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Today I had a traumatic morning. I have been having trouble sleeping more than three or four hours a night for over a week now. Then last night I had to stay up for a EEG in the morning. The EEG freaked me out a lot. They had me get all relaxed until I fell asleep for about 45 minutes and then all of the sudden voices came through speakers all around me and strobe lights went off all around me. It was almost like one of the nightmares I've been having at night. Anyway, I hope you like the painting and good night.

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Today started beautify with a huge stack of pancakes and a big cup of coffee. I then did some plumbing work for the rest of the day until my appointment. That's when my day shifted. I just have the hardest time grasping the concept of trusting some stranger with my personal feelings and experiences. I spoke to someone else about this and they helped me to realize that it's not the person I have the trouble with it's what they represent to me.

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Today's color is orange which represents the changing leaves that I have been enjoying on my hikes. It's my favorite time of year. The air is clear, crisp and starting to drop. Perfect for that morning jog, comfortable all day and the best for sleeping at night.

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Another thing that naturally improves my mood is exercise. We all know this but don't all do this. I bet it's one of the top things people plan to do. You always here " I'm thinking about joining the gym".

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I got extremely upset multiple times today. White is the color that I choose to represent the way I feel when I become so consumed by anger that I allow it to alter my whole day.

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Today I choose pink to represent that cloud that is going to magically appear making all our problems go away.

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Today the color is yellow. This was suggested by an old friend who was trying to cheer me up a bit last night. She made me laugh and smile and that means allot to me . It's nice to talk to people from my past. I think they where put in my life for a reason and all possess a little piece of who I am. -Joshua

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The stroke, a bright orange hue is in appreciation of someone that makes me smile every time I see him who happens to favor this color.

I am in a good mood. I had a long and very enjoyable instant message conversation with a good friend about everything from relationships to laughing in our sleep. You forget how powerful laughter really is until you just feel it trumping your emotions and monopolizing your thoughts leaving you silly and senseless for a moment. Well I remember now and it's great. ~Josh

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All I have to offer the world is the way words weave together in my mind. With a spectrum of color intertwined. Needing to escape the oppressive grays of negative perception and beam like a prism in every direction. ~Joshua Cairns (Today's color is magenta)

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‎ Lucky number 13. Some like this number and some don't. I guess anything can be given different meaning or power which can represent the whole scale from good to evil, to protect or cause harm, just like this number. What I have done is given it a color and that color is orange. -Josh

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Today was a good day so I decided to go with the color yellow. One of the things I'm working on is being more in control of my moods on the not so good days. I was reading a girls blog earlier and she had a cool idea. What she does each day is writes down three positive thoughts. She writes them on her blog but anyone could take a couple minutes and just write them on some paper. It doesn't even have to be about you. Any three positive thoughts. You here people say "if you tell yourself something enough times you'll believe it". Why not make that statement true and start having more good days? I'm going to try it. I would be interested in knowing about other methods that are working for other people. Thank you -Josh