Cups? Mugs? Glasses?

What's the difference?! My mom will ask for a glass of milk or water and I go grab a mug or a cup and my mom corrects me every time --Ok. Not every time but its one of those teachable moments that I never learned-- I know there is a difference, I just never learned it.

Regardless of their "proper" names, I always see them with the same question (yes, see them with a question):  What did the glass start at?

Society says with a completely empty glass: "Can you fill my glass half full please?"  It clearly is not starting out completely full and they are asking to have half of it dumped out. That's illogical.  They are asking for it to be half full.

Society also says with a full glass: "I have drank half of my glass."  If they are starting with a completely full glass, then they are emptying it half way.  You do not fill something up by consuming it. They have half empty-ied their glass.

Simply put: If you want to know if the glass if half full or half empty, you need to know how the glass started.  This transfers into real life situations.

Half full: "I got a paper cut but earlier today I wrecked my car."  Your glass is half full.  It started out empty. A bad situation. Just think, it could be worse.  You got a paper cut, you're not in in the hospital.  Your day may seem like its getting worse but put into perspective, you're alive.  Its just a paper cut.

Half Empty: You woke up in great mood but then you got into a car wreck.  Your glass started out completely full, happy and promising.  Then, it emptied a little bit when you wrecked your car.  Its currently half empty. Put it back into perspective a little bit, at least you are alive, and it could be half full again.

I think life is what you make of it.  Situations depend on how you put them into perspective. You can make anything a bad situation if you want it to be or you can look for the positive.

Happiness is a choice. If you choose to see the good, it will be there.

December 2nd: Something Red

Christmas Ornament

Perseverance, Patterns and Pets.

Oh the prompt for a Monday Post. "Do you think you're more or less likely to complete December's NaBloPoMo?  Why?" I'm not sure how many of these prompts I'll use but I think this one is a good way to kick of NaBloPoMo.

I always seem to fall short on these types of challenges; daily pictures, give thanks for something every day of November, daily blogs (the newest challenge), etc.  I feel like they get monotonous or the person that created the challenge ran out of ideas and resorted to (my personal favorite for the daily picture challenge) "patterns". Like from where? My bed has stripes…do people really want to see a picture of my bed? My laundry basket has polka dots. Do they want to see my dirty underwear?  They just seem lame weak.  

However, like I said yesterday, I want to learn more about blogging and I want to get some more traffic. Maybe I can get comments from people who actually know what they are doing (unlike me) and can offer up some good advice for my writing or blog in general or just some motivation to not throw in the towel for the 87th time.  

At least I have my helpers always by my side…or causing a ruckus near my side…or somewhere in the general vicinity.  Regardless of their antics they don't give up on me.

Bella "B"

Jyra Sue "Susan"

Tulip "Tripod"

They make sure to keep my keyboard warm with their butts and make sure everything it spelled correctly.  They are like the live version of the paper clip guy that always popped up in the corner trying to help you all the time.  You guys remember him.  Ya know. This guy!

Ok, so now I'm on a tangent about cats and paperclips.  Sorry. My point: (there is one I promise) I'm going to do my best to make it through this NaBloPoMo thing.  I'm super excited so far which is a good sign so we shall see if this 2 day streak turns into a 3 day streak and so on.  

I feel like I need one of those "Days without a Velociraptor attack day missed of blogging in December" signs.