Pretty Happy.....

Birthday Flowers
12/22/2016

Pretty people are happy people, period. - Drew Barrymore

I like this quote from Drew, I think she is on to something.  I like to be happy and who doesn't want to be pretty?  I certainly feel pretty when I am happy...so the elusive happiness comes and goes like the ocean tide, alass.  Ayway, moving on.... I know that we all have the power to create change, and that we are responsible for the happiness we have, or do not have.  Is happiness a learned skill like resilience seems to be?  Perhaps.  I've said before I think diet and exercise are a big part of resilance and happiness, I'm still eating a very healthy diet and exercising daily, but that elusive happy unicorn trots in and outta my life.  Today is Saturday and I'm going to try and keep that happy going on, all day! Let's be happy and pretty today - Happy Saturday everyone.  

Happy?

Moody Gardens Festival of Lights 12/18/2016
Beachy Christmas Fun & Warm Weather.
Galveston, Texas

What does happy look like?  I've been thinking about this question all day.  Today I met with a counselor to help with grief.  During the grief counseling session she asked me, what does happy look like to you?  I thought about Ryan's smiling face, he would say " Dr. Pepper" or perhaps "Ranch Doritos" I miss that face.  Later today I watched a line of cars go through an automated car wash and the giant bright colored scrubbing brushes with all the soapy bubbles looked like happy to me.  I know she was asking what makes a happy life?  Sunshine helps to find happiness for me.  I'm living in Houston, Texas and there is plenty of sunshine and warm weather, even in January ... a bonus for me and the palm trees that grow wild around here.  My first assignment from the grief counseling session is to journal, so I will be blogging agian.  I stopped blogging because it was making someone in my life sad.  I hope if you're reading this you can find inspiration not saddness.  Life is messy sometimes and trying not to slip in the crazy that spills out  can be difficult.  The counselor also wants to know what happy looks like.  I'm pretty sure it looks like a unicorn running through a field of glitter.  I'm currently in search of my elusive happy unicorn. So, what does happy look like?  Saddle up and lets take a look.