100 Happy Days Pictures - Week 1

Over on my Instagram, I've been doing a Thing. The 100 Happy Days Challenge, to be exact. I didn't sign up on the official website, but I'm using the tag, and I'm trying to remember to do this every day. Here's the roundup of the first week of things that make me happy, without any explanation or jabbering!

What makes you happy?

daily gratitudes

Today I'm grateful for:

- Hoola hoops.

- The lovely day we're having today, and the fact that the last week actually felt appropriately cold for the season.

- Sesame pretzels. Seriously, they're awesome.

- Time! I don't have to work until 4 and I finished my editing last night for the week. It's wonderful.

- Fuzzy blankets-- the little cheapie 8$ ones from IKEA. I want more.

- The smaller appetite I get after being sick. Makes it easier not to eat myself sick.

new leaves

You know that feeling when everything changes for the better? How you feel like you fit into your own skin better? I always sort of feel like I'm made up of several voices all talking at once, or several layers of image and color, all overlayed, but mostly I'm a little out of focus, a little off-center, and you can see all the layers as separate things instead of them shining through together, all in one plane, all making up one cohesive me.

I started NaNoWriMo this year, and even if I never get to the end, it's already fixed me. It's brought me back into focus and reminded me that I'm not where I work or what I wear-- I'm made of the people I create and the stories I tell, and that's why I'm here. That's why I'm going to school in the fall, why I'm trying to find places to publish me. It's the only think I've ever wanted to do that I could actually accomplish, the only thing I can imagine doing for my whole life and never getting tired of.

I feel like the air has all been let back into the room. I feel like a fever has broken and now I can get better, or like I'm fertile and unpoisoned again. If I can keep this on track, maybe I can get the rest of my life back where it belongs. Maybe I can get back to the right headspace without the WTF Island bullshit.

These are my gratitudes today.

gratitudes

I haven't done this in a while, but I like to, so here you go. I mean, it's easy when things are good, but when things are rough, it forces me to look on the bright side, and that's something I need.

Like, always.

1. I'm glad my tooth pain continues to be managable, and I have hope that it'll eventually go away entirely.

2. I'm glad I have a job, even if it is incredibly boring most of the time.

3. I'm glad that when I lost track of things and misplace my timing, there's really no one that suffers but me, because then I can get back on track in a relatively stree-free way

4. I'm glad all our friends are coming back from their vacations soon.

5. I'm glad all our shows are coming back soon, and that there are more than the usual one or two that I actually want to look into this year.

Repurposing

I've decided that this is going to be a different blog, but I'll keep the name because I like it. It'll now be my space for building my whole self: spiritual, mental, physical, social and inetractive. I'm going to try to find something beautiful in each day, preferably outside or at least outside of me, I'm going to practice finding things to be greatful for, I'm going to list things that I've learned, I'm going to track my education and my attempts to get back in shape, and I'm generally going to blog the things I do and know and feel that aren't one of the other specialized blogs I already keep up. 

The comic will continue somewhere down the line, though probably not here and probably not soon.