August Happiness Challenge -- Day 30

Sunday's Happy Cone goes to JAKE ARRIETA! The man threw a no hitter. Nine innings with nary a hit. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

I don't recall ever before watching a Cub no-hitter start-to-finish. Oh me, oh my, it is exciting! It occurred to me around the 5th inning that I might be watching history.

The man struck out the side in the 9th. Awesome.

What's that you say? What's the August Happiness Challenge?

Each day in August you are to post about something that makes *you* happy. Pretty simple. And, it doesn't even have to be every day if you don't want it to be. It's a great way to remind ourselves that there are positive things going on in our lives, our communities, and the world.

If you want to play along, just come back here (meaning to this blog, not this individual post) each day in August, looking for the happy chocolate cone. Every day I will try to have a post with the headline: August Happiness Challenge: Day [X]. Leave a comment and then post your own daily happiness, with August Happiness Challenge in the title to make it easy to find.

Sunday Stealing

Well, I'll Be ...

If I were a month, I’d be: May, the lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray.

 
If I were a day of the week, I’d be: Thursday

 
If I were a planet, I’d be: the moon. Yeah, I know it's a satellite. But still, I like the moon.

 
If I were a god or goddess, I’d be: Freyja. She was the Norse goddess in charge of your major life forces -- fertility, sex, war and currency -- and she rode around in a chariot pulled by giant gray cats.

 
If I were a sea animal, I’d be:  a sea horse

 
If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be: lumpy

 
If I were a gemstone, I’d be: indestructible

 
If I were a flower, I’d be a: snapdragon

 
If I were a kind of weather, I’d be: clear and cool

If I were a color, I’d be: Pantone 294, which is Cubbie blue

 
If I were an emotion, I’d be:  confused

 
If I were a fruit, I’d be a: banana

 
If I were a sound, I’d be: a cat's purr

If I were an element, I’d be: rain, light rain

 
If I were a place, I’d be: the train station

 
If I were a taste, I’d be: barbecue sauce

 
If I were a scent, I’d be: cinnamon

 
If I were an object, I’d be a: pencil cup

 
If I were a body part, I’d be: the ball of the foot

 
If I were a song, I’d be: "All My Loving" by The Beatles

 
If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be: comfy

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 29

Saturday's Happy Cone goes to my nephew. We had lunch together. He's growing into an interesting young man. Here he is, just a high school sophomore, and he's very enthusiastic about Bernie Sanders.  He asked me why I wasn't. I told him frankly that I don't believe Bernie can win But I didn't want to pee on his parade. So instead I told him my war stories, working on the Clinton, Kerry and Obama campaigns. He wanted to know exactly what I did. I told him how tedious volunteer campaign work can be, that the satisfaction comes from believing you're doing good, doing something that matters.

This is not how every sophomore wants to spend his Saturday afternoon. He's an interesting kid.

What's that you say? What's the August Happiness Challenge?

Each day in August you are to post about something that makes *you* happy. Pretty simple. And, it doesn't even have to be every day if you don't want it to be. It's a great way to remind ourselves that there are positive things going on in our lives, our communities, and the world.

If you want to play along, just come back here (meaning to this blog, not this individual post) each day in August, looking for the happy chocolate cone. Every day I will try to have a post with the headline: August Happiness Challenge: Day [X]. Leave a comment and then post your own daily happiness, with August Happiness Challenge in the title to make it easy to find.