Very grateful to have~~~

1. pushed through this morning and drove to ManLand
2. quieted my shaking with LaMaze breathing while entering the car repair “Emporium”
3. been able to repeat, “I am here about the Motor Mounts” without my usual error of substituting the word “Mouths” for “Mounts”
4. counted four uses of the phrase, “Ok, Man,” three uses of “Yo, What Up,” and two each of “Git After It” and “Flip the Switch on that Puppy”
5. quelled the urge to ask about the existential ramifications of the repeated farewell word, “Later”
6. not slipped when hoisting myself up into the “Courtesy Truck” that drove me to work
7. quickly figured out that “thank you” was the appropriate response to “you smell better than my cat.”
8. fresh gratitude for working with women at The Women’s Center
9. Mozart and Tracey Chapman right now on the iTunes playlist to obliterate some unsavory country music metaphors heard via the shop sound system (i.e. “her kiss has got me rocking bigger than a downtown van”)
10. appreciated the irony that each and every one of the mechanics takes home roughly double my salary (and they do not have college loans)

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work. ~Thomas Edison