31 days of happiness

[sophinisba]

There's a meme I saw last night in which you post every day in August about something that makes you happy. I didn't pick it up because I don't think I can handle posting every day, but today I decided that if I bend the rules a bit I should be okay, so my plan is to post about something that makes me happy for every day in August, and I won't feel bad if I miss a day here and there (because goodness knows I don't need guilt over the happiness meme). I am looking forward to this.

1. Yesterday I set up a delicious account! I am having so much fun with it! I save bookmarks of things I have written and things I have read and things I intend to read, and I can see whether other people have saved the same thing. I can search other people's bookmarks to find fics and other interesting things! I know this is very old hat to some people, and some are annoyed with the new interface, but for me it's all very exciting.

And a nice surprise for my ego: in the past I had read conversations where people said what fun it was to see their own fics bookmarked by others, to see what tags and notes had been used. And I thought, Eeyore-like, Ah well I am not famous enough to have that happen to me and anyway nobody in my fandoms uses delicious. However! Last night I saved my own Yuletide fics, and it turned out other people had already saved them! There were even some nice positive comments, especially on the long one I worked so hard on last November and December. Wow!

2. Lots of people have been reccing fics featuring original characters at lotr_fic_recs in the last week and a half, including a couple people who hadn't participated there before. Also I had a really nice e-mail last week from someone I didn't know requesting that we do a femslash challenge. Sometimes I get glum and think that nobody cares about that comm anymore so it is really awesome to know that other folks are paying attention. Plus, someone besides me wants femslash! Now I must go rec something myself and then put up the post closing the challenge. Yay!

Comments

[shirebound]

I've never heard of 'delicious accounts' before! How interesting.

[sophinisba]

Ah, but delicious has heard of you! :) I'm liking it. Sort of like LJ memories but you can use it for anything on the web, and it's easier to organize.

[shirebound]

Goodness, how interesting.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

I think I might have created a delicious account a long time ago and then got overwhelmed! Hmm..I wonder if I'll try again some time!

[sophinisba]

Oh, yeah! http://delicious.com/claudia603 Looks like you never got around to bookmarking anything with it but it's there if and when you want to use it (if you can remember the password!).

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

post every day in August about something that makes you happy

*contemplates*

[sophinisba]

Part of me is concerned I will seem obnoxious going on about my good fortune when other friends are having a hard time, but I figure it is okay. I mean, I have lots of things to make me unhappy too! But I think it'll be good to talk about the good stuff, and an excuse to post things I never get around to, like happymaking songs and videos.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I think it would be the opposite of obnoxious! One it means more posts from you, and two, mudita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudita)! I like seeing my friends happy. :)

[sophinisba]

Naw, thank you, and thank you for the link. I had not heard of mudita before. I do think it's interesting that it's considered "the most difficult of the brahmaviharas to cultivate". o_0