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04-24-2008, 04:09 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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I'm sure Justin is very appreciative of your generosity...
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04-24-2008, 06:15 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
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Eh What?
Justin is all I want too...
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04-24-2008, 07:13 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,468
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Quote:
Originally Posted by figner
Ok, so who wants a new avatar? She might even give Want2retire's pic a run for the money!
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Thank you! I think my avatar (Eva Habermann, a German model/actress) is gorgeous. Frank says I look like her, but he is just casting complements in my direction.
So many people have commented on this avatar (which was one of the defaults at the old website), that I explained on my profile that it is Eva Habermann, not me. Today, our profiles seem to be gone, probably due to the software upgrade last night, but if/when they return I'll put that back in.
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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04-24-2008, 07:19 AM
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#44
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2007
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Seek peace, and pursue it. - Psalms 34:14
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most - by Ashleigh Brilliant.
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04-24-2008, 07:31 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wags
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Thank you! Frank is so sweet. My hair is grey/white, unlike Eva's, but the hairstyle and general facial layout (two eyes, check! one nose, check! one mouth, check! etc) are a little similar. I like Eva's contemplative pose and I agree, she is a fine looking lady and classy, too.
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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04-27-2008, 09:52 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Quezon City, Philippines
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I don't need a great deal of wealth to make me happy, just enough to keep my personal autonomy. That's something I didn't have when I was working. I am very appreciative of being able to take ER and that my time and my life are now my own.
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Study: It Takes Hard Work To Be Happy
04-30-2008, 10:15 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Study: It Takes Hard Work To Be Happy
CBS News - Study: It Takes Hard Work To Be Happy
Study: It Takes Hard Work To Be Happy, 47 Percent Tell Survey Measuring Americans' Health And Happiness They Are Struggling - CBS News
Excerpts from article
(AP) Staying healthy and happy is a struggle for about half of Americans, according to a massive survey that attempts to measure the nation's general welfare, much like the Dow Jones Industrial Average portrays the health of the stock market.
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, based on interviews of more than 100,000 people so far, shows that 47 percent of Americans are struggling and 4 percent are suffering. Forty-nine percent of respondents are reported to be thriving based on a personal assessment of how they feel about their lives at the time of the survey, and where they think they will be in five years.
End of excerpts.
Based on this article I am a thriving happy person.
Other then craving for a GYRO (70 miles away) I am a happy, happy, person.
GOD BLESS US ALL
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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Seek peace, and pursue it. - Psalms 34:14
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most - by Ashleigh Brilliant.
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05-02-2008, 04:48 PM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Well, Wags...I think $$$$$$$$$'s can buy a lot of peace of mind and that is a formula for greater happiness. I'm working on the $$$$$$$$$s with some new enterprizes. I'm already a happy camper, with my daughter, health, a great place to live, lots of loving friends, and a new clear path in life--after a shocking blinding bump in the personal road a few years ago. I've dug a huge resevoir, built an even bigger dam, carved new channels and now am guiding the flow of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$s to the big river to fill my mental resevoir, overflow the dam and provide for me, my daughter and do a lot of good stuff besides.
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Working at Happiness--the wrong approach in my opinion
05-02-2008, 04:59 PM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Working at Happiness--the wrong approach in my opinion
I saw that report as well and was struck by the language of struggle=bad health and unhappiness. That maybe part of the problem. I don't have much money at THIS point (that is turning around rapidly) but my health and happiness quotient are VERY high and that is one of the factors that will contribute to my increased income in the near future. Getting healthy is not something I work hard at, but is a set of practices that have replaced former ways and relatiohsips that could have ended in liver cancer or heart disease the totally wrong direction. Most of what I do is not costly, but is a result of self-education. One simple thing is getting a lot of sleep. That doesn't cost anything except one's peace of mind, calm spirit, weight stabilization (along with diet change and more movement), heart health...etc. Sleep is that condition that "knits up the raveled sleeve of care" as Hamlet said.
Struggle is a mental condition that ends in bad health.
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06-07-2008, 07:43 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2007
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On the days when I am in a dancing mood listening to the GREAT Conway Twitty hits the spot on the happiness chart.
OH, OH .....,that man! What a song.
Then of course, I dance with Mrs. Wags.
God Bless Us All
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Seek peace, and pursue it. - Psalms 34:14
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most - by Ashleigh Brilliant.
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