24 Mar
Things I’m Grateful For on Monday 24 March
I’ve found these things to be grateful for or appreciate today:
- Traffic from StumbleUpon.
- A good night’s sleep. Last night, I was dreaming about having sex with people, while trying to avoid bandits who were attacking the train I was on. Any dream experts out there want to have a go at this one?
- Hot coffee.
- Warm clothing.
- I have the whole day to myself. I keep looking at the clock, and it’s earlier than I thought it would be, which is great.
- Reading some interesting blogs today.
- I am alive, ready to fight another day.
- My mood is stable.
- I have a body that is capable of flipping a mattress. I am so blessed.
- Tasty organic fruit.
- It’s not long until payday.
- A tasty bacon sandwich.
- Wenna.
- I broke the 300 pageviews barrier today, for the first time. Over 230 visitors.
- Snow and sunshine.
- Being able to ask for help, and receiving it in return.
- Fresh cold water.
- Having the internet open to me.
- I have a reasonable expectation that I will be alive in a year’s time.
- Playing another game.
- Having a breakthrough in the shower. I realised that I haven’t managed to change anything because I’m unaware of what it is that is wrong. I get so caught up on noticing the beneficial things of the day that I tend to gloss over and ignore the not-so-beneficial things. I still feel the dissatisfaction though. See SIT.
- Amanda Marshall. I have several of her CD’s on random.
- Hot fruit tea.
- NYR achieved - 1.5L of water.
- Realising that when you ask big, you get more. 4 things I asked for today, and look at what I get. All that and more.
- Fruit squash.
- Teaching Wenna to sit up. This dog is very clever in some ways, but she’s really quite dense in others.
Every dog I’ve ever met has been able to sit up (as in stick it’s bum on the floor, and lift it’s front legs into the air), but Wenna seems to be having a hard time grasping the concept. Oh well. It’s fun watching her try, and it’s just a good job she’s a sucker for food.
- Healing T.
- Watching Gothika. I haven’t seen all of it yet, so if you tell the the ending I will
screampost naked pictures of myselfflee screaming into the comforting womb of night* be very upset.
*I pinched this line from the Plaid Adder. - Watching a documentary about reflexology. A lot of the results were blamed on the placebo effect. So, how does the placebo effect work? From what I know of it, it depends on the patient believing the treatment will work. Since when is belief in a principle an accepted scientific theory? Since when do scientists think that belief will cause healing?
Things I’ve laughed at today:
- Teasing mom.
Things I want to manifest:
- A fulfilling day off. MANIFESTED.
- Direction. MANIFESTED.
- Focus. MANIFESTED.
- Desire. MANIFESTED.
Things I’ve done for others:
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Here’s a quote for you:
“A happy thought can lift your spirits on the cloudiest of days.”
~Unknown
Happy thoughts to you!
LaVeda
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March 24th, 2008 at 3:39 pmOn April 26 at 6:01 PM, Eve said:
Thank you, and to you.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pmOk,
I’m reading this tonight in my feed reader, and I’m actually reading carefully… and … um… Wenna is your dog? OMG, that’s what I get for not reading your blog from the beginning, lol! I thought she was your daughter!
And, congratulations on breaking the 300 pageview mark!!
March 25th, 2008 at 4:18 amOn April 28 at 11:42 PM, Solomon said:
Yeah, my dog. I should mention it more often, I think, but it’s just so easy to assume that everyone else knows what I know. I have no kids (thank god!).
March 25th, 2008 at 8:18 amOnce upon a time I did a health psychology course and a large part of that was the psychology of pain. Somewhere lurking on my bookshelves is a whole book on the subject of the placebo effect. It is amazing how suggestible the brain is, and all sorts of things can have an influence. I can’t say I fully understood the whole thing, but it was fascinating.
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March 25th, 2008 at 4:39 pmOn April 28 at 11:40 PM, Solomon said:
I think there’s so much we have yet to understand, that there might be something in all these alternative therapies. It could all be nonsense, I suppose, or just placebo’s, but I think you start to veer towards the psychology of science when you get too into it. It goes right over my head, too.
Thanks for stopping by.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:56 pm