The Jar of Awesome

I've been feeling somewhat grumpy about the internet lately.  Every day it seems there's another article about our personal information being compromised.  And now I hear that my Starwood Rewards account information has possibly been hacked, together with about 500 million other SPG members.

And each of us puts so much information on the internet, what with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.  My blog, even, is chock full of information about me.

So I deactivated it.  The End.

But I had a really great day today, and realized I needed to say something about the Jar of Awesome.

So, I reactivated the blog. 

About the Jar of Awesome ...

I've mentioned before that I volunteer with the mentorship program at Bridges for Women.  At one of our meetings I met another volunteer who is a published author!  So I got her book out of the library and read it.  It's a nice little romance, written in conjunction with three other women authors.  In my search for a contact email to tell her how much I enjoyed it, I came across her blog and the Jar of Awesome.

The Jar of Awesome is a repository for those wonderful, but often simple, things that happen in your life.  You write yourself a little note about that wonderful experience, that person who was so nice to you, or that satisfying accomplishment, and pop it into the jar.  Then anytime you want, you can open up that jar and be reminded of it.  I started my Jar of Awesome in an old Tupperware container a couple of weeks ago.  So far it has three notes in it.  Today's note is particularly awesome, because it's about a Bridges experience.

So, thank you, Rachel Goldsworthy, for telling me about the Corsair's Cove books and the Jar of Awesome.

And thank you, You-Know-Who-You-Are, for today's awesome-ness.

And the blog continues ...