Is laughter really the best medicine?

Today during my awful fibromyalgia day, I just couldn’t be happy. Usually I get through the pain with humor. I find reasons why my life is beautiful. I try & be grateful & hopeful. None of that was working today. So instead, I decided that I was going to laugh no matter what. This is hard to do when you are in a bad mood & nothing seems funny. A good tip is to just find a friend & then start fake laughing at the same time. Vow to keep it up for 3 minutes. Try laughing like Santa Clause or Fran Drescher. Within 30 seconds I’m always laughing uncontrollably & my mood is brighter.

When should I blog?

Before I ever started blogging, I read about blogging for weeks. The whole idea was so new to me. I read everything about how to monetize a blog, how to start a blog, where to host a blog, how to set up a blog. I still had one question: when is the best time to blog?

I almost had blogging down to a science. I would’ve used corporate performance management software had I known about it. I was sure that if I posted early in the morning I’d get more visitors. The problem was that I’m cranky in the morning. So I decided that the best time to blog was when I felt like it. The point of working from home was to be able to set my own hours. If I was focused on blogging for other people it took the fun out of it. It made blogging stressful. My posts were lacking. You can tell when a blogger isn’t having fun. So my tip is don’t blog angry. Don’t blog when you are tired. Don’t blog when you don’t want to blog.

I had a bad day

Today was a bad day for fibromyalgia. Well, everyday is bad with fibromyalgia, but today was especially bad. I was sick, I was discouraged. Every time I talked my voice came out whiny. My brain couldn’t focus on anything. I think it’s because my body was just in so much pain.

I couldn’t read a book. I couldn’t watch tv. I couldn’t reason if there is an acne cure out there. I try to keep this blog as uplifting as possible. If I blogged about how my health was every day all the entries would read “I hurt. Fibro sucks” Usually I try to find solutions to brighten my day & make my life work. Today was just a bad day though. Sometimes they happen & the only solution is to keep going because it always gets better.