nice things

I've been reading that you can become happier with different exercises. Like how you can become healthier by eating right and exercising. Or like how you can become more flexible by stretching, or...well, you get the point.

One of the happier exercises is to think about a number of nice things right before you go to sleep every single night. It's like the gratitude journal idea, only for the lazy. My sister told me she read about one woman who thinks of 20 good things about that day every night.

I'm headed off to bed right now...so I thought maybe I'd try the happy exercise tonight, but do it in my blog. Here goes...

• I got 5 or 6 hugs at dance tonight. All the instructors are so cool....it's a very huggy group.

• My son got a very dirty diaper tonight at McDonald's, where we always go eat when I take him out for a visit (That isn't the nice thing!) I didn't have another diaper to put on him after peeling (sorry!) off the dirty one, and without a diaper, his jeans are dangerously loose. Dangerously. The nice thing is that we managed to walk out of the McDonald's bathroom and all the way to the car without his jeans suddenly dropping to the ground!!!

• I got lab work results back today and my cholesterol level is 160 and my LDL is 112. Damn. I love passing tests I don't have to study for.

• 6 Christmas cards in the mail today! Very nice. Well, actually - a mixed blessing. I don't send Christmas cards so each one I get gives me both a warm fuzzy feeling and a stab of good old fashioned German Lutheran guilt....

• Tuna roll sushi for lunch today!

• Caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror at the studio while dancing the Swing tonight, and I think maybe I might kind of almost look like I'm starting to know what I'm doing on the dance floor???!!!

• My favorite nice thing about today? It will be another whole year before we have a day as short or a night as long as today's....

I think I feel happier already! G'night!