Time, time, time
That’s what my planner tells me every time I look at it. “Gianna, you are really busy today. I don’t even know what day of the week it is, but I know you’re busy.”
(My planner doesn’t actually talk to me. I may be running on E some days but its not that bad).
Every time I look at it it reminds me I have oh so many things to do. I go from work to work to sleep to work to work to sleep and sometimes stop for a scheduled social interaction in between. (Too many social interactions but simultaneously, not enough.)
Don’t get me wrong. I love both of my jobs. And my family. And my friends. But I also love myself. And doing things that involve just me, myself, and I (maybe my cat, if she’s nice to me that day). If time has taught me anything, it is that I need to remember to make time for myself. I tend to get caught up in work and what I think I need to do for other people. It’s too often that I have to remind myself to do what’s good for me. Which brings us here.
Why am I here?
WordPress, God bless them, offers some questions to get a blogger started on their introduction post. One of them asks why I decided to blog publicly rather than keeping a journal. For starters, my handwriting is absolute garbage. But, aside from my inability to hold a pen correctly, I love connecting with other people.
So much can be learned from each other if we choose to connect properly. My goal for this blog is to take some deep breaths, get a number of my many thoughts out of my head in a intelligible way, and to connect with and learn from other people.
In particular, there are a few ways I’d like to express my thoughts on this blog:
- Book or movie discussion and review
- New discoveries I’ve made and new things I’ve learned
- Something that made me happy
- Pictures of my cat (you’ll thank me)
- Quotes and discussion
- What I’m listening to
- In any other way that I see fit at the moment
I came up with the “happy daze” term when I was doing my #100happydays. (If you don’t know what that is, check out 100happydays.com.) This was one of the many techniques I used as a way to keep myself grounded and focused during my busy day to day activities. I am happy to say I was successful at it. I will probably share a few of my favorites on here.
I did my 100 days. I discovered I had a lot more to say in those posts than I thought. Not just about my day, but thoughts I had along the way throughout my day. So that’s probably why I ended up here.
While most people would probably not see a daze as a good thing, I think placing the word “happy” before it changes its meaning a bit. To be in a happy daze would mean my brain is clouded by happiness; I am lost in the good things. Thus, that would make this blog my place to just zone out for a bit and focus on some fun joyous things. There’s nothing wrong with that as long as I come back to reality.
With that in mind, I leave all -2 of you reading this with some food for thought from @thefemalehustlers on Instagram:
“Easy to spot a yellow car when you are always thinking of a yellow car.
Easy to spot opportunity when you are always thinking of opportunity.
Easy to spot reasons to be mad when you are always thinking of being mad.
You become what you constantly think about.
Watch yourself.”
Gianna's Happy Daze 