I Want One!

This is a German Short haired Pointer. I want one. They are so adorable. There is a lady that in line skates everyday on the same path that I walk, and she has a brown one and he is so happy about EVERYTHING:) He is so cute. He comes zoooooooming up and around you to say "hello!" with his big doggy grin.

SO CUTE!

Yes, I Went to IKEA Without You...

So, last weekend I woke up and decided I needed a desk. When I sit with my computer on my lap while I am in bed I always end up with a really sore neck. So, that morning I went on to the IKEA website and found a desk that had the dimensions that would fit in my room. Then by putting a desk in my room I had misplaced the bookcase of DVDs. So I needed to buy a more efficient bookcase to store some books and the DVDs. I set off to IKEA and came home with these. The first picture is of the area before-

Then this is the area with the new desk in it! Isn't it puurrdddy?!

Then to solve the homeless dvd and book problem we have the massively tall skinny bookshelf!

It has taken a little adjusting to get used to this shelf, sometimes i see it out of the corner of my eye, and because it it taller than me i think it is a person...Don't laugh;)

Old Books vs. Library Books- According To Me

So the other day my friend was teasing me about not knowing what a library was (it was more involved than that, but would take too long for me to explain for the purposes of this blog). I told him, I don't like libraries too much, because people have read the books before me, putting all their germs and weird stuff on the books. It just kinds creeps me out. It comes down to too many people touching the book, reading it, dripping who knows what on it. I mean, who knows what that stain is on page 137? It looks like chocolate ice cream, or is it blood!? So, I just don't use my library card unless it is for research or something like that. However, not long after I stated my opinion about library books to my friend I got to thinking about old books. I like old books BECAUSE they have been owned and read by other people. They have a history to them that I enjoy holding in my hand, and being able to own and be a part of. Later someone else will own these old[er] books and I will have been a part of these books history. What can I say, another area where my reasoning makes no sense.

Sight Seeing.

I have always wanted to drive around the U.S. in a Motor home. Just take off, and drive around seeing all the sights in one extended road trip. I would see the East coast with Maine's Coast, Boston, New Jersey's Shore, up to New York, down to Philadelphia, Gettysburg, (hitting the places I have missed in between of course). Make my way west with Louisiana, Oklahoma,Texas, and up through Colorado. Head up into Wyoming and Montana, and across to Washington and Oregon, coming down through California, Nevada and New Mexico. When people talk about their dream honeymoon they talk about Paris, Italy, Greece, while I think about driving across the country and seeing the history and landmarks that I have heard about. That is what I would look forward too.

It's THE Bag!

Sorry for the image quality, but I just bought this baaagg! I am excited! I have wanted one of these for awhile. It it a Timbuk2 messenger bag. I heart it! They usually run anywhere from about 75$ up to 130$ for some of the larger bags. I got an X-small bag as I am planning to use it more as a purse and it only cost 57$ on Amazon. Plus I got me some free shipping! Eeeeee! I am excited!!!

I was like, Woah...

This morning the weirdest thing happened. I had the song 'Glitter in the Air' by P!NK stuck in my head all morning while I was getting ready to go to work, no big deal right. Then I got in my car and turned on the radio, and it was PLAYING! I was a little weirded out and sat a little to long at a stop sign as I tried to figure out the chances of that happening. Then I gave up cause I really ceased caring about the mathematics of it and just thought it was kinda cool and proceeded to drive to work:)

Do Any Of These Sound Familiar?

Someone brought the following list to my attention today and I immediately recognized myself from the description in #1, and in some of the following numbers. I found the list to be very interesting. I have highlighted the ones I recognized as myself.

Summary

15 Styles of Distorted Thinking

1. Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation.

2. Polarized Thinking: Things are back or white, good or bad. You have to be perfect or you're a failure. There is no middle ground.

3.Overgeneralization: You come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or piece of evidence. If something bad happens once, you expect it to happen over and over again.

4. Mind Reading: Without their saying so, you know what people are feeling and why they act the way they do. In particular, you are able to Divine how people are feeling toward you.

5.Catastrophizing: You expect disaster. You notice or hear about a problem and start 'what ifs:' What if tragedy strikes? What if it happens to you?

6. Personalization: Thinking that everything people do or say is some kind of reaction to you. You also compare yourself to others, trying to determine who is smarter, better looking, etc.

7. Control Fallacies: If you feel externally controlled, you see yourself as helpless, a victim of fate. The fallacy of internal control has you responsible for the pain and happiness of everyone around you.

8. Fallacy of Fairness: You fell resentful because you think you know what's fair but other people won't agree with you.

9. Blaming: You hold other people responsible for your pain, or take the other tack and blame yourself for every problem or reversal.

10. Shoulds: You have a list of ironclad rules about how you and other people should act. People who break the rules anger you and you feel guilty if you violate the rules. Find yourself saying "I should..."

11. Emotional Reasoning: You believe that what you feel must be true--automatically. If you feel stupid and boring, then you must be stupid and boring.

12. Fallacy of change: You expect that other people will change to suit you if you just pressure or cajole them enough. You need to change people because your hopes for happiness seem to depend entirely on them.

13. Global Labeling: You generalize one or two qualities into a negative global judgement.

14. Being Right: You are continually on trial to prove that your opinions and actions are correct. Being wrong is unthinkable and you will go to any length to demonstrate your rightness.

15. Heaven's Reward Fallacy: You expect all your sacrifice and self-denial to pay off, as if there were someone keeping score. You feel bitter when the reward doesn't come.

So, what is the point; it's just a list right? Well they say the first step in fixing something is to know what's wrong with it...or something like that. I recognize not just the ways of thinking that I use, but also ones that my brother, parents, bosses, coworkers, friends and family use as well. Does that mean there is something wrong with all of us? Probably:) Just kidding. No, it just got me thinking how many of these are considered character traits Just how many are just personality and how many are harmful patterns of thinking that affect our everyday relationships and how we interact with others?