Mondays always seem to start out rough. By the end of the day most Mondays, I feel defeated and convinced that the week will only go downhill. By midweek I’m almost always proven wrong. As social media/life guru Seth Godin said (this is the first and last time I will quote him), “the worst moments are your best opportunity” – when you’re at your nadir, when a mild spar with your significant other sends you into a fit of hysterics (oh, is that just me?), when your piercing migraine makes both light and human contact intolerable, and when you’re so anxious that your stomach has permanently decided to reject anything you try to eat, how do you react? How do you treat others?
I thought this week was downhill (hence the shot of the *awesome* blue car) after Monday but it redeemed itself. Some personal wins – Lost In Cheeseland was named Best European Blog in the 2011 Bloggies! Woo! – and family wins – Mr. Cheeseland feeling accomplished and recognized both at work and out in the forest. And to round out the week, a lovely, inspiring dinner with author Ann Mah (whose book Kitchen Chinese I cannot recommend…