Can You Choose Your Mood?

Yesterday I covered the Virginia Tech shootings for BlogHer. I am intensely relieved it didn't escalate the way it did in 2007, but it was tough to sit and watch and wait for updates via Twitter from student journalists locked inside buildings. I'm hoping today the news is a little less exciting. Maybe a politician will say something stupid. 

Twitter just told me rockets hit Israel. (sigh)

But it's Friday and I've been crabby about the holidays (the wrapping! and the buying things for a million people! and the decorating! and the cards sitting in a huge pile that I haven't dealt with yet! and the gifts that need to be hand-constructed for second grade gift exchanges! and the homework!). I don't want to be crabby, don't mean to be crabby, and today I am going to choose not to be crabby. And we'll see how that goes.

Does that work for you? Can you decide to be in a certain mood? I will check back in later and see if it worked.