FReeper Canteen~What Makes you Happy?~25 Jan 2007

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[AZamericonnie]

~The FReeper Canteen Asks~
What Makes You Happy?

People? Places? Pets?
Nature? Music? Art?
Fitness? Wealth? Family?

Or is it simply......

Chocolate?



"It takes 43 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile"


You cannot watch this without smiling!



Come & share your happy moments & memories!

[beachn4fun]

are we there yet?

[beachn4fun]

are we there yet?

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Good morning!
I WAS really tired..
Ms.B

[Tanniker Smith]

Ahhhh, ya lucked out! The phone rang and I had to go hide in the bathroom. (And it didn't work, there was still a student waiting for me when I got back.)

W O O - H O O !!

... anyway.

TS

[Tanniker Smith]

are we there yet?

So are you HAPPY now??

[Old Professer]

Thank you.

My grandmother taught me to read having learned herself late in her life; she didn't have a great vocabulary but she had wonderful stories to tell, of her childhood days, the friends she had in school and the happy, hard times she went through in the Great Depression.

My dad taught me to spell and to sound out words and then laughed at me every time I pulled the pieces apart in my mind and put them back together in my mouth like toy soldiers in a row when it came to words like Ply-mouth instead of "plimuth" or Char-acter instead of "karakter."

By the time I was four, the Sears catalog was my special treasure, a place to wander and wonder through the cold, winter nights with the fond hope that all that I could see would somehow end up under that scrawny little tree tilting oddly in the only spare corner across from the gas heater with little clay castles sprouting from the base like sentinels glowing a dull red the whole night long.

Too early, my grandmother would nudge me and, half-lifting, half-pushing get me off to bed in the biggest, most bottomless feathertick in all the "Holler."

Somewhere still, on the slope of that craggy hill is a path worn long ago that leads to some of the most pathetic pine trees you could ever see, mute memories of disappointments and glorious mornings both and, if you look carefully enough down low amongst the branches, you might catch a glimpse of silver tinsel shining brightly in the fading sun, still wet with the tears and grimy with the sweaty hand prints of a small boy whose dreams were trusted to that old Sears "Wishbook" so long ago.

[Kathy in Alaska]

wh!!

TS.....#50!!
AZ.....#100!!
SF.....#150!!
Luv.....#200!!
HJ.....#250 and #350!!
monk.....#300!!
Tamar.....#400!!
tom.....#450!!
beachy.....#500!!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Beautiful!
The way you write brings everything to life...
My books are my treasures, and I have floor to ceiling bookcases (all full) in the living room.
There are several other bookcases full, as well.

I loved the part about you sounding out words, that reminded me of my own Dad, teaching me how to speak our Acadian tongue...

I remember trying to say "Papillion" but could only manage to say "Pappy-Johns."
He got a tremendous kick out of that, and everyone in the family called them "Pappy-johns" after that.

He is lost now, in his dementia, but while I sit and hold his hands, I carry those sweet times in my heart.

My best to you..
Ms.B

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E...((HUGS))...the snow plows came on my street last night....we will see how they did in just a few minutes when I leave for work.

[SevenofNine]

WHOA breaking news off Fox news alert report that Lebanon students are clashing in the streets with cops and Hezollah at this hour damnnn 17 students are hurt so far they protesting univestiry hikes and Hezollah start trouble last summer that cause Israelis pay a visit

[Kathy in Alaska]

Looks like you are all set...food, drink, entertainment. "They" say a storm is coming here tonight or tomorrow. We will see.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, tom!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Are you laughing at me? LOL!! I'm a menace in the kitchen if I'm not paying close attention to only one thing. d:o)

[Sensei Ern]

First, I get my Joy from the Lord. Which is good, because no matter what is happening, My source of joy remains constant.

For happiness, not many things can beat playing a game of Madden and drafting McNabb and Ward and in the playoffs against the Vikings, dropping a 60 yard bomb from McNabb to Ward...for the third time.

[Lady Jag]

Salesman

Morris walks into an insurance office and asks for a job.

"We don't need anyone" they replied.

"You can't afford not to hire me. I can sell anyone, anytime, anything!"

"Well we have two prospects that No One has been able to sell. If you can sell just one, you have a job."

He was gone about two hours, and returned and handed them two checks, one for $25,000.00 and another for $50,000.00.

"How in the world did you do that?" they asked.

"I told you I'm the worlds best salesman, I can sell anyone, anywhere, anytime!"

"Did you get a urine sample?" they asked him.

"What's that?" he asked.

"Well, if you sell a policy over $20,000.00 the company requires a urine sample. Take these two bottles and go back and get urine samples."

Morris was gone about 6 hours and they were fixing to close when in he walks in with two five gallon buckets, one in each hand. He sets the buckets down, and reaches in his shirt pocket and produces two bottles of urine, and sets them on the desk and says "Here's Mr.Brown's and this one is Mr.Smith's."

"That's good" they said, "but what's in those two buckets?"

"Well, I passed by the Holiday Inn and they were having a state teachers convention, so I stopped and sold them a group policy!"

[SevenofNine]

HEY MAAA can we trade Tomkow for case of vodka for Super Bowl Vlady said it was cool by him if Tomkow want go to Russia

[beachn4fun]

So are you HAPPY now??

Yeah, can you tell?

[Lady Jag]

Good morning!!

[beachn4fun]

Hiya Ma.

I couldn't help but laugh.

eggs for 3 hours? Gah!

As I told GB, there's scientific evidence that women, as they get older, lose the ability to multi-task. We have to retrain ourselves to focus on one thing at a time.

Reading some of our stories by women here, we're living proof!

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Lady J. Ain't no doubt about it...major babes. The heck with anyone who can't see it.