The Happiness Thread

Ha, ha! I'm like that, too.

Glad to hear you're getting respect. You deserve it. ;P

And I'm happy today for generally the same reason. Oh, and I made it to class on time!

 

I bought tickets for My Chemical Romance today in Atlanta! I can't wait!

 

^Woohoo!

I took a practice GRE test today (ok, ok, I skipped the two essay sections, but still...), and I did ok-ish. Not bad for my first practice test. Also, I've discovered that there is a website that allows you to catalog your books, thus creating your own personal library. I love it!

 

^ Hidden, which site is that? I'm interested.

And I'm happy because I met J.H. in January when we tried not to look at each other, and as insignificant as this sounds, after 3 months, he finally gathered the courage to stand next to me in front of other people last night. Guess it's his way of laying it gently to the asian folks: Like "We're together."

 

I filled out some job applications (tedious, but I did it! ), had a good day at school today, have plans for the weekend, spring break is after Friday, my mom made brownies and chocolate chip cookies....

Yeah, happy me.

 

I'm just happy that the sun was out today..

 

Only ten minutes left of class and it's spring break! I have awesome plans for the weekend and spring break, I'm very interested in the book I'm currently reading and all my teachers were nice enough to not give us homework for over the break or today.

 

my uncle passed seven years ago, so its been a tradition that my father and my uncles closest friends (they are all close friends) get together every year where my uncle lived and reminisce on the good times they had. tomorrow they are doing this again and have invited some younger guys, myself and three brothers (whom ive known all my life) who were close to him also. It's where he lived which is in a nice peaceful rural area so it should be a great weekend

 

I bought myself some bathroom scales today, and I'm not letting myself see my weight 'til tomorrow morning.

I'm nervous, but equally happy. I've been on my calorie-counting diet for two days now, and throughout the whole of my weightloss previously, I never once weighd myself. I did it purely on image.

Well, now I'm ready to face my weight and tackle it head on. Going on healthy diets actually excites me!

 

That's a really great thing to do, hope it's good.

When I was on the train, these group of girls were going on about dieting and one of them said her friend only drank lemon juice for like forty days. I think it's ridiculous the lengths some people go to to lose weight.

But you state 'healthy diets' so I'm sure you'll go about it sensibly.

 

Woohoo! It kind of really pisses me off stepping on my scale right now, but I'm starting up a healthier diet as well, so it's getting more exciting having it sit in the bathroom and judge me.

Dude, my sister-in-law totally goes on diets like that. Her effing mom is insane, and they do these crazy shenanigan diets together...nothing but fruit for three weeks, ten day salt water cleanses, etc...she thinks it's the only way to lose belly fat.

Edit: I got so distracted over silly diets, I forgot about my happy news. Not a huge deal, but I've got a little flower garden starting on my apartment patio. Makes me smile.

 

Make sure you get lots of fiber in your diet or you'll go hungry. That's the only way to go with calorie reduction. By eating whole grains and high fiber foods, you make it much easier to reduce your caloric intake without even counting. Calorie counting can be hard to keep up because it's easy to ignore what calories you're taking in. If you're not dead set on a single diet plan, I highly recommend looking at The South Beach Diet. I lost 40 pounds on it without calorie counting, and never went hungry. Also I only really followed it loosely. I've read a lot of diet books, and it's definitely the easiest to follow.

Good luck!

 

Was able to get this certain day off. It's going to fit perfect with my upcoming plans!

 

Me and my boyfriend have been dating since March 31st, but we've known each other about a year and a half before we started dating, so we've been close for a while. He moved to Iowa recently, but he'll hopefully be back this summer.

 

Flowers are just awesome!!


Happy news: I finally got a new bed!! Yay!! I also got a laptop. Aside from spending too much money and stimulating the local economy... I'm just really happy because I got to go to this awesome work shop a few towns over today. I think it might have actually been the kick in the pants that I desperately needed.... so umm yeah another YAY!!

 

^lucky I don't think there are any writing workshops near me. Yay, Corbyn

 

There aren't many here... the writer in question helped out a writing guild in the next town over and I just happened to luck into the whole mess... the people are great though... a ton of fun

 

^I bet You all get to talk about the same thing! haha, writing

 

I'm finally writing my novel (Working on it right now; I paused the Write or Die timer to make nachos and I'm quickly visiting WF before resuming) after having not written for five days. Granted, during that five days I was taking care of a few article deadlines, but I still felt bad for not working on my novel. And now I am...I've written 659 words in the past half hour so far.

 

^*like*

 

I'm working on my short story. Mostly editing but I'm thinking of rewriting the ending and removing the dramatic beginning which goes too far into two characters. The current version is kinda lame...

 

Way to go, all of you who are working on your writing.

I've gone skating twice with Joel this weekend (well...I was skating, he was standing at the side of the rink), and he told me that I've improved a lot since the last time he watched me skate. We had a skills test this past Wednesday that I didn't take because I don't feel like I'm ready, and he told me he thinks I'm holding myself to too high a standard and that I probably could have passed.

I don't agree with him, but it was a huge confidence boost for me.

 

Yay!

I wrote 1,322 on my novel in one sitting and am ready to go at it again. I want to write another 500 at least.

 

WooHOO !! GO Mal!!

 

Thanks!

I clocked in at 3,600 words total tonight (That only applies to my novel, not my feature story on motel bedbug infestations that I'm about to go write).