Given the very low activity among my friends here on LiveJournal and zero comments on my post and also the more and more personal nature of my journaling, I have decided to make this journal completely private ( Read more... )

Having thought further, I feel this is the right direction for me at this time. This journal is going friends-only from now on.

Half the year has gone by. Time to visit the goals I made in December, I thought. Took the handy-dandy list and started reading top down and got depressed right away. Not doing, not doing, not doing. Then I said, hang on, let's start bottom up. Doing, doing, doing. Ah! I was tackling the low-hanging fruit but not the tough stuff ( Read more... )

Came across this excellent post by Gretchen Rubin on understanding yourself better via three quizzes that she's put together: the rhythm of my days, my values, and my habits.

The Rhythm of My Days

• Would I rather be ten minutes late or ten minutes early?
Early

• What errands do I regularly do? How many times each week?
Groceries (1x), school ( Read more... )

A total cliché but so true for me: The sun comes out and my mood lifts. Totally was a beautiful day, sharply cold and brightly sunny. I enjoyed my walk with the Wees, feeling the cold slicing into the skin of my face, reducing the puffiness of my eyes, and burning in my lungs. The light touched on a million sparkling drops of liquid water on trees ( Read more... )

Wee1 and I attended the Sound of Music sing-a-long show at our glittering 5th Ave Theatre this afternoon. We booed, hissed, laughed, cheered, catcalled, and of course, sang at all the appropriate cues. Whether we were in tune was hardly the point. We sang loud and proud and had ourselves a fun time.

The three older members of the family had a lovely dinner out at Melting Pot. Wee1 had been wanting to go there for a few weeks, and we could finally make it happen. It was delicious as usual and the fun was in the cooking (with dropped pieces of bread, meat, fruit-oh no ( Read more... )

Wee1 and I had an argument, but instead of the usual escalation, we were both able to contain it, calm down, and proceed with the original task that we were doing together.

Beginnings are so exciting, as are endings, because they're before the beginnings. Dec/Jan and Aug/Sep tend to be the most energizing months for me. Plans to make, goals to set, schedules to configure, all this shiny new. The essential ingredient of all of this is Hope. A belief that tomorrow will be a better day than today has been. Tomorrow I won ( Read more... )

The 365 Days of Positivity project
The first day of the new year is almost at an end, and I need to start my new project. I'm going to focus on and post here about one good thing that happens to me everyday, be it insignificant or life-changing. I guarantee that if I get one life-altering experience, 2014 will have been a spectacular year. However, ( Read more... )