"Compliments Journal"

My workmate S gave me a thank you card (for giving her a gift on her birthday) and said that I’m a beautiful girl.

Well…my group leader said I gave a good presentation the other day. I suppose that’s something!

One of my swim teachers complimented me on a very well done flip turn (something I’ve been struggling with for a while).

While browsing Juicy Couture with a friend, a random lady I walked past said in a low voice that she liked my trench coat (from Forever 21). I smiled the whole day.

My husband P said that I’m beautiful. And that I have grown so much as a person in the last 7 years.

maybe it’s narcissistic.. but I don’t care. It was the best compliment I’ve received in awhile, so I thought I’d document it.

”..you are beyond stunning. Alabaster skin, green eyes, and a jawline to make Audrey Hepburn crap herself with jealousy..”

1. I used an awesome word one night in a chat and my fellow chatter, who is also a word cherisher, was all giddy about it. The word was aplomb.

2. I said something, not really intending to be funny, since I’m more of a dry wit type of person, but people laughed. Truly laughed, not just tittered. I felt really good about myself.

3. Everyone who has seen me recently has remarked on my tan (though most of them do not intend it as a compliment) so yay! I love being tanned.

4. I had quite a number of dinner parties over the course of several weeks and most of them were quite successful and none were failures. Even if the smoke alarm went off. The guests were very happy and some even asked for recipes.

5. I did a 10 minute presentation and got very good feedback from the audience and a good amount of interest in the topic, which I was not expecting. Yay! I also had people come up and ask me questions and tell me I did a good job, which made me feel amazing.

hm someone out of the blue said i just absolutely stopped them. The comment absolutely stopped me. Today. It was a perfect start to my day.

1. my sister said that she thinks I’ll be a good mother someday.
2. (this is more of a premonition, I guess) my psychic friend said that I’ll have a book about art journaling published someday & also I’ll be the mother of at least 2 boys.
3. some dude hanging out outside of the grocery store said that I’m “fine”, but I think he may have been drunk.
4. a client who was referred to me by a builder I work with said that the windows we did (in one of the homes he’s selling) was her favorite thing about the entire house!

My best client told me that I’m ethereal & I would have been a good hippie.

I had to look up the definition of etheral: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible; highly refined; delicate; Of the celestial spheres; heavenly; Not of this world; spiritual.

groovy.

I love this idea. It will make me feel better when I’m feeling all sorry for myself or insecure.

I worked on 3 photoshoots while I was in Hawaii “for fun” mostly….and for the most part they turned out pretty darn well. All the models have said something along those lines and so has other friends I’ve showed them too. It means a lot to me, because I put in a lot of time and effort into these projects :).