I drink Tea every day. I try to switch it up from green to green-peach, to earl gray to Black tea to Chamomile...Aside from the fact that I love it, it always makes me feel healthier. Tea helps me think. When I'm drinking my tea I always think about my life. But I always feel like I just THINK about how to improve my life, and PLAN to do things that are more fun, healthy, and exhilarating and enriching, but I really do not DO any of them. And I know we all have the ability to do something lovely every day.
So I'm starting this to track my progress. I'm sure it will be completely boring for awhile until I actually start doing things to change things, but I'm really going to try.
So to begin with...I have a fantastic boyfriend. His name is Jimmy. He is completely lovely. He has a sense of humor that outshines mine any day, and he has a great heart. He likes to create this tough guy exterior with a lot of sarcasm (which actually compliments my opposite personality) but in reality he is a big squishy goofball. I am so lucky to have him in my life. He is my best friend. And after the slew of losers I spent the last 2 years dedicating myself to, its honestly a breath of fresh air. But for some reason, I have a tendency to ruin good things in my life without meaning to... I see myself becoming a self sabotager and I am really trying to prevent that from ever happening with this. I'm really trying.
Lately I've been noticing when I come home from work in a bad mood, I'm completely miserable to him. And he just rolls with the punches. Well...there is no reason for me to act like an evil toad...so I am going to try to chronicle every day why my life is wonderful...And record the things I do every day that make it better. And I'm hoping I am making those people around me happier too. Because everyone in my life is really a blessing. I mean...I have a great friend base. Even if its something little, I am going to make an effort to change a bit every day.
Lets hope this works, because I need a life boost.
I'm going to start with last night after work 4/22/10... In honor of earth day.
I've never been a fan of reptiles or any small "weird" animal (snakes, lizards, hamsters etc.) My boyfriend on the other hand, would live with dinosaurs if he could, so therefore he loves reptiles, amphibians and thinks snakes are cool.
I on the other hand am completely grossed out by anything without legs that can still move around smoothly.
So a few weeks ago we started watching LIFE on Discovery. We loved it. Jimmy loves learning and loves animals, I just wish I had the ability to retain information like he does. I have more of a tendency to zone out. Anyway, I realized then his love of Chameleons...And I noticed that they are cute in their little dopey way, and they have super cute feet. When they eat its pretty cool too, with their super long tongues that shoot out and catch flies.
So one day last week we stopped in a Petco to look at all of their animals ( I think pet stores are horrible by the way, and I usually want to rescue the animals more from there than from foster homes where they have loving mommies). Jimmy got super psyched when he spotted a chameleon in the store! it was the first one I had seen in person actually...
he cage was rather small. The girl there let us hold her and we kind of fell in love with her.
I never thought I would love a reptile (or even like one for that matter)
We named her Ruby and talked about her for the next few days. We agreed that we could build a home for her and set her up in my room...As long as he took full responsibility of feeding her. I do not want to have anything to do with those bugs!
We brought her home and I think she was a bit nervous. She changed colors quite a bit from having orange spots to a bright bright green color, to a darker green. She is lovely.
I feel like we rescued her, and when we move to a larger house we are going to build a big terrarium for her. She is such a sweet girl and I really hope she adjusts to her new home. I think she is a little scared right now, but hopefully soon she will get comfortable! And we love her a lot more than the Pet store!
So Jim and I's little family consists of the two of us, my kitten Wonton and now Ruby!~
When I fix my camera I will take pictures of her and post them!
So I'm starting this to track my progress. I'm sure it will be completely boring for awhile until I actually start doing things to change things, but I'm really going to try.
So to begin with...I have a fantastic boyfriend. His name is Jimmy. He is completely lovely. He has a sense of humor that outshines mine any day, and he has a great heart. He likes to create this tough guy exterior with a lot of sarcasm (which actually compliments my opposite personality) but in reality he is a big squishy goofball. I am so lucky to have him in my life. He is my best friend. And after the slew of losers I spent the last 2 years dedicating myself to, its honestly a breath of fresh air. But for some reason, I have a tendency to ruin good things in my life without meaning to... I see myself becoming a self sabotager and I am really trying to prevent that from ever happening with this. I'm really trying.
Lately I've been noticing when I come home from work in a bad mood, I'm completely miserable to him. And he just rolls with the punches. Well...there is no reason for me to act like an evil toad...so I am going to try to chronicle every day why my life is wonderful...And record the things I do every day that make it better. And I'm hoping I am making those people around me happier too. Because everyone in my life is really a blessing. I mean...I have a great friend base. Even if its something little, I am going to make an effort to change a bit every day.
Lets hope this works, because I need a life boost.
I'm going to start with last night after work 4/22/10... In honor of earth day.
I've never been a fan of reptiles or any small "weird" animal (snakes, lizards, hamsters etc.) My boyfriend on the other hand, would live with dinosaurs if he could, so therefore he loves reptiles, amphibians and thinks snakes are cool.
I on the other hand am completely grossed out by anything without legs that can still move around smoothly.
So a few weeks ago we started watching LIFE on Discovery. We loved it. Jimmy loves learning and loves animals, I just wish I had the ability to retain information like he does. I have more of a tendency to zone out. Anyway, I realized then his love of Chameleons...And I noticed that they are cute in their little dopey way, and they have super cute feet. When they eat its pretty cool too, with their super long tongues that shoot out and catch flies.
So one day last week we stopped in a Petco to look at all of their animals ( I think pet stores are horrible by the way, and I usually want to rescue the animals more from there than from foster homes where they have loving mommies). Jimmy got super psyched when he spotted a chameleon in the store! it was the first one I had seen in person actually...
he cage was rather small. The girl there let us hold her and we kind of fell in love with her.
I never thought I would love a reptile (or even like one for that matter)
We named her Ruby and talked about her for the next few days. We agreed that we could build a home for her and set her up in my room...As long as he took full responsibility of feeding her. I do not want to have anything to do with those bugs!
We brought her home and I think she was a bit nervous. She changed colors quite a bit from having orange spots to a bright bright green color, to a darker green. She is lovely.
I feel like we rescued her, and when we move to a larger house we are going to build a big terrarium for her. She is such a sweet girl and I really hope she adjusts to her new home. I think she is a little scared right now, but hopefully soon she will get comfortable! And we love her a lot more than the Pet store!
So Jim and I's little family consists of the two of us, my kitten Wonton and now Ruby!~
When I fix my camera I will take pictures of her and post them!
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