Thoughts on Happiness

Happy: characterized by or indicative of pleasure, content, or gladness; delighted, pleased

(My friend found this left by accident in a photocopy machine and gave it to me. I decided to sit and make a list & wrote the following.)

What makes me happy? When do I feel happy? How will I make myself by happy?

1. Looking things up in the dictionary makes me happy
2. Journaling, writing, blogging makes me happy
3. Drawing, sketching, painting makes me happy
4. Organizing and being efficient makes me happy
5. Gardening makes me happy
6. Walking makes me happy
7. ZUMBA makes me REALLY happy lately
8. Biking makes me happy
9. Rollerskating makes me happy
10. Dancing makes me happy
11. Singing out loud makes me happy
12. Listening to new music makes me happy
13. Listening to people makes me happy
14. Telling jokes & stories makes me happy
15. My car (& it's gas mileage) makes me happy
16. Talking with Mango makes me happy
17. Playing with Poppy makes me happy
18. Snuggling with Sharkey Rue makes me happy
19. Brainstorming on meta tags with Amber makes me happy
20. Going to the Boardwalk makes me happy
21. Stretching makes me happy
22. Eating sushi makes me happy
23. Eating chocolate makes me happy
24. Masturbating makes me wake up happy every day
25. Reading erotica makes me happy
26. Watching erotica makes me happy
27. Reading science fiction makes me happy
28. Keeping things clean & tidy makes me happy
29. Making it all beautiful makes me happy
30. Being massaged makes me happy
31. Having sex makes me feel good
32. Doing rituals makes me happy
33. Building altars makes me happy
34. Chanting makes me happy
35. Memorizing prayers makes me happy
36. Releasing old energy - mental, emotional or physical clutter - makes me happy
37. Being tattooed makes me happy
38. Having piercings makes me happy
39. Dressing femmy makes me happy
40. Getting my hair cut by Pati makes me really happy
41. Smoking the kindness makes me happy
42. Drinking wine makes me happy
43. But I really prefer beer, making my Buddha belly happy
44. Laughing - belly laughs in particular makes me happy
45. Jokes - verbal & practical jokes makes me happy
46. Romance makes me happy
47. Being in love makes me happy
48. Poetry makes me happy
49. Writing love letters & making cds makes me happy
50. Sharing my heart & telling my truths makes me happy
51. Concerts makes me happy
52. Going to plays, ballet, theater makes me happy
53. Going to the flea market makes me happy
54. Going to Women's Morning at Kiva - sauna & hot tubs - makes me happy
55. Being a big dyke makes me happy
56. Being out, loud & proud makes me happy
57. Wearing essential oils makes me happy
58. Wearing my jewelery makes me happy
59. Wearing any clothes I want to makes me happy
60. Wearing skirts & dresses makes me happy
61. Doing tarot & astrology readings makes me happy
62. Doing workshops & lectures makes me happy
63. Doing Reiki & hypnosis makes me happy
64. Playing on my website & virtual store makes me happy
65. Being good at business & marketing makes me happy
66. Connecting with other professionals makes me happy
67. Feeling respected as a business woman makes me happy
68. Being a part of a team makes me happy
69. Having breakfast with Dr. Z makes me happy
70. Taking care of my body makes me happy
71. Fantasizing makes me happy
72. Paying for amber's school makes me happy
73. Volunteering at her school makes me happy
74. Going back to school myself makes me happy
75. Playing softball, going to the batting cages, and the after game hang outs all make me happy
76. Feeling myself improve & get stronger makes me happy
77. Feeling in control of my life makes me happy
78. Buying used books & music at Logos makes me happy
79. Reconnecting with Andrea makes me happy (delta delta!)
80. Buying art books for inspiration makes me happy
81. Lighting fires in my wood stove makes me happy
82. My brown & white polka dot dress I wore for Pride makes me happy
83. The coral reef bathroom makes me happy
84. Living with my excellent housemate makes me happy
85. My alone time makes me happy
86. Office supplies makes me happy
87. The smell of band aids & freshly peeled bumper stickers make me happy
88. The fact that I have follow through makes me happy
89. Leaving myself love messages on the answering machine makes me happy
90. Cheesy poofs make me happy
91. Watching Scrubs on DVD makes me happy
92. Going through my photo albums with someone makes me happy
93. Sharing my poetry & journals with someone makes me happy
94. Decorating everything makes me happy
95. Painting the back fence makes me happy
96. Taking hot baths makes me happy
97. Taking long showers makes me happy
98. Hot coffee makes me ridiculously happy
99. Chai makes me chappy
100. Having & using sex toys makes me happy
101. Going to music festivals makes me happy
102. Traveling makes me happy
103. Camping makes me happy
104. Hanging out with Jen (my Idol) makes me happy
105. Being friends with the local barristas makes me happy
106. The Grateful Dead makes me happy
107. Making stickers & passing them out at shows makes me happy
108. Taking mind altering substances occasionally makes me happy
109. Lighting a candle everyday makes me happy
110. Being connected with Mom again makes me happy
111. Angel cards, Medicine cards, Affirmations all add to my happiness
112. Playing guitar makes me happy
113. Having money in the bank makes me happy
114. Having all my bills & taxes paid makes me happy
115. Creating lists & then checking things off makes me happy
116. Buying myself flowers makes me happy
117. Believing in Magic makes me happy
118. Being a Priestess makes me happy
119. Being a Mom makes me happy
120. Being lovers makes me happy
121. Being a wife makes me happy
122. Being a fairy mermaid at heart makes me happy
123. Having Elizabeth as my soul sister makes me happy
124. Knowing I give my best in my love relationships makes me happy
125. Being kind makes me happy
126. Practicing forgiveness makes me feel happier
127. Hugging & being hugged makes me happy
128. Kissing & being kissed makes me happy
129. Holding hands makes me ridiculously happy
130. Believing in myself in those hard moments, like changing the fluorescent bulbs at Herland all by self, or washing the bedroom windows by myself, makes me happy
131. Clean windows makes me happy
132. Not feeling addicted to anything makes me happy
133. Folks buying my artwork makes me happy
134. My friend Ginger makes me happy
135. Putting fairy messages inside my bills makes me happy
136. Doing my own book keeping makes me happy
137. Creating my own ads & other graphic design makes me happy
138. Working by myself makes me happy
139. Going down to the ocean makes me happy
140. Making lists like this makes me happy
141. Taking naps makes me happy
142. Remembering my dreams makes me happy
143. Being friends with Jill again makes me happy
144. The yellow paint on the wall by the stairs makes me happy every single day
145. The rainbows from the crystals in the windows make me happy
146. Freshly grated Parmesan cheese makes me happy
147. Being with Dad makes me happy
148. Mike the Dragon makes me happy
149. My beautiful new, queen size bed, with the "Sacred Plush" mattress makes me happy
150. My peachy keen bedroom
151. My new curtains makes me happy

How about you? What makes you happy? Add to the list...

Garden of my Mind

Hypnosis Session
Situation: Breaking up
Inner conflict: Did I make the right decision?
Trance: Polarity work
Vision:

In my left hand
in a clump of dirt
was a tiny baby plant
with little green leaves and fragile white roots

I had pulled it out
So I put it back in the soil
And watched
As a huge dandelion weed
took over the garden

In my right hand
A packet of seeds
Spilled California poppies
Into my tingling palm

After throwing the seedling
Into the green cycle
I spread my favorite seeds
seeds of peace, seeds of love, seeds of hope
Throughout the fertile
Garden of my mind....

Happy Gay Pride Month!

Come out, Come out, whoever you are!

Mercury Retrograde

Way back in the day, when I worked at Aries Arts down in Capitola Village with my soul sister Emma, our boss Joanne would always call this period Mercury Retrospect (bless her heart). As appropriate as that actually is, sometimes I think of it as Mercury Retrofuck. However it is that you get through this time, remember to take nothing personally, plan for delays, and to quote from the play 8x10 Glossy:

Do what moves you and rationalize in retrospect.

from Rambling Rose News:
Astrochat:
Mercury Retrograde

Mercury retro in Gemini at 22 degrees from May 26 to June 13 (stationary direct at 13 degrees Gemini), reaching origination on July 4 (Happy Independence day!).

Back up your computers, clean out your files, check contracts three times before signing, and review, review, review. Take nothing personally as extremes in communication are to be expected in this time period. Make way for new growth on all levels of your being.

For more information contact your local astrologer.

My Notes from "The Secret"

Thoughts become things by emitting frequencies
Feel it on every level of your being
Whether you are remembering, creating, observing or imagining

Focus only on the positive
Bring yourself to a higher Vibration
Think it Speak it Attract it

Be a Babe Magnet Be a Money Magnet
Be rich in time
and take the time to Breathe, Stretch, Exercise & Be Healthy
Be a health magnet
Attract your teachers
Attract your healers
Be gentle & kind
Be passionate & alluring
That's where the fun begins...

Use your emotional guidance system to know what you are thinking
Choose miracles over grief
Choose what feels good, that higher frequency - it is in alignment
The better you feel, the more in alignment you are...

Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming
Begin to feel healthy
Begin to feel love
Begin to feel prosperity

What are you continually, predominantly feeling?
The Universe will correspond with the nature of your song

The Universe will correspond with the nature of your song
And manifest... because that's the way you feel
The more you feel good, the more you'll attract things that make you feel good -
and keeps on raising the good vibrations

Your Wish is my Command
Ask for what you want
The Universe will answer to the thought you have set in motion
You don't need to know how-
You will be shown the way

Bring yourself in alignment with what you are asking for in order to receive
If you feel joy, you are in alignment
If you feel despair, you are not

What will help me generate the feelings of having it now so that I can attract it to me now? Hypnosis, Visualization, Meditation, Art, Collage, Music, Dance, Sing

Make a list of what you are thankful for, be grateful for what makes you feel good
What you think about and thank about you bring about

Feel the Gratitude
Focus on what you already have
Feel grateful to attract more good feelings

Visualize
then Materialize
If you've been there in your mind, you will get there in the body

Only dwell upon the end result

Put yourself in the feeling place Feel the joy Feel the happiness
The inner seeing is the Doorway
put yourself in the feeling of Being

Turn it over to the Universe and be amazed at the magic and miracles delivered to your door

Do it daily, but never as a chore
You should be high, happy and in tune
You will habituate this process
And live a magical life

Decide what you want
Believe you can have it
Believe you deserve it
Believe it's possible for you

Close your eyes, every day for several minutes, and feel the feelings of already having that. Come out & focus on what you are grateful for, and really enjoy it. Go into your day and release it to the Universe, and trust that the Universe will know how to manifest it

Act as if it's true
When you have an inspired thought, act on it
Intend it
Checks are coming in the mail

Money comes frequently and easily
Life is meant to be abundant in all areas
Go for inner joy and inner peace, and the outside manifestations will appear

Enjoy your own company
Treat yourself well
Kiss yourself
Love yourself
See your magnificence

If you knew your potential to feel good,
you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good.
Free yourself of the need to control
You are the only one who creates your reality

You can change your life, and you can heal your body
you become what you think about-
What you resist, persists

Be Pro-Love Pro-Money Pro-Health Pro-Peace

Learn to be still and place your attention on what you wish to experience
There is more than enough

Remove your attention from the things you do not want
Give your undivided attention to the things you do want

Energy

Wouldn't right now be the perfect time for change?
What are you going to do now?

Everything goes right for me. I feel younger every day.

My primary aim is to experience
Joy

Inner happiness is the fuel to
Success

Welcome to plant Earth
Feel Good.

My notes from watching The Secret, 2006

Pantry Hose

Once when my daughter was eight, she comes home and says she has just made up a joke:

A man is walking down the street, and he sees another a man who is wearing panty-hose. The panty hose is stuffed full of food. The man asks, “Excuse me sir, but why do you have food inside your panty hose?” The man looks at him, and says, “Because they’re not panty hose, they’re pantry-hose.”

Gives new meaning to fruit of the loom!

I Dwell

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