Sunday Stealing

Morning Meme

1) What do you typically have for breakfast? Chocolate milk.

2) What was your favorite breakfast cereal when you were a kid? Triple Snack. It disappeared from store shelves after a couple years. I guess pouring milk on peanuts was a non-starter in most households. But this little gal loooooved it.

I was happy to find the above clip. I almost thought I'd imagined Triple Snack.

  
3) Orange juice, tomato juice or cranberry juice? I'm gonna go rogue here and say apple juice.

4) What time is your alarm clock set for? No one time. 7:00 on Tuesdays (for yoga) and 8:00 on days when I work. Before covid, when I worked downtown every day, my alarm was set for 6:00, but I woke up at the same time for so many years I often didn't need the alarm.

5) Do you have any tips for preventing stress and making the morning go more smoothly? Decide what you're going to wear the day before, right down to necklace, watch and earrings.

 

August Happiness Challenge – Day 23

My 2025 Happiness Icon

Today's happiness: I took the high road. I know my friend Elaine cares about me. She has shown it often and in many ways. That said, she can be heedless of my feelings. I think some of it is cultural. She grew up in a very old school Chinese-American household and outward displays of emotion and self-expression are just not her way. I don't think she recognizes my sensitivity.

 

Today she sent me a long email about the progress of her renovation project. She's obviously excited. I admit it: I was tempted to be dismissive, as she recently was over something important to me. But I wasn't.

 

Because here's the thing: I'm sure her slight wasn't intentional. Mine would be. She may have been callous, but I would have been vindictive. That's not who I want to be. That's not the friend she deserves.

 

I guess I'm happy that, at this old age, I'm growing up. 

Happy 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.

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