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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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The 03/18/13 Joy Jar

17 Mar

Moi is lucky that she loves leafy green vegetables like kale and spinach. Moi loves cabbage as well. Tonight, moi had spinach with fresh mushrooms. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is spinach.

I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
Clarence Darrow

 

One man’s poison ivy is another man’s spinach.
George Ade

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we’d hum the Popeye tune and then I’d happily eat it.
Paul O’Grady

 

Foods I forced myself to try in adulthood that I now love include blue cheese, beets and pickles. And spinach. And kale. And rye bread.

Gillian Jacobs

 

 

Wouldn’t it be awful if spinach hain’t really healthful after all the th’ trouble it takes t’git the sand out of it?

Kin Hubbard in Abe Martin’s Wisecracks (1930)

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The 03/17/13 Joy Jar

16 Mar

Moi likes to go easy on the makeup. On the weekends, she likes to go at least one day without makeup and possibly two. Just foundation, blush, and eyebrow pencil. Even when moi goes without foundation, she still uses her eyebrow pencil. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is moi’s eyebrow pencil.

 

Just because you want to be glamorous, don’t be a sheep about your eye makeup.

Loretta Young

 

 

“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
Yves Saint-Laurent

 

 

“For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.”
Cheryl Cory

 

 

That’s the mistake women make – you shouldn’t see your makeup. We don’t want to look like we’ve made an effort.
Lauren Hutton

 

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.
Helena Rubinstein

 

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
Coco Chanel

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The 03/16/13 Joy Jar

15 Mar

There are certain things one notices if they aren’t around when you need them. Kleenex is something one misses if they don’t have it readily available. Toliet paper is another item one wants to have available. Then, there is the napkin which is useful for so many purposes. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the napkin.

“Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.”
Andy Rooney

“Never allow butter, soup or other food to remain on your whiskers. Use the napkin frequently.”
‘Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms: Etiquette of the Table’ (1880)

“Do not drink more than two or three times during the meal, and wipe your lips with a napkin after each sip, especially if a common drinking-cup is used.”
Desiderius Erasmus (1466? – 1536)

“Cesar Romero would attend the opening of a napkin.”                                         Jim Backus quotes (American Actor, 1913–1989)

At the dinner table, if you can’t think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don’t throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.                                                                    Mason Cooley

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The 03/15/13 Joy Jar

14 Mar

Yesterday, moi got home and turned on the computer to check e-mail. There was an e-mail from the storage company that the lock was missing, discovered during a routine check. It was after hours and the only thing moi could do was file a claim with her insurance company late in the evening. Should a claim need to ultimately be filed according to the intake insurance person, there are a list of items that moi needed. Among the items was a police report. Moi went online to see if an online police report could be filed, but that wasn’t possible. Moi called the number listed to file a report. After going through the prompts, one reaches a message which said “you have reached the non-emergency number for the Seattle Police, your called will be answered after the 911 calls are answered.” The message went on to say that there was a high volume of calls for 911. That is as it should be. Life is ultimately more valuable than stuff. Today moi went to her storage locker and everything was fine. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is an awareness of the value of life.

 

 

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle

Life and time are the best teachers. Life teaches us to make good use of time and time teaches us the value of life.

Unknown

Most of us don’t realize the value of life and what it’s really about, we’re so caught up in little distractions that are 100% meaningless.

Unknown

 “Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books

“We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?”
Sophie Kinsella

“I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I’ve got.”
Hermann Hesse, Verliebt in die verrückte Welt: Betrachtungen, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Briefe

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The 03/14/13 Joy Jar

13 Mar

A couple of months back moi went to a conference and one of the vendors was giving away either a mug or a minature teddy bear. Moi chose the teddy bear along with everyone else. The bears went fast. The bear is perched above moi’s desk. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is a teddy bear.

 

A Teddy bear is a faithful friend
You can pick him up at either end.
His fur is the colour of breakfast toast,
And he’s always there when you need him most.

Anonymous

 

Teddy bears don’t need hearts as they are already stuffed with love.

Anonymous

 

“In a world where everyone seems to be larger and louder than yourself, it is very comforting to have a small, quiet companion.”
Peter Gray

 

“Anyone who has looked a teddy bear in the face will recognize the friendly twinkle in his knowing look.”
Harold Nadolny

 

 

“Teddy Bears are like keys . . . They’re always in the first place you think they’d be, and the last place you look.”
Garfield

 

“You really don’t have to be young to find a friend in a teddy bear.”
Rachel Newman

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The 03/12/13 Joy Jar

11 Mar

Moi rode one of those big articulated buses this evening. The buses bend in the middle, One of the features of certain models of these buses is there are two rows of elevated seats in the middle. The elevation allows one to look over the heads of other passengers and to look at the street signs as one passes through the city. Hard to believe, but there are some locations on this planet that do not have street signs. One obviously has to be an insider in those locales to know where you are going. Street signs are really a metaphor for directions in life’s journey. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are the signs which guide us through life.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley

Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me.
Thomas Merton

Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep.                             

Astrid Alauda

The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

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