So... a bit of background...
I intended to do the Happy Jar Thing last year... but, by the time I had a jar I was feeling pretty rubbish healthwise and just wasn't feeling the whole happy vibe for a variety of reasons... so it never happened...
I did start noting down happy stuff later in the year in a note app on my phone but, honestly... that was just a bit dull!! ;)
I contemplated going down the jar route again this year but I know (if I am honest with myself!) that it won't work out... I'll run out of pre-cut pretty slips of paper, not be able to find a nice pen that works, lose the jar- yes, the piles of 'stuff' around here are sufficiently monstrous to devour a whole jar in one bite!! :/ - or maybe I'd just not be feeling up to getting the jar/pen/paper from wherever I'd left them (just in case you are not a friend of mine and have ended up here randomly and are thinking 'How lazy can she get?!'- I have significant physical disability and limited energy/mobility due to a chronic health condition) and think to myself I'd do it later/tomorrow, at which point I would no longer remember it (significant cognitive difficulties including memory problems thanks to the aforementioned condition, too!!)... so instead, I have decided to give a blog a try... I may still fail thanks to any or all of the above reasons/excuses but I'm hoping the fact that I am going to share the link with some friends will keep me a little more on track... we'll see!! ;)
I may post pictures at the time or come back and add them later as I do take a *lot* of pictures to help me remember the good stuff on the bad days when my memory deserts me even more completely than normal... but I am not going to make this any more complicated for myself than it has to be by saying there will always be prettily edited photo... and the posts may be long or only a few words if that is all I can manage... the important thing is to make some kind of record of the good times so I can look back on them to help me through the rest!! :) At the moment I'm hoping to post at least a few things for each week as, even (probably especially) in the bad weeks, it's important to look for those happy moments to keep you going... but if there are more than a few sometimes- well, the more the merrier!! :D
So, if after all that rambling you're still awake and wanting more, come back soon for my first entry into my 2014 Little Jar of Happy... :)
