1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Sleep for 7 hours.
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did the previous year.
7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink plenty of water.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
18. Smile and laugh more.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Forgive everyone for everything.
26. What other people think of you is none of your business.
27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
28. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
29. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
30. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
31. The best is yet to come.
32. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
33. Do the right thing!
34. Call your family often.
35. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
36. Each day give something good to others.
37. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
38. Share this with someone you care about (Click the "Share" link below)

For more on wonderful happiness ideas, please join the group "The Happiest Day of Your Life"
http://groups.to/happiness

.... or if you become addicted to Face Book!!  Yes, Face book has taken over my internet world!  I eat, sleep, breath face book....  

This blog has taken a super back seat in my life lately. I sort of feel guilty about it but really does it matter all that much?  Its just a medium for ME to blog/complain/post about MY life, my happenings etc.  However since studies show its good to "journal" and this an advanced form (or is it really that advanced in 2009?) I attempt to carry it on!

I  made a list here on said blog titled "Clean slate for '08" which was just that a list of things I wanted to accomplish in 2008. Over the year I refered to the list and even updated.  When I locate it again I will compare those on the list to those I feel I accomplished.  This years list, will probably have some of the same items (work in progress, right) but hope to add some new items too.

SO to reacquaint myself with blogging here is my list of resolutions for 2009. 

MY '09

1. RUN a road race (didnt exactly make that one happen in 08)
2. GO to the gym/exercise more consistently, not just in spurts
3. LOSE weight
4. GET a new Job!!!
5. FIND my husband (Have you seen him???)
6. Don't WORRY, be HAPPY- Have more fun, be more spontaneous
7. Say NO more and dam it STOP being so nice and giving so much of myself with no return!
8. DO MORE for Myself
9. Read the remaining 6 Jodi Picout (including her '09 book)
10. Learn how to Crochet

to be continued....

Halloween 2008: Each year for trick or treat I usually have a houseful of kids, parents, aunties, uncles, etc...  This year I was probably the most prepared and I just had My Abigail, Emme *came after ToT, and Larry Joseph.  We had a great time, giving out candy, getting candy, eating pizza, and decorating cupcakes and cookies!  Abigail enjoyed giving out the candy more than the actual act of trick or treating.  When another child would come to the door she'd say, "Auntie we have another customer!" :) I had something like 500+ pieces of candy and at had not one piece left.   Perhaps next year those Mainers will come back again!  Alice missed them!

Larry J Halloween

Larry Joseph, 2008 *looks similar to 2007, and 2006!

AJG kitty

EBC pink poodle

XOXO,
AG

I have missed this blog... from the lack of posting it doesn't appear as such... BUT, I did.  I'm still alive and kicking and unfortunately have nothing new or exciting to report.  I will save the "complaining" for another time, or never... Really, is there any reason to go there?? 

I am going to try to get back in the groove of this here blog...  :)

I have lists, lists, and more lists to make...

• Weekend cleaning lists... starting with my house- Aud, the toilets are cleaned, I'm talking about my disastrous spare room.
• Getting the rest of my house in order.  If my house in order the rest of my world may follow. 
• Getting holiday life in order-
• Thanksgiving (setting mom's table, baking pumpkin bread, and relaxing!)
• A xmas list of gifts needed to purchase, make, bake, etc. 
• Xmas card list
• Fitting in the gym, a walk in Every. day!! 
• I need to update my list of '08 commitments
• Must be better at blogging.

XOXO,
AG 

What is your definition of home?
Submitted by naynay72

my parents house... the place where I grew up.  I do not still live there, I have a house but their house is my HOME!   I guess that will change if/when they ever move... but

Celine_Dion

Great show!!!

Thanks Sammy & Shelley for a fun night.

Celine Dion sparkles, through lustrous threads and luminous vocal cords

By Sarah Rodman, Globe Staff  |  August 13, 2008

You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl. And that's good news for Celine Dion fans heading out to the second of her two shows at the TD Banknorth Garden tonight.

Those who missed the lovably earnest French-Canadian chanteuse during her extended stay in Sin City can be assured the blinding glitz quotient has not dimmed a single sequin for her current tour, which kicked off last night with an energetic, two-hour, eight chest-thump performance.

Situated in the center of the arena, Dion's elaborate but elegant square stage featured lit panels, conveyor belts, two side runways, and four small pits that receded and arose ferrying members of her ten-piece band.

Central stages usually limit face time for each quadrant of the audience, but Dion was tireless in working the perimeter and the runways as she belted out the songs the sold-out crowd came to hear, the way they wanted to hear them with no big note left unsung.

Even when she wasn't front and center, there was never a dearth of stimulation, be it her own costume changes, the intricate lighting, the video imagery, or her cadre of dancers, deployed judiciously. And she had enough flat screens to start her own sports bar.

All of this pageantry of course fits Dion's theatrical way with her songs and their soaring pop style, and she didn't disappoint vocally. She came out guns blazing - or at least the adult contemporary version of guns blazing - with her hit remake of Cyndi Lauper's "I Drove All Night," scraping the ceiling with her tensile voice.

The night's best moments occurred when she played to her outsized strengths, surrendering to the windswept melodrama of "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" or the overheated pathos of "All By Myself" or the gentle, heartfelt "Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore."

The swaying synth anthems - including mirror images "Because You Loved Me" and "I'm Your Angel" - were pleasant but innocuous with their generic, sloganeering exhortations to cry on shoulders or stand up strong but Dion sold them with her sincerity.

Pop balladeer Celine was a hit but "angry rocker" Celine, while still capable vocally, failed to generate much heat. Of the "edgier" tunes from her latest album "Taking Chances," only the patently campy, Eastern-Latino mash-up "Eyes on Me," featuring Dion swanning around in a silver-sequined minidress, leather pants, and billowing white cape, was much fun.

Dion graciously thanked the audience throughout the night, and called Boston her lucky charm. She closed, of course, with her luckiest if most syrupy charm "My Heart Will Go On."

It's a testament to her skill however, that even when the songs weren't strong, Dion was. Given recent trends in pop music, it's always a pleasure to be reminded that for some vocalists, auto-tune is a built-in mechanism. 

Larry J 4th bday

If you guessed Larry Joseph's......you'rrrrrrrreee right!!

Happy day buddy !

But somebody I know is turning 4 tomorrow!!!!  :-()