August Happiness Challenge -- Day 28

Today's happiness -- That was a surprise

My DVR is always 90%+ full and I'm forever having to delete things I don't want to. Now, suddenly, my DVR reads less than 40%, and I haven't deleted a thing. Xfinity upgraded me! I had no idea. This made me happy.

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.

Sunday Stealing

UPSTREAM LIFE

1. Your favorite sport. To borrow from Robert Redford in The Natural, "God, I love baseball." Here is my current favorite picture of my favorite player, Anthony Rizzo of the (gulp!) Yankees. I will always wish he was still a Cub.

Isn't he lovely? Isn't he wonderful?

2. A quote to live by. "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." Nora Ephron.

3. A city in the US you would like to move to. I really don't want to live anywhere other than Chicago. I belong here. If I could live anywhere in Chicago, it would be The Palmolive Building. It's an art deco jewel, built in the 1920s. Sometimes, when I fly into O'Hare after dark, I can see its beacon. That was added to help guide Lucky Lindy in 1930. It offers really spectacular views. Now all I need is the $1,000,000 to buy in.

4. 3 beautiful little things in your life. I'm defining "beautiful" as things that lift my heart. 1) My cats; 2) day baseball; 3) buttery mashed potatoes.

5. What made you laugh today? I didn't laugh, but Willie Geist on Sunday Today did make me smile.

6. A good deed you did today. My you're demanding! I'm still in my pajamas! I just signed up to write for Letters Against Isolation.

7. Activities you like to do when you are bored. Fart around on the internet.

8. Are you a procrastinator? Good goobies, YES!

9. Your thoughts about dying. I hope it will be peaceful.

10. What super power would like to have? I would like your basic Samantha Stephens complement of powers: Teletransportation between locations, snapping my fingers to do housework, twitching my nose to make time stand still.

11. Top 3 Netflix series. Mostly I watch individual shows and movies on Netflix, not series. Sorry.

12.  Things you want to do before you die. I don't think in those terms.

13. Your biggest fears. Dying in a plane crash. Wouldn't teletransportation be much better?

14. What makes you angry? Conspiracy theorists. The election was not stolen. Donald Trump is an elite, the scion of a New York real estate family, and not the victim of elites. Barack Obama was born in the United States. Bill Clinton did not put out a hit on Jeffrey Epstein. Ted Cruz' dad had nothing to do with the JFK assassination. And while we're talking about JFK, his son died in a plane crash before the turn of the millennium and he's not coming back. Just recounting this drivel gives me a headache. Can you imagine how desperately sad life must be like for people who believe this shit? 

15. Do you listen to podcasts? Sometimes. One I recently enjoyed was Born to Rule, about Prince Charles and the monarchy's next chapter. 

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 27

Today's happiness -- Marilyn

August is Summer Under the Stars on TCM. Every day a different star gets the spotlight for 24 hours. Today was Marilyn Monroe. I DVR'd one I've never seen before (Ladies of the Chorus) and watched Some Like It Hot in real time.

She is such a delight.

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.