The story of the worst weekend in recent history and how I made up for it in one afternoon

This past weekend was quite possibly the most stressful of my life. I was given an impossibly hard task and spent two full days thinking I was too incompetent and unintelligent to complete the task, for which I had no training and no written instructions. Turns out, I'm NOT a failure (!!!), it was the assignment that was unfair. I spent the weekend literally sick with stress and spent so much time and energy wallowing.

SO. I'm making up for it. Rebuilding all the self-love I tore down for two days and taking time to restore to normal levels of stress (which are still too damn high).

Today, I took the afternoon off. Got myself lost and ended up in Boulder. Hiked around Chautauqua Park. Ate a ton of pesto pasta (my first (successful) pesto attempt). Watched more than one episode of a show because I had forgotten what the luxury of binge-watching felt like. Bought the sparkliest nail polish I could find (makes me feel like a mermaid). Didn't even LOOK at my to-do list because that stuff can wait sometimes.

Check out that rainbow, yo.

REMINDER TO MYSELF AND EVERYONE ELSE, TOO: TREAT YO'SELF. That does not necessarily mean buy that really expensive thing you want, it means remember that you deserve more than you might be giving yourself.

Here's my list of treat m'selfs that I'm stickin' to:

1. Setting a time each week to drop everything and watch American Horror Story with Jack. 
2. Buying Green Mountain coffee instead of the generic kind because it feels like home, even if it's a bit more expensive and the only options are hazelnut and half-caf. 
3. Getting out of Greeley at least once a week. For my sanity. Even if it means just driving 20 minutes to Loveland and seeing the mountains in the distance.

Making tiny adjustments can make a huge difference. I will NEVER (probably) have another weekend like that one.