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, May 19, 2007

May 18, 2007

Music: Cowboy Bebop soundtrack
Reading: the Bible
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 2.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Hawt sexxors.
2. Work went pretty well -- got stuff done.
3. Cotton candy!

Thursday, May 17, 2007

May 17, 2007

Music: Jason's
Reading: the Bible, Kingston Woman Warrior
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3

Good things that happened today:
1. Writers' group!
2. Watched part of a documentary about people's favorite poems whose creation was instigated by Pinsky. Fascinating stuff. (And one of the people was a little girl from the town next to my hometown, and they totally filmed her on a playground I used to play on all the time! Weirdness!)
3. Woke up next to Jason.
4. Found out that a presentation I thought I'd have to make is (sort of? maybe?) cancelled.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

May 16, 2007

Music: Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, Jason's
Reading: various sermons by Calvin
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3.5

Good things that happened today:
1. Saw bunches of Jason!
2. Tennis class.
3. Did almost everything I wanted to get done!

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

May 15, 2007

Music: the Cranberries To the Dearly Departed (?)
Reading: some sermon by Calvin, Lock "Meditations of a Penitent Sinner"
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 5

Good things that happened today:
1. My teacher for my loooong class was absent, so we chilled and chatted about the reading ourselves and left an hour early. It was pretty fun.
2. Nice lunch out with Jason and his dad.
3. Coffee ice cream with whipped cream at dinner!

Monday, May 14, 2007

May 14, 2007

Music: the Cranberries To the Dearly Departed (?)
Reading: King "I Am the Doorway," "Sometimes They Come Back," "Children of the Corn;" Sidney (Sir and his sister) Psalms; newspaper
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4

Good things that happened today:
1. Saw Jason a bunch.
2. Got ahead on my reading!
3. Tennis class.

Other things to be happy about:
1. Puppy count: ONE! (awww I miss my doggy so much... *sigh*)

Sunday, May 13, 2007

May 13, 2007

Music: matchbox twenty yourself or someone like you
Reading: the Bible, King foreword to Night Shift
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 3
Quote: "—nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, Sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient – damned odd standing in the open street half an hour, with your eye against a lamp-post—" – Jingle, The Pickwick Papers (Dickens)

Good things that happened today:
1. Hawt sexxors.
2. Got pretty much everything done that needed to be done!
3. Cuddles!

May 12, 2007

Music: matchbox twenty yourself or something like you
Reading: the Bible
Current stress level (scale of 1-10): 4.5
Quote: "You try to make your self 1 with some thing or some body but try as you wil the 2ness of every thing is working agenst you all the way. You try to take holt of the 1ness and it comes in 2 in your hans." – Riddley, Riddley Walker (Russell Hoban)

Good things that happened today:
1. Craft fair! I bought pretty earrings.
2. Fencing team party. It was kind of nice to hang with the team again. And I got to talk to Graham a lot on the way there and back, because we were the only ones in his car. That was good.
3. At aforementioned party, we gave out silly awards. And I got the "Glue that holds the team together" award. Warm fuzzies!
4. Puppy at the party!