Reflecting tonight on attitude and approaching life in a hopeful way instead of a pessimistic way. Was reading a few of my older posts, and this quote caught my eye (from: Hello, my name is Cristy...):

... and I'm addicted to feeling sorry for myself. I have a self-pity problem. I have a problem. I've been pretending I'm a "glass is half-full" ( Read more... )

I had a really interesting dream right as I woke up this morning, and it helped me achieve a paradigm shift that I REALLY needed. The dream was something like this ( Read more... )

I just finished figuring out how we're going to catch up on some bills (again). We have a lot of weeks where we end up doing that, and inevitably, I spend an hour or two juggling numbers, adding, subtracting (LOTS of subtracting), and so on, to try to balance the books and not get our electricity turned off. Anyway, this time, as I was finishing, I ( Read more... )

I'm working on it!  I did some work on the bathroom this morning and did some housework, which always gives me a sense of accomplishment.

The kinds of things that have been making it tough to be positive include:

• The swamp that is our backyard.  I feel so bad for Abby having to find a place to play back there that isn't a mud pit. *sigh*  The problem ( Read more... )

LOTS of things ( Read more... )

... and I'm addicted to feeling sorry for myself. I have a self-pity problem. I have a problem. I've been pretending I'm a "glass is half-full" kind of person when really all I want is for the world to notice "how well I'm handling that half-empty glass situation ( Read more... )