Staying Positive

Things that have gone right lately. My attempt to be a more optimistic person.

I will post every day, at the end of the day (or the next morning), about the good things that have happened to me in that day. The hope is that I will begin to be generally happier and more positive, rather than focusing on the negative as I tend to do.

 

If you would like to join me, e-mail me or leave a comment on one of my posts and we can talk about adding you as a poster here. I think that it would be really cool if this were to become a multi-person endeavor, if others are interested in helping to make it one.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

April 13, 2007

Music: Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack
Reading: the Bible
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Hot sex!
2. Watched The Crying Game. It was pretty good (although I don't agree with the choice of ending.)
3. Got to read things like a report on education from 1958 and magazines from the 50s and 60s. (Even got my hands on a copy of Time from 1968!)
4. Cuddles!

Thursday, April 12, 2007

April 12, 2007

Music: Goo Goo Dolls Live in Buffalo
Reading: Brown Wieland, Blake "The Tyger"
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3

Good things that happened today:
1. Dinner with Jason!
2. Someone started a campus writing group and I went to the meeting and OMG I'm so excited it looks like it will be a tad disorganized and most actual workshopping will be done on a blog (which may be responsible for!) but it'll still be so nice to have people who are expecting me to write and a bit of a SOCIAL LIFE outside of fencers and a couple of other random people! (I'm not counting teh boyfriend as social life because he is my life, obviously... (cue the "awwwww"s here ;) ))
3. Read 160 pages. I am English major, hear me roar!
4. Started memorizing "The Tyger."
5. Knit a couple of rows at aforementioned writing group meeting.
6. Also, hot chocolate. With whipped cream.
7. Wrote something intriguing at the writing group meeting! Methinks I shall continue it... gosh, it's been a while since I had multiple competing writing projects to work on... ack, now I worry that I won't finish any of them! Heh, I guess I'll do what I can.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

April 11, 2007

Music: Goo Goo Dolls Live from Buffalo
Reading: Petrarch Rime Sparse
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3

Good things that happened today:
1. Lunch with Jason!
2. FINISHED the Petrarch at dinnertime! (Subsequently goofed off for most of the next four hours, but hey, I think I deserved the break.)
3. Worked on my fic! (Two whole paragraphs, wooo!)
4. Found out that there's a writing group on campus outside of creative writing courses.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

April 10, 2007

Music: Goo Goo Dolls Live in Buffalo July 4 2004
Reading: Petrarch Rime sparse
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 6.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Lunch with Jason.
2. Class was pretty interesting.
3. Wore my new skirt!

Monday, April 09, 2007

April 8, 2007

Music: Jason's
Reading: Freccero (sp?) "The Fig Leaf and the Laurel" (?)
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3

Good things that happened today:
1. Incredibly hot just-woke-up sex.
2. Hung out at Jason's house all day -- played games with his family and had a nice dinner.

Other things to be happy about:
1. Puppy count: FIVE! :)