The R.C. has instigated a game today. Only positive statements allowed.

I am...interested to find how difficult this is for me. Clearly this is a good game, and one I'm in need of.

(I just spent an hour and a half typing 28 names and addresses into the contact database. I wasn't dinking around...I was just sitting here, working. How could it have taken three minutes per record?)

Today I need to go to the Post Office and the bank. To buy stamps for a mailing and to make a deposit. And it's such a lovely day outside, I don't even mind using my own $2.89/gallon gas and putting miles on my own 15 year-old car on company business!

Being positive is a lot of work.

Last night, the mood was not properly upon me to work on the afghan and I only got three rows done. Tonight I will do better. (Rah! Rah!) It's about half, maybe 3/5 of the way through, thanks to the hours I spent on Sunday. I've bought entirely too much yarn, so now I'm musing on what I can do with the extra. I'm going to have three or four skeins leftover. It's a nice, variegated pattern, (dark green, cream, and dark purple) but it doesn't really go with our living room, so I can't make something for home use. (Not that I could make anything worth having out of four skeins.) (But, yes! I can! I will make...a lap rug! Or a dolly blanket! Something positive.)

The R.C. has found a new hairdresser who managed to cut her hair in less than 30 minutes last night and who only charged $25. And it looks good.

Much as I regret giving up my 10 year association with Clipper, I lust after a hairdresser I can get to by walking across the street from my apartment, instead of driving 1-1/2 hour roundtrip, and I lust after sitting in the chair for 30 minutes, instead of 1-2 hours. Clipper does good work but I find I'm reluctant to make appointments because I have to devote an entire evening to the process and it costs around $100 (for cut and color both). Thus, my hair always looks like hell.

But! Think Positive! No more! This new person (as-yet unmet and unnamed) is going to free me from the tyranny of the Stylist and return to me the freedom of the Haircut!

And! It's FRUGAL, and thus in keeping with this month's Pay For That Cruise Fast theme.

Aside from that, I'm afraid to talk about anything else for fear I might not Maintain The Positive.