distorted memories

It's funny how quickly my memory gets distorted and tainted by my mood.

I was feeling a bit...hopeless this morning, when I wrote the monthly report. In my mind, the October chart was a U-shape, and I was now exactly where I started at the end of September.

When I brought up the spreadsheet tonight to copy the chart, I was shocked to find that my memory was a bit off. Click OPEN WIDE>> to see what I'm talking about...

(as always, click for big)

Not exactly an "upside-down bell curve" is it? Sure, I rose a little bit, but there's still a significant downward trend. All is not lost after all.

Also, on a completely unrelated but still happy side note, I discovered that my local grocery does carry Oregon Chai after all...they just tuck it away in the organic food section where I didn't think to look. They even had the "slightly sweet" variety! Woo!

UPDATE: But all the "slightly sweet" was slightly spoiled. Expiration date of 8/23/03 on every one of them. The original variety (and all the others that I checked) had 2004s, but the one variety I really wanted I couldn't buy. Sigh. The quest for chai continues.