It’s always a good thing to try to look at a bad situation from another angle. Focus on the positive…and all that.
I know! I sound very grumpy. I am. It’s really not a great way to end July but I’m going to make sure I try to find the positive spin because otherwise, I’ll be insufferable!
For the last few weeks, I’ve been saying that I can’t wait for 2014 to end because it has been the worst year. I take that all back.
While it has been a difficult year, after looking back, it has been a year filled with amazing things: I went home to Manila twice; with my Abba’s amazing recovery, I have seen what I believe is a miracle; I am so very thankful for the support of family and friends (especially the friends I have made here), because your faith, optimism and positivity (and the occasional “it’s okay to go and cry”) has buoyed us and carried us through the difficult months; and I even managed to get myself on TV (for a total of 2 nanoseconds!)!
I am thankful for all the lessons I learned in 2014. Because while it has been challenging, I learned a lot about myself, my faith has grown, my Abba is much, much better, my family is stronger together and we know that we truly love each other and I have learned that I am made of sterner stuff after all. I know that I am truly, truly blessed.
P.S. Here’s a quick-fire list of my blogging goals for 2014: blog more, bake more so I can blog more, cook more so I can blog more, take more photos and post them on the blog…yes, the goal is to blog more!!!
Today wasn’t such a good day because I am currently in the throes of quite a bad migraine episode. The pain meds are fading and I’m due to drink my next round of painkillers.
I wanted to share this photo with y’all though because I thought it was such a positive little slogan that it won’t fail to make you smile. This was taken outside the Spitalfields branch of The Breakfast Club. They used to have this note on their receipts but for some reason the last receipt I got from them didn’t have this little cheerful tidbit. I guess they thought having the sign outside the shop would be enough. And, in my case, it was enough; and on the day that I saw that sign it was certainly a good day!
Good vibes sent out into the cosmos and all that! Even if you start the day with a pounding headache or even if something negative manages to wiggle itself into the start of your day, if you tell yourself that you’re going to have a good day, you are. Don’t let the negativity get you done!
If you tell yourself you’re going to have a good day, you are!
Tonight is a night for accentuating the positives! And I am determined to do just that.
While it did snow today and the snow created a lot of upheaval for the commuting public, the snow does look very pretty when it lays.