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The 03/29/13 Joy Jar

28 Mar

It’s a couple of days before Easter and Spring weather will be around for Easter. It’s expected to be about 70 degrees on Easter. Warmer weather means that it’s time for T-shirts. Moi went to H&M and Forever 21 and there are all kinds of Spring and Summer colors. H & M even had a rack of T-shirts for $5. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar” is the T-shirt.

 

 

I’ve always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.
Giorgio Armani

 

 

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Hoover

I’m most comfortable in T-shirts, but they have to have some style to them.

Giada De Laurentiis

 

 

One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.
Holly Johnson

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.
Bridget Hall

“Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”
Karl Lagerfeld

 

 

 

 

 

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The 03/28/13 Joy Jar

27 Mar

Every now and again folk need to slow down the pace and take it easy. A mini sabbatical is what is needed. The past few days moi has been on a mini sabbatical. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is a mii sabbatical.

 

A good traveler has no fixed plans,

and is not intent on arriving.

– Lao Tzu

 

 

Life is really simple,

but we insist on making it complicated.

– Confucius

 

 

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don’t have,
you will never, ever have enough.
– Oprah Winfrey

 

Sing like no one’s listening,

love like you’ve never been hurt,

dance like nobody’s watching,

and live like its heaven on earth.

– Mark Twain

 

Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.

Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.

– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

– John Lubbock

 

 

This is my wish for you:

Comfort on difficult days,

Smiles when sadness intrudes,

Rainbows to follow the clouds,

Laughter to kiss your lips,

Sunsets to warm your heart,

Hugs when spirits sag,

Beauty for your eyes to see,

Friendships to brighten your being,

Faith so that you can believe,

Confidence for when you doubt,

Courage to know yourself,

Patience to accept the truth,

Love to complete your life.

– Anonymous

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The 03/26/13 Joy Jar

25 Mar

Moi read somewhere that per capita the folks in Seattle own more sunglasses than just about anywhere else in the country. It’s a sunny day and guess what? The sunglasses are out. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is a kick-ass pair of sunglasses.

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!                                                                                                                   

Lady GaGa

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They’re afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

Fred Allen

Always have sunglasses with you. They’re great for when you can’t be bothered to put make-up on.”

Alison Goldfrapp

 Your future is so bright you gotta wear shades

Eric Payne

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The 03/25/13 Joy Jar

24 Mar

Moi was on a walk and a butterfly floated by. This must be a hardy little creature, because even though the calendar says Spring, it has been cold. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are butterflies.

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”                                                                                           Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ”                 

R.H. Heinlein

“A power of Butterfly must be –

The Aptitude to fly

Meadows of Majesty concedes

And easy Sweeps of Sky -”

Emily Dickinson

“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.”                                                                                                      

Hans Christian Andersen

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.                                                                                                                                                        Unknown

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The 03/24/13 Joy Jar

23 Mar

Like many, moi has been watching the NCAA road to the ‘Final Four.’ Basketball at its purest is a graceful sport. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the joy one receives from watching a great game of basketball.

 

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

 Charles Barkley quotes 

 

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play.
Mike Krzyzewski

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don’t believe there is only one greatest player either.

Michael Jordan

 

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

John Wooden

I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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The 03/23/13 Joy Jar

22 Mar

The calendar says Spring, but tell that to Mother Nature. There was a convergence zone in Seattle and believe it or not it many parts of the Puget Sound region there was slushy snow. Moi had to do errands all over the region, so she put on her fleece lined boots and headed out. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is moi’s  warm boots.

A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots”                                                                   Charles H. Spurgeon quotes (English preacher of 19th century 1834-1892) 

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Thurgood Marshall

 There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Samuel Beckett

 “You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don’t step on my cowboy boots.”

Hank Williams Jr.

  “One must always have one’s boots on and be ready to go.”

Michel de Montaigne

“If you want to leave your footprints in the sands of time, make sure you are wearing work boots”             

         Unknown

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The 03/22/13 Joy Jar

21 Mar

Today’s breakfast was sublime – a cheese filled croissant with chocolate chips. Lots of chocolate chips.  Is there a better way to start the day than with anything sprinkled with chocolate chips?  Thought so. Today’s deposit in the ‘Joy Jar’ is breakfast with chocolate chips.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”

Charles M. Schulz

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”

Linda Grayson

“Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.”

Dave Barry

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”

Katharine Hepburn

“The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.”

Sandra Boynton

“Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.”

Jo Brand

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The 03/21/13 Joy Jar

20 Mar
Today was the first day of Spring and in Seattle, the weather can take many paths.  Spring can come early or late.  The calendar says Spring and moi is going with the calendar. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is Spring.
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Henry Van Dyke
The year’s at the spring,
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven–
All’s right with the world!
Robert Browning
 
Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
Bishop Reginald Heber

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
Virgil A. Kraft

 

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils.
William Wordsworth

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Christopher Morley
John Mistletoe.

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer, Detective.

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The 03/20/13 Joy Jar

19 Mar

If one really wants to feel comfortable there is really nothing more comfortable than a comfortable, worn old pair of jeans. Moi has a pair which is sufficiently broken in. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is an old pair of jeans.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
Diana Vreeland

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.                                                  Martin Freeman

Ladies, beauty is not defined by the size of you jeans.

Robert Escalante

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
Giorgio Armani

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The 03/19/13 Joy Jar

19 Mar

Not every ceiling is the Sistine Chapel, but writers in a dry spell and others with plenty to do, but little inclination often study the ceiling. There are patterns of light and sometimes for little children in the dark there are monsters. During a slow period, watching a ceiling can help one pass the time. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are ceilings.

 

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

 

 

 

Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?

M. C. Escher

 

 

When you have to study, even the ceiling looks more interesting.   

Unknown quotes 

 

 

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

Bill Shankly

 

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