Jade at Tasting Grace (who many of you may know) has been doing a weekly Monday Motivational. The idea is to set a word, image or thought as the intention for the week. I thought I'd join in.
POSITIVE
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference - Winston Churchill
It's amazing how easy it is to fall into a recurring negative loop at work. Something is always wrong, something is always frustrating, someone has always messed something up that needs to be fixed, the guests ask too many questions, every phone call is meant to interrupt you from your very important work. (wait, what?) It's a never ending cycle that just builds on itself.
This week I've decided to realize that these things are not important and maintain a positive attitude so that things that don't really matter do not affect my overall outlook. I'm going to be happy, happy, happy damn-it.
great picture! :)
ReplyDeleteAw, our sunny duckling! Good plan.
ReplyDeletealcohol it up, my lovely. i went positive yesterday with raspberry sake even in the face of imminent piratical defeat (board game). sure, rasp sake is not the tastiest thing in the world but my little purple pirate ship still fled in a positive manner (even though my crew mutinied and made me walk the plank...)
ReplyDeleteok, in retrospect none of this is making me feel positive. more drink!
p.s. are you only just now reading patricia briggs (just saw it in your goodreads widget)? they are so up your alley.
ReplyDeleteThis pirate game sounds violent,but fun. I miss board games:) yep I've just started mercy Thompson. Enjoyable but I'm not obsessed. Was the sequel to a hundred thousand kingdoms really not good? I am avoiding bc of your review
ReplyDeleteit was really not good. did your copy of hundred thousand have a preview of it at the end? it's about itempas (the third god) who they make mortal-ish at the end and cast out of heaven to earth. and it's about a blind craftswoman in the city who takes him in. the third one will be about sieh so i have hopes. but 2nd one was not so great. you might like it different than me though, i don't know. what was your favorite thing about the first? this one was mostly just writing and style over plot and substance. and i like lyrical writing as much as the next person but not at the sacrifice of story.
ReplyDeletepatricia briggs's mercy series gets kind of....boring too. i'm at the point where i'm still reading them but i resent it a little and i only get them from the library and won't spend money on them. it's still not as awful as LKH got.
i just wrote a post with a picture of the pirate game! and other pictures. and postcards. sushi explosion!
Be happy! And if all else fails, more wine! You and that wine both look delish! :)
ReplyDelete@ Michele - I enjoyed the story of Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. I'm not usually so much about the writing as the characters and what's happening. I think pretty language is pretty much lost on me. I did not see the preview when I read the 1st book.....I will still consider. maybe I'll give it a whirl and see how it goes. Also I'm fascinated with this postcard sending you are doing. it sounds fun.
ReplyDelete@ everyone - I was going for a picture that showed me happy happy happy. I didn't mean I'd be drinking to get there but I'm glad the pciture was well received :)
try to get the first couple chapters for free or something. but not just the first one because it was good and that's deceptive.
ReplyDeleteKindle lets you download a bit but I doubt it will be more than the first chapter. I'll give it a whirl though
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