YAY! So somewhere along the line I know we decided how long it had been since we'd seen each other, but now I don't remember except it wa 3-4 weeks which was a long time... So yeah... Lance came in last weekend and we had a lovely weekend. Stayed in Friday night, football game Saturday (YAY WE WON!) and then home for pizza and a shower, then back out to (where else) McCarthy's! Mmmmm.... Darren is still my favorite bartender in lexingon... so far Cynda and I have not found another decent bartender in town. Annnyyyyways... Met AC and her buddy (a previous drummer in WMB) and had a lovely time hanging out..... and probably weirding out some of the people near us with some of the topics of conversation.... don't ask. So Sunday, went to Mass at 11:30, then to lunch at Ramsey's yay! with Cynda, Billy and (of course) Lance, came home and hung around a lil' until we finally decided we needed to go get Ale 8 for Lance, so went to Sams and spent the rest of the evening walking around there, goofing off and seeing all there was to see, including large cases of Ale8. :) back home again after that, and then Lance pretty much headed out. :( and the hungry 3 left behind went and ate chinese and so ended our lovely weekend.
Long day yesterday, as is always with mondays, class (boring), class (boring) and practice (getting a little better as he gave us time to actually fix some stuff today... but I got roped into going to the IU game, which I really hadn't planned on doing, this weekend... oh well, it'll be fun, we'll make it fun... :) though am dissapointed about missing the dinner opportunity w/dad.. we'll go to lunch Sunday... then TBS...yay... and Pazzo's with some people :) and home.
Psych Clinical today, and actually took a lot away from the group discussion they had. It was all about how to be positive and set goals to help you get out of bed in the morning and how to stay positive through the day. ok... I can handle that... and then he wrote some fun stuff on the board. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail" and the ABCD'S of goal setting... goals should be
A - achievable
B - believable
C - concrete
D - desirable
S - specific
And there's more! He gave a Handout on "Balanced positive thinking" Apparently research has actually found that thinking negatively affects your physical health. ...poeple with hostile attitutes or suppressed anger have more atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and coronary blockages and were therefore more likely to experience heart attacks... negative thinkers have SIX-TIMES the death rate of those with more possitive tendency's.
Soooooo heres's some encouraging thoughts... :) and I quote from the article.. "Watch how you talk to yourself and monitor the mental pictures you play on the screen of your mind. As appropriate, take charge of these thoughts and guide them in positive ways. Talk to yourself encouragingly and kindly, and frequently visualize yourself reading your goals. In your thoughts-what you say to yourself and the mental picutres you hold-lie an awesome power and profound responsibility. You can accomplish almost anything as long as you think you can. " I quite personally find that very encouraging.... and enlightening.... I'm such a sucker for motivational speakers....:P
... and speaking of... Dave Ramsey's gonna be on Oprah at 4 :) definately will be glued to the TV for that, and then Cynda and I are gonna go down to the pool and do some swimmin tonight yay! it's been so long since I've been in a pool actually swimming laps and such.... and I need the excersize....
ok... better go take a look at some stuff for the Psych quiz tomorrow.... laters all!