Saturday, August 09, 2014

Saturday 9

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Saturday 9: Super Duper Love If you're not familiar with today's song, you can hear it here .   1) The lyrics say, ...
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Friday, August 08, 2014

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 8

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Today's happiness -- Javier Baez. Our brand-new second baseman made his debut at Wrigley Field today and got a noisy, bat-breaking sin...

Me and Morales

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My older sister had heart surgery yesterday. According to my kid sister, the surgeon found blockages but she's going to recover and is l...
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August Happiness Challenge -- Day 7

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Today's happiness -- Beautiful summer weather. Upper 70's with a slight breeze. The sky filled with big, puffy white clouds. The s...
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Thursday, August 07, 2014

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 6

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Today's Happiness (1) -- Walgreens. The drugstore chain is keeping their headquarters here in the United States, here in Illinois. Thi...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2014

WWW.WEDNESDAY

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To play along, just answer the following three questions ... • What are you currently reading? At Risk by Patricia Cornwell. It...
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Feelin' Weirdly

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Back in 1967, Simon & Garfunkle recorded "The 59th Street Bridge Song," better known as "Feelin' Groovy." It...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2014

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 5

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Today's happiness --Trader Joe's Mini Mouthfuls. Imagine an Oreo filled with mint chocolate chip ice cream. I love these little gu...
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Monday, August 04, 2014

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 4

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  Today's happiness -- TCM Summer Under the Stars . I was going to go to work today. I got up with the alarm, took my shower … and ...
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Sunday, August 03, 2014

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 3

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Today's happiness -- $8. I purchased two ( two! ) tickets for the Illinois State Lottery last month and just discovered today that the...
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People can surprise you

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I had lunch today with Joanna, one of the women I met through my classic film Meetup . She's so bright and accomplished that I'm sur...

Sunday Stealing

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Fun Fifteen     1. You have been awarded the time off from work and an all-expenses paid week anywhere in the United States. The catch...
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Saturday, August 02, 2014

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 2

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Today's happiness: Gray and white cats. I feel crappy. My chest feels tight when I cough, my nose is stuffed up and my head hurts....
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Saturday 9

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Saturday 9: My Life 1) This song begins with the story of a man who moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a comic. What comedian ...
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Friday, August 01, 2014

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 1

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Today's happiness: The Village Book Fair. I'm so glad that I live in a village of book lovers, where the library has three branch...
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I guess in New York they're kept in pens

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My day got off to a bad start. I don't think my cold is a cold, I think it's something worse. I was so weak I actually fell asleep i...
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Meet Twirl Girl

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I love her freedom and independence, how everyone else is focused on something in the other direction but here she is, moving to her own ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

NOT happy!

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Looks like I'm entering August and the Happiness Challenge with a cold. I'm sneezing and my throat is scratchy. DAMMIT! ...
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July Journal Challenge

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Day 31 -- Celebration Right now I want to celebrate "these kids today." Specifically two young women. Today a very young a...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

July Journal Challenge

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Day 30 -- How today felt Crappy.  My boss literally has not looked at or spoken to me this week. I've heard through the grapevin...
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WWW.WEDNESDAY

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To play along, just answer the following three questions ... • What are you currently reading? At Risk by Patricia Cornwell....
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July Journal Challenge

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Day 29 -- I wish … For serenity.  
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Teaser Tuesday

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Here's how to play this meme . • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sente...
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July Journal Challenge

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Day 28 -- Something/someone you love Since a trio of them are facing adversity right now, my friends are top of mind at the moment. ...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Today she would be 85

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Equestrian and dog lover, photographer, editor, wife, mother and grandmother. Oh yeah, and First Lady. What son John said when ...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014

Sunday Stealing

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From A to Z A If you were an ANIMAL, what would you be? I'd be one of my cats. I try to give them a good life and if I could be one ...
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It's almost happy time

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Every year I take the August Happiness Challenge. Here's a brief explanation of the Challenge: "Each day in August you are to ...
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