Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.  You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.  You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.  And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never be lax about maintaining it, you must make a ( Read more... )

Dear Sandwhich Box,

A friendly reminder from me to you that a little Dijon goes a hell of a long way.

Seriously.  The back of my fucking head was tingling.

Less describes something that is not finite, like a trait. 
Fewer describes finite, listable items.

Although for the record, this author and I do not share the same opinion on oxford commons (I feel they always should be used)

if you have weight/food/marketing rage issuses, you may not want to click on either of these.

1)  Media makes me unhappy.  Then I make me unhappy for actually thinking about this for a few seconds.  This rant is about Special K.  Now, is it just me?  Or did they not have a commercial back in the day where men cried about their thighs, arm fat and ( Read more... )

While scourging the web for semi-related news stories this morning i came across some promos for a new book:

Lonely: Learning to live in Solitude.  (Macleans has a nice little review on it.)

And i'm curious about picking it up, about reading it.  Would it be good... or depressing?  I feel lonely a lot of the time already, so I wonder if reading this ( Read more... )

Wanted to pass this on. I'm liking it because it puts concrete steps to common sense. And that's the thing about common sense isn't it? So often, we don't even *think* about it until someone points it out. And then we say Duh.. I knew that all along. But if you knew that, why werent you doing it miss smarty pants?

When you have major changes ( Read more... )

Things change. Nothing is really permanent, durable maybe, but not permanent. Stay open to change and be ready to get kicked in the ass, or balls, as it were, sometimes.

Methinks this gentleman is a smart one.

Grey/Gray:  same word.  Brittish spelling / American spelling ( Read more... )

Crown Assest - the government sizes it and sells it off again - CHEAP.

Starting bid for a laptop?  $50
Paintings?  $10
Revolving Darkroom Door?  Who knows - but they got one.

Yeah, I may have spent the last 30 mins on here looknig up stuff.  But in my defense, I was trying to find a filing cabinet for work.  So it all events out.

 put the kool aid down people.

and walk away.

slowly.