Knilly Frickers

I've shared some of my happy lists on my blog before. Sometimes I write them when I'm feeling a little down and it reminds me of all thing things I have to be happy about, sometimes I write them when I'm feeling quite good.  Today I've had a fairly quiet and reflective day, I have quite a few weekends like that a month where I shut down for a little while and take stock of where I am, what I'm doing - in life and in that moment and think about where I want to get to or things I'd like to do. My friend was speaking to me about how she's drafting up a list of things she'd like to do/achieve in 2018 and I thought that sounded like a great idea, I've loads of things I'd like to try, experience or achieve and over the next few weeks I'll put some thought in to that.  For today though, I thought I'd make a list of some things that make me smile in the here and now.  I'm used to keeping myself busy and I can get into a habit of thinking so m...

I haven't had a bad day, far from it, I had a very nice day....but it was a very nice day that felt a little bittersweet.  So I made a happy list to remind me of some of the things that make me smile and encourage me to focus on positives.  If, like me, you are into stationery and thought that looks like a fun notepad, my notepad is from Paperchase - http://www.paperchase.co.uk/all-change-a5-notebook.html

Embracing the happy and sad. If you've read any of my other posts, or glanced at my twitter or Instagram, you'll know that I'm into Disney and embracing happy. I watched Inside Out this week and I noticed a lot of similarities between what goes on in my head and what goes on in Riley's. I wouldn't like to spoil Inside Out for anyone who hasn't seen it yet so I'll try not to go into too much detail. The basic premise of Inside Out is that Riley, a fairly upbeat 11 year old girl, is controlled by her emotions, Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger who spend their days manning the control board and making sure that Riley's emotions and forming memories run smoothly and for the most part, Joy has things under control....sometimes a little too under control. I've mentioned before that I like to embrace the happy in situations and that it's my comfort zone emotion, but I don't actually cope well with some others, particularly being sad. I went for...