chasing away the blues
not sure why, but i am down in the dumps. well, i say i'm not sure why, but the fact of the matter is i could easily rattle off several reasons without even thinking hard, and if you've read my journal much, you can probably imagine what some of them might be. there are so many challenging areas right now, and i try to keep a positive outlook, but some days it really is harder than others. no need to worry, dear friends, there is nothing new that is actually wrong. it's just all the usual suspects causing me to feel some stress - mom's health, job situation, aging feline companion, etc.
i think i was away for that wonderful birthday week and i really did escape from my worries and troubles. now i'm home again and face to face with real life again. i know i still have lots of things to be grateful for, and i am. but, well.
1. oh, there was good news about my mom - the fracture shows some slight improvement. slight, but still improvement. that is something. *hangs on tight to good news* okay, that's one, so i'll try to come up with 5 good things for a monday good things list.
2. i made the 5 for five challenge this past week. oh, and the story i've been working on, what will be my first ever multi-chapter ss/hg, has surpassed 30,000 words! that makes it the longest fanfic i've written and it's still got a ways to go.
3. i recently posted a short snily called The Last Goodbye, which lulabelle called some of my best writing ever in her review, so that made me very happy. the irony about this story is that it really started out because i wanted an excuse to give severus a blowjob. don't run off to read it for that, though, because in the end the bj did not work, alas. and it is terribly sad. i'm also finally posting The Werewolf, the Auror, and the Potions Master, which is my first multi-chapter fic. it's the lupin/shacklebolt/snape i wrote for the lupinbigbang. i didn't post it right away because there was supposed to be art to go with it and i was kind of waiting for that, and then i just sort of forgot that i'd never posted it. so some day there might be art, but in the meantime, i'm posting the story.
4. i'm very grateful for receiving unemployment and that my check arrived today so i can now pay my rent AND the other bills. (before, it was more of an either/or proposition.)
5. i'm also grateful my life has brought me to the point where i'm studying theta healing and for the opportunity to practice it on people. i really love doing it and it makes me feel happy to be able to give something positive to other people in that way. i hope i am able to make a career out of it, but even if it does not get to that point, i'm still really happy to have the opportunity to do it.
there. just taking stock of the good things already shifted my energy.
*hugs* if you want them.
i think i was away for that wonderful birthday week and i really did escape from my worries and troubles. now i'm home again and face to face with real life again. i know i still have lots of things to be grateful for, and i am. but, well.
1. oh, there was good news about my mom - the fracture shows some slight improvement. slight, but still improvement. that is something. *hangs on tight to good news* okay, that's one, so i'll try to come up with 5 good things for a monday good things list.
2. i made the 5 for five challenge this past week. oh, and the story i've been working on, what will be my first ever multi-chapter ss/hg, has surpassed 30,000 words! that makes it the longest fanfic i've written and it's still got a ways to go.
3. i recently posted a short snily called The Last Goodbye, which lulabelle called some of my best writing ever in her review, so that made me very happy. the irony about this story is that it really started out because i wanted an excuse to give severus a blowjob. don't run off to read it for that, though, because in the end the bj did not work, alas. and it is terribly sad. i'm also finally posting The Werewolf, the Auror, and the Potions Master, which is my first multi-chapter fic. it's the lupin/shacklebolt/snape i wrote for the lupinbigbang. i didn't post it right away because there was supposed to be art to go with it and i was kind of waiting for that, and then i just sort of forgot that i'd never posted it. so some day there might be art, but in the meantime, i'm posting the story.
4. i'm very grateful for receiving unemployment and that my check arrived today so i can now pay my rent AND the other bills. (before, it was more of an either/or proposition.)
5. i'm also grateful my life has brought me to the point where i'm studying theta healing and for the opportunity to practice it on people. i really love doing it and it makes me feel happy to be able to give something positive to other people in that way. i hope i am able to make a career out of it, but even if it does not get to that point, i'm still really happy to have the opportunity to do it.
there. just taking stock of the good things already shifted my energy.
*hugs* if you want them.