily, the Healer, the Preserver, the Helper, the Almighty, the Powerful, the All-Glorious, the All-Knowing." - Baha'u'llah

I think I want to look into more of the Baha'i writings about tranquillity. I like the word and the idea.

** Over the last week, I have been working on a 2000 piece puzzle of Vincent van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night. It's crazy hard but a lot of fun actually. I really enjoy doing puzzles, and it's nice to have the time and space to work on one. Plus, B and my host have helped me, and it's been good times. It's amazing how a puzzle can fill as much of your mental space as you want it to - you can do it while having a conversation, while singing along to music, while listening to music, or let it occupy your mind completely. I've been listening to Pandora a lot - my Glee station is fantastic for puzzling. It's dangerous though, because I want to buy so much music.