Great Balls of Yarn

Live:  I read this Change Your Brain book a few weeks back and really enjoyed it.  One of the things the author recommended was killing negative thoughts, which I tend to have a gazillion running through my head at any given moment.  One statement he made over and over in the book was this:  "Your thoughts do not always tell you the whole truth.  Sometimes they even lie to you."  So, if you listen and believe everything you think, it's like someone constantly whispering in your ear, leading you in the wrong direction - a destructive direction.  This has helped me so much since I read it - like something finally clicked, an epiphany regarding how destructive it was for me to look in the mirror and think, "You're completely hideous and ugly," or "You're grossly fat and slovenly."  The book advises acknowledging these thoughts, but then analyzing them and putting them in perspective in a rational manner.  So, I'm doing more of that.  Yes, I'm 10 pounds overweight right now, but it's the holidays and I'll get it back under control and it's not the end of the world and I don't look hideous or gross.  This process doesn't come easy.  The negative thoughts really haven't been a whisper but more of a roaring lion for the past three decades.  Sigh.... Sometimes staying happy is hard work.

Love:  I'm such a sucker for photography of lone trees.  I discovered a Flickr user today who takes incredibly lone tree shots.  Check one out here.  That sky!

Laugh:  Oh, that crazy Daisy.  She has an obsession with my wireless laptop mouse.  On any given day, I can find it laying helplessly on its back blinking for help in some random part of the house.  Today, I caught her red handed....I mean pawed...I mean mouthed....When I walked in the room she had the mouse in her mouth and the light was blinking and making her whole mouth glow.  I let out a yelp and she immediately dropped it and looked at me like, "What????"  Goofy ass dog.  I love her and her mouse stealing little body. 

Give:  I didn't do too much giving today, but I did give a friend encouragement to take a leap...to do something fun for herself.  I hope she does.  We only get so many trips around the sun, you know?

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Gratus:  Today, I am thankful I found some really cool yarn to keep me busy with crocheting scarves over the next couple weeks.  And, here's a scarf I'm finishing up tonight!  Yay me!