December is a month designed to wreak havoc on fledgling habits. Habits like heaving myself out of bed in the morning to develop muscle tone or shifting my eating toward nutrition and away from booze. My gratitude series joined the downward slide and plopped into a heap of crunchy pine needles and broken dreams. And [...]
Yesterday morning, I started composing a Happiness Manifesto on the (predictable) premise that I am happy and, damn it, I’m proud of it. Because I fucking earned my happiness. For getting there without the standard cultural markers for such an emotional state – falling in love, getting a new job, buying a house, or populating [...]
Still on my Focus On What’s Good Rather Than On Those Other Things kick. Totally works, y’all. DO IT. I COMMAND THEE. Because it will make you happy and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it list form, but come one, WHO DOESN’T LOVE A NICE LIST? Am I right? [...]
Do any of you ever go to Safeway and, because you’ve never bothered to get your own Safeway card for all those awesome two-for-one deals on things like frozen pizza and english muffins, stand at the checkout counter frantically scanning through your phone for the number of the friend you know has a card? Then [...]
Hello, people in my computer! Ready for another gob smacking, dog snacking, fob snapping list? (I’ve decided to become more creative with my expostulations. Call it an early New Year’s resolution.) Part of me thinks I should be writing more if I’m going to do these every week, so I don’t overload you on blob [...]
It seems the Awesome Things That Are Awesome series is sticking, possibly because gratitude is trendy and you know how trendy I am. (Anyone who’s ever seen the inside of my closet is wondering if I’m currently suffering from feverish delusions.) (HEY, JEANS AND T-SHIRTS ARE SEASONLESS.) – Having fun at my uncle’s funeral and [...]
Tonight, I became a patron of the arts. By commissioning my very own poem from the peerless Silvi for the princely sum of seven dollars. Five of which were subsidized by my mom. Shut up. Silvi doesn’t take credit cards. Silvi, typing up my poem as I try to get a decent picture with my [...]
Last week’s incarnation of this list proved good for me. I’m trying to do things that are good for me. Not too many things, like abstain from mashed potatoes or episodes of Modern Family, but some good things. Keeping this record reminds me to notice the small joys and fully appreciate where I am right [...]
My life is good. (Even great, depending on the day you ask and what I’ve just eaten.) But there are times when I lose track of just how good it is. Nuclear fallout of the dreamer, I suppose. Appreciating what you have while also keeping track of what you want is an interesting exercise in [...]
My brain isn’t functioning properly this morning, so the formation of interesting sentences is somewhat beyond me, as is the ability to come up with a word more interesting than “interesting.” (You see what I’m dealing with here.) Nevertheless, I would like to commemorate my escape from the Yosemite Valley with all limbs intact. Waking [...]
