Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle

I am having a pretty rock 'n' roll terrific day.

Today's Happy Thoughts:

• Victoria's Secret has been sending me emails about their sale for weeks. Today I finally found the time to go through the sale and see what I might buy. As it turns out, I got 4 new bras (and threw in a couple extra pairs of knickers to bump me up to the free shipping minimum) for under $80. Posh would approve.
• After fretting about it, not having the time to figure it out after work last night, and changing a billion times this morning, inspiration struck me and I figured out the perfect thing to wear tonight.  (Posh strikes again. I've been reading her fashion book and as I'm straightening my hair, I'm thinking "what would Posh wear?" and BOOM!) Now I feel great and I look hot. Heels really do do wonders for how you feel about yourself.
• After showing my boss how we are making progress on the project we are working on, she told me I was "doing good" and used my name instead of my nickname, which is usually how I'm referred to when she's asking me for something. So I'm "doing good." (Note: I did not correct my editor boss that she must mean I'm doing WELL.)
• I may have actually found someone to cut my hair. She's a friend of my cafe boss, cuts her hair and does a nice job with it, and she doesn't charge an arm and a leg. We'll see what she does on Saturday and I may be in luck.

Tonight I have many more happy thoughts. I'm off to do more shopping, then a nice dinner out with Frank who I haven't seen in an age, and then another rockin' Schocholautte gig. I am going to be a tired puppy tomorrow but some things are worth it.

Willpower Is a Superpower

Hi everybody, especially potential new readers from my LJ. 

Today, the weather is something I like to call Evil Cold. And my shoes are falling apart. And I'm having one of those days you sometimes have in publishing where you have to redo a bunch of stuff you just did because someone gave you stuff that wasn't final or didn't think something all the way thru before they told you to do it. So today I really need a happy thought. And here it is.

Today's Happy Thought:

• Even though I craved a nice greasy grilled cheese sandwich and also wanted to allow myself to have one to make up for all the crap I went through this morning, I held out and ate the lunch I brought with me instead. So now I get to feel good about myself because I have willpower. And that's pretty good. This is the first time since I decided to get back on the healthy eating track, that I have been sorely tempted to stray and it makes me very happy and confident to say that I resisted. 

I suppose the fact that I haven't murdered anyone in my office yet is no small miracle either :)

Afternoon Delight

Sadly, not like that.

Today's Happy Thoughts:

• I took the plunge. I signed up for a course at Gotham Writer's Workshop. Hopefully, this is where it begins, this journey towards an actual career in the entertainment industry. At least it will be fun, I will learn, and I will follow my resolution to Write. All the time. And also, they called me quite quickly to confirm my enrollment, giving me a feeling of professionalism I never got from The School of Lies, my former foray into Adult Education.
• I'm giving my notice at the bookstore tonight. And because I have extreme empathy for my boss and feel very badly about leaving her, it's very important that I remember the positives. I will have all my nights and weekends to myself and no longer be held hostage by an as -yet-unmade schedule. I will not be on my feet for 5-8 hours at a time. I will not be abused by haughty customers. I will not be subject to the immaturity most of my coworkers exhibit. I will have freedom once again to do all that I want with my life. And for Chrissakes, I can still get a discount if I join the member program, it just won't  be quite as big. 

The Year of God, I'm Awesome

Happy New Year to all!!!!

As is usual in the holiday season, things have gotten away from me and I haven't posted. And there's no point in going back and rehashing the last two and a half weeks on my blog. Suffice it to say the holidays were great, full of love and fun. Work has been good, life has been great, and there's more to come. 

This positivity train I've been on has been really good for me the last few months. It's helped me deal with the bad, appreciate the good, and assess the past in a valuable way. I won't say it's a "resolution" to keep it up, it's just something I'm going to be doing this year, like eating healthier, exercising, and improving my home. If any positivity is resolved I would say it's about myself. I resolve to be more positive about myself, hence the year of God, I'm Awesome (as yoinked from the fellas at Rifftrax). I really am  happy about everything in my life and really grateful for and excited about the year to come. So, for the first day of the year...

Today's Happy Thoughts:

• I got put in charge of a project at my job, meaning that in 6 weeks I have proven myself capable. I am now allowed to keep track of and organize components of a project at many stages, without being needlessly scrutinized, as I have unnecessarily and insulting been at some other jobs. Not only does being trusted with this make me feel good about myself, but also being in charge of organizing shit is kind of what I do best. Yay!
• I am VERY excited for the writing class I will be taking, starting in two weeks. My most important actual resolution is Write. All the time. And I start to feel more and more that while acting is not enough for me and directing may just be a little too much for me yet, that I really do love the writing, the creating the story. So it's time for me to pursue that something that I love in a real way and make a go of it.
• For no particular reason other than it's good, I'm really happy about my relationship. Sometimes the maturity with which Kris and I handle each other is absolutely astounding. Little things that would make other couples fight, we just acknowledge, accept and try to deal with. We very much appreciate each other and never take each other for granted. I could not ask for a better partner in my journey through this life. There is no one better for me than the man I love and I am very lucky he loves me back.
• Let it never be said that I don't appreciate what I have. I really really enjoy all the great presents I got for Christmas and look forward to playing with them and getting tons of use out of them.

I wish a very happy, positive, and fruitful year to everyone I know and love. You are awesome, too.

C is for Cookie

It's definitely a good thing that I've been too busy to blog lately. And it's all from good stuff. Not that I've been Mary Sunshine 100% of the time. I still feel homicidal rage during both my morning and evening commute on a daily basis. But mostly I've been busy with holiday fun and cheer. And I'll do a Happy Thoughts Recap blog soon.

But for today, let me dedicate this blog to Today's Happy Thought: Cookies.

I feel as though I am starting to come down with something. And I'm glad it's on a Friday afternoon when I will have plenty of time to rest and not spend one of my sick days. But I certainly do feel a little better, having eaten a delicious fresh oatmeal raisin cookie from Whole Foods. 

I love cookies. A lot. I can have ice cream and chocolate and all manner of good treats in my house, but if I want a cookie and I don't have any, I will not have anything else. Cookies are the best. As Jessica at GFY said "'C is for Cookie'...I hear has been replaced by 'Cookies Are A Sometimes Food', which, I'm sorry, is bullshit because cookies are an ALWAYS food, they're just not a MASS QUANTITIES food."

Hooray for cookies. I will happily accept anyone who wants to bring me cookies tonight as I sit on my couch trying not to let this cold get any worse. I'm sure they will make me feel better.

...as if I don't have enough cookies in the house already, thanks to Cookie Baking at Sarah's last weekend. :)

Having Time To Post Is A Happy Thought

Thankfully, just because I don't have time to post every day, doesn't mean I don't have them every day. Catching up...

Todays' (and Yesterday's) Happy Thoughts

• Had time to lay back with Kris and watch a movie Tuesday night. We chose the new version of Peter Pan from a couple years ago and it was delightful. A nice callback to the inspiration for this here blog, plus that movie makes Kris adorably happy.
• Came in yesterday morning with the Wii for my boss. She was pretty happy about it. She's not a gushing kind of person but she did stop herself on the way out the door with it to sincerely say "thanks a million."
• In doing things to help out around the office and even in the course of my usual work, I have noticed that I really have gained some skills from my old internship. Before I worked there, any new task would frighten me and I'd need constant monitoring. I learned how to just figure out or find out what I needed to know to get something done and then do it. It's a really good feeling to realize that you have that skill. What do they call that, so I can put it on my resume? Resourcefulness?
• Having a Sifl & Olly song stuck in my head this morning, I discovered a wealth of clips on YouTube.
• Grabbed a catalog for Gotham Writers' Workshop off the street today and it has me excited. They even offer gift certificates, which I hope to get for Christmas and use towards a class next year. Yay!
• I have a very good night to look forward to. I'll tell you all about it tomorrow after it happens.

Bursting with Snacky Happiness

It's not that I didn't have any happy thought yesterday. It's just that I'm a busy girl and also that I worked through lunch for no good reason. So, positive result, I have a backlog of happy thoughts!

Today's Happy Thoughts

• This weekend I got a chance to watch That Thing You Do with Kris. His life is resembling it a little lately, plus it's a great movie so it was a nice cozy thing to do.
• Saturday we had a lovely lovey dovey morning on the couch.
• Sunday we woke up to snow  everywhere.
• We spent all of Sunday in South Jersey, engaged in holiday fun with his family. We put up their (fake) tree, we shopped, I baked cookies with his mom, we watched holiday movies. It was a tremendously great, fun, relaxing day.
• Caught 3/4 of the Steeler game on Sunday night and despite being a crazy game full of turnovers, we won. 9-3 baby! Woo!
• On the ride home and over the course of Sunday,  I thought up most of my Christmas gift ideas. The "thinking of" is the hardest part so now come the more fun parts.
• I had a delicious Wawa sub to split over the past two days for lunch. 
• We voted on a great play to do next spring in my theater group and I might even be involved in it.
• Went to my store last night and picked up a BUNCH of gifts which is also a load off my mind. And thanks to Employee Appreciation week, I got ridiculously fantastic deals.
• This morning I became my boss's hero. She needs a Wii for her granddaughter and I have the hookup. Now, Kris's store will make a bunch of money, a good girl will get a great cool gift, and I score big points with my boss.
• I had a chance to set up our (cardboard) Christmas tree in the office today and it got me thinking about other easy, fun ways to decorate the office.
• I finally got the reservation made for the office Christmas party. HUGE load off my mind.
• A lot of what I've been doing for her since I started here, is taking hand edits that she's made on hard copy and inputting them into the computer. It does take some skill, but it's certainly not taxing on the brain. My boss will be away the week before Christmas and she says I can do the editing she's been doing while she's gone. Yay a step up!