There are 91 days left until the end of the year (not including today), and I intend to be positive for all of them. Is that crazy or what? My fucking blessing jar is going to be overflowing, stuffed, piled high. Oh my goodness. If you want to join me, I commit to sending you an uplifting quote once every two weeks to keep you on track. ‘Cause I’m sure that’s all it will take to you keep a smile on your face. An inspirational quotation from the annals of Rebecca D. every fourteen days. I thought so.
Did I mention these quotations will be arriving in the mail? On pretty paper?
Within this system, it’s helpful to start the day with a ‘win.’ I learned that from TheGoalsGuy. I’m doing his 100 day goal challenge—the impetus for my 91 day positivity challenge. Do I sound lame? I might be getting lamer as I age. I find the youth at my church don’t respond to my emails of late. My mom said they don’t email. They FACEBOOK. Come on? At one point I was cool.
This morning I looked in the mirror and realized I have a mustache. Faint, but present.
Anyway.
Yesterday my win was starting the day with an episode of Six Feet Under. Elsie started the day by pulling things out of things. Do you know how fun that is for my child? Probably any child. Show her a container full of STUFF and her heart starts to palpitate. Show her flower shaped fluorescent orange sticky notes in a container and she goes into extreme baby buzz.
Today I am starting the day with a cup of Starbucks instant coffee. (Has my palate so deteriorated in lieu of goal achievement? Just today. My hand grinder and bodum coffee ritual takes half my strength. I’m still breast-feeding you know. Fragile. Me.) Soooooooo today’s rise: instant coffee, a shower, and the tidying of our apartment (it needed serious love). I also killed six fruit flies. (What the hell is with the fruit flies in Toronto at the beginning of October? Just curious.)
Six fruit flies annihilated with my fragile hands = six solid wins.
This is going to be a very good day.
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Starbuck’s instant coffee ROCKS. Did you know it isn’t freeze dried? It’s microground. Patented process, dudes. You’re eating the WHOLE bean. They did not pay me to say this. But I am a positive person, starting yesterday, when my brother commanded me to post one positive thing. Go Rebecca!
yay! i love positivity! i will participate, most definitely. i will put a few more bits of paper in my blessing jar. and i will READ the bits of paper in my blessing jar. lest i forget!
also, fruit flies. i have them too! seriously! i dont get it either. i started leaving my “organics” on the front porch for the raccons.
Hmm, positive for 91 days, how about a biblical number as in 40 like lent? 91, that’s like lent, Pentecost and Ramadan all mixed in one.
Hmmm… fruit flies? Are they hanging out around the sink… Mine are. Apparently, organic dish soap and various organic/green cleaners are not harmful to anything… maybe not even bacteria. My first week back at school, I had a staff party at my house and, to my embarrassment, fruit flies were in abundance despite my MAJOR cleaning efforts. I reached my maximum tolerance for the little buggers, and pulled out the VIM (with bleach) and poured it down the sink and left it for a day. Well, that got rid of them. So much for being green…
Steph,
Not just around the sink that’s the thing. Also in the bathroom, in our bedroom…
Arghhhh!
I like your method. Sometimes you just gotta.
Hey GB,
Just to prove your point. I did a Starbucks taste test today and couldn’t tell the difference between their regular brew and instant.
Okay, Heather girl, you’re getting positivity in the mail.
Steve,
Are you in or what? Going positive with me? Or perhaps you already are…
Red wine (or red wine vinegar) in a jar with some saran over top, with a teeny hole poked in. Turns out fruit flies are lushes, and can’t resist, suckers drown themselves every time.
I love your 91 days of positive…and would love to join, but I just finished 30 days of happiness which was about all the positive at once I could handle! Having just entered my 3rd trimester with my second child, with a husband away and possibly a move in the near future, I fear my need to complain may outweigh my desire to be positive! But I will follow you, and live vicariously through your positivity! Good luck!
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