books, taxes, and rewarding yourself

Today I drove a friend out to the big Half Price Books in Dallas, and they found a bunch of kids books, a family-friendly game, and a couple of regular fiction books, so that's a yay. I sold $17 of books! And only spent $12 on a book and a couple of Van Gogh bookmarks! I walked away from a bookstore with more money than I walked in, and this has literally never happened to me in my life.

Spring cleaning is going well. I am making pants/bloomers, and they should be done by Sunday. I'm doing taxes for last year in another pane, and it looks like Ghost's boss slightly overpaid his taxes so that we would not owe very much, despite the fact that I did not pay my self-employment taxes last year like I was supposed to. (oops) I am about to have some peach wine and sugar free chocolate for dinner, as a reward for all of the above and for keeping on track with all of the various nonsense that life is made up of.

I should probably do some more meditation tonight on the whole "resignation is not patience" thing. Do you ever have that feeling like someone is standing in your blind spot? Like there's something there you're just not seeing? Yeah. That.