What Determines Your Mood?

Published on August 12, 2005 By JillUser In Misc

I am trying to figure out what made my mood yesterday so different from today. Yesterday I felt energetic and determined to get things done. Today I feel down and bummed.

The weather is gloomy today but it was a bit gloomy yesterday too. I got up earlier yesterday. I think that and the fact that my husband was in a terrible mood this morning put me in a funk. When he leaves for work mad I just feel like going back to bed for the day.

Yesterday I just got going and did stuff. Today I feel bogged down by all of the stuff I know I want to get done but just don't feel like I know where to start. I don't feel compelled to just jump into doing stuff like I did yesterday.

Know what I mean?

Comments (Page 2)

JillUser

on Aug 12, 2005

chocolate does a lot to cheer me up. You should try that and see!

If you insist!

I don't think the weather so much did it as the lack of sunshine when I first got up combined with my hubby's bad mood (work related + something I did to tick him off right away). I interacted with some nice people at Home Depot and am now feeling a bit more upbeat. Sunshine sure would help though.

foreverserenity

on Aug 12, 2005

If you insist!

Go for it!

don't think the weather so much did it as the lack of sunshine when I first got up combined with my hubby's bad mood (work related + something I did to tick him off right away). I interacted with some nice people at Home Depot and am now feeling a bit more upbeat. Sunshine sure would help though.

I understand. Yesterday some part of my mood was due to my husband and I having a disagreement. But we made up! As for the sunshine...it's so pitch black outside where I am...it's going to be heavy downpour on the way home!

OckhamsRazor

on Aug 13, 2005

I ALONE determine my mood and how I feel.
Someone can call me "an old, wrinkled~up, grey-haired biddy" and I can choose to sit and have a cry
and wish I'd never been born, or I can laugh hysterically, agree, and get up and go put on some music
and see if I can still do the Peppermint Twist......

Sometimes things pile up, just like dog doo-doo in the middle of winter, and it's over
whelming ya know?? we DO have the ability to think it through, and CHOOSE our response
and how we will handle it, or if we're just going to "react". It takes practice to choose to
handle any given situation

Trudy, you rule. Insightful submitted.

crimson

on Aug 13, 2005

Well, I hate to admit it but $$$$$$$ makes me feel a lot happier! When I know I'm down to my last dollar, I can't help but feel a little blue.

Dr Guy

on Aug 13, 2005

chocolate does a lot to cheer me up. You should try that and see!

If you insist

WOW! That took a lot of arm twisting!

JillUser

on Aug 13, 2005

I'll take any excuse to eat chocolate! During Harry Potter's run-ins with dementors I kept thinking "cool! Look at all the chocolate he gets to eat!"

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