Another cold, foggy, overcast, windy day in Monterey!  REAAALLLLY?  Was I expecting anything different?  Once, just once...I want to wake up to sunshine.  

Ok, I take that back.  More than once.  Every day would be nice, but I don't want to get greedy.

I sense a conundrum here...I am not at all an optimist.  In fact, I am shamelessly the opposite.  And yet, people who whine annoy me.  Sometimes I fear that I'm one of those whiners...I catch myself every once and a while.

So in the interest of optimism, cloudy days should not matter.  DO not matter.

While my life isn't turning out exactly how I'd planned it at the wise age of 12, it is showing promise.   I am getting ready to do things for me, for my life, instead of worrying about the lives of others at the expense of my own.  

I can do this.  I am much stronger and braver than I've been assuming.