whew. it's been one long, somewhat melancholy week(s). i'm trying so hard not to be a pessimist- whenever anything bad happens, i think, how would this situation feel if i had a different attitude? but i can't change my attitude. i think i need a life coach to tell me that it's not ok to still want to kick the policeman that gave me my first speeding ticket 2 weeks ago. or the doctor who wouldn't give me any advice on my ankle that is still, amazingly, swollen up like a golfball, with a bone sticking out at an extremely uncomfortable (to look at, and to live with) angle. -- the foot is fine, just painful, still. i'd like some heavy-duty ibprofen at the very least. it's just one thing after another.
don't you wish you could focus as much on the positives as you do the negatives? i'm still anxious about f-ing up at work this week (twice!-- unheard of, usually for me). when is it friday, and beyond that, when/where is the nearest happy hour?
i promised this blog wouldn't be an outlet for me to vent- which would make it very easy to do this week. so- deep breath. drop the burdens and MOVE ON.
on a far more important note, i am going to my first fashion show, and i have nothing to wear.
i should back up and clarify that i'm not sure a fashion show hosted by the barley house in cleveland really counts as a 'fashion' show, but as an avid reader of fashionista, i think i need to show up in a very cool ensemble, complete with a statement necklace and possibly a mini leather jacket. that, or a herve leger bandage dress (which were on sale at intermix in south beach. go figure that sales in sobe mean $900+ and clearly out of the range of me attempting to rationalize the purchase).
outfits a la mk and rachel would be nice.
so, what is stopping me from having all of this money? i just want fabulous things- and to be able to afford a landscaper to just design, plant, and maintain my front yard-- another point of contention on the marital front. sometimes i think i should just do like what that pop culture 'book-of-no-paragraphs-and-hardly-any-complex-sentences' (the secret) says and write myself a check for, oh, $100,000 to tape on my ceiling and stare at every day.
i probably need real meditation, to let my anxieties and fears slide away while focusing on making myself a healthier person... yet, i'm ready to meditate on a check... don't think less of me, ok? i've started re-reading some books as i've been unpacking, and a favorite of mine is still eat pray love. i'm inspired by author elizabeth gilbert's ability to travel, balance the good and the wholesome. learn the pleasures of life, as well as the spiritual lessons and connections within herself. how amazing is it to find someone who can spend an intense amount of time with God, meditating at an ashram in india, and still appreciate a sexy italian man and a great pasta dish (and dessert, and wine, and cheese)? that type of complexity is rare to find in a person- or rare for someone to admit, i suppose. maybe i should journey to italy, back to florence, buy a sexy leather jacket and eat wonderful pasta, while reading walden in the park, and then spend my afternoon in deep meditation. what a pleasurable and exhausting vacation that would be...
my roommate in college and i used to play this game, sometimes it was the 'i wish' game, sometimes it was the 'butler' game (stemming from the idea that we decided a butler would be more efficient in bringing us our wishes). we would sit on our couch in our little apartment in a shithole of a town and wish the things we wanted- i wish i could have chocolate-covered strawberries, i wish i could be in the hamptons on a yacht, i wish i was best friends with adrien grenier. ok, i made that last wish a little more pg that it probably was originally, but you understand the concept. the wish game was such a fun activity, until we would finally stop wishing and start talking about how our lives in that shithole of a town were just not as fabulous as either of us deserved. but, once we learned the power of positive energy and positive thoughts, we started playing the wish game on purpose, and with a renewed sense of... wishing. we would wish for things, talk about it, think about it, and then thank the universe for it.
the thank you's were our most productive part of our positive energy models- as we started thinking positively, greater things were happening. or, we reacted to them differently- either way, life was looking up. although we were still in a shithole of a town, we were offered free drinks- from not-so-creepy bartenders/managers at the local applebees, we were given fresh, homemade bread to take home from the bread man in the cafeteria at school, and it wasn't all free things, we just felt BETTER. we eventually said thank you's when we felt ourselves going into a negative spiral, saying mean things, thinking sad things, or not feeling appreciative for all that we do have. our boyfriends loved the thank you's we would make them say if we felt that they were ever spiraling negatively through the universe, but in general, the thank you's are key to becoming a better person, and feeling like a better person.
my dad read that jim tressel book, the winner's manual, or something like that, and one key component to success, jim says- is to cultivate an attitude of gratitude. so, here i am, dwelling on my misery, my aching foot, my non-thank-you-writing husband, and my hellish week at work, thanking the universe.
some quick thank you's- to demonstrate-
1. thank you for my job, my inspiring mentors, and my challenges at work. i can only grow and learn, and take on more challenges through the opportunities and risks they give me.
2. thank you for the ability to walk- there once was a time where i wasn't sure i would ever walk- at least normally, again. this is a reminder of my strength and diligence, and my body's resiliance.
3. thank you for my husband, and his ability to love me even when i'm at my most difficult.
(i cannot thank that police officer, however. that was a shitty move on his part, and he chose a profession where the majority of people he comes in contact with on his little motorcycle dispell loads of negative energy towards him every day).
see? the thank you's worked. now... when is friday? and seriously, what am i going to wear to the fashion show? deep breaths, and i will write more tomorrow... updating you on the fashion crisis, and thanking the universe for one more day closer to friday.
xx
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