A good day amongst the dark.

Today has been a relatively good day. It didn't start out so great, I'm still running on a minimal amount of sleep, and then my neighbour started screaming at around half past nine, but it was only screaming and she calmed down pretty quick.

I got an early lunch on the way to see Debbie and posted some mail that is now in transit to England. Then I saw Debbie, and that went well, because we planted the flower seeds (yes, the cup was still there, lmao), and she said she'd been excited about it too. That made me happy.

What didn't make me happy was the centipede in her potting mix - unfortunately neither of us is any good with things that have more than four legs, and centipedes . . . they gots a lot of legs. It was only a small one, but I still wanted to get it out of the potting mix so I could continue transferring potting mix to the cup without worrying about a centipede running up my arm. Anywho she made a joke about it being exposure as well, and then I realised I could use the torn off top of the seed packet to relocate the centipede to the lid of the container that held the potting mix. After I did that, she opened the door and put the centipede outside. At least, we're hoping that's what happened, because she lost sight of it

So anyway the seeds are planted now, and we'll water them each week. The potting mix was nice and moist anyway so hopefully one or two of the Marigolds at least will have sprouted by next week.

Debbie also said that if I do the P.E.T. and become a P.S.S. then I should maybe look into facilitating or co-facilitating DBT. It was incredibly exciting to hear her suggest it, because some people in the group at the moment have been making half-pie jokes about me actually teaching the skills. Also well . . . I think it could be fun.

After our session I went up to Manukau and enrolled for the Peer Employment Training. I'm excited and nervous. Applications for the next intake actually close this coming Friday, so I timed that really well. Apparently if my application goes through, I'll be called about an interview prior to starting the training some time in the next few weeks. Everybody I've talked to has made it sound like I'll definitely be accepted for the training though, so that's a bonus.

Following that I went for a swim. I finally got my butt into the 2 metre cold pool . . . and it was glorious! My technique still needs loads of work so I stayed in the lane that's close to the edge, even though I'm surprisingly bouyant, and I don't know how many lengths I swum but it was more than last time. And also I think didn't take quite so long. I also sat in the spa for a while.

And then now here I am. I've checked my e-mail, and I haven't heard from Changing Minds, so unless something turns up before tomorrow morning I'm going to assume that I haven't been selected for it. I don't mind though, I think that just getting as far as organising and submitting an application was an achievement.

So yeah. I'm having a good day, and I'm trying to be mindful of it - be mindful of the positives - and I have to say it's nice to have a nice day, even if it started kind of on the "oh god not another morning of another day I have to live through" vein.