Showing posts with label happy list. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy list. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Happy Birthday to the Lulu.

Ten Things to be Happy About today on my Mommas Birthday, y'all- not the least of which is that she is born.

1. Sweet Tea
2. Birthday CAKE
3. fresh haircuts on dogs
4. shined boots
5. Splenda
6. sharpened pencils
7. Eucalyptus trees in your yard
8. colored subway tile
9. math tests
10. clean toilets

Friday, March 27, 2009

Happy Spring... Happy List

Welcome back friend.

We have missed you.

I see that you have brought little green buds to the trees and crape myrtles.

I love that about you.

Welcome Spring.

Things to be Happy About this week:

1. Clearing your head
2. sharing
3. being barefoot in the grass (soon!)
4. baby leaves
5. tulips
6. organizing your goals, closets and life
7. a tan people notice
8. looking forward to Easter ham
9. pink stuff
10. preparing to make egg shaped cake balls!!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Happy Things this week

Been a while.

Time to get happy.

Ten things that make me happy this week:

1. An adventure at the grandparents house
2. Watching baby chicks hatch
3. Watching the Peep "lead her cow for judging"
4. Pink Cowgirl hats
5. cinnamon rolls from a can
6. white cream gravy
7. cold noses snuggling with you
8. fast cars
9. sidewalk chalk
10. Slick's return to the big city

Monday, December 15, 2008

10 things...

Where is the cold coming from??? Yikes!!

10 things to be happy about:

1. the beach
2. a beach towel
3. coconut scented tanning lotion
4. Miami Vices by the pool
5. G & T by the pool
6. a warm pool
7. new shades
8. a convertible
9. lying on a hammock in the shade of a palm tree
10. birds of paradise in the flower beds

Friday, November 7, 2008

Happy Weekend!!


Happy List for the weekend!!!

1. Halloween Candy!

2. Figuring out the eliptical!

3. Creamy tomato soup!

4. Exclaimation points!

5. being too jazzed to sleep

6. Dairy Queen

7. a clean house

8. the lines a vacuum makes on thr carpet

9. fresh sheets

10. friends visiting

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Ten Things

My poker friends just left for the month and while I am still up I thought I'd throw out a 10 things to be happy about list since it was so fun to be with them here at the house in the Big City.

1. Drinking from Waterford glasses for no reason at all
2. friends cooking
3. knowing the rules, and following them
4. loving your friends
5. reunions
6. volunteering for a good cause
7. for fun necklaces
8. warm brownies
9. Tito's
10. the babysitters

Monday, August 25, 2008

Monday. Happy Monday!

My friend the crazy neighbor and I went to lunch today at the fancy luncheon place here in the Big City and since it is a Monday, the Peep was along too. The lunch experience caused her to ask for chicken juice for lunch... Consommé!!!

Happy List:
1. Kids who go fancy places
2. Kids who order the special desert of the day with changes
3. Chocolate Chip cookies
4. Kids who start back to school
5. Chef's Salmon Special
6. Popovers
7. Great parking
8. Football starting
9. blooming crepe myrtles
10. big birthdays

Monday, August 18, 2008

Monday... Rainy Monday!

Time for a happy list since I am not HOT HOT HOT...
1. white nectarines
2. headlights on the vacuum
3. hummingbird eggs
4. reclaiming ones self
5. strawberry cake
6. birthdays as adults
7. football season anticipation
8. believing in yourself
9. afternoon pick-me-ups
10. new pens and pencils

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Sunny and not (quite) as hot


What a lovely week- it is sunny and warm- but only in the 90's... while I am certain it will get back to the 100's sooner than later, it has been nice to go outside and not be stifled by the heat immediately. The peep has ridden her bike this week "all the way to the gates of the college up the street" and last week all the way to Hill-Dog's 4 blocks over! Very fun!


It's almost back to school time so I must send you to HillDog Teaches- I am sure she will be back up and running with wonderful stories about her kiddos. She was in her classroom yesterday for the first time since summer started to discover that the whole school had been painted... un-planned and unorganized. The painters tore off all of the bulletin boards and dropped them in the middle of the rooms of every teacher. Everyone is scrambling to remake and rehang EVERYTHING. The Peep and I are going up to help this morning...


Time for happiness:

1. Opportunity knocking
2. fields of corn
3. fresh pencils
4. comfy chairs
5. clean floors
6. running a corporation
7. neighbors
8. gravy
9. sweet tea
10. old friends
P.S. Hi Theresa :)

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Happy List

Been missing the happiness. Glad to take the time to add it back to life...

1. Mild Wisconsin Cheddar
2. product for your hair
3. cheeseburgers and wavy fries
4. movie popcorn
5. poppy seed dressing
6. parasol tables
7. stamps from a machine at the post office
8. dates with your spouse
9. spelling sherbet correctly
10. warm peach crisp

So Slick made Peach Crisp this week and it was SOOOOO good. I love hot peaches with vanilla ice cream. Here's the recipe form Food and Wine July 2008

ACTIVE TIME: 30 MIN TOTAL TIME: 1 HR 40 MIN SERVES: 12
ingredients
TOPPING
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
1/2 cup rolled oats
7 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1/4 teaspoon salt
FILLING
3 pounds peaches
1/4 cup cornstarch
Ice cream, for serving (optional)
directions
make the topping: In a food processor, combine the flour, sugars, oats, butter and salt and process until the mixture resembles coarse meal.

make the filling: Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the peaches and blanch for 1 minute to loosen their skins. Transfer the peaches to a large rimmed baking sheet. When cool enough to handle, peel off the skins and cut the peaches into 1/2-inch dice.

Transfer the peaches to a large bowl and sprinkle with the cornstarch. Toss well to coat and let stand for a few minutes.

Preheat the oven to 325°.

Butter and sugar twelve 5-ounce ramekins and arrange them on a large, rimmed baking sheet. Spoon the peaches into the ramekins and sprinkle with the topping.

Bake the crisps for about 1 hour, until the filling is bubbling. Remove the ramekins from the oven and increase the temperature to 400°. Bake the crisps on the upper rack for about 8 minutes, until the topping is browned. Serve warm or at room temperature with ice cream, if desired.

Right- like you won't add ice cream if given the option... seriously...

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

It's Happy List Time!

Ten things to be happy about this week...

1. Knotty Knotes
2. chicken salad from scratch
3. summer peaches preferably from Edgefield, SC
4. grilled hot dogs
5. Capistrano
6. knowing where you stand
7. pedometers
8. worn in hats
9. bulbs growing
10. brilliance

Working to get Knotty Knotes ready for the World Trade Center "Market" in June. I hate to brag and everything- but if you check out the Press release from the WTC yo might find mention of Knotty Knotes making their debut at Market. Just a little something else to be happy about...

Monday, May 12, 2008

Baby it's really cold inside!

Dare I say that on Saturday after the AC brainiacs left that the downstairs was... cold?! They claim that all of the ducts are now (again) connected and even on the hot hot hot Saturday, we were shivering!

Which leads to Sunday. A lovely Mother's Day by any standard. Made even more lovely this year because the Peep and Slick did all of the dishes. Heaven. I really don't mind doing dishes but it was wonderful to sit and visit and know that they were being handled by a 4 year old and her daddy!

So things to be happy about today- along with tons of clean dishes:
1. French silk pie
2. Pioneer Woman's Cinnamon Rolls
3. Hash brown quiche
4. Cards signed in many colors
5. Sisters agreeing to share the spotlight
6. Vacation Drinks
7. Champagne with lunch
8. fresh pineapple
9. all of the family at one table
10. pink polka dot plants

Monday, May 5, 2008

10 things for the week!


1. ramekins
2. Beer Men
3. lunch served poolside
4. rhinestone covered shirts
5. fresh movie popcorn
6. instant mashed potatoes with gravy
7. open air stadiums
8. money bands
9. Bounce fabric sheets
10. sinking into a comfortable chair, see right...

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Get Happy


Good Day! Mayfest starts today- the 4 day family festival in Fort Worth along the banks of the Trinity River at University and I-30. HillDog and I have been on the committee in the past- but are not this year- but we will all, Slick, Peep, Hilldog and I be there over the weekend. There are bands, food vendors, games and an are area.
Here is the Peep last year getting her face painted on her leg! WOW how much she has changed in a year!
As if Mayfest is not enough to be excited about... Kenny Chesney comes to town on Saturday... enough said there...


For the rest of you who could care less about Mayfest and Kenny- Here are 10 Things to be Happy About

1. fresh hair color
2. short socks
3. short order talk
4. popcorn at the movies
5. firm handshakes
6. candy making
7. paper-white gardenias
8. car washing
9. not skulking
10. ambrosia

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Happy Wednesday!

Its been so long since I logged in that I almost forgot my password!

I have been missing myself and I am SURE you have been missing me too!

Let us start off with a 10 things to be happy about list- just to get the ball rolling!

1. saying something nice
2. tropical fish
3. wearing a man sized watch
4. chocolate chip cookies
5. twirling a baton
6. aerosol hairspray
7. fresh brown bread
8. Glenn plaid
9. golden retrievers
10. fresh plums

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Things to be Happy About

A million years ago I was a high school teacher. I thought I would be the coolest teacher in the world- which did not happen- and best decorator in the school- again, not me- and have the most fun in the classroom- possibly- but not the students...

I had a weekly list of “5 Things to be Happy About” on the chalkboard created each Monday morning with the help of 14,000 Things to be Happy About, a book by Barbara Ann Kipfer.

I tell you all of this to lead into the following list, possibly a new weekly item for the Paper Girl:

Ten Things to be Happy About:
1. Hula-hoops
2. sunglasses
3. drawstring pants
4. cut flowers
5. secondhand books
6. plastic colored Easter eggs
7. seedlings
8. organizing your goals
9. cake stands
10. cakes baked in animal shapes

I am certain you have your own things to be happy about this week, please do share…