100 Happy Days
Apr. 20th, 2014 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitI've seen this around with a few people of my acquantaince doing it. And in principle I'm all for it - plus, being basically of a positive disposition it seemed attainable. Except, it requires uploading a photograph. Firstly the sheer effort of taking photo, connecting to my computer, uploading it to the internet, would probably negate all the positive feelings. I am, after all, not the most technically gifted of people. At work I told the photocopier what I thought of it (as you do) and the next thing it printed out said "offensive comment". Which caused great hilarity all round.
Secondly, how do you photograph half the things that qualify as the happy instant. It could be a sound, a smell. Something that passes quickly. Something that happens at Brownies or work, and you don't upload those faces.
So in the end I decided that I would keep a record every day of something that made me happy, and periodically upload it to my LJ as one of my regular blog posts. So by all means feel free to ask where the next installment is, but don't expect them to appear every day.
And here, to start it off:
Day 1 - people clapped at the end of Messy Church. It certainly wasn't something I expected. It made me happy because it meant they had enjoyed themselves.
Day 2 - daughter phoned at 8.15 this morning, having just come off her fourth night shift in a row. She'd seen that we'd made Simnel cakes and has decided to change her route slightly this Friday to call in on us for a few hours. And collect her cake. We haven't seen her for six weeks, so it will be good to catch up.
Secondly, how do you photograph half the things that qualify as the happy instant. It could be a sound, a smell. Something that passes quickly. Something that happens at Brownies or work, and you don't upload those faces.
So in the end I decided that I would keep a record every day of something that made me happy, and periodically upload it to my LJ as one of my regular blog posts. So by all means feel free to ask where the next installment is, but don't expect them to appear every day.
And here, to start it off:
Day 1 - people clapped at the end of Messy Church. It certainly wasn't something I expected. It made me happy because it meant they had enjoyed themselves.
Day 2 - daughter phoned at 8.15 this morning, having just come off her fourth night shift in a row. She'd seen that we'd made Simnel cakes and has decided to change her route slightly this Friday to call in on us for a few hours. And collect her cake. We haven't seen her for six weeks, so it will be good to catch up.
