It’s Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess’s Participation Positives!

• I ordered the greatest jewelry from Tango Moon and Dragonfly Lane and am having so much fun wearing it
• I got the greatest robe at Victoria's Secret on sale
• Dell finally agreed to send a technician out so my CD-RW will be fixed
• I'm having fun watching my stock
• I'm doing better with my money this month than I thought I was
• I drank all my water today (Go, me!)
• I'm happy that I put more tunes up for download (look in the Music Selections section of the sidebar for them)
• I leveled up Ibocea, my EverQuest character another level and got to play with a friend's nephew which was fun
• I've had pretty easy days at work lately
• It's about time to make our Vegas plans for this year
• I love and am loved

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It’s Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess’s Participation Positives!

• Tomorrow's my birthday!
• I got a lot of errands done today - returning make-up, getting gas and a car wash, and finally getting my phonebook transferred from my old cell to my new one
• Steven and I are having dinner with my parents, my brother, and his girlfriend and Lupe Tortilla's in an hour
• Jeanna and I are going to Cirque du Soleil's Allegria on Thursday and we're going to get to have dinner before hand
• Friday's my Get Away Day at the day spa (and they let me get a refill on my nails instead of a manicure)
• The purse I got on eBay came in today and I am really happy with it (I had this bag before, but Coach quit making them)
• Steven and I should be planning our annual trip to Vegas pretty soon
• Jeff, one of the tech guys, is working on my TiVo for me, so hopefully it will be working perfectly again soon
• I got some great make-up on sale at Ulta today
• I'm going to go by some new bras after my day spa day at the Victoria's Secret right next door (their underwear always makes me happy)
• Did I mention my birthday is tomorrow?
• I love and am loved

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It’s Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess’s Participation Positives!

• I loved my much-needed nap with Bella after work today
• I changed Picture Fish over to Amy's template, and while it's got one small issue with the right side bar, I really like how it looks
• I played in a poker tournament tonight and got first place with an awesome queens full of sevens boat
• My buttercream candle smells yummy
• Next week is my birthday!
• Next week I get to see Cirque du Soleil's Allegria and I have a day at the day spa!
• I've also got plans next Monday to have dinner with my family to celebrate my birthday
• I mailed off my CDs today for Alison's First Ever Supa-Cool Fitness/Diet Blogger Workout CD Swap and I can't wait to get everyone else's CDs to listen to
• I'm really happy with the newest skin I made based on one of the CSS templates from the CSS Coloring Book
• I had a great time talking to Steven when he came home from work this evening
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I got kitty cuddles when I came home from work today. No matter what else happens during the day, that always makes me feel better.
• I've been having lots of relaxing fun playing Zeus and Poseidon
• My copy of Eddie Izzard: Dress To Kill came in
• The roses I bought for my desk last week at work still had a few live ones, so I have pretty roses next to my computer at home
• I got some stuff of my chest this morning to my boss and it felt good
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Steven and I had the most wonderful Friday night, just the two of us, and we had a great time out with friends on Saturday
• I've been StairMastering like crazy at very high levels and I'm proud of myself
• I adore the new Valentine's Day skin I made
• This week is Valentine's Day!
• Jeanna and I are planning on getting together this week.
• I finally figured out how to log on to EverQuest
• My petition for a last name on EverQuest was accepted and now I am Ibocea Illuminatra!

• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I messed around with my sidebars this weekend and added some nifty new stuff and also got everything neatly into php files
• I had my first Swappingtons trade
• Changes - Turning a New Leaf is up and running and it's really helping me to work out more
• I love a lovely weekend with my boy and he just brought me an orange (I love oranges!)
• I had a great time out with Jeanna on Friday
• It was a quiet Monday
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I finally fixed all the issues with the archives over at I Wish, You Wish (it was driving me batty)
• My new blog is almost ready to launch and I love how it looks
• I had a divine lunch with Steven today (delicious food and Sting playing in the background)
• I'm a bit more enthused about some stuff I have to do at work
• I smell like chocolate
• Jeanna and I e-mailed each other haikus this morning and it was fun
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I got Christmas presents from Jeanna and Kristine and I couldn't be happier with them
• Jeanna and I had a wonderful time running around yesterday
• I wrapped up a project that I've been working on and wanted to get done
• I drank all my water today! Go, me!
• My Comptoir Sud Pacifique’s Amour de Cacao perfume finally arrived
• I got the new Stephanie Plum book, Visions of Sugarplums, for half price today
• I got a ton of stuff knocked out on my latest To Do List
• I love and am loved

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I may no longer be Monday, but since Jess was late posting, I figured my Participation Positives could be late too.

• I put three new skins up in a week.
• It's a short work week
• I got to talk to that damned tart again this week on AIM
• My Comptoir Sud Pacifique’s Amour de Cacao perfume (it smells like chocolate! Delicious!) is on its way to me.
• I have beautiful orange roses thanks to my sweetie
• We no longer have to lock Bella in the bathroom during the day and I feel like a better cat mommy
• Ibocea, my EverQuest character, finally made it to level 40
• I'm *this* close to getting some projects done
• It's almost a new year!
• I love and am loved

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I know it's not Monday any longer, but I still want to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• We had the best anniversary over the weekend
• I love my new earrings
• I had fun hanging out with Jeanna Sunday
• I Wish, You Wish is still really going well
• Another project of mine is so close to being complete
• I got a lot of stuff done at work
• Ibocea, my EverQuest character, is almost to level 39
• Bella is completely litterbox trained and now gets to sleep with us at night which makes me so happy
• Bruce Campbell's autobiograpy If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor is so good and it frequently makes me laugh out loud
• It's almost Christmas!
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Mine and Steven's fifth anniversary (of our first date) is Friday
• The new project that Shelli and I are working on, I Wish, You Wish, is really coming along well and I think it's going to take off
• I figured out the damn redirect question that was bothering me
• Ibocea, my EverQuest character, is almost to level 39
• I love having a warm, purry kitty that likes to snuggle
• I got Bruce Campbell's autobiograpy If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor and it looks simply hysterical
• Despite being really busy, I had a pretty good day
• I am all done with my Christmas shopping!
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I bought some great Christmas gifts from Amazon today
• I've gotten to IM with that tart several times and have enjoyed her witty banter
• I got my very own Zip Zap car and when I stopped at Radio Shack on the way home, they had the purple PT Cruiser and yellow Mustang body kit
• The project that I've been working on is going really well and should be done soon
• I had a great deal in my Amazon Gold Box today
• Got some more cute stripey socks today (and thanks to Christine catching them ringing up at too much, didn't have to pay too much)
• Still having way too much fun playing EverQuest
• I love and am loved

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It’s no longer Monday, but I still wanted to start the week out right with Jess’s Participation Positives.

• I got to talk to Trish today, which I hadn't done in a long time
• The project that Russell (my brother) and I are working on is going great
• I love my pj bottoms and cute stripey socks
• I got to hang out with Jeanna and we both loved Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Bella's been using her box pretty regularly when prompted
• Things are just generally nice
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Steven and I met for lunch today and had a really nice time
• We had a great time in Austin on Saturday
• The meme I took over, Reasons For Love, has gotten a lot of positive response and people signing up (hint, hint - go visit that page!)
• I took some make-up back to Sephora with no hassle at all
• The weather has been really nice for several days now
• Still having way too much fun playing EverQuest
• I traded in the Longhorns shirt that Steven bought me when we went up to Austin because it was too tight and got an even cuter one
• The Cuisinart ICE-20 1-1/2-Quart Automatic Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt & Sorbet Maker, White that Kristine ordered from her Amazon.com Gold Box for me showed up today
• I love and am loved

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I know it's not Monday any more (got sucked into an EverQuest vortex for the past eight hours), but I still want to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Brian and Christine bought me lunch today
• Ibocea, my EverQuest character, is now up to level 19 and I'm having a blast playing
• My photos in Rannie's 300 Exposures in 30 Days Version 2.0 project are up and I'm really proud of them
• Thanks to Kristine, I ordered a Cuisinart ICE-20 1-1/2-Quart Automatic Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt & Sorbet Maker for Steven for Christmas at a Gold Box price
• I got to chat with Kristine for a little bit and she helped me out when I thought I'd screwed up my MT upgrade (damn CHMOD!)
• I got all kinds of little niftly things installed around here including permalinks in my comments
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Jeanna and I had an excellent time hanging out together and she loved her birthday presents
• I got some extremely cool make-up from Sephora
• Rannie choose me as one of the people in his next 300 Exposures in 30 Days project
• Even though I wasted several hours getting no experience, I had a kick ass time playing EverQuest this weekend and I can't wait to duo up with Brian
• Christine bought me a yummy lunch today at The Black-Eyed Pea just because
• I had a wonderful lunch with my parents on Saturday
• Steven bought me a Longhorns shirt when he was at the game Saturday because he knew I wanted one
• The book that I ordered from Amazon six weeks ago is shipping tonight (thank god for customer service people who finally get it right)
• I love and am loved

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It's just slightly past Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Steven and I had a nice date Saturday night
• I got a lot of things done on my To Do List
• My foot is a million times better and is actually almost back to new
• I started enjoying Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom a lot more and don't feel quite so disappointed in it
• I ordered some cool stuff online for myself
• I've been drinking all my water and can notice a difference in how I look and feel
• I feel very encouraged that I will be able to hit my weight-loss goal. It doesn't seem so impossible anymore
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Steven and I had a wonderful weekend together
• I set up my DVD Collection page this weekend and it didn't take me as long as I thought it would
• MizDos made me one of her Aortal Picks
• I did really well with my workouts and drinking my water last week
• I added a new skin and fixed and added a bunch of small MT hacks and things
• My insurance company is giving me the run-around on a lab bill, but my doctor's office stepped up and is handling it for me
• I love, love, love the nail polish color that I have on
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• My Adopt-An-Animal at Moody Gardens kit came in and now I can say I am officially the proud parent of a poison dart frog
• Steven offered to pay half of the latest vet bill that Bella racked up today ($140)
• I finally got all my pictures from Galveston up at Picture Fish
• The newest Anita Blake book, Narcissus in Chains, is so good and I can't figure out what's going to happen in the last 150 pages
• I've now been linked over 100 times by people blogrolling me
• For the first time ever, one of my photos (Spinning Mirror II) was featured on the main page at The Mirror Project
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I had a great mini-vacation with Jeanna and it was just what I needed
• I found a great little charity thing that I am mailing my check in for today - Adopt-An-Animal at Moody Gardens. I am adopting a poison dart frog.
• I bought some great stuff in Galveston - a cute purple shirt from Moody Gardens, a pretty pair of earrings, a fat peppermint striped cat ornament that is so adorable, a hex sign stained glass thing to hang in my window, and a birthday gift for Jeanna
• I took some really awesome photos in Galveston this weekend
• My ring was found last week and I am still psyched about it
• I got my bracelet back from B! Beads and it fits perfectly. I also got my new earrings and they are beautiful
• I won $50 on a lottery ticket when I was buying a Cherry Coke
• It's time for the new season of shows to start and ER and Alias are going to kick ass
• I got the new Anita Blake book, Narcissus in Chains
• Something at work may get changed and I will be very happy if it does
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• My picture, "Hellcat," is still number one in Photojunkie's Photo contest - "Movement" category
• My Tivo can record probably about 100 hours on medium quality now and it's working perfectly
• Stephen King's new book, From a Buick 8, comes out tomorrow
• Tori Amos's new album, Scarlet's Walk, comes out tomorrow and I've already pre-ordered from CDNow with gift certificates so it was free
• Bella has a doctor appointment so maybe we can finally figure out why she's peeing on the floor and fix the problem
• On the Blockbuster receipt was a coupon to buy Blade II for $9.99, so I'm going to get it for Steven (we rented it Saturday night and loved it)
• I think some positive changes are going to be happening at work soon
• I found a bunch of cool new blogs since I started Discovery Fridays
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Christine gave me a copy of Pump Up the Volume on DVD just because
• The new season of The Sopranos finally started
• I have about twenty-five great pictures to post in Picture Fish from an art exhibit that featured one of my uncle's pieces
• I am very proud of "Hellcat", my submission to Photojunkie's Photo contest "Movement"
• My copy of Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom finally shipped

• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I gave my brother one of his birthday gifts, a copy of Spy Hunter for the Playstation 2, and he was thrilled. I totally picked it on my own, so that was nice.
• I got some gorgeous beaded jewelry from B! Beads (I'll blog more about it later)
• I am very proud of my submission to Photojunkie's Photo contest "Fun With Macros"
• My Mr. Brown 10th Anniversary Special Limited Edition Reservoir Dogs arrived today

• Steven and I had a very nice "date" night Friday night
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Today is a paid day off from work
• This week will be a short week
• I won wKen's "Let Me Buy YOU Something" contest
• Bella's used her litterbox all weekend
• I bought my brother's birthday presents this weekend and I think he's going to like them
• I won two Bloggys
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• This week is going to be a short week because I'm taking Friday off (well, more than likely)
• Next Monday is a paid holiday
• I got first place in a poker tournament yesterday effectively doubling my meager accoutnt
• I got told I was fabulous today
• Polish It is all set up, even if no one wants to blog with me :)
• We have a new The Dead Zone episode to watch
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Bella spent her first night out with us and not in the bathroom and she didn't get into anything
• I StairMastered for forty minutes both Saturday and Sunday and feel that this is an easy extra step I can add to lose weight
• We have a new The Dead Zone episode to watch
• I'm still taking and posting one picture in Picture Fish every day. Plus, I think I've gotten some great pictures.
• I used my credits at SnapFish and got ten free pictures
• Jeanna and I are starting yoga tomorrow
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• Our new cat Bella is a great addition to the family. She's so sweet and I just love her to death.
• My chiropractor moved me to a vist every ten days instead of once a week
• I've been on the StairMaster every day for the past three days and I look and feel better
• We have a new The Dead Zone episode to watch
• I've still managed to take and post one picture in Picture Fish since July 21st
• I became a Happy Munkee
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I finally achieved Master rating at Pogo.com in Dominoes
• I've still managed to take and post at least one picture a day at Picture Fish since I started doing the 1000 Words a Day project

• I got as much done on Ernie's site that I could and he's really happy with it
• I lost an earring on Friday and today it turned up on Christine's desk
• I am completely mesmerized with Burnt Offerings, the lastest Anita Blake novel, and I can't wait to see what happens
• One of the programmers at work is borrowing my Anita Blake novels and he gave me Laurell K. Hamilton's newest books to keep because he knows how much I'll like them
• Steven and I had fun at the Dubai Reunion
• I got cool post delay script from Scripty Goddess to work
• Jeanna and I are going to go see Signs Thursday night and I can't wait to see both it and her
• My back and neck feel so much better and the chiropractor says I'm improving a lot
• We have a new The Dead Zone episode to watch
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I feel like I've gotten my good luck and poker playing skills back and have been doing awesome in my poker tournaments lately
• I had a hell of a time over at Michele's blogathon
• I've been working on a site for Steven's friend and he really likes what I've done so far
• I am really happy with some of the pictures that I've taken and posted in Picture Fish
• I have not missed one day posting a 1000 Words a Day post at Picture Fish
• I am now TrackBack enabled here and at Picture Fish thanks to Christine and Kristine
• I've got all of the Anita Blake books now
• We have a new The Dead Zone episode to watch
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I had a great time out with Jeanna at DCI on Friday and with Juidth on Saturday at the mall. It's good to go out with girlfriends!
• I managed to get first place in a couple of poker tournaments and get my account back up to a decent amount
• I got a really cute skirt from The Limited for only $15
• I adore my new camera and have added lots of cool pictures to Picture Fish
• I finally got my $100 Amazon.com gift certificate from Milesource so I was able to get fifth season of The X-Files on DVD and all of the Anita Blake books
• Lucky, the cat we found, seems to be happy and looks like he's doing better
• We have a new The Dead Zone episode to watch
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I love Steven so much and have such a wonderful time with him. Last night as we cuddled, I couldn't help but think how lucky I am that we found each other and how happy he makes me.
• I finally figured out where to use the little goldfishy link from my Pepperidge Farm Goldfish skin that Kristine made me. (Hint: check out my Blogrolling list.)
• Friday I'm taking a half-day to spend with Jeanna in Rice village before we go to Drum Corp International, which should be a lot of fun
• Saturday I get to see my friend Judith for the first time in quite a while
• I love my new Sony DSC-P71 Cyber-Shot 3MP Digital Camera
• I got some incredible photos with above camera into Picture Fish yesterday
• I got a ton of things done in my latest To Do List
• I love the Anita Blake, vampire hunter books that I started and can't wait to read the others
• We have a new The Dead Zone episode to watch
• My adjusted salary kicked in
• My neck and back feel great today
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I'm pretty caught up at work
• I was able to find the mp3 for New Year's Prayer by Jeff Buckley, the opening song from The Dead Zone
• We have a new The Dead Zone episode to watch
• I had some great ideas for small gifts for two people I care about
• My neck feels a lot better today
• I had a nice mini-break with the holiday weekend
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I got Picture Fish up and running this weekend and posted my first pictures
• It's a three day work week for me since I get Thursday and Friday off
• I got a new Sony DSC-P71 Cyber-Shot 3MP Digital Camera from Amazon and used tons of gift certificates and coupons, so it was really cheap
• The book I'm reading, Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat by John Welter, is hysterical
• Steven started watching The Dead Zone on USA with me and we both really like it
• I got some great support from my manager and boss this past week and, when I think about it, I've come very far in my job in a short amount of time
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I won an mp3 player this weekend in an online contest
• I got first place in one of Paradise Poker's online tournaments Friday which helped increase my depleted poker account
• I have over $300 in Amazon.com gift certificates
• I had a great weekend with Steven
• I have become inspired to set up a photolog and the talented Kristine posted a tutorial at Scripty Goddess that ought to make it easy to do
• I found my copy of Cemetery Dance magazine before Steven threw it away
• My neck and back have definitely started feeling better since I started seeing the chiropractor
• I sold my computer for $450, far more than I thought I'd get for it, and the lady is paying me for it tomorrow
• Next week my pay check will have my adjusted salary
• We have fish in our big tank finally
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• The business trip I went on was both more fun and more productive that I thought it would be
• The chiropractic adjustments seem to help make my neck and back feel better
• The khakis that I got from Victoria's Secret fit really nice and are very comfortable
• This paycheck I just got is my last one before my adjustment kicks in
• Steven asked me to lunch today
• I was playing an adventure in Poseidon yesterday and I was able to overcome the difficulties inherent in not having enough bronze instead of starting over like I thought I was going to have to (Just humor me on this.)
• I had a nice time with my parents and my brother this weekend when we went to dinner and went over to their house
• Last week I was able to take some CSS code from a site and figure out what it was doing all by myself (probably to be incorporated in yet another new skin)
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I have my new shirt on from Victoria's Secret. It's a beautiful pink color and I love it
• The jeans I bought from Victoria's Secret not only fit, but they look really great on me
• I bought a nice "business casual" outfit (skirt, top, and shoes) to take on my business trip for under $50
• I have a chiropracter appointment tomorrow, so maybe my neck and back will feel better
• Our business trip is to a very elite resort and we get to pick a free spa service
• The book I'm currently reading, Casual Rex by Eric Garcia, is very funny and I'm loving it completely
• I worked very hard on that big engineering diagram and completed the front-end. I am proud of the work I did on it.

• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• I finished a new skin for my site. Like I really need nine skins, but I have fun making them and that's the important thing.
• I saw Jeanna yesterday, whom I hadn't seen since my birthday, and we had a fun day
• I got some good books at the half-price bookstore yesterday
• Jeanna and I got excellent seats to DCI's (Drum Corp International) The exSIGHTment of Sound
• By changing up a span tag in my index template, I was finally able to get the title and date to display the way I want in my Goldfish Crackers from Pepperidge Farm skin
• A co-worker's step-dad is probably going to buy my old computer for $400
• One of Steven's friends is interested in me doing a small, brochure-type website for him which would mean extra cash
• I have definitely seen an improvement in my weight since I started drinking water every day
• Since I made up my mind to drink eight glasses of water at work I haven't missed a single day. (Well, except when we ran out of water!)
• I love and am loved

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It's Monday, so time to start the week out right with Jess's Participation Positives!

• It's Monday and I don't have to go to work
• I get paid for having the day off
• Steven and I had some great "dates" this weekend - dinner, movies, etc.
• I got my dominoes rating at Pogo back up to Expert
• I got some pretty roses sitting on my desk from Steven
• I played Civilization: Call To Power a lot this weekend and it kicks ass on my new computer
• I joined a few new webrings and got my calendar to look and work exactly like I wanted it to
• Steven bleached the main tank so we may be able to have fish in there again soon
• I love and and am loved

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I have decided I stress too much and worry about too many things, so in an effort to be more positive, I am going to start doing Jess's Participation Positives!

• A client meeting went exceptionally well this morning
• My nails are Maybelline's Tidal Wave, a brilliant blue which is my favorite color in the world
• Steven says he can see a difference in my weight with all the water I've been drinking
• I have been integral in getting three sites launched that people in the office thought would never launch
• My boss and I spoke with the president of the company and got a number for my adjustment in pay that will happen July 1st
• I realized today that we get next Monday off!

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