HA - just kidding. You probably just clicked on this to see if I am actually insane enough to try to come up with 2012 reasons to be happy. Which I am not.
But I do have reasons to be happy - we all do. This weekend I told Adam I was grumpy - which I was - and he got upset and asked me what do I have to be grumpy about. And he was right. What complaints can I possibly have, compared to what some are going through?
One of the reasons I really really love my job is because I feel like I actually get to help Soldiers. I don't do anything honorable. I'm not a nurse or a medic or a therapist. What I do is try, however I can, to help make the places Soldiers live and work nice and comfortable. And it might not sound like much but I try to make a difference and I try, through my work, to show my appreciation for their service. Occasionally I get to develop a tentative relationship with one of the folks I work with regularly, and I get to know them a little. Only a little, but still. I get to hear about their holidays and their backgrounds and learn that they got to go home for Christmas for the first time in years. Not because they had chosen not to these past years, but because they were physically unable to because they were deployed to a war zone. And it brings tears to my eyes to think that this weekend I was feeling grumpy because my husband and I were having a hard time selecting a closet system for our tiny closet.
Just who do I think I am? I should be counting my blessings that I even get to choose!
Okay so this wasn't exactly peppy. I'll try again tomorrow maybe.
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