What to DO?!

What to do when you don't get the (2nd) house you really, REALLY want:

1. Put on your new, silly apron that you bought at Food Pyramid. It's pink and green with flowers. It was the only one they had. You bought it, anyway. You secretly love and love it. It makes you want to be a gourmet cook. You're kind of becoming one, just because of the damn, silly apron.

2. Cook chicken saute with pine nuts and fresh asparagus. For some reason, you now know how to do this. For some reason, cooking has become a relaxing experience that you relish...pun intended.

3. Eat chicken saute with pine nuts and fresh asparagus with someone you love more than anyone else in the whole world (in a boy way).

4. Pour yourself a glass of wine that someone you love more than anyone else (in a boy way) brought home for you.

5. Consume wine.

6. Dance with the aforementioned boy and laugh at the "defeat" that happened this morning.

7. Realize that the most important things in the entire world are holding you and staring up at you from the floor (Boy, Gus, Sylvester, respectively).

8. Realize that the "perfect neighborhood" means absolutely nothing to you.

9. Realize that the "perfect house" means absolutely nothing to you.

10. Realize that all material things mean absolutely nothing to you.

11. Realize that this could all go away tomorrow.

12. Be thankful for this very moment. Be thankful that you don't care about neighborhoods or school districts or houses. Be thankful that you kind of forgot that you don't care about that stuff, and God gave you a big slap in the face today. Be thankful. Be thankful you have everything you could ever want or need staring you back in the face.

13. Be thankful you're alive.