@Irene_L.A. wrote:

Cleaning out my closets, has been so hard to give my favorite clothes away. I've had my good stuff over 20 years. Looking at my daughters high school prom dress, worn once. Just can't do it.
I know I'll feel lighter and be happy when I do it......oh, someone help me!!!

Donating your daughter's high school prom dress to a organization for needy young women who can't afford prom dresses would be the ideal "feel good moment."

@Sybil2 wrote:

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

Cleaning out my closets, has been so hard to give my favorite clothes away. I've had my good stuff over 20 years. Looking at my daughters high school prom dress, worn once. Just can't do it.
I know I'll feel lighter and be happy when I do it......oh, someone help me!!!

Donating your daughter's high school prom dress to a organization for needy young women who can't afford prom dresses would be the ideal "feel good moment."

I have already donated two bags to good will, and will donate everything else including the prom dress. We have a battered woman's shelter in town, but a prom dress isn't really something they need, where as Good Will or Salvation Army can sell it and raise money for their charity. I have it in he car and doing it today.



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Well done Irene! Your will power made me happy today!

@walesmaven wrote:

Well done Irene! Your will power made me happy today!

Your the best, glad you understand....

This post makes me laugh [www.mysteryshopforum.com]

I'm smiling right now as I remember the Dr. Phil show two days ago. When someone asked him a question beneath him, his answer was always, "This isn't my first rodeo" , and then there was silence......love it!!

Hummingbirds in my yard make me happy, too. One of the feeders I have for them is hanging outside the window over the kitchen sinks. When I'm working in the kitchen, and hummingbirds surround it, I freeze, marveling at them. Their aerial shows are a wonder.

Another happy today. Hubby and I, with a friend, watched Better Late Than Never, a show we had recorded. It was a hoot. Hard to believe that William Shatner is 85 years old.

I saw that show as well the other night and it was indeed a hoot. I suspect they won't be able to keep it up but the jokes about skewered delicacies had me just roaring. Years ago in a favorite NYC Chinatown restaurant a friend suggested we try the 'authentic' items that were not on the menu. There were some unusual tastes and textures and the staff just grinned and suddenly had no English to tell us what we were eating.

Their Asian adventure lasted only 30 days, so I'm guessing the show is a filler, not a potential series, until new season shows, and NFL regular season, start. Dirt for seasoning, and the body parts that were served up were, well I'm speechless. My relatives, who lived in the years of the Great Depression, and were resourceful, never relayed the mention of such.

Today, being an independent contractor with access to a reschedule feature makes me ecstatic. Since audit paperwork does not load and cannot be printed, I rescheduled two audits and now I get to stay home and be "free"... I am free to stay home and clean the house and find ever more stuff to donate. I am free to enjoy additional work at the morning job. I am free to be... well, free...



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Hearing from my daughter and her excitement while telling me she was driving home from Iowa, where a business hired her as a consultant to help implement a new program. She met with the CEO, they put her up in a nice hotel for a week......proud, oh so proud. Happiness is fleeting but this will stay with me.

As the daughter of a mom who was always supporting and happy to celebrate every happy thing that came my way, I am always buoyed up by such expressions of happiness.

@walesmaven wrote:

As the daughter of a mom who was always supporting and happy to celebrate every happy thing that came my way, I am always buoyed up by such expressions of happiness.

Thank you Wales, I'm overflowing with pride and happiness.

I did not have time to shop and my niece was going back to Saskatoon. I opened three suitcases and found some new items I bought for winter a while back. They were too big for me and just the right size for my niece. Was I happy that I could give her some beautiful things to wear. I am actually smiling that I could shop from my suitcases.

I nearly mooned my teddy bear. I put on pants that are so big now that they just slid right off of me... and I am thrilled that next month I have two day trips for MSing/the thing that pays for the gas to decent stores. Yay! Smaller clothes! Other clothes! Woot! (On the other hand, or paw, if the bear were capable of happiness, he would not have been happy. He would have been horrified. But I digress.)

We had primaries today and went mid-morning to vote. The polling place had a half dozen or so voters and we were signed in efficiently, voted, ran our scantron sheets and then stopped to chat with neighborhood folks about everything under the sun it seems except politics.

Ran some errands on the way home and at Staples found the Kidde smoke and CO2 detectors they were clearing out for around $16 (down from $47). The bonus is they run on AA batteries rather than 9 volt. This is apparently a Staples-wide clear out and price, so if you need new ones (they last about 10 years reliably) ask about them. At our store they had already been moved off the shelf to the storage room, so ask.

The bargain and the poll chat that told me about them both made me smile.

Today is my B-day, had a free frapapino at SB (wrong spelling, ), tonight free dinner, Black Angus steak
with a friend.. Received several B-day cards on Facebook from family living out of state. My daughter say's next year she'll plan a big one for me, sorry we can't be together. Dressed up for the heck of it. Feeling good.

39 Again, Irene? Happy Birthday

Thanks Flash...don't I wish.... Wanted to add....my blessing are:amazing health and feeling young in spirit....
my friends say, "Age is just a #", maybe that's all it is.



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I lost my key and fob after our bbq this Sunday and no one had turned it in. I had to borrow my son's keys as I have to order the fob. Early this morning I received a call from my friend who picked me up with all my cooking materials. She found it in her car where I placed a lot of my stuff.
That really made my day. I can now go to sleep well tonight.

And oh...Happy Birthday Irene! May you have many more happy ones to come. Have fun!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY @Irene_L.A. See all that finger crossing and you're getting younger. Just looked at yourself. You go girl

Happy, happy, birthday, Irene!

Today, my husband and I went to lunch and then shopping. On our own time and dime. Had lunch at our favorite Italian restaurant that we discovered on a shop. It's no longer shopped, but that doesn't stop us from spending time and money there Afterwards, with a list, we went shopping for stuff we needed to make homemade Christmas gifts.

Happy belated birthday Irene!

@JASFLALMT wrote:

Happy belated birthday Irene!

Thanks...not belated, today's the day...

I'm not thinking. Clearly.

What is making me smile today is the conversation about typing speeds in one of the threads. Back 'in the day' when my twins were infants we lived in University housing. I had a home typing business so that I could subsidize the household and be home with the babies. Luckily the babies took nice long naps and as twins, entertained each others on a blanket on the floor near my typewriter for hours. If one was fussy I could put him in a rocking infant seat and rock him with my foot while continuing to type. I could allow myself about 5 hours a day to work around the kids' waking and sleeping cycles and generally earned more than $100 per day typing student papers and dissertations. My typing speed was in the 120-130 wpm range and interesting things occur in the brain to make that transition.

At around 70-80 wpm the brain stops spelling small words such as 'and' and 'the' and the fingers take over the word. At around 100-110 wpm the larger normal words stop being spelled out by the brain. At around 120 wpm you are just reading slowly through the material being typed and the fingers just automatically do it. The exceptions at that stage are highly unusual or long words which you must slow to let the brain spell out for the fingers. When you are flying through, the brain does allow you to edit as you are reading such that the text is adjusted for grammatical errors such as a plural subject with a singular verb. It truly is an amusing scenario to think the word and have it appear on the paper. The downside is that as you transition between stages there will be inversion errors such as 'and' being 'nad' etc.

The advent of computers in my life ruined my typing speed. A Selectric or IBM Executive typewriter can smack the paper with the letters without jamming at higher rates of speed than the computer can stretch the buffer to remember all the keystrokes. My current laptop can allow about 90 wpm without having the buffer freeze, but this is the first computer I have had that can deal with higher than about 60-70 wpm. I suspect that the world record holder with 150 wpm used a manual typewriter because they can go faster than an electric one and that the record holder made virtually no errors to have accuracy deductions to her score.

I'm happy to see my friend bestofbothworlds is back from leave of absence and posting again.

New books and, in the near future, time to enjoy them... New pics of Autumn colors from yesterday's hike... Fresh perspective from time in the mountains...

Although it doesn't make me 'happy' particularly, I am smiling that USA Swimming and the USA Olympics are taking clear and firm action against Ryan Lochte for his lies in Rio that were an embarrassment to Americans and Brazilians. He will forfeit $100,000, be prohibited from competing for ten months, receive no monthly training subsidies, forfeit a trip to the White House with other Olympians, have no access to USOC training facilities and must perform 20 hours of community service. This may or may not be career ending, but I am delighted that his skills were not an excuse to give him a light slap on the hand. More sports should follow the lead of USOC and USA Swimming in curbing their "bad boys".

@Flash wrote:

Although it doesn't make me 'happy' particularly, I am smiling that USA Swimming and the USA Olympics are taking clear and firm action against Ryan Lochte for his lies in Rio that were an embarrassment to Americans and Brazilians. He will forfeit $100,000, be prohibited from competing for ten months, receive no monthly training subsidies, forfeit a trip to the White House with other Olympians, have no access to USOC training facilities and must perform 20 hours of community service. This may or may not be career ending, but I am delighted that his skills were not an excuse to give him a light slap on the hand. More sports should follow the lead of USOC and USA Swimming in curbing their "bad boys".

I agree....he also lost all four of his endorsements, not being allowed to visit the White House with the other Medalists, he is paying the price for shaming the Olympics and his future income. Not to worry, he will be on "Dancing with the stars".......