What's a misanthrope to do? Handstand, Hand Balancing & Acrobatics Tips and Tutorials Inside. The Life of a White Elephant Gift « I’m ba-ack. Never did I think I’d miss my cozy dorm room, but it feels nice to be back into its space-confining arms. After more than a week in Kansas, we arrived home last night and are implementing many things for our 2010 selves. Until then, I’ll continue to eat my weight in chocolate. An item that did not come home with us this year was R’s white elephant gift. Here it is, in all it’s glory. So R tried to give it away as part of his secret santa gift.
R drew our brother-in-law’s name for our annual secret santa amongst the siblings. At least I thought we were. R was clever with his money, though. As an extra touch of thoughtfulness, R added his lovely pear plate (free of charge) to his secret santa gift. Joe was thrilled. A few days later, we found the pear plate hiding in a cupboard. “Oh, Hail No”, my mom said. So she suggested I wrap up the plate and give it to R during his family’s christmas morning. And being the dutiful daughter, I did. R was not as thrilled as Joe. Like this: 12 Things Happy People Do Differently. Post written by: Marc Chernoff Email by Jacob Sokol of Sensophy “I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed.
I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.” -Dan Millman Studies conducted by positivity psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky point to 12 things happy people do differently to increase their levels of happiness. These are things that we can start doing today to feel the effects of more happiness in our lives.
I want to honor and discuss each of these 12 points, because no matter what part of life’s path we’re currently traveling on, these ‘happiness habits’ will always be applicable. Express gratitude. – When you appreciate what you have, what you have appreciates in value. Photo by: Aurelio Asiain. The 4HWW vs. YMOYL | Single Mom Rich Mom. The books The Four Hour Workweek and Your Money or Your Life have a few things in common: They both appeal to a person that doesn’t want to wait until they’re 65 to live a life where work doesn’t suck up 50+ hours a week of their lives. (That’s Me! And probably You!) They both advocate being as efficient about earning and spending money as possible – YMOYL through deferring gratification, saving and investing and the 4HWW through “having it all” now by building a “muse” business (that will run itself) or getting a job where you can lie to your employers and pretend that you’re working full-time.
Before reading YMOYL years ago, I read every book I could get my hands on along the lines of Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow . Here are a few reasons why I preferred YMOYL over the 4HWW: YMOYL gives a “recipe” that ANYBODY can easily follow to reach financial independence. Untitled. p70-97.pdf (application/pdf Object) Statistics. People are always asking me about divorce statistics, so I decided to set out what I know here. This page talks about the divorce rate and the times when people divorce. What is the Divorce Rate? We read constantly in the popular media about the “burgeoning divorce rate.”
That was true in the 60’s and 70’s, but it’s no longer true today. In addition, everyone has heard the adage that one half of all marriages end in divorce. That’s probably more or less true, but I'm not able to verify it. The divorce rate as a percentage of married women over 15 doubled from 1960 until about 1979, when it reached a plateau and began to decline. For those who insist on knowing the chances that a marriage will fail, there is one principle that is clearly true. When Do People Divorce? Marilyn Monroe notwithstanding, there’s no evidence of any “Seven Year Itch” at which husbands or wives tend to seek divorce. First marriages ending in divorce last an average of 11 years for both men and women.
Katy Cheuvront / Pinterest. You Are Not So Smart. The Traveling Red Dress Project. | Blog con Queso. Above photo by Better in Bulk. As I know I’ve mentioned before, my friend Jenny is always coming up with these fantastic things that make her (and others) furiously happy. You probably know about our Beyonce adventure. And the Twilight wolf costume dance off. And the time she and her readers saved Christmas. But now, as we’re looking ahead, making resolutions and starting fresh, I’d like to talk about something more personal, related to furious happiness…happiness in your own skin. It started as a random idea. In Jenny’s words... I want, just once, to wear a bright red, strapless ball gown with no apologies. So she bought the dress. All for different reasons. All have stories attached to them. And there are many, many stories, more all the time…You can read about some of them here.
Or here. Or here. Or here. Or, you can even read about mine here. As I said on Hitting Refresh, Jenny brought this dress over to my house on my 40th birthday and insisted that we do a shoot. It’s inspiring. Exercises for Fiction Writers - Page 2. Top 10 Strategies for Getting Back Your Lost or Stolen Stuff. For #3, if you have administrator access to a Premier/Education/Government edition of Google Apps, they have implemented the ability for an administrator to remotely wipe any smartphone that supports it (including the iPhone, so the expensive MobileMe is not the only option). You also have the option of purchasing your own one-user Premier Google Apps account just for this purpose. At $50/year, it's half as expensive as Apple's MobileMe. In either case, all you have to do to get this working is to set up Google Sync. Then in the admin panel, go to the settings for the user account, and it shows something like: iPhone First synchronized Thursday, September 9, 2010 8:12:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time Wipe this device If you ever lose your device, you simply log in and click "Wipe this device".
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It Only Takes a Girl. 6 Secrets To Branding, Ripped From "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" | Co.Design. This is the newest piece from design and innovation firm, Method, in their 10x10 series. Click here to download a PDF of the article. By now, most of us get the message--we need to consider the entire customer journey, the complete experience, surrounding the products and services we offer to customers. But in this frenetic, multitasking, app-happy society, how do you prepare people to pay attention in the first place, let alone get actively involved in your carefully planned customer journey? As brands aspire to create deeper connections with an endlessly distracted consumer, storytelling in design has become ever more crucial.
And to get it right, we might as well borrow (i.e., steal) ideas from those who know best--our friends in show business. How do great plays and movies prepare their audiences for their stories? In the movie world, great opening scenes perform the same function as musical overtures. Need a refresher? Watch and read the opening scene of The Social Network. The Annual Mothering Handmade Gifts Ideas Contest.
I always try to find something that is practical, unique, and FRUGAL gifts for our daughter's day care teachers. As a teacher myself, I always appreciate the simple gifts and those that take time not money to create. For me it means there was thought put into the gift. So, this year our daughters teachers will be getting mitten warmers. We live in Canada, snowy, cold weather is arriving bit by bit and these seemed the most logical, simple and FRUGAL gift of all! I haven't started them yet-cutting the fabric as we speak, but will post the final pictures.
Materials: cotton squares 10x10 (palm sized) thread sewing machine needle scissors funnel or some way to fill the pocket rice, flax seeds, beans, ceramic pie beads With right sides facing each other, sew around the edges of the squares, leaving a small opening to turn and fill the pocket. Turn right side out Fill pocket with chosen material (rice etc) Hand stitch the opening closed Add the following information to the gift tag: Add to mittens.
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