I've been making a real effort to maintain positive framing of things this past year. For example, when making a request I focus on what I do want instead of what I don't want. When describing a situation, I put it in positive terms ("he's very resourceful") instead of negative terms ("he's not helpless"). I've also been doing my best to maintain a ( Read more... )

I was having some sort of dream. (It was kind of cool, the "oh wow I need to remember this one" kind, but now the content escapes me. I waited too long to wake up.) Anyway, Red heard my alarm go off, and promptly came up on the bed to herd me into feeding him and/or giving him attention greet me ( Read more... )

I just got back from giving a presentation to the Providence Police Academy about HIV, and one of the issues we discussed kind of rings out for me right now ( Read more... )

I just wrapped up a life coaching session, and I've come to a conclusion that might be obvious to everyone else, but is kinda news to me: the reason that I didn't really put too much in my journal last year is that I'm too wordy ( Read more... )

This week's Free Will Astrology got me thinking, and this is probably going to be either cryptic or boring for most people; hence the cut tag:
( a peek inside my head, largely written with a cat on my lap who kept trying to turn my laptop into a pillow )

Last night was amazing ( Read more... )

I have effectively had a two seater car since I moved in with quillon. Yeah, the first time. It's been a long time. I've had crap in my back seat all that time. And since it was already a mess, the back seat became kind of a dumping ground for mail, empty water bottles, trash. There was no way for me to fit more than a single passenger in my car, unless ( Read more... )

Thanks to my timing, I ended up going to the funeral mass yesterday. When I pulled into the parking lot of the funeral home, most of the parking lot was blocked off, and I had no choice but to drive past two men in suits who made up a sort of checkpoint. I was asked my name, and a valet parked my car. Then, once we'd paid our last respects (being ( Read more... )

Just had the most kick-ass awesome session with my life coach. And putting it into words is almost beyond me.

Just suffice it to say: anyone who can help me frame a trip to the DMV, which I unfortunately must do, as a spiritual experience, and actually kind of fun, deserves the biggest fucking medal in the world ( Read more... )

The details of the long weekend are slowly leaking out of me.

One part of the weekend (well, technically it was Tuesday, but we were still out of town and on vacation, so close enough) that totally rocked was when my younger sister, hugskitties19, took me and quillon out to a New Age bookstore, Earth Spirit, and I found this little statue and just had to have it. ( Read more... )