What Are You Looking Forward To?

[Britt.f7]

I am looking forward to celebrating Christmas with my sister's family. Unfortunately my husband can't come because he forgot to ask off of work.

 

[Ronin]

Having answers. :cautious: Actively don't want them, but looking forward having them.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Baking cookies and other sweets and then having dinner with a good friend on New Years Day. Also hoping that I get hired for the nursery job.

 

[Candleflames]

So kind of cheesy but I'm looking forward to living. Life has been mostly great and I love it.

 

[Gadgie]

I'm looking forward to having these kidney drains removed, they have been stuck in my back sine I was admitted to hospital in Holland, on New Years Eve?

I thought I would get used to them, but that never happened, they make sleeping even more difficult than it was before?

Worst part is, I can't wear my back support, and I need that for my general mobility?

This whole thing is dragging me down, and the not knowing about that lump is, is stressing me out?

 

[Britt.f7]

I am looking forward to the doctor's visits I have coming up. Maybe I will get some answers now that my world has been shaken up. Okay, I'm not looking forward to the gyno appointment, but the rest, yes. Can't get here fast enough. Now, hopefully they are good doctors. Already had one bad experience. No more.

 

[ms spock]

I am looking forward to learning Tai Chi well enough to know the forms.

I am looking forward to being able to be on top of my ruminations and being up to dispute my distorted cognitions.
The 10 primary cognitive distortions are:

1. All or nothing thinking -- You see things in black and white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.
2. Over-generalization -- You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
3. Mental filter -- You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it so exclusively that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that colors the entire beaker of water.
4. Disqualifying the positive -- You reject positive experiences by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.
5. Jumping to conclusions -- You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. (Involves mind-reading and fortune-telling.)
6. Magnification and minimization -- You exaggerate the importance of things, or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny.
7. Emotional reasoning -- You assume that your emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are, as in "I feel it, therefore it must be true."
8. Should statements -- You try to motivate yourself with "should" and "should not," as if you have to be whipped and punished before you could be expected to do anything.
9. Labeling and mislabeling -- This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself.
10. Personalization -- You see yourself as the cause of some negative external event which, in fact, you were not primarily responsible for.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

Looking forward to this weekend with my SO and the love of history we both share. We are planning on visiting some of our favorite local history sites.

 

[Panda Bear]

I got a little extra work, $40/week....it's something Because if it, I'm going to start a new quilt and tomorrow I get to go fabric shopping. Normally, I loath stores, but I'm excited to spend a little time touching some fancy fabric.

It's a happy place...

 

[Deleted member 20978]

Better days on boats with noodle salad

 

[Lionheart]

I am looking forward to moving to a new town, getting settled in, and hopefully making some new friends.

 

[Marie E.]

I am looking forward to getting my
e-cig filters this weekend and going to med check to get back on my meds.