Tag Archives: Joy Jar

The 03/11/13 Joy Jar

10 Mar

Salads are great creations because one can vary the ingredients and have vegetable, meat, and even flowers with a really nice dressing. Add bread and butter and one has a quick meal. Tonight, moi added artichoke to her salad. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is the artichoke,

 

 

“Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke.” – Bette Davis in All About Eve

 

 

 

“These things are just plain annoying. After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual “food” out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. Have the shrimp cocktail instead.”

Miss Piggy

 

 

 

“A woman is like an artichoke, you must work hard to get to her heart.”

Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther (2006)

“His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.”

John Leonard

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside”

Mark Twain

“Eating an artichoke is like getting to know someone really well.”

Willi Hastings

 

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The 03/10/13 Joy Jar

9 Mar

Moi is a very busy person like many. Often, she feel like a little gerbil running in the gerbil cage. Because she is a ‘bus chick,’ she walks a great deal which is a good thing. Eating on the run and sometimes eating foods which are not the most nutritious prompted moi to take vitamins. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are vitamins.

 

 

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson

 

 

All those vitamins aren’t to keep death at bay, they’re to keep deterioration at bay.
Jeanne Moreau

 

 

Living one day at a time, with a fresh baked cookie. Okay. And with a coffee. And maybe some chocolate. But I promise to take my vitamins.

Unknown

 

 

“Whole grains help digestion, and vitamins should prevent sickness.”

Xu Yalin

 

 

“Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!”                                                                                        

Pablo Valle

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The 03/09/13 Joy Jar

8 Mar

Moi is kicking back and watching the cooking shows of Channel 9 of PBS. Lydia had a kickass spinach salad and America’s Test Kitchen has a yummy tomato mac and cheese recipe. While moi is watching she is eating kettle chips and washing them done with Corona Extra. Oh the sweet irony of watching cooking shows and eating potato chips. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are potato chips.

Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
Betty White

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didnt see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.                                                                  Chuck Palahuniuk

“Murder is like potato chips: you can’t stop with just one.”
Stephen King, Under the Dome

I’m a big potato chip girl. I don’t like chocolate and cakes and all that, but I have to have my potato chips. I’ve got bags in the back of my car right now! But I never beat myself up about it, because, look: You can’t give up every damn thing. You need something in your life that you like just because you like it!
NeNe Leakes

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The 03/08/13 Joy Jar

7 Mar

Moi comments on the culture, so she not only watches a lot of PBS, she watches soaps, Maury, game shows, cooking shows, and whatever catches her attention as she is flipping through the channels. One only really gets a sense a culture if one spends a great deal of time in and about the culture, television is often artificial reality. Still, television is like a kaleidoscope with many facets, both good and not so good. The television is one way moi gathers information. Today’s deposit in the ‘Joy Jar’ is television.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child’s problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
Nora Ephron

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
Maynard James Keenan

Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
Bill Cosby

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.
Groucho Marx

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The 03/07/13 Joy Jar

7 Mar

Sunday is the beginning of Daylight Savings Time. We are all supposed to spring forward and fall back. . Daylight Savings Times means the clock moves an hour forward on Sunday. One can move the hands of a clock in an instant, but it takes moi’s body clock a week or so to get the body rhythm back. Still, moi loves the long days of summer and the increased light of the Spring. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is Daylight Savings Time.

I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.                                                                              

Victor Borge

 

Some people have the time but they don’t have time while others have time but do not have the time.                                                                                  

Jacques Prevert

 

 

I don’t understand people who say they need more Me Time. What other time is there? Do these people spend part of their day in someone else’s body             

Hussein Nishah

 

 

I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.             

Charles M. Schultz

 

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.                                                                            

Will Rogers

 

It takes a long time to become young.                                                                

Pablo Picasso

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The 03/06/13 Joy Jar

5 Mar

Every Tuesday moi goes to a prayer group which meets at 6:30 a.m. Moi being a bit of a night owl finds that a stretch, but she knows that it stretches and supports her as a person. Today, moi took her self to breakfast and had nice scrambled eggs with spinach and potatoes. Yum. Moi thinks she will probably do this every Tuesday. Today’s deposit in the ‘Joy Jar’ is breakfast.

Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”

“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”

“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.”
A.A. Milne

“I went to a restaurant that serves “breakfast at any time” so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.”
Steven Wright

“One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.”
Robert A. Heinlein, Friday

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

Oscar Wilde

You may have a dog that won’t sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she’s too stupid to learn how but because she’s too smart to bother

Rick Horowitz

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The 03/05/13 Joy Jar

4 Mar

There are two types of people in the I need to white out a mistake category. There are the ‘old school’ types like moi who use liquid corrective fluid and the more advanced who use corrective tape. Moi’s problem with the corrective tape is that it breaks or jams. Then one has to try and get the tape back into the feeder channel for the corrective tape to work. Still, when one needs to correct something, whether liquid or tape, corrective fluid or tape works. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is corrective fluid.

These quotes are courtesy of the Board of Wisdom:

Life is like a pen, paper, and white out.

Paper is your life.
The Pen is you.

We go through life making our mark wherever we go.

It is impossible to never make a mistake.

Sometimes we scratch it out. Start a new sentence or just continue on like it doesn’t exist.

Sometimes we use whiteout to hide it and mask it. Pretend it’s not there, pretend it never happened. We write over it, above it, below it, around it.

Sometimes we don’t even know we made a mistake until we stop and take the time to reflect and review.

We stop using whiteout when we don’t care.
We stop scratching out when we don’t mind.
We stop looking for mistakes when it doesn’t matter.

http://boardofwisdom.com/togo/Quotes/ShowQuote/?msgid=300940

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The 03/04/13 Joy Jar

3 Mar

Walking down a street lined on both sides by trees that all winter were like skeleton arms reaching for the sky. Today on the the skeleton arms were, bumps, mounds, there were so many buds on the branches it looked like a full sports stadium. The bumps, buds seemed to make the branches happy, there was definitely no urge to scratch. There seemed to be more birds as well. Today’s deposit in the ‘Joy Jar’ are the buds that have formed on tree branches.

 

“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it”                   

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

“Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.”                                                                       

George Eliot

 

 

“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.”                                                             

John Quincy Adams

 

 

 

“The bud may have a bitter taste, / But sweet will be the flower.”                      

William Cowper

 

 

 

“Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.”                                                                                

William Carlos Williams

 

 

“Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring.”                                                                                         

Robert Bridges

 

 

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.                              

Seneca

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The 03/03/13 Joy Jar

2 Mar

Moi went searching for some happy china which would make the food look happy on the plate. Of course, the usual hangouts were scouted, Target, T.J. Maxx, Ross, and J.C. Penney. Bingo, at Ross, moi found the Tuscan Gold dish set that just plain looks happy. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ are my happy dishes.

“He who wants to change the world should already begin by cleaning the dishes.” Paul Carvel

“Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.”                                                                                                   

Werner Finck

“The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”                         Agatha Christie

I know that birds have little birds,

and fish have little fishes.

Then why don’t sinks have little sinks,

instead of dirty dishes..???                                                                   

Unknown

“It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.”                                                                                                       

Julia Child

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson


 

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The 03/02/13 Joy Jar

1 Mar

The #347 bus winds through the northern burbs of Seattle. It is a local bus and makes so many stops, one almost thinks that the driver would start delivering the mail. It goes to the strip mall culuster of Mountlake Terrace and then returns to America’s first mall, Northgate. Moi was taking the #347 back to Northgate. She was struck by the extrordinary kindness of the driver. People who ride buses are often elderly, poor, carless, environmentalists, frugal, and/or observers of the human condition. Obviously, the driver had a familiarity with his charges. He greeted each warmly. There were two passengers with walkers. Both who stubbornly insisted on slowly getting on the bus with their own power. No lift, thank you. The driver waited and commented that one lady brought her shoping bag and he hoped she found some bargins. He welcomed the man with the walker and his wife hoping that had a good afternoom. There were the people with the the multiples of little children and the young people who are sullen as so many young people are. Each was given their measure of greeting and cheer. Life is not about being exalted, often those who are happiest are those who can find things to exalt in others. Today’s deposit into the ‘Joy Jar’ is kindness given to strangers.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward

It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

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