A blogger from across the pond I follow and have mentioned here before, Mind Body Work Travel, posted an interesting blog a few weeks ago involving The List of Fifty. This list, according to her, is a nice way of racking your brain for ideas, inspirations, or anything else you may need to make happen but are having a hard time with. Lately I’ve been having some pretty serious attitude issues, I’d say largely due to recently becoming a nihilistic Agnostic but having to deal with some pretty mindless self-righteous and religion-fueled hate spewing from the mouths of friends, family, and coworkers. So I’ve decided that although I think the world is bad and so are everyone in it, it wouldn’t be impossible to reshape my mind and how I approach things and one way of doing it would be to start with my own List of Fifty, and like my friend Pippa, they’re 50 things I know are good:

1. Pimento Cheese Burgers
2. Bracelets
3. Headphones
4. Doodles on Post-It Notes
5. Sleeping
6. Being Married
7. My Dogs
8. Cooking
9. Hearing People Say My Food Is Good
10. Sharpies
11. Reading
12. Tattoos
13. Clean Bed Sheets
14. Red Wine
15. Pizza
16. Trivia Night
17. Helping Appreciative People
18. Knoxville
19. Running Shorts
20. Ska
21. Lana Del Rey
22. Graffiti
23. Lunching With Mom
24. Records
25. Laughing When Someone Says “Poop”
26. Beers on the Back Porch with my step dad
27. Instagram
28. Baby Animals
29. Black Shirts
30. Sprite On the Rocks
31. Beards
32. Hockey
33. Short Weeks
34. Long Weekends
35. Getting Up Early
36. Boxing
37. Taking Photos
38. Supporting Friends’ Creative Endeavors
39. Competent Coworkers
40. The F Word
41. Cookies
42. Having a Window Where I Work
43. Random Compliments
44. Grilling Food Not Usually Grilled
45. Having a Bad Attitude When Necessary
46. Action Figures
47. The Thumbs Down Gesture
48. Pal’s
49. Races
50. Dinner Parties

50 Things. All of which I would take any minute of any day, really. I wanted to make comments on them all but I wanted to preserve the list as it is in the notebook I wrote it down in. After reading through it I’m already in a better mood – and I was already in a pretty good one to begin with. Everybody wins!

I’m going to leave you with a picture of me in this fat mask I found at Party City over the weekend. It’s a nice reminder of who I would be if I didn’t get off my ass and make it to the gym, the park, and the greenway six days a week. Hard work pays off!

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