Reasons to love February 2012

This is always the time of the winter when I fall into a deep, dark funk, because I get impatient for the cold to go away and because the onslaught of Valentine's Day and all the messages surrounding it make me a little sad even though I was never much for the holiday when I was in a relationship.

Knowing this, and knowing that I don't want to spend an entire month feeling like crap, I've decided that it's up to me to be proactive and remind myself of all the cool things that have happened recently or that I am looking forward to so that I don't spend the next few weeks hating myself and my existence.

So without further adieu, here comes a list of happymaking things:

1. I made pumpkin soup for the first time, and it was AMAZING!
2. Writing group is back on its Sunday schedule after a December hiatus and I'm making slow, steady novel progress again.
3. I have been muchly praised for my work at work, and the big Asia project has been survived with my sanity intact!
4. My Seattle visit with luchalibrarian is officially two months away!
5. I am reading at Bad Grammar Theater this Friday for the second time. Some of you cool LJ people are going to be there with me, listening and reading your own work!
6. Thanks to the perks of being a university employee, I got my grubby mitts on discounted tickets to see the Broadway in Chicago version of American Idiot, the Musical a week from Wednesday!
7. A theater outing with fuzzilla (to see a show featuring kittenspeaks is also in the works.
8. My friend mdatl will be visiting Chicago at the very end of this month.
9. I have purchased my Shimmer tickets for St. Patty's Day weekend, and for the first time will be enjoying two back-to-back days of high quality women's wrestling.
10. It's time to go home now! And this will be a short week, thanks to a two-day training I'm attending Thursday and Friday!