Day 3 Lucky List

Today was a super lucky day.  Belle also helped me recognize a good chunk of our luck for the day.

How I was Lucky:

1. Free gerbil!  We've been looking into getting a small rodent as a pet, such as a hamster or a gerbil.  Today, we happened to find an adorable and highly social gerbil with a messed up paw.  We adopted him at no cost!

2.  We also got habitat supplies and food at clearance prices!

3.  We might be able to get out of our lease without penalty.  Belle starts a new job in August that's 90 minutes from here.  We just signed a lease at the beginning of March, but it'll be so much better if she doesn't have to drive 3 hours each day for work. 

4. We hit a lot of green lights yesterday.

5.  Tiny Dog seems to think that the gerbil is actually a very small dog confined to a cage.  Gerbil-Dog doesn't seem phased with her at all.

How it could have been worse:

Nothing bad happened yesterday.  But Belle did have to remind me to be open to new situations.  I have a tendency to think things over, which is fine.  But it drives her up the wall that I'm sometimes a little to taken aback by a new opportunity to actually take advantage of it.  This happened with the gerbil.  Once I relaxed and made the decision, I thought about how I felt about it.  Getting the pet felt good.  So I went with it.

I've not made a lot of decisions intuitively for a long time.  I've been impulsive and made some poor decisions before and I'm still trying to find that happy medium between total impulsiveness and paralysis.  Yesterday was a good step in the right direction.


How were you lucky today?  How were you fortunate that things could be much worse?