So I'm sure some might think that a blog like this would be better started on January 1st, but I tend to not really buy into "New Year's Resolutions" simply because I think if you want to resolve or change something in your life, you should just do it when you have the urge. Of course, nothing against New Year's Resolutions for others, if that's when you want to make a change, do it! I just plan to act on my instincts while I'm having them. So... It's what? December 22nd - let the happy seeking begin!
Some things that made me happy today: Coffee, music and clean rooms. And also sweet notes from way back when.
Coffee.
I'm sure I'll note coffee more than once over 365 days, because I love coffee. Today's coffee provided by the Montana chain City Brew - a coffee shop in which I used to have wonderful deep conversations as well as shared many laughs with friends. The memories are fond and make me happy - but beyond that, I know that there will be more memories to be added over time when I visit Montana in the future.
Music.
I will probably also mention music on many occasions, as I am, in some sense, a musician. But today I'm particularly thankful for the kind of music that makes me want to dance. For me, today, that is Pandora's Macklemore station. I don't know why but so much of the music that comes on that station makes me quite happy - happy to the point of dancing. (Though I'm not able to dance around like a silly person (which would also make me happy).) We all have that music that just hits us, and this is one of several genres that does it for me.
Clean rooms.
There is just something calming about a clean room. Since it's the week of Christmas and my brother and sister-in-law will be arriving in town tonight I decided it was time to finally get the organized clutter off the floor and organized into the proper locations. After this task, I took a moment to sit back and just sit in the room - and it already feels a lot better.
I've heard some people say that the cleanliness of their home usually reflects the status of their life - if messy and cluttered, it means they are in the midst of chaos in their life, but if clean and organized, it reflected the organized, smooth state of life. I used to also think like this, but later chose a new line of thinking - and that is that the messier my living space, the more I was not there and the more I was living life.
I think it can go both ways, but it doesn't detract from the fact a clean room just feels better. (And there are even studies to prove it!)
Notes from way back when.
I once started a box to put happy memories in - pictures, notes, poems, random items, and pretty much anything that can go into a box. So I pulled it out last night and found myself laughing at some of the ridiculous notes that friends had written me so long ago. I even found a poem I'd written for a friend while in college but apparently never given her - so I decided to give it to her today and we both laughed at the ridiculous friendship we'd built so long ago.
The notes were so impacting that I was reminded how much writing notes to people makes me happy. A practice I plan to re-adopt.
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