Ha - a new way of measuring your overall outlook on life ( Read more... )

You know, I always say that I'm solar-powered, but it's not until we get a nice day after a stretch of winter weather that I remember how much.  It makes *such* a difference to my day as I'm walking to work.  I can just bask in that sunshine hitting me, and load up on it to last me through the rest of the day ( Read more... )

It's 51 degrees today!  I had to take my coat off on the walk home ( Read more... )

Why can't I just enjoy it?  Why can't I just notice that I've been in a fairly good mood for several days and think, "Oh, that's nice" instead of "Wow, what's the bad thing that's going to wreck it this time?"

Seriously, things are good right now:

• I seem to have recovered from the Relationship Drama of the last several weeks (go Team Communication ( Read more... )

I've just come home from a long walk ending up at Tenney Park, which is next to Tenney Beach.  I wandered out to the end of the docks and the little bay area, took some pics, and wandered over to the beach itself.  I then whipped out my handy dandy Backpack of Preparedness and laid out my towel, sunblock, iPod, sweatshirt, waterbottle, and Sweet ( Read more... )

Determined not to accidentally spend another entire evening on my laptop (it turns out when I'm not crazy busy, I'm pretty boring), I left the apartment tonight.  I went for a walk down to James Madison Park to sit by the lake and watch the sun set ( Read more... )

musesfool is hosting a Love Meme.  I've never participated before because it always felt so presumptuous to toss my own name in the hat, but this meme has people put in other people's names.  Thanks to the lovely escritoireazul, my name jumped in the hat all on its own.  And apparently, I'm okay with the presumptous nature of linking to said thread.  Some of you have ( Read more... )

I made it to the 250 point trophy on SparkPeople.com!  It's an orange star this time.  At 500 points, I get a multi-colored one.  That's going to be exciting.  I am totally leading our family SparkTeam in points, by the way.  My mom recently pulled into second place, a mere 4 points ahead of my sister.  Watch out, liz_a_belle!  She's giving you a run for your ( Read more... )

I am accomplishy today!  I cleaned up my room, did the dishes, cleaned off the kitchen table, and vacuumed the kitchen, hallway, library, living room, and my room.  GO ME ( Read more... )

I am made of awesome ( Read more... )