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Three Thoughts for Thursday

Three Thoughts for Thursday

Power outages, talking to a friend, and Valentine's Day in this week's 3 thoughts.

  1. There’s nothing like a power outage to make a person appreciate electricity.
  2. Happiness is a phone call from a friend you haven’t talked to for a long time and feeling like you’ve never been apart.
  3. This Valentine’s Day, I’ll be thankful for the Man of Steel. We don’t have the overalls he wore when he proposed, though I still have my jumper. And we still have each other. Life doesn’t get much better than this.

What are you thankful for this week? Leave a comment.

Three Thoughts for Thursday

Three Thoughts for Thursday

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  1. The sun’s been hanging around until almost 6 PM lately. Don’t say that too loudly when you’re outdoors. We don’t want to scare it away.
  2. Happiness is when your mom’s only living sister and her husband, two dear people who have been part of your life since forever, call and say, “Don’t you and your sister and brother beat yourselves up for moving your mom to assisted living. You did everything you could for her for many years. Remember that.”
  3. I finished Lila by Marilynne Robinson a couple weeks ago and thought it was one of the best books I’ve read in a good long while. Then I read Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford and thought it was one of the best books I’ve read in a good long while. What’s one of the best books you’ve read in a good long while?
Top Ten Things I Wish I’d Known Sooner

Top Ten Things I Wish I’d Known Sooner

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10.  Sometimes Dry Clean Only tags are a lie.

9.   Everything that happens before one is born is not necessarily ancient history.

8.   On the other hand the day after graduation, high school cliques are immediately ancient history.

7.   Green olives have a lot of calories.

6.   Men and women really do think differently.

5.   The stories in Weekly Reader Magazine from elementary school? They frequently left out some pretty important information.

4.   Parents know what they’re talking about.

3.   How to make cilantro-peanut pesto. (More on that in tomorrow’s post.)

2.   Happy people give thanks more than they worry.

1.   Love is a choice, not a feeling.

What do you wish you’d known sooner? Leave a comment.

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Three Thoughts for Thursday

Three Thoughts for Thursday

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  1. To be added to the present Laws of Nature list: Random plumbing and electrical problems, even those not weather-related, will always surface during severe cold snaps or blistering heat waves.
  2. Happiness = Seeing Facebook status updates about former elementary students succeeding in their careers, marrying soul mates, and cherishing their babies.
  3. My Alaska-born-and-raised husband’s response to the slew of school closing due to the polar vortex: What’s the big deal? When we were kids, we waited for the bus when the temperature was -20, -30, or -40. And we went out to recess every day no matter what. What’s the big deal anyway?*

*Just one more reason he’s called the man of steel.

What did you do during the great Polar Vortex of 2014? Leave a comment.

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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

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Contrary to the lyrics of the Andy Williams song, I do not consider Christmas the most wonderful time of the year. For me, the most wonderful time of the year was last Saturday, when a new Day Runner calendar refill arrived in the mail.

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I could hardly wait to open the package, tear off the shrink wrap, and riffle through the stack of perfectly cut paper. They were all there: 365 individual planner pages, the 2013–2016 at-a-glance calendar, and 12 two-page monthly tabbed calendars.

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My hands held the promise of the ability to organize an entire year’s worth of endless possibilities into bite-sized, manageable pieces. Not that every possibility will come to fruition. But the presence of the Day Planner refill means that not all of them will be forgotten or brushed aside. Some of them will come to fruition.

The Day Planner also feeds my obsessive-compulsive tendencies, curbs irritability, and reduces twitchiness out in public. Which makes its arrival not only the most wonderful time of the year for me, but also for my husband. That makes it a bargain at any price.

But enough about my most wonderful time of the year. What makes you happy? Leave a comment.