#50 - Write down three awesome things that happen each day for six months

This is a goal I recently added to replace one I thought was too similar to another on the list, and it couldn't have come at a better time. Lately, I've been Miss Whines-A-Lot about everything. Class? Boring. Work? Terrible. Gas? Expensive. People? Obnoxious. Chasing toddlers around at church? Tiring. Never mind how fortunate I am to be in a graduate program, to have a full-time job, to own a car, to be social, and to play with adorable, loving children every Sunday. I have serious gratitude issues, so I'm putting myself through gratitude rehab...starting today. I'm also taking a Facebook hiatus, which will help shift the focus from the "things I want" to the "things I have."

I like to keep this blog strictly as a measure of list progress, so I won't be posting daily entries here. Those will be at my other blog. If you ever have a day when you're feeling upset, inferior, frustrated, or annoyed with everything going on in your life, come post a comment on my entry for that day. Find at least three wonderful things that happened that day and brag about them. I've found that the more you talk about them, the more you notice them, which is why I'm excited to start "gratitude hunting." Bring it on, life!

Comments

#29 - write in a journal weekly for six months (1/27)

Ok, blogosphere. It's time to get serious. One of the items on my list is keeping a weekly journal for six months, and since I'm getting dangerously close to not having six months left in those 999 days, I better start now. I'd much prefer to keep a paper journal, but it takes so long to hand-write things. (First world problems, right?) So here we are. I'll be pulling prompts from this website whenever I get stuck...so, basically all the time. I really struggle with blogging because I'm too worried about how I come across to the people reading it, and that distracts me from writing about real things like how I really want to play a Dungeons and Dragons game (I'm serious, you guys) and how I may or may not have left a load of laundry in the washing machine for two days and am writing this to avoid dealing with it. First up is something eerily similar to those Livejournal/Facebook "fill this out about yourself" lists, so consider this m...

#21 - go to the temple at least once every three months

On the last Saturday in September (procrastination, as usual), Ricky and I made the 3 1/2 hour drive to the Orlando, FL temple for what threatened to be a supremely awesome day. (For those of you unfamiliar with the purpose of LDS temples, there's a website !) It was hard leaving our dear Washington, D.C. temple behind--after all, we did get married there--but we were excited for the chance to make Orlando our "home base" for the next few years. Not as impressive as the D.C. "towering over the Beltway" look, but still impressive! Isn't this place gorgeous? You can't see the fountains in this picture, but the temptation to jump in them was pretty strong. It was SO HOT. No Jensen outing is complete without an awkward, "look, we match" picture. 95% of the time this is a total accident. The temple was, as usual, amazing. You know that feeling you get when you're on vacation and you realize that you have nowhere to rush to and n...

$4 - read Atlas Shrugged

(The dollar sign in the title post is intentional, of course.) This has been one of my favorite list items so far! I knew Atlas Shrugged was a classic and everything, but I never had any desire to read it...probably because it's over 1,000 pages long. Go figure. When you read a description of it, it sounds like the most boring plotline imaginable. A railroad executive? Corporate America? Overreaching government? 1,000 PAGES?! (You can see why it took me so long to begin reading it.) Imagine my surprise when it took about .2 seconds for the story to become incredibly engaging. Out of the entire behemoth of the book, there was only one section of about 30 pages that had me anxious to skip ahead to the more "exciting" parts I knew were coming, and even those 30 pages were worth reading. Besides being a wonderfully well-written and appealing story, the philosophy is fascinating! It's almost impossible to walk away fro...

Katie's 99 in 999 (currently 55 in 555!)

Search This Blog