It’s Thursday again and I decided to write down all the things that make me happy about my life:
- Engagement celebration! Yes, one of my best friends’ boyfriend took the plunge and proposed. Tomorrow is girls’ night out to celebrate and check out the rock. I am so happy for them and it makes me smile to see my wonderful and deserving friend find the man of her dreams.
- My hair- I seriously have a love affair with my hair and am usually super happy about it. But this week it has looked fantastic even when I have abused it by only half blowdrying it before running off to work. Now I just have to work on it being boringly straight.
- Making friends with tough residents at work- when you get old, you sometimes get cranky. So when you work with the elderly, you can find yourself the recipient of grouchy antics. But I used my powers of persuasion and charm to win over one of these cranks and actually hung out with her…as much as you can hang out with the over eighty crowd.
- Finding good quotes for my inspiration journal- about a month ago, I started to find all these quotes that helped me deal with no exactly ending up where I thought I was going to be post-grad. I keep a journal so I used to scribble them in there but periodically I take all the pages out of my journal to clear my thoughts. I wanted a place to keep these quotes so I could find inspiration easily and that’s how my green leather inspiration journal was born (btw I should also be thankful for my hyper organization). And lately I have been finding really awesome meaningful quotes to make me thankful for my life.
- Pandora- most people know about what is basically an internet radio called Pandora. I’ve used it off and on for awhile when I get tired of my iTunes. This week I’ve been using it and discovered some great songs, including the song I’m now obsessed with “Cowboy Take Me Away” by the Dixie Chicks.
- Being optimistic about job searching once again- this week I plunged back into finding my dream job, or at least a first job that’s got benefits and all that jazz. And by a wonderful stroke of luck, I found a job that is somewhere I would absolutely love to move. I’m not going to say what or where it is so as not to jinx it but let’s just say it’s making me smile!
“Too many hearts have been broken/ Failing to trust what they feel/ But trust isn’t something that’s spoken/ And love’s never wrong when it’s real.” – “Believe in Me,” Dan Fogelberg
