Life has to be a little nuts sometimes.
Otherwise it’s just a bunch of Thursdays strung together.

. . . so goes Kevin Costner’s character in Rumor Has It.

I can’t agree more with this quote. You know how Rebecca Black feels about Friday? I feel the exact opposite with Thursday.

There’s this joke at my office, a verb coined by my former team lead: nangma-Macachor. That’s my last name conjugated to mean “to not come to work on a Thursday.” I’d file random vacation leaves on Thursdays just so that I won’t  have to report to work on my least favorite day of the week. I used to do nothing but answer emails and faxes on Thursdays, and I hated doing that, so I’d file a leave instead.

You see, Thursdays usually give me reasons to be bummed. It’s when my workload at the office seems a bit heavier, it’s when I feel most sluggish, it’s when Murphy decides to remind me about his little law, it’s when I feel poor and fat and ugly, it’s when my normal tasks seem to be more complicated. (Like today, I have to write about small business phone systems… whut???)

Anyway, all this Thursday-hatin’ can’t be good for me. This day of the week, after all, make up one-seventh of my life, and that’s way too much time to be bummed by default.

And since I’m all for focusing on the good stuff instead of the bad, I plan on doing this little series: every Thursday, I will post photos of things that make me happy. I will bring positivity into this blog, and into my life — on a Thursday at that. This is actually inspired by the ‘Five Things’ series on Cupcakes and Cashmere, where blogger Emily posts five photos of absolute prettiness every Friday. Her photos always make me smile and be inspired, so why don’t I do the same thing on my blog — if only to make me smile?

I’ll probably be posting mostly about food, makeup, recent purchases, my pets, kikay stuff… because these things make me happy, shallow as it seems. I can’t wait to start next week!