Feel Good Friday, 15th Edition
June 18, 2010
Here’s the info if you want to join in:
Step 1:
Pick one of these prompts and write about it on your blog! You can:
- Just make a list. List 5 things that made you really happy this week. No matter how bad or boring you think your week was, I bet you can find 5 things.
- Write about something that happened to you this week that really made you smile. Was it your child, husband, or maybe a complete stranger did to you?
- Write about something that YOU did for someone else that really made them happy or laugh.
- Is there something you treasure so much that every single time you look at it, it brings you happiness? Post a pic and tell everyone about it.
- Having a hard week and can’t find one good thing about it? Well then, what is your happy place? What do you think of that makes you happy? A past vacation? A childhood memory? We want to know!
Step 2:
Head over here and link up with Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Then go and read at least one other blog and leave them a comment to make their day brighter.
Step 3:
Have fun. Feel good. Smile.
Then, start looking for all of the good things you can write about for next week! Once you start looking for the “good” you will find it everywhere!
Here goes…
- The star system I mentioned two weeks ago is working out really well! I’ve been posting regularly on both blogs, and I love seeing the colored stars on my calendar! It helps me organize future posts, and see my progress. Love it! (Except that I can’t find any more stars, so I bought white circles until I can get up to the US sometime this year and buy real foil stars…yes, those on the right are the ones I want! Who would have guessed they don’t exist down here?!)
- I know I keep saying this, but I’m very thankful my tibia is doing so well…this week I worked up from 8.5 to 9.0 km/h on the treadmill, so that means next week is 9.0! Yeah!! Next month I’m back up to speed.
- I finished scarf #2 (the extremely long, fuzzy brown poodle scarf for A) and am working on #3 (another, more neutral one for me)! My third knitting class is next Tuesday afternoon. BTW, after reading more about knitting online, I have discovered that not only do I knit left handed (this was obvious), but I also learned the Continental style of knitting, not the American style. For those of you who have no clue what I’m talking about, here’s a quick video of a right-handed knitter doing both styles. I guess it would figure that down here they use Continental style.
- I’ve been reading a lot of The Omnivore’s Dilemma this week. Loving it. Loving it!
- I discovered a great new way to beat the rush hour traffic and get a seat on the subway after my painting class on Thursdays! It only added an extra 15 minutes to my trip home, and I got to sit the whole trip on the subway and almost the whole way on the bus. A seat on the subway is a huge deal down here. Rarely will you find an open seat, unless you’re riding the subway from one of the stations at the beginning or end of a line. And if you don’t get a seat, you literally get squashed up against many, many other people. So this is a big deal!
Happy weekend, all! Enjoy!!
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I’m happy for you and your tibia and your progress.
Congrats with the stars working out so well. I just suggested to Google that they add stars to the calender.
Congrats on the scarves. I am so impressed with the video. I knit American style, but continental looks faster to me. I will try it.
Did you see the movie King Corn? It made me avoid even more vehemently a lot of foods.
So how do you get a seat on the subway?
I also want to hear how you are getting a seat on the subway! Glad to hear the tibia is doing well. Injury and recovery can be rough.
Purplume, let me know how Continental style works for you. I would assume it’s a matter of personal style and preference, but American style looks really uncomfortable to me.
I just went out to lunch with a friend on Thursday, and she recommended King Corn, so I think I must see it now! So many people have recommended it to me. Corn is in so much of processed food. It’s amazing.
So…how to get a seat on the subway? It’s kind of a no-brainer, and I had been thinking about it a lot, but figured it would take too long. There are just so many ways to get home from class: walk + train + walk, walk + subway + bus, walk + bus + bus. Anyway, the nearest subway station is the third one on the line, which starts right downtown where a bunch of offices are and then passes by a big transfer station where three lines come together. So by the time it gets to my stop, it’s PACKED. Sometimes, so packed I can’t get on the first train.
So I just took it backward, to the first station on the line. I walked down to the first car and asked the driver if I could stay on, because one time I tried the same thing on a different line with a friend and they made us get off. But he said I could stay, so I just sat down and when the train went around to pick up the people, it filled up right away, both seats and standing room. So that’s my trick! It added a few minutes to my travel time, but I got to read the whole way.
Terrific for you. My husband does that sometimes, takes a longer route that ends up shorter or more convenient because of traffic.
I love the continental style. It is faster for me and was easy to adjust to, except when I go on automatic and find myself doing American. With American looping the thread around is so much farther around. Multiply that by a gazillion stitches! I love efficiency.
Purplume, it’s funny. I think of traffic in Hawaii, and it doesn’t seem right, though there must be traffic there like anywhere else.
SO glad you liked continental style. Glad it’s more efficient! Though it’s funny that American style wouldn’t be the more efficient one.
I am happy about the subway! Do you pretend you are pregnant
. Not having colored stars is funny and it just makes me realize how much we take for granted here.
Have a happy and wonderful week!!!!!
LOL Laura. No, never pretended I was pregnant. I know; it’s funny. A silly little thing like foil stars: they were always around, and now they’re not! Since Mexico has Office Max and Office Depot, they always had them up there.