{"id":3783,"date":"2012-01-09T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2012-01-10T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T01:00:15","slug":"wmmh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/wmmh\/","title":{"rendered":"WMMH"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sometimes listen to NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, and the panel ends the show each week with a round of What’s Making Us Happy. As you can probably intuit from the title, they go around the table and name a thing or two (usually a TV show or concert tour or something) that’s giving their lives a little bit of joy. I’ve had some anxiety and depression and overwhelm in the last week (ran out of one of my amino acids; also, I prefer not working<\/em> to working<\/em>, but my job preferred that I go back to work), so I thought I’d try to psych myself out of it by accentuating the positive. Who knows? This might become a regular feature.<\/p>\n

Here’s What’s Making Me Happy:<\/p>\n

I’m doing really great on my New Year’s resolutions<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To wit, my friend invited me to go shopping (thanks, Michelle!), and I have worn actual clothes when I wanted to wear actual sweats several times<\/em>. I even took two pairs of pants to a tailor to get them hemmed. That’s, like, some Carrie Bradshaw stuff.<\/p>\n

I’ve flossed a time or two and made my bed daily.<\/p>\n

I’ve engaged in no Facebook debates. Indeed, I’ve expressed nary a political leaning<\/em>\u00a0nor a religious dubiety<\/em>, even though I wanted to post this cartoon real bad when I saw it:<\/p>\n

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I repeated things to myself that I said to the beasts (even though it feels embarrassing to say, “I love you, Violet… I also love myself,” even when alone in my house).<\/p>\n

I went on a first date with a man and scheduled another with a different man, though the latter had to be postponed. Due to a sick kid. I’m probably going to be a stepmom.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, I very much reduced my intake of refined sugar. I had some chocolate mousse on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and a piece of cake and two cookies on Saturday. I didn’t wait until after 7:00pm that day, though. But considering that I got the piece of cake at noon and waited until 4:53 to eat it, I’m calling it a victory. In addition, Sunday included French toast with syrup, which kind of fits in the dessert category, but, really, what’s a brunch buffet without the French toast course?<\/p>\n

(Again, this might sound like a lot of sugar to you, but I assure you, for me, it’s a smidgeon.)<\/p>\n

Naturally, the glutenful weekend, together with my job preferring that I get up at the ludicrous hour of 6:00am, has made me one sleepy girl today. But that’s not what we were talking about. We were talking about What’s Making Me Happy.<\/p>\n

Now. Let’s talk about What’s Making You Happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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