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Feb. 3rd, 2009 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicI think Mother Nature is off her meds again. Yesterday it was warm and sunny and I was walking around in shorts and a tank top, and today I woke up to an inch of snow on the ground. I just hope my yoga class isn't canceled tonight. The roads look fine, but this area has a pretty serious fear of snow, so I wouldn't be surprised if the whole town shut down anyway. I just hope the airport is still operating on schedule -- my in-laws fly in this evening.
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capriciousbee, my scientist friend who knows what she's talking about, wrote this the other day:
"Apparently scientists took two groups of people on an exercise program. Half wrote down every day what pisses them off, the other half wrote every day something they were thankful for. The group writing what they were thankful for worked out 90 minutes more per week than the group that wrote down what pissed them off."
I am unsurprised. Attitude has a lot to do with progress. When people ask me how I lost my weight, I always start by saying "Getting happy was the first step." I worked out before, too, but I didn't make any actual progress until I stopped being so depressed all the time. Anyway I'm going to try to get back to some daily celebrations here. I've been doing a good job of spinning things more positively in general, but it can't hurt to make even more of an effort, can it?
At this very moment, I am happy that my in-laws are on their way here. That they'll finally get to see where I grew up, and meet some of the people I love most. The one and only downside of not having a wedding was that our families didn't meet each other, and while my parents came to Oregon and spent a little bit of time with most of Z's family, no one else in my family has met any of the Oregon contingent, and I do wish they knew each other.
Which leads me to the next thing I'm grateful for, and that is having such a wonderful family. McKenzie and I both have very loving, supportive, and mostly functional families. We're both close with our extended families, and everyone loves everyone which makes family events much less stressful for us than they are for most people. I actually look forward to getting together with my family and with my in-laws, and having read Carolyn Hax for the last five years, I understand how much of a gift this is.
I'm thankful for employment, for personal freedom, for Portland, for mountains, and for my pseudostability. And music. Where would I be without music? Wow.
I need to save some things for later...but I'm just generally thankful at the moment, and it's a good feeling.
capriciousbee, my scientist friend who knows what she's talking about, wrote this the other day:"Apparently scientists took two groups of people on an exercise program. Half wrote down every day what pisses them off, the other half wrote every day something they were thankful for. The group writing what they were thankful for worked out 90 minutes more per week than the group that wrote down what pissed them off."
I am unsurprised. Attitude has a lot to do with progress. When people ask me how I lost my weight, I always start by saying "Getting happy was the first step." I worked out before, too, but I didn't make any actual progress until I stopped being so depressed all the time. Anyway I'm going to try to get back to some daily celebrations here. I've been doing a good job of spinning things more positively in general, but it can't hurt to make even more of an effort, can it?
At this very moment, I am happy that my in-laws are on their way here. That they'll finally get to see where I grew up, and meet some of the people I love most. The one and only downside of not having a wedding was that our families didn't meet each other, and while my parents came to Oregon and spent a little bit of time with most of Z's family, no one else in my family has met any of the Oregon contingent, and I do wish they knew each other.
Which leads me to the next thing I'm grateful for, and that is having such a wonderful family. McKenzie and I both have very loving, supportive, and mostly functional families. We're both close with our extended families, and everyone loves everyone which makes family events much less stressful for us than they are for most people. I actually look forward to getting together with my family and with my in-laws, and having read Carolyn Hax for the last five years, I understand how much of a gift this is.
I'm thankful for employment, for personal freedom, for Portland, for mountains, and for my pseudostability. And music. Where would I be without music? Wow.
I need to save some things for later...but I'm just generally thankful at the moment, and it's a good feeling.
Peace.
