Why Today is Great Day!

What a beautiful day to be positive!

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“I am obscure and odd, very deeply odd.”

— Virginia Woolf

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Celebrate Good Times

Yesterday I got the chance to go to celebrate a good friends birthday.  We went and did a Civil War themed escape room!  I’ve never done an escape room before and I must say it was indeed one of the coolest things I have ever done (I haven’t done much but still)! 

I couldn’t stop thinking for the rest of the day and night about all the clues we had found and wondering how on Earth we found them... who came up with all of them... how on EARTH does it all work!?  

Something that I thought was really awesome was that we had to do it all by lantern light!  We didn’t even have “electricity” in our room.  The room was shaped like a bunker and had an underground tunnel beneath a trap door.  That trap door led to another room where the main attraction there was Morse code.  That was the hardest part I think.  We were given a code to decode and that is where we got stuck.  We didn’t break out sadly, but I would 410% do it again.  

It is silly but I get very excited over this kind of stuff because honestly I’m not asked to go out very often at all and I really think that is starting to change. I’ve got a few more opportunities to branch out and that excites me.  It’s just another reason to be happy :)   

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I was an extra in a film today!  That is pretty rad and I can’t get over it.  It was a little outside of my comfort zone to step in and do it but now I get to say that I did!

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Morning Routine

So I had a positive day today mostly because I started it right.  

I’ve been listening to The Minimalist Podcast at work this week and have had mindfulness on my mind A LOT lately.  I want to become more mindful and I feel like I could really do that by minimizing my life a little bit.  One thing that I read and heard on the podcast is that by simply saying that I should do something isn’t going to change my mindset.  By saying I should change is only going to make me think... yeah I should... but maybe on Monday, or New Years...  

And they are so right, I needed to start saying I must instead of saying I should.  I must is more deliberate. So I am going to say that I must change my morning routine.  

Currently I set my alarm for 6:40 am, get pissed off when it goes off and set it for another 20-40 minutes.  I had the intention of waking up at 6:40 to do yoga or meditate before I begin my day but I just always say I should wake up and meditate in the morning.  And that isn’t working so it never gets done!  Sometimes I don’t get out of bed until 7:20 which then rushes me around as I try to eat breakfast (which I don’t always do, by choice), and wash my face and brush my teeth and get dressed.  It is so mundane.  I hate mornings.  But I know in my heart that I really don’t want to hate mornings, a matter of fact, early morning is one of my favorite times of day to drive or to run around because it is so cool and fresh and new.  I love the idea of morning but can’t get myself to  enjoy it for real. 

This morning I woke up despite my frustration that I had to, I briefly stretched in my bed and sat up and chugged about 30 ounces of water.  THAT IS SO GOOD FOR YOU!!! So yes, I peed three times before I left for work but my body needed that so bad, I was waking up with headaches which I’m diagnosing as some dehydration.  I felt really proud and excited that I had drank so much before I even put my feet on the ground.  

Then I woke up, peed, brushed my teeth, and washed my face. I then decided that I wanted to do yoga this morning.  After lasts night yoga class we were warned that we would be pretty sore today so I wanted to prepare the best I could by... well... doing more yoga haha!  So I did some sun salutations, and some strength, stretching, and awakening postures and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT!  At the end I was sad that it was already 7:20 and I needed to start getting ready.  I wanted time to meditate after that session.  

I even ate breakfast.  Sometimes my stomach doesn’t actually like to eat breakfast, it can be picky sometimes.  But I did this morning, however I tried something different.  I have a bad habit of filling a bowl with cereal and dumping milk in.  Then realizing I have too much milk but don’t want to waste it (I am not a cereal milk drinker) so then I dump more cereal in to soak up the milk... and it seems to be a horrific cycle to the point that I have had probably 3x the suggested serving!  So I measure out the serving size.  IT WAS ALL I NEEDED!  In turn I used way less milk which is perfect because I can go through it too fast that way. 

It was only after all of that that I checked my phone, and social media.  

Then I turned my podcast on and walked out the door feeling really, REALLY great.  If that is all it takes for me to have an amazing day, why don’t I just do that every morning??? 

Well, I must because today I not only felt incredible but I feel more accomplished.  

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“I have no other possessions of value but my soul.”

— Allen Ginsberg

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The proud owner of two new tattoos, for a total of four. I find this absolutely exciting!!!

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Introspective

I’m trying so hard to branch outside of my comfort zone.  I know that once I do I will be a much happier human being.  But I am so shy and have really sheltered myself all my life.  One thing that I have really wanted to do regularly for years now is yoga and meditation.  

There is a new shop in my town that now supports a gift shop with crystals, incense, yoga clothing and gear, plants, mala beads, taro cards... you name it they probably have it.  But they hve also begun donation based classes.  I was always worried about being able to pay for classes somewhere else but they just ask to give what you can.  This is exactly what I needed.  

I started going to Monday night meditation several weeks ago.  I like it because it’s not a commitment.  One night I couldn’t get myself to go and that is ok... because they will be there next week when I’m ready again.  My first meditation was a real treat!  I was pretty successful.  The next one that I did was not as magical as the first one but I did take a piece of rose quartz with me and felt a pretty strong connection with it while I held on to during my meditation.  That was really neat. 

Then I went to do a little end of the week shopping in the gift shop after a really tough week.  The owner is so fantastic and recognized me from the last time I stopped in.  She was asking me if I had ever thought about coming to a yoga class (she teaches the yoga while someone else does the meditation classes).  I told her yes but it was slightly outside of my comfort zone for the moment, I was trying to work up some courage to come.  Low and behold... the very next morning I showed up to Saturday morning Soul Flow.  It was fantastic honestly!  I’m writing this the next day and boy am I sore!  I haven’t stretched like that in a long time but man oh man did my body need it!  They have several different types of yoga that I am going to try out and see what I like best but I definitely am looking to make this a habit.  I can’t motivate myself to practice on my own at home anymore... I just don’t have enough space or really the kind of space I want to practice in.  A tiny apartment can only offer so much space.  

This is who I want to be.  I want to treat my mind, body, and soul a little bit better and this is exactly how I want to do it.  I’m so thankful that I found this buisness and that they are here making it affordable for anyone to join and aid in their own journeys.   

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Awww

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“We all need a past - that’s where our sense of identity comes from.”

— Penelope Lively

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“Your destiny isn’t tied to the people who walked away.”

— Joel Osteen

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“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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I love this so, so much!!!!

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Lunch Date

I need to start this blog again! 

LAtely I’ve been into writing short stories but over the weekend I couldn’t pull one out of me!  I realized I was so excited to get my other blog up and going that I just wanted to write for it.  The confinement of a short story was not what my brain was craving I guess.  

So my positive thought of the day here actually happened two days ago... that’s ok ;)

I got to have lunch with an old coworker.  She had worked with me for years and we clicked very well.  We grew very close and I would have considered her as a work “mom” at one point.  I looked forward to seeing ehr every day and then she wanted to find something better.  

Over the last school year we were able to have lunch a couple times a month together but when summer started we just haven’t seen each other much at all!  So I made a point to schedule a lunch with her.  

We had chinese food because she loves it but her family hates it.  Well everyone but her son.  But he moved to Virginia and is going to school so she misses her Chinese food buddy.  It was delicious but our conversations, we just pick right back up where we leave off each and every time.  I love it :)  It makes me smile just thinking about it again.  

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Some people feel love in their hearts. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We’re the ones who can’t forget.

Judith McNaugh

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