How to Have a Better Day #1

2 Jan 2016

How to Have a Better Day #1

Wake up to the smell of brewing coffee, 

which will forever and always remind you of Martha, My Dear, 

getting up early and getting the coffee started;

Get on the scales to find you have lost two pounds in a day, 

those two pounds having been the result of inari the neighbor brought you 

and the Watsonville tamales, your brother's Christmas offering;

Drink honey and hot water, 

which your friend Carol suggested you drink each morning

to remind you to be sweet to yourself each day;

Sit down and watch two hours of the second season of Broadchurch, 

which has finally captured the attention of your finicky mother;

Have a sourdough English muffin, 

toasted in the new toaster oven, with chicken breakfast sausage;

Take a nice bath

            and read a good book or two while pruning your feet;

Give into an early nap.