It’s been freezing cold in Malmö today, but the sun has been out and it has felt like an early spring day. I’ve been out walking all day to try and get as much vitamin D as possible. Maybe not all day, and maybe not walking all of the time. I am a “fika”-master, remember? My first pit stop was at the café Lite Off. A filtered coffee (with a refill) was served as I was sat outside in the freezing cold (but sunny) November weather, reading one of my books. You might call it study, but I still call it reading.

As I was sat there with the book in my hand, music playing in my ears and my body sucking in all the vitamin D possible, I though of something. A Challenge. I’m going to challenge myself, or more test myself, for how many days in a row I can be happy. The word happy can mean many different things of course, and it can change in the course of the day, but I’m going to take it all into consideration and try to write it all down. Even the not so happy days. Let’s try and answer this 100-days-in-a-row question, or at least get some statistics out of it. It starts today, Monday (even if I don’t like starting things on Mondays…). Maybe you want to join in even! #100happydays

Today is a happy day. I’m still in the flow from yesterday, which is amazing. Dancing and singing. I’m actually having a hard time not moving! It could be that my blood sugar is all good and dandy. Or I’m just happy. Sometimes it’s just that easy.

I don’t know what happens in my body, but when it starts I just can’t stop it. The song that got me up on my feet today was Listen to the music with The Doobie Brothers. But (!) I learned from yesterday, so today I’m dancing around with my book. Yes, open! (For them who imagined me dancing around with a closed book and a big smile.) I have to finish it today!

My extreme headache that I have had today, probably due to the weather changes or my cold since a week back, is nothing I will see as affecting my happiness in this challenge. It’s a challenge in the challenge to change all the small daily things that tries to drag you down. As I’ve said before, it’s all in the way you choose to deal with, see and react to things. Embrace it all, but let some things bounce off.

Just shake it off!

So! 100 days from today means this little challenge, or maybe more a project, is ongoing until the 14th of February 2018. Fourteen Weeks and two days. For someone who’s been working away for as long as I have, I know that fourteen weeks is not that far away.

Uh! Tina! Disco Inferno in the speakers. Sorry, one second…

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I’m back.

Today I feel like I want to go all in. Just smile the fourteen weeks away. I would get hugely surprised if I could keep it up for that long though. I mean… Autumn turning into winter with all the weather changes and mood swings that comes with it. Other people affecting you, that you sometimes can’t control. Unforeseen events. PMS!!! And so on… But shame on me if I wouldn’t at least try and give it a go.

These none retouched photos of me is from last Christmas Eve on board Princess Seaways, DFDS (so excuse the overhead in one of them). The only day of the year where the crew on board has a day off. And maybe a glass of wine or two with the Christmas dinner. It was around this day I decided to get the happy old me back, and to put myself before others (or at least try). I had already got her back, as you can see, so it started really well. I mean, who gets this excited over Christmas presents being 30+?! And, on top, in seethrough wrapping!? But that’s me: “Someone thought of me!” (Plus the gifts were funny ones. Not all, but some)

Anyway… This happy self is my reminder. Happy happy happy. And sometimes, for no reason at all!