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Blueberry & Cream Cheese Muffins
The muffins turned out really good! I must share the recipe, they're too good not to share. It was a bit of effort, but I don't think it took me more than an hour, including baking.
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Lacy
Also, seven years ago today, Lacy Marie came home from the shelter to live with us forever.
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The Happiness Project Quotes
“A person's wisdom yields patience; it is to one's glory to overlook an offense.”
-Proverbs 19:11
“Each time of life has its own kind of love.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“The disturbers of happiness are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.”
-Samuel Johnson
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we ( Read more... ) -
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My fellow Americans! =D
One week from Tuesday we go to the polls to vote for President. By now I'm sure almost all of us know who they are going to cast their votes for. But it's important to remember that 36 states will also be voting on a total of 176 additional measures. I remember four years ago- my first presidential election- I was surprised ( Read more... ) -
The Happiness Project Quotes
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends...”
-Samuel Johnson
“It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.”
-La Rochefoucauld
“It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.”
-La Rochefoucauld
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The Happiness Project Quotes
"Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers ( Read more... ) -
The Happiness Project Quotes
“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.”
- Anatole France
“If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you’ll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.”
-Flannery O’Connor
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
-Disraeli
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Books list!
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read. (I got bored of italicising the books I want to read because I'm re-posting this list from years ago to remind me about all the books I'd like to read!)
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people ( Read more... ) -
The Happiness Project Quotes
“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts ( Read more... )