23 June, 1998
Happy

Who knows why I'm happy today. I didn't accomplish anything of note. I almost lost my cat in the parking lot of the shopping center. Generally it wasn't a day of any special note. It just kind of was.

I was late to work because we took the cat to the vet. She is in fact quite pregnant and will give birth sometime in the next two weeks. Anyone want a kitten? But otherwise she's perfectly healthy. Of course she's healthy: she's still waking me up to be fed at 3AM every morning. Heh.

Maybe I've tripped out on enough good music that I'm just on this immense endorphin high. Not a bad way to be I suppose.

After all of the whining that I do about being miserable I should probably just hush up and be glad that I'm ... well ... happy.

It's not that euphoric kind of feeling you know ... not giddy-happy. Just ... quietly, cozily, warmly, happy. That's it. I feel warm and contented like my cat napping in the sun. I feel ... right. Wow. Right. That's a feeling we here at Little Owl central haven't felt in a while, now hve we?

It's not even so much that everything is perfect. Heck, I don't think I'd feel this way if they were. It's not really perfection which I'm after. But I just all of a sudden feel like my life is working. All of the pieces may not be fully in place, but I'm getting there. Perhaps I can bid farewell to the pervasive identity crises of the early to mid-twenties?

Probably not. I'll probably wake up tomorrow morning and have come up with some new facet of myself to over-analyse.

But until then I think I'll just bask in the happy after-glow.