And they call it mellow yellow

It seems as though everything I’ve read or heard about recently is everyone talking about “enjoying your time now” and “realizing the good stuff now” kind of thing, instead of looking at your life retrospectively and thinking “jeez, I sure was happy… wish I’d have realized it then”. I listened and read and thought to myself, “Erica, you need to be better about that. You may think your life sucks right now, but maybe that’s just because you’re not seeing it for what it is.” So, I am, right this minute, setting a goal that for every single day from now until the end of September I will contemplate and record one positive thing in my life each day. I will write down the things that make me happy, or things that I am grateful for, so that on days when things seem like they are falling apart, I can look back at the little things and remember “Oh… so life is good, I must remember that.”


So, #1... I am glad for Bleach. Now I know that whenever I step in pee at work, or it wanders its way down the sloping linoleum from under the wheelchair and surrounds my foot without my immediate notice, that I will be able to wear my shoe again without wanting to gag every time. So thank you, Swedich chemist Karl Wilheim Scheele, for your fabulous discovery in 1774!!! I will be forever grateful to you when my white shoe is surrounded by smelly yellow.

So there you have it, a "living the moment, slash gratitude" moment, AND a History lesson. Aren't you so lucky?