Introducing a new catagory of posts

[capri0mni]

In order to "keep on the sunny side," and avoid what might become a spin into self-generated depression, I've decided to create a new tag, and prod myself into being more pro-fun than I've been of late.

So here it is: 5 Good Things, wherein I will post a list of five good things about one particular subject. Sometimes, the thing will be obvious, like "Chocolate," or "Doctor Who, serial ___," or "Art." Sometimes, the thing will be more random, and challenging. Today, I'll start with:

My Bedroom

1. Occasionally, I run into my bed with my wheelchair, when I'm hurrying to the phone, and, over time, it gets shifted out of place. Yesterday, I managed to shift it back into place, using the "Bulldoser Method." This really is yayful -- a successful blow against entropy.



2. I guess Al Gore's message of each of us doing our part to conserve energy struck home with the neighbors behind me, because it's been months since they've kept their high-wattage security light burning all night (which shines right through the sliding glass door in my room). I sleep better in the dark, really.
   
   
3. I have a print of Edward Hick's 1846 version of The Peaceable Kingdom hanging on the wall opposite my bed (the icon with this post is a detail from it), so I can see it before I go to sleep, and when I wake up every day. It hung in my bedroom back when I was still sleeping in my baby crib, too. Mother always said it reflected our family philosophy: Animals and children in the foreground, and grownups doing legal business stuff way in the background. That perspective still strikes me as about right. :-) (one day, if I can find an online image that doesn't crop it ridiculously, I may do a 5 Good Things list about this particular picture).



4. My bedroom is where I have entertaining dreams. This morning, I had a multidoc story with Docs Four through Eight (at least), and Daleks that had evolved a sophicated sense of sarcasm and snarky humor.



5. My cat, Amanda, does her cuddling with me in bed, and when I start to pull up the blankets, she'll pounce on them to help me arrange them. And if I pull the covers over my head before she gets there, she'll try to pull the quilt back with her paw, and peek over the edge to make sure it's me. :-)

Comments

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

1. Heh.
2. Yay! Could you get them to speak to my neighbours?
3. Ah, continuity.
4. Well done your subconscious, hee.
5. :-)

I know you're doing this for you but I'd be interested to know five good things about your favourite wild animal sometime.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I know you're doing this for you but I'd be interested to know five good things about your favourite wild animal sometime.

I'll keep that in mind... though choosing just one favorite will be hard...

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Well, you could choose five good things about five wild animals or make more than one list over time, not that I want your pro-fun to turn into work because that'd be against the spirit. :-)

[jekesta]

Ahh, that is a great list. I have been trying to post good lists more often as well. So happy about your neighbours lights, I find it really much easier to sleep in dark. This is the first house I've been in where my room has a window onto street lights, it's very odd.

I love that you dream sarcastic daleks:)

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! I had SUCH a crush on Vila.

[jekesta]

Ah, he is a bit like heaven. I've always been more Avon and/or Blake, myself, but Vila is a sweetheart:)

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

*slaps her head *
You know, I meant Avon, but typed in Vila. My brain lately, I'll tell you.:P

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I love that you dream sarcastic daleks:)

So do I. What makes it even shinier is that (iirc), this was a fanfic/fanvid posted to the Internet.

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

Yes!! I used to do this on a semi regular basis, because I got into exactly that kind of funk, where I would post about cynical or bad things, all the time!

Thank you for sharing the good things.:)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :-)

How regular? And did it help?

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

I made it a point for a while to do it every week at the end of it. It did help, actually. It's so easy to focus onthe crap that the good things in my life get overlooked.

[clamnebula.livejournal.com]

In case my home computer is still down tomorrow, Happy Birthday, Ann!

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[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank You!!