Happy! Happy! Happy!
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Happy! Happy! Happy!
"How To Be Happy"
1. Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
2. Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.
3. Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.
4. You can't please everybody. Don't let criticism worry you.
5. Don't let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.
6. Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.
7. Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.
8. Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy, enmity, grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.
9. Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about new places.
10. Don't hold post-mortems. Don't spend your time brooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don't be one who never gets over things.
11. Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.
12. Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson -
1. Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
2. Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.
3. Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.
4. You can't please everybody. Don't let criticism worry you.
5. Don't let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.
6. Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.
7. Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.
8. Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy, enmity, grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.
9. Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about new places.
10. Don't hold post-mortems. Don't spend your time brooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don't be one who never gets over things.
11. Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.
12. Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson -
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Thanks, Dolly. You have inspired me to do something extra special for myself today and be happy. Not that I wasn't already happy when I woke up, but just for today it's going to be a "it's Saturday and I'm worthy, so let's have a fun day!!" kinda day. 
Yup, I have a choice and today I choose lots of fun and happiness.
Thanks, twinnie
Yup, I have a choice and today I choose lots of fun and happiness.
Thanks, twinnie
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He forgot this:
Get a kitten and a Puppy and let them share the house with you. They will keep you too busy laughing, training and cleaning up to feel bad!
Listen to uplifting music that you enjoy and dance to it!
Get a kitten and a Puppy and let them share the house with you. They will keep you too busy laughing, training and cleaning up to feel bad!
Listen to uplifting music that you enjoy and dance to it!
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Yeah, lets dance:
The Chicken Dance
1. Anyone who's not chicken, stand in a circle facing each other.
2. When the music starts, hold your hands out in front of you and open and close them like a chicken beak four times.
3. Put your thumbs in your armpits and flap your wings four times.
4. Place your arms and hands like the tail feathers of a chicken and wiggle down to the floor four times.
5. Clap four times.
6. Repeat steps 1-5 four times.
7. After the fourth time take the hands of the people on either side of you and everyone move in a circle.
8. When you get dizzy, switch directions.
9. Repeat until the end of the music or until you fall on the floor.
If you look something like this, you're doing it right!...
Now, this is best done in the nude, when everything starts a wigglin', you start a
gigglin'!
The Chicken Dance
1. Anyone who's not chicken, stand in a circle facing each other.
2. When the music starts, hold your hands out in front of you and open and close them like a chicken beak four times.
3. Put your thumbs in your armpits and flap your wings four times.
4. Place your arms and hands like the tail feathers of a chicken and wiggle down to the floor four times.
5. Clap four times.
6. Repeat steps 1-5 four times.
7. After the fourth time take the hands of the people on either side of you and everyone move in a circle.
8. When you get dizzy, switch directions.
9. Repeat until the end of the music or until you fall on the floor.
If you look something like this, you're doing it right!...
Now, this is best done in the nude, when everything starts a wigglin', you start a
gigglin'!
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Oh geeze.. just the sort of image I want! LOL
I have to tell you.. I have done many weddings (I am a wedding photographer.. part time now) and this dance.. Oh geeze.. FIRST thing is that most of the ppl doing it are dead drunk but they don't do it in the nude. Chickens do, but not wedding parties.. tho I may suggest this next wedding I shoot!
The other one is the "dollar Dance" where ppl give the bride $$ to dance with her. Of course this is done mainly to offset the $$ of the wedding recpeption. Again, the people are all pretty tipped by the time this comes along (they will spend more $$ perhas?) and the places where the money gets put on the bride can be.. well.. a truly photographic moment.
BTW in second marriages I find it interesting that the Chicken Dance and the Dollar dance are usually not on the DJ's line up.
Usually the ppl performing this stuff are pretty happy.. I will have to say that!
I have to tell you.. I have done many weddings (I am a wedding photographer.. part time now) and this dance.. Oh geeze.. FIRST thing is that most of the ppl doing it are dead drunk but they don't do it in the nude. Chickens do, but not wedding parties.. tho I may suggest this next wedding I shoot!
The other one is the "dollar Dance" where ppl give the bride $$ to dance with her. Of course this is done mainly to offset the $$ of the wedding recpeption. Again, the people are all pretty tipped by the time this comes along (they will spend more $$ perhas?) and the places where the money gets put on the bride can be.. well.. a truly photographic moment.
BTW in second marriages I find it interesting that the Chicken Dance and the Dollar dance are usually not on the DJ's line up.
Usually the ppl performing this stuff are pretty happy.. I will have to say that!
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Thanks Dolly,
I've never read that one before and sure didn't know RLS wrote something like that. It's so practical and fits perfectly with recovery work. I'm going to print that one out
I feel happier already!
I've never read that one before and sure didn't know RLS wrote something like that. It's so practical and fits perfectly with recovery work. I'm going to print that one out
I feel happier already!
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Well, along with the chicken dance, maybe you want a Pink Catillac?
This is what Atka and I did this afternoon in (where else) Catskill, NY..... These all looked happy, but I never saw a cat with fins b4!
This is what Atka and I did this afternoon in (where else) Catskill, NY..... These all looked happy, but I never saw a cat with fins b4!
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Too Funny!
There was a movie on this afternoon, He Said, She Said, with Kevin Bacon...they were doing the Chicken Dance at a wedding...damn, he wasn't naked!
Odd, I post this, and this movie pops up...I must be physic...Right!
There was a movie on this afternoon, He Said, She Said, with Kevin Bacon...they were doing the Chicken Dance at a wedding...damn, he wasn't naked!
Odd, I post this, and this movie pops up...I must be physic...Right!
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Well, Madam Dolly is your inspiration....
BTW there are a LOT of cats in Catskill. The local Merchants and others "sponsored" a cat and local artists decorated them. They are soooo cool.. and very skillfully done. Bennington, VT has Moose and I was in a NM town a few years ago that had carousel horses.. and they were painted to honor the Santa Fe RR "Iron Horse."
This is the first year for Cats in Catskill. I hope next year to get in on decorating one of them if they repeat this event.
And it was so much fun going and taking their photos. After I got done with the photos I took Atka for a walk across the bridge and the Catskill Creek to the Ice Cream stand. I did not have any
but Atka had a small. She loves vanilla Ice Cream in a cone. She licks it and I hold it and she does not let a drop or a crumb escape.
So, that is what we did today and it was fun. Your Post, Dolly, was the impetus for us to go and do this. I said I wanted to get photos of the Catskill cats.. and this got me going. TY!
So, it was clear, cool, bright and sunny here.. and just a great day all around and I can say I have had a truly HAPPY DAY!
BTW there are a LOT of cats in Catskill. The local Merchants and others "sponsored" a cat and local artists decorated them. They are soooo cool.. and very skillfully done. Bennington, VT has Moose and I was in a NM town a few years ago that had carousel horses.. and they were painted to honor the Santa Fe RR "Iron Horse."
This is the first year for Cats in Catskill. I hope next year to get in on decorating one of them if they repeat this event.
And it was so much fun going and taking their photos. After I got done with the photos I took Atka for a walk across the bridge and the Catskill Creek to the Ice Cream stand. I did not have any
but Atka had a small. She loves vanilla Ice Cream in a cone. She licks it and I hold it and she does not let a drop or a crumb escape. So, that is what we did today and it was fun. Your Post, Dolly, was the impetus for us to go and do this. I said I wanted to get photos of the Catskill cats.. and this got me going. TY!
So, it was clear, cool, bright and sunny here.. and just a great day all around and I can say I have had a truly HAPPY DAY!
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