Mantra of the Day- Anxiety is contagious. So is calm.

And, you know, so are COLDS. But we’ll get to that in good time.

I’m one of those sick in the head people that has to have a certain amount of unclutteredness to feel at peace with myself. Dust is okayish.. but stuff piled on top of stuff just makes me feel out of control for some reason.

So today, to spread the sense of calm, I began by centering myself in my office, and addressing those bits of clutter that annoyed me one at a time.

Out with the trash. Down with the random papers. Away with the chainmail bits. Extra furniture, begone! Roomba knock off, to work with thee.

And before I knew it, I had an hour of activity on my Leaf AND a tidy office.

And it was good.

I was all methodical and thoughtful about how I approached things today- in the same way that I cleared my office clutter, I cleared my work headspace clutter.

And it was good.

And then Rick came home. Early. Sick.

And that was not so good. I may have actually said, “AWAY GERM VECTOR!” when he tried to cuddle. He tried to look all hurt, but I know he gets it. Only half my sinuses work in the first place, so getting a cold or the flu puts an extra little strain I just plain don’t need.

I’m not letting it bother me.. I’m taking lots of deep breaths (away from my favorite germ vector), and I made sure to have something carby for food. After my workout, I’ll have a cup of hot chocolate laced with my infamous rotgut.. for antiseptic properties, of course. Not at all because it’ll be magically delicious.

The other thing I did to enhance my sense of calm- I stayed off Facebook today. I still perused the news, read a couple of threads on reddit, and tweeted about my continued lack of success in getting my Ultimately Annoyingly Unfinished Table of Gaming taken care of.

And I feel okay. I feel like I did good things today, and sidestepped a lot of potential annoyance just by remembering not to let myself go there. Stupid easy… today at least.