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Gracefully Abnormal
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Looking through an alternate lens of depression, this blog includes trying to get through depression using the refined art of gratitude and gratefulness. It also includes skills I've learned and how I'm trying to apply them (please note the keyword of "tr
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All Work and No Play...You Know the Rest
This is a very busy week for me. Not only is work busy and I need to work overtime, more needs to be done which is outlined below:Thursday - Want to get to work at 6:00am at the latest. Work for 12 hours and go home and do homework. Wash some clothes...
The Picture is NOT What You Think!
Tonight was a great dinner filled with fabulous food and incredible conversations with sweet people. The talk centered around art, art, art while our taste buds focused on stuffed grape leaves (as pictured...the picture actually reminds me of somethi...
How Did You Ring in the New Year?
I can't believe it, but we actually went out for New Year's Eve. We haven't done that in YEARS!! Physically and mentally I have been feeling better and better over the past month and didn't want to sit home this year. The past two years I don't think...
The Blanket Has Lifted
It's a Saturday night and I'm laying in bed with a nice cup of hot Yorkshire tea with a little milk and sugar stirred in and eating a small cookie (or biscuit as they say in the UK) from France. While doing this I smell the aroma of a new perfume I r...
$2.99 Well Spent
I am very proud of myself today. Even though I went to bed late last night I was able to get up early this morning. My daughter is not here this weekend because she is down in Florida and it is her responsibility to feed the cats, so I immediately fe...
Mindfulness
Today I read the following quote:Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.Leo Tolstoy1828-1910, Novelist and Philosopher It made me stop and think. I need to change the way I see things. I am usually a very optimistic...
One Suitcase From My Emotional Baggage Is Gone
I had a very nice day yesterday. I finished my homework Saturday and didn't have to hurry up and get it done yesterday, which was nice. My daughter's grandparents flew in from Spain and she stayed the weekend with them and her Dad and his wife and so...
Back to School
Did I mention that I am a college student? I attend Strayer University and hope that by the time I'm 94 I'll be able to wheel myself across the stage to receive my degree. Strayer operates in quarters versus semesters, which means that the classes go...
Planning Out The Window
If you read my earlier post, I was supposed to be up at 6:00am and have my daughter at the dog show at 7:00am to volunteer. Well, I actually got up at 6:00am. I went to my daughter's room and she said she didn't want to go. We talked about it for a b...
Feeling Better...
Wow...it's the next day and I'm writing again. I think it's because I made my laptop hibernate last night and all of these windows were still open when I opened my laptop again tonight. Maybe that is what I need to do to remember to write. :)My heada...
