The weather outside sucks. It is cold, bleak, and just nasty. I have a headache. I have spent my day being whined to, growled at, and almost bitten. I want to binge eat chocolate and nap. I was walking into the super wal-mart trying to keep myself in a decent mood because a wal-mart trip is only made worse by a shitty attitude. I almost succeeded. My attempts at trying to be pleasant completely and utterly failed when I got home. I was cranky as fuck.
Cranky Face
Cranky!
Then I went onto the Facebook and followed a link from my friend Kathleen.
I ended up on James Hance’s Relentlessly Cheerful Art site. My friend Craig had told me about it before but I promptly forgot about it, the way I do, and I finally realized how awesome it is today.
It is all simple, beautifully done artwork that evokes feelings of geeky nostalgia and pure happiness. I am bolstered. It has bolstered me. I have made the decision to concentrate on the things that make me happy. I am stepping back, taking a deep breath, and then celebrating the things that made me happy today. (Beware of the videos if you are a sensitive soul.)
Number 1: A wildly inappropriate youtube video Tina’s little showed us. I started thinking about this morning in bed while I was trying to wake up, and it made me giggle like a maniac.
Number 2: My strange relationship with logic makes me happy. I know this sounds a bit egotistical to say my own sense of weird makes me happy, but it does. Logic, reality, normalcy, and I flirt with each other. We talk, and sometimes we even have coffee, but I am not married to any of them. I move through the world on my own terms, mostly because I know no other way, and it gives me joy. Most of the time I blunder through things moving without knowing how other see me or thought about how I compare to the rest of the world. I think I am happier for this.
Number 3: I have yogurt, bananas, frozen fruit, and low fat whole wheat waffles again.
Number 4: Sunny’s Diner. Lemme explain. I don’t listen to pod casts. I have the attention span of a coked out three year old. I have a hard time watching an hour long television show, much less sit still long enough to listen to a pod cast. Maybe if I had a smartphone and could listen while I did other things, it might be different, but right now, it isn’t.
But
Tina, Dave (her husband), and I game with these doods. This weekend Tina was telling me how awesome this podcast was. Our guild is a mesh of two GIGANORMOUS guilds but I still managed to have played with one of the guys and tease him mercilessly while I did, so I thought I would give it a shot while I played for a bit this afternoon. I was thoroughly entertained. So next time I do something at my computer that only requires a quarter of my brain, I will listen.
Number 5: I will be done with this evil section of my book soon. I am facing down the end of it. I am staring it dead in the face. Sometime soon. I hope.
Number 6: 100 calorie packs of fudge covered pretzels.
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