Memory game with my son

Wow, I stuck at posting every day, whatever, this blog is just for fun.

This week's good thing is a memory game ice been playing with my son. He's been doing great and learning words. And he gets really excited to play it

No rotations

A team lead at my work had one of those ideas that sounds great until you start thinking about the logistics. We started working out the details and tried to show her that it is ultimately not going to work, she got defensive and dug in her heels. But today we finally got through to her, so the bad idea got nixed.  Whew!

Gymboree

We went to a friend's daughter's birthday party at gymboree tonight. I thought my son would be nervous and scared for a good portion of the night, but he did great joining in with the other kids. I think we're going to buy a membership

Ice cream after dinner

After dinner tonight we took my son to Baskin Robbins. He really enjoyed his strawberry ice cream :)

Cleaners came

This is for yesterday, I forgot to post last night.

We decided to hire new cleaners and yesterday was their first day. Will be nice to have the house regularly cleaned

Drivers school finished

I got a ticket about a month ago. Today I finished my online traffic school.

I also got a few other tedious chores done today. Overall, a productive day

In laws in town

I forgot to post this last night. My in laws came into town yesterday, which is awesome. They are great with my son, he loves spending time with them, and it is great to get some help so that me and my wife can relax a bit.

Passed my test

I'm working on getting my teaching credential. Part of it involves passing a test online, which I was able to do today. I've been meaning to do it for a while, but haven't had time to get it done. Today was finally the day :)

What's with the new blog?

The goal for myself with regard to this blog is to post one good thing each day. The point of it is to try to stay more positive than I have been as of late. I have a tendency to focus on the negative aspects of life, and for the last year or so I have been doing this a lot. I think it would be good for me to try to focus more on the positive side of things and this seems like a good thing to try to accomplish that goal. If I know I need to post something at the end of the day, I will probably be on the lookout for something good I can post about during the day and that little change will hopefully have a subtle effect on me throughout the day. Of course, the hope is that a bunch of little subtle effects will ripple throughout the day, which will in turn build up over weeks and months to hopefully just make me a happier person in general. I have no idea if it will work, but I am hopeful.

I plan to just post from my phone, there is a simple blogger app I was able to get off the play store. which means the posts will be short and simple. I don't think I'll be messing with posting pictures or any other media or anything. Just a quick post, possibly just a title sometimes, I don't know. 

I'm also not sure that anyone else will care about this, I don't really expect to get traffic. So why even put this on a blog? Why not just write it to a word file or something? The main reason is that if I plan to put it on a local file I won't wind up doing it. It's easy to skip a day, which leads quickly to never doing it at all. If I am publishing it to a blog I will feel like I am committed to posting something and I will have a much higher chance of getting it done (hopefully this isn't the only post to this blog).

One other point I want to make, I am aware that this isn't an original idea. I picked up the idea from somewhere, but I can't completely remember the source. I think it was a TED talk I watched a while ago, but I'm not sure. The point being, this is really for me. It would be awesome if someone read it and felt like they got something out of it, but that isn't the point here. The point is to help me get a slightly more positive view of the world. I hope it works, we'll just have to see.