il dolce far niente

For me, there are only a few choice things that can truly lift my spirits:

• Eating so much Chipotle I explode
• Shopping for things I don't need but want
• Drinking hot tea
• Baking until I've run out of ingredients
• My favorite movies, Tangled and The Holiday, on repeat on my television
• Curling up with blankets stacked on top of me
• Jane Austen's Mansfield Park never out of my reach

     Today being the first day I have had off this week, I slept until noon and did whatever I fancied today.  I did what the Italians call "il dolce far niente", or "the sweetness of doing nothing".  When times get tough, some people turn to a glass of wine with the girlfriends, chocolate, shopping...but sometimes, particularly today, the best therapy is just doing...well, nothing. ;)