I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

 Self Esteem #49: My chemistry class has a total of 11 people and the prof always wants people to volunteer, but sometimes we’re silent, so I decide to volunteer answers. I volunteered a few times, got one right and got some wrong, but I’m glad I spoke up and tried :-)

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

Self Esteem #48: Today I drove a van and nothing bad happened! Maybe I should become a truck driver!

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

Self Esteem #47: A while ago, I was struggling to do more than 2 or 3 legit push ups where I keep my body straight and lower myself so that I almost brush my nose against the ground and raise myself back up WITHOUT BENDING MY BACK. I thought it would take forever to be able to do it better. But I can see progress! Now I can do about 6 or 7 while keeping good form and it makes me feel strong :-D

Also, squats are my new best friends

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

I AM A STOICHIOMETRY MASTER

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

Self Esteem #45: Even though I was busy, I made time for something I love: remixing clothes! I took some 8 year old light wash flare jeans that I wasn’t really going to wear again and I used them to try out a tutorial I had posted here on cut off jean shorts with ombre. They didn’t come out exactly how I wanted, but I’m glad I tried it out so I can do it better next time :-D Here are photos!

Maybe I’ll try these next!

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

Self Esteem #44: I managed to wake up early enough to both do homework and exercise before an 8am class. A year ago, I probably wouldn’t have bothered, and I would’ve just done the homework and be like, egh, 20 mins isn’t enough to exercise. But I like the short and intense workouts from Bikini Burn, so I did some substantial exercise in a short amount of time and managed to get to class on time :-) Only to get my chem exam back :< But anyway, I’m glad I had a productive morning. 

Yay squats!

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

Self Esteem #43: I finally grit my teeth and went running, for the first time in a long time. It was too hot to keep sleeping and I wanted to enjoy the warm weather before it became too warm :-) I went running around my neighborhood, a total of 3 miles and it had some hills I wasn’t prepared for, so I walked quite a bit. It was a great start to spring :-D I think my favorite thing about running is how the sweat. Perhaps that sounds gross, but sweat proves to me that I’m working hard and rewards me by cooling me down and making me proud of my effort.

I’ve tracked my run on my fitocracy page! Maybe get signed up yourself? It’s like facebook for your fitness activity, it has lots of workout ideas, and after you track a workout, it awards you points and the button to close the window is labeled “You’re Awesome!” I recommend checking it out!

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

Self Esteem #42: Today I followed through with my promise to my mom to reteach her how to use Excel. I hadn’t been exactly looking forward to it (some patience is required with people who haven’t used Command-C all their lives) but I’m really glad I was able to help her out :-) 

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

Self Esteem #41: Instead of wasting time dawdling, I’m going to take care of calc. Now that my chem test is over, I need to balance both better. But chem is evil. The test was where you had to apply what you know to situations, instead of being straight forward and being like, here are numbers, use a formula. I already know I missed a couple points because I rushed and didn’t think molecular geometry through, but I’m still hoping for an A. Now to schedule my time better and have a great week. Trying to be more positive :-)

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year. A bit behind, but I promise to catch up!

Well, I think I may have finally learned. Last week, I had obnoxious headaches for three days and I’m pretty sure it was because of the caffeine. I was a little miserable :< So, I’m never going to think about using caffeine to study (it doesn’t seem to help anyway) and I’m going to remember those three miserable days the next time I decide on my free drink. Yay for slow learning :-P

This is my 6th book of the year :-/ Pretty behind, but I know I’ll catch up! I’m in the middle of two other books! Now, I’m not really a fan of the time period of this book and how it has been portrayed one-dimensionally via chick flicks, but I really needed to stop watching tv, didn’t want to listen to music, so I decided to listen to the free audiobook of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, courtesy of Librivox. Elizabeth Klett was a fantastic reader, definitely recommend.

Anyway, I thought the novel was all right.  Maybe I had heard too much about it to appreciate the plot, but it was all right. I liked seeing the contrast of societal values on marriage, class, etc. from then and now and I thought the characters were fun. I was also glad when Elizabeth realizes how she prejudiced she was against you-know-who, making her much more awesome because she wasn’t the perfect heroine I had believed her to be. I enjoyed this quote from Mr. Bennet, Elizabeth’s father:

“We all know him to be a proud and unpleasant sort of man, but this would mean nothing If you really liked him.”

It may be out of context, but it was funny when I heard it :-D

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

Self Esteem #39: I had the willpower to nap for a few hours and wake up at 3am so that I could do my chemistry hw. Usually, I’d be like, Egh, whatever, I don’t want to do it, I’m so comfy, I might as well go back to sleep, BUT, I really need AND WANT a perfect score on my next test to bring up my grade, so I’m really working hard. I spent four hours this morning working on a chapter O.o

Unfortunately, I didn’t finish, but I did absorb a good deal of material and it made me feel prepared for today’s class, kept me awake to go to the grocery store before my 8am class and buy toothpicks to make molecule models, which led me to find a great deal on tea (Celestial seasonings, 2 packs for $5! CHOMP!), and I got to go to Starbucks! Bad llama, I know, but I got a grande flavored latte and only had half, so that’s 70mg caffeine, 18 g sugar (about 6 sugar packets), and 75 calories (according to Starbucks), and I’ll have the rest later in the day. If it still tastes good. Might not :<

Anyway, I feel like I’ve started the day off right, I’m feeling kinda psyched to learn and memorize molecule shape and quantum mechanics and prove to myself and my prof that I can indeed retain this CRAZY information. Yay chemistry!

Aww Chemistry :-P

My tea! I’m gonna try the Madagascar Vanilla Rooibos today!

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

Self Esteem #38: Well, after a weekend (or maybe a week…or two) of junk food, I realized I’ve been slacking in my healthier habits. Been eating too much junk food and not really exercising, so today I started exercising again. I did an intense 20 mins of the first day of Tumblr Gym’s Bikini Burn Workout and it felt good :-D (note to self, document it on fitocracy) My goal isn’t to look good like the workout’s name may imply, but rather, I want to feel good, fit, and healthy :-D

When I first started the workout, I was like, this is too easy, but then I did the burpees and I was like UGGGHHH! I’m really glad I did it and I aim to do all thirty days :-D Now I need to limit my sugar again! Wheeeooo!

I’ve challenged myself to write one positive thing about myself everyday for one year.

Self Esteem #37: I throw away things responsibly, like nail polish, ewaste, and unused prescription drugs :-) There are tons of things I’m throwing away these days and I’m trying to dispose of them as best I can so that there’s less non-biodegradable waste in landfills. It makes me think about research and methods used for waste management. It’s a real problem and it seems like there’s a lot of jobs and money involved. But probably a lot of chemical engineering as well :-P Now to study for chem!