Okay, I can’t help it. Shelly, over at This Eclectic Life posted this for her Only The Good Friday meme. I have a bit of personal good to post, and I’ll get to it in a minute, but this video made my night, so I simply have to post it here. The Righteous Mothers. Yeah. These women RAWK!
And unlike our modest Shelly, I WILL join them in solidarity! (Yeah, yeah… any excuse to get naked. LOL)

So, it may anticlimactic after that, but I have a couple things for OtGF. First though, let’s talk about this wonderful woman Shelly, and the concept for Only The Good Friday. Shelly says:

We are living in some pretty negative times, aren’t we? You can’t pick up a newspaper or turn on the television without hearing more bad news about the economy, the war, the stock market, the political candidates. I think that many of us are living in a state of fear (though I’m in the state of Texas).

Fear feeds upon itself. It’s like a contagious virus. I’m tired of adding to it. I want to start another kind of “virus.”

You see, I think that optimism can be contagious, too. If we consciously try to look at the good in the world around us, it will become easier to see.

I really like this idea. Any of you regulars who have peeked in on Thorne’s World once in awhile over the last year know that between my political activism and blogging, and some pretty heavy personal life stuff, I kinda crashed. Well; no “kinda” about it. The world and life pretty much kicked my ass into a sever depression that I have been trying to pull out of for the last several months. It’s rough for me once I hit the blog, because I seem to have gotten caught up in everything that’s wrong, and when I check in online I still see so much that outrages or upsets me that I have a bit of a hard time keeping to my resolve to try to stay a little calm and happy and out of the outrage and anger and sadness. Shelly’s meme is so GOOD for me!! No matter what’s going on, on Fridays at least I can say to myself “Turn it around, woman! What can you say-think-write-feel-do today that is good?! Positive! Hopeful!!”
Won’t you join us?? Help spread the good love for Only The Good Friday!

So, here’s a bit of my good.

Thornie got a car!!! Woo Hoo!!! It’s a cute little thing, too! A lil gold Dodge Daytona hatchback with only 54K original miles! It’s in pretty good shape; only one lil doing on the front left quarter panel, runs great, clean interior and it’s mine! yay! I’m mobile again finally!! This is soooo GOOD!!!

More personal good is that I finally hit 20K words tonight for NaNoWriMo! Yay, me! I’ve been running a bit behind and I still am a couple thou down on my word count, but I’m feeling fine and plan to knock out another 2K or so tonight. Have coffee will write!

Another bit of good was left by Aaron, who took the time to comment on my post entitled Labor On, and thanks to a nifty (good) little gadget called Comment Luv, I was led back to his last post entitled Perception is Reality. It’s a really GOOD post. Go check him out.

The last bit of good I have time to post is the absolute best. (I have to get back to writing my novel). Shelly. She is my big GOOD today. She is an incredible writer and storyteller, an humorous and fun blogger, and a beautiful red haired woman, but all these are secondary at best to the simple fact that she is a precious person. She has a huge heart and a bright spirit, and I adore her beyond measure.
Shelly, I love you. Thank you for all you do, for your love and concern and support this past year. Thank you for being you!