everything's going my way

I'm not a fan of peanut butter but my kids are, so we always have a jar or two in. I recently (18 months ago) discovered that I am a fan of noodles in peanut sauce but have only had it a couple of times since that discovery, and never at home. Checking out the only peanut sauce available in my local supermarket, I saw it had fish oil in it (why, why would you do that?) and so thought "how hard can it be?" Now usually, the follow up to that turns out to be "considerably harder than first thought". But yesterday was not like other days. I searched for a recipe and immediately found one that used peanut butter and coconut milk (and several other ingredients I didn't have but I was happy to overlook that). To be truthful I didn't have coconut milk either, but auspiciously and for the first time ever, I had some coconut cream in my cupboard and so thinned that down with milk, added a little garlic to compensate for whatever else might have been on the list, and in less than a minute had such a scrummy sauce that - drum roll, sit down - EVERYONE ate it! This means we are now practically doubling our list of meals everyone will eat (in fairness the stirfried veg wasn't universally accepted, but we'll not dwell on that).

What is even more incredible is that this was the second time in the same day that something hadn't been way more difficult than it seemed at the start. I had learned in the morning that the shower had broken so had made a cheap purchase so that we could at least do something. There was a bit of difficulty over a stuck nut - it has been fixed like that for at least 14 years as it was like that when we moved in so I can allow for some stubbornness. But so far, so good, there is water coming from the right place and it neither cost me a fortune nor required me to leave the house umpteen times to go and get another bit from the hardware store and then another and so on and so on...

Finally - as I'd like to share my successes in threes today - my girly informed me of her need for some red felt in order to do some homework, and so I reaped the benefit of my hoarding tendencies. I may have had to spend some considerable time wading through a ridiculous amount of arty crafty supplies, but to my surprise and her relief, we located some.

So it's completely possible for things to work well. This morning the porridge has already exploded all over the microwave but I'm not taking that as any indication as to how today might go. I'm taking biscuits to my morning meeting and am looking forwards to singing later - I like Fridays :)

... the feeling of contentment lasted all day :) So I was able to tell the tenor that I was feeling content (rather than my usual summary of frustrated/mixed etc) I think it's mainly cos I have some ace friends and am feeling v grateful for them :D