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10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week // Book Week

November 13, 2015 Crystal // Dreams, etc. 10 comments
10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week // Book Week

10 things that made me happy this week during an exciting week! // dreams-etc.com

  1. A fun weekend at The Palmer House Hotel with Ghost Stories Ink.
  2. Holding a book that includes a story that I wrote.
  3. A fluffy puppy. Little One’s hair is looking Cav-like just in time for the cold weather.
  4. Signed my first writing contract.
  5. Had an unexpected chance to ask Mitch Albom a few questions about The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto.
  6. Finding new ways to curl my hair. I’m loving the beachy waves look right now.
  7. Finishing two books I really enjoyed.
  8. Rain! Even though it was cold and there was a lot and I was out in it.
  9. A redirect on NaNo & a story that I’m really excited about.
  10. Getting business cards in a day! They’re about the quality that you’d expect, but I wasn’t thinking far enough ahead and wouldn’t have had them in time from my usual source.

WHAT MADE YOU HAPPY THIS WEEK?

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Hi! I'm Crystal, a millennial learning how to live slowly and sustainably, while still seeking adventure and following my dreams, etc.

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10 comments

  1. Chrissy says:
    November 13, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    Congrats on signing your first writing contract – how exciting! Fluffy puppies are always good and rain is so soothing! Happy weekend!

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  2. Autumn says:
    November 13, 2015 at 3:05 pm

    First of all, we bought the same blog layout- so fun!!! I always love seeing how people put different customizations in the same layout.

    That is so exciting that you were able to read a book with something you wrote!! When grad school ends, I have a huge list of books to catch up on that I haven’t been reading. Something that has been happy for me this week is that it ended up being a lot less fast paced than I was expecting. I had a lot of project deadlines and it went very smoothly!!

    I hope you add this to the positivity link up on my blog- it would be a perfect fit šŸ™‚

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  3. Sara Strand says:
    November 13, 2015 at 4:37 pm

    My favorite thing this week was starting my Christmas shopping. I’m very excited about Christmas and I have a few hand made things I”m going to start working on soon, that’ll be fun. šŸ™‚

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  4. Alexandra @ My Urban Family says:
    November 13, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    That is a great list, especially “Holding a book that includes a story that I wrote.”!

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  5. Sierra Bailey says:
    November 13, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    A writing contract and NaNo sounds lovely! Best of luck on your writing adventures.

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  6. Erica says:
    November 14, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    #2 and #4 Whaaaaa!?!? Congrats!!

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  7. Runwright says:
    November 16, 2015 at 2:44 pm

    That is truly a fantastic week! This is what the late night talk shows would call your best week ever!
    Congrats on the writing contract, on the book, on the conversation with Mr. Albom.
    All of it sounds awesome. Are you living in the Lego movie where everything is awesome? ?
    I hope this coming week ahead is even better for you, if that’s possible

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  8. Runwright says:
    November 16, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    Ps. Can we be Nano buddies?
    My screen name is scrabbleplaya

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  9. Alissa says:
    November 17, 2015 at 2:53 am

    Seeing your work on print is so exciting. COngrats šŸ™‚

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  10. Jessica says:
    November 19, 2015 at 12:50 pm

    Wow, you had an exciting week! Congrats!

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If only we always remembered to be in touch with o If only we always remembered to be in touch with our loved ones regularly; to tell them that we love them.

This thought has been on my mind the last few weeks as I’ve been in touch with one of my best friends almost daily. They’ve been navigating a scary situation.

But that’s what everyone says, isn’t it? Reach out to those you love. Tell them you love them. Don’t let a lot of time pass.

We all know that. We think about it sometimes. We hear about it when others are in crisis. We’re thankful that we aren’t the ones in crisis and we can remember this lesson through someone else.

But eventually we get caught up in life. Our daily ā€œI love you’sā€ are reserved for those we live with and sometimes we forget to text someone back… or it takes a few days to do so.

This week as I wondered why we don’t remember this more often I realized it’s probably a good thing. It’s a good thing that we can live life without worrying that tragedy is right around the corner. That would be an exhausting way to live.

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And this year might just be the year we find out. I’m kidding, of course, but at this point I feel like we’ve been buried in snow. We’re even on track to beat some snow records I think (the amount of snow and the number of consecutive days with snow on the ground.

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Reykjavik, I hope to see you again one day. Soon. Probably not in December, but I’m glad I got to see you in December once.
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