30 Day Happiness Challenge! Day 13!

Ooooh Lucky 13!  And what a day it is in the 30 Day Happiness Challenge!

Easy peasy!  My favorite artist hasn't changed in years and years and years.

Who is it?  It's none other than:

Salvador Dali

We've had Les Elephants up in our living room for years.  And one of my favorite moments ever was getting to see Birth of Man in person at the Dali museum in Florida.  It blew me away!  For many years I wanted to get one of the Figure with Drawers images tattooed to my rib cage.  But I see that this guy beat me to it!  And this girl!  Sheeesh!  :)

30 Day Happiness Challenge! Day 12!

Okay!  This topic has made me feel all anxious and uncomfortable because I can't, for the life of me, remember the NAME of my middle school role model....

I have sent out an SOS to my Mom, hoping that she will remember this person's name...because I think they knew each other when they were teenagers???

Anyways.  Back in the 7th grade I had the most wonderful English teacher.  She was the reason I wanted to become a teacher myself and part of the reason why I came to love English so very much.  I remember her teaching us a book that had to do with these humanoid people on another planet and the main character had blue (or was it green??) skin.  I can't remember the name of that either, but I *do* remember really liking that book and thinking to myself that not all English teachers would have picked a book like that to teach.  Although I can't say that I ever will become a teacher (although who knows...stranger things have happened!), I definitely LOVE teaching.  T.Aing in the English department at my university is one of the most fun things ever an I'm lucky enough to have chosen a profession (in HR) where I can train/teach people alllllll of the time.  

Now if only I could remember her name...............................

30 Day Happiness Challenge! Day 11!

Hi hello!

Do you ever get surprised by how early you can fall asleep?  (Am I just aging myself?!)  Last night I went to bed at like 8:30pm, thinking I would read for a while.  I think by 8:35pm I was asleep, with the light still on, and my book on my chest.  And then I slept through the night!  Geeeeez!  Sometimes I guess your body just knows when it needs sleep.  :)

Oooooh Reality TV, you evil evil guilty pleasure!  I actually don't watch that many Reality TV shows.  I think my favorite would be a tie between Top Chef and Project Runway.  Even though Top Chef almost always features food that isn't vegan, I still enjoy seeing the cooking creative process!   The same goes for Project Runway--I am by no means someone who can sew or someone who is "fashionable", but I do like seeing how such amazing things can be made from seemingly simple fabrics.  Draping, especially, always WOWs me!  There isn't even sewing involved in that (hardly) and yet the most beautiful things come out in the end!  Amazing!

How about you?  What's your favorite??

30 Day Happiness Challenge. Day 10!

Running into people that you haven't seen in 14 years is a strange thing.  I happened upon an old classmate of mine (classmate??  That doesn't sound like a word I'm supposed to use...) today on the street.  One can never anticipate when that kind of thing will happen, I guess!

But.  What is today's topic, you ask?

The last thing to make me laugh was the episode of Girls I was just watching (Season 3, episode 8).  I'm enjoying this season a lot more than season 2.

Smile?  My new haircut!  I was an anxious mess on Saturday--trying to decide if I was going to call the salon to make an appointment (I have pretty high anxiety when it comes to phoning strangers or just phones in general) and today was the fruits of the stress, in one way or another.  I quite like what the hairdresser did and I think I'll try to go back to her again in 4 months.  Yep yep!

30 Day Happiness Challenge! Day 9.

Oh, spring forward.  How you mess us all up!  Last night I stayed up way too late playing board games with with S.O. and springing forward only made it worse!  *shakes fists*  I wonder what it would take for us to stop having to do this arbitrary time change nonsense...but this discussion is likely for another time!

It is Day 9.

I would dedicate my words to Neil, Andrew and Bean.  Three individuals taught me the importance of unconditional love, friendship and that laughter can come from the most unexpected places.  Although these three someones were only part of my life for a short while, their impact on my life has been profound and I feel so lucky to have been a part of their short lives.

30 Day Happiness Challenge, Day 8!

Day 8!  

This is a video I happened upon a few months ago and I emailed it off to my Mom and sister right away because it's so full of cuteness and it definitely made me smile a lot.

And usually father/daughter things are things I'm not overly fond of.  But it's impossible to deny the smiles that this video causes, I think!  :)

I hope you all enjoy it.

30 Day Happiness Challenge. Day 7!

I remember my entry for last time for this very topic.  It's very hard to top Brad Pitt's smile.  Trust me.  But this year, I am expanding my horizons!

I bring you the wonderousness that is none other than Benedict Cumberbatch:

Do I know how to link to it as a gif?  I don't actually know!  Gif magic!

And Michael Fassbender:

Yeah, okay.  So Brad Pitt ended up being in this picture.  That was a complete coincidence.  I promise!

And because she is one of the most beautiful:

The lovely, Eva Green.

Oh, famous people.  You're so lovely.