Happy Photo #5

Great food and drinks and best of all conversation with friends after a long week:)

Happy Photo #4

Someone brought in chocolate chip cookies today that taste just like the ones mom used to make...I couldn't resist!

Happy Photo #3

Pretty horrible picture:) It looks like I have to concentrate really hard to blow a bubble! In my opinion though it's a simple pleasure you never outgrow...

Happy Photo #2

A watermelon candy stick and a nice walk :) They used to sell candy sticks like these on the counter of the campground we went to when I was a little girl...it's funny how a simple thing can take you back :)

Happy Photo #1

OK. . So it's more than 1 photo today but Margo's being so adorable :) got my chores done a little earlier than expected and grabbed some cuddle time with my girl.  Nothing like a purring kitten...Happy Friday:) #100HappyDays

100 Happy Days

So a good friend of mine is doing this facebook project called #100HappyDays where she is posting a picture of something that makes her happy every day for 100 days.... and I'm always intrigued by these sorts of challenges (though I often fail miserably at them- it's still fun to set out on them!) and I do like to make lists and it will turn out to be sort of a list so here is my beginning to my version on this.  Starting probably tomorrow I'm going to give it a go, I figure it's can't be a bad idea to focus on something that makes me happy every day and it'll get me to post on here a bit more regularly :-)

You can read more about the project in general here:
http://100happydays.com/

My goal will be to make 100 posts before the end of the year... because I know myself.. and posting everyday will probably just not happen. 

Looking forward to sharing happy moments!

P.S. I have a few predictions that these pictures will tend towards the food/beverage/books/kittens category... we will have to see what else I can come up with :-)

Book Thoughts: Wild by Cheryl Strayed

 

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

I read this book simply because it seemed like an entertaining book about hiking... and as an unlikely serious hiker myself, about to attempt the Inca Trail, I thought it would be a fun (and maybe informative) read.  It was all of those things, but I didn't realize when I checked this book out of the library that it would also strike a cord with me on other levels.  I identified with Cheryl from the first few pages and while I never engaged in the kinds of destructive behavior she does while facing grief and uncertainty I certainly felt her pain as she described nightmares she would wake up from, or the feeling of loss of control after losing her mother and her family essentially falling apart.  I cried with her and laughed with her and was proud of her (and maybe a few times questioned her sanity but I'm sure people question mine sometimes too).

Definitely recommended reading, if you're a hiker or not, the story is about the journey both physical and emotional.  Definitely worth the read.  And if you're the kind who likes to read books before you see movies definitely give it a go because the movie is slated to be released sometime in 2014.

P.S. Here's hoping my Inca Trail comrades and I are more prepared than Cheryl was... plus... you know, we'll have a guide and each other.  After all, this girl is afraid of the dark... and the dark alone in the wide open wilderness... no way :-)