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Short Term Shortage for Long Term Happiness

brandyellen — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:35:56 +0000

Sometimes life throws me 100 curve balls at once and it’s uber frustrating to try to stay on the happy train, the oh everything will work out just fine thought pattern. Then there are those times when you have 100 things tossed at you and you take the time to separate each into priority. Once you check off one item, you move onto the next. Do not take too much time, but try to just resolve this one thing then the next and the next. Like I wrote the other day, sometimes you have to just take one thing at a time. Right now I have to do a lot because I am moving, into another house. The lease here is up and it’s time to move on so that …

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Trying to Get Back on Schedule

brandyellen — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:47:23 +0000

I have to laugh at myself because I am often saying how I am not routine driven, that I am a free spirit and not a planner but then things happen to mess up my normal schedule or routine that set me off for a loop, taking me a long time to get back on track. It even goes so far as to make me tense, the shoulders get hard as boulders and my mind is completely frazzled. But I am not routine driven like my middle child, nope nope nope! I lied. I am.Totally. 100% routine driven. So when the school had a water pipe burst sending water through my sons school and they had no school for a week? I was home with my sons for a week, …

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End of Summer Blues?

brandyellen — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:42:06 +0000

As it nears the end of Summer I find myself in a gloomy mood. I feel sad, just want to sleep and it’s been hard to keep those happy thoughts coming. One thing I am here for is to help spread cheer and happiness. I am not here to say life is perfect and I never feel sad because if I pretended that I am always happy or that I am never depressed then I would be lying to you and that my friends is not my intentions. I wish to be open, honest and approachable by all. I want to give you a peek into what I have been feeling lately and what I plan to do to create happiness from this situation! I am an optimistic thinker, and …

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Writing a Real Novel

brandyellen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:08:23 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I have always wanted to have some published pieces of writing – mostly I thought of poetry – but lately I have been thinking of writing a book or a novel. I have so many ideas, and found that when brainstorming what I would write about I often tried to focus on motherhood, children and other family friendly type topics. Although I would love to write a family friend novel, my passion appears to be in romance or something that would be more of an adult label than a family friendly label. I have always enjoyed writing, because it is my outlet. After having a bad day, an argument with a loved one or children who would not listen all day I can sit down and write, …

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