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Take 2: Two minutes of catnip, that is!
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My Waffle Wedded Wife
What a great way to start a Monday…
This couple will cherish their video forever. If the bride’s laugh doesn’t start you laughing, you’ve lost your funny bone.
Do you have a memorable ‘wedding day’ event to share?
Touch of Catnip:
Laughing at Yourself
Life is a Journey
Today I needed a memory jog
I looked for the ice cream
And found a peanut log
Candy in the freezer? Okay
Certainly not a BAD idea
Ice cream in the candy jar, NO WAY!
Life is a journey, enjoy the ride
Laugh at yourself, take it all in stride
Laughing is just good for the soul. If you can’t laugh at yourself, then how can you expect others to laugh along with you? As I get older, I have to laugh at the ‘silly’ things I do sometimes without even thinking – putting the milk in the panty and the cereal in the fridge, thinking one thing and saying another, calling my own phone number, driving to the grocery store and realizing I am at the post office.
I can’t help but laugh – literally LOL! That’s right, laugh out loud! So hard, my sides hurt! I just stand there, look at what I am about to do or where I am instead of where I am suppose to be and just totally burst out laughing!
Someone once said doing such crazy things was a sign of old age. Most of the time it is simply a case of just too much mental clutter! It’s the day I go to the pantry and find the milk that has been there for several days that worries me! That would mean all the things that should have gone into the pantry are now…um-m-m-m? Where is the bag of potato chips? Peanut butter, where are you? Is that the sour cream I spy in the corner?
What about you? Have you experienced any “I can’t believe I did that!” moments?
“Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.”
~Queen Victoria
Join Me in a Cup of Coffee
Len of myownheart.me has asked that I join her for a cup of coffee…
1) How many cups of coffee per day?
One cup in the morning…half at the time: 1/2 before breakfast, 1/2 with breakfast. THEN, one to two cups of cappuccino in the afternoon!!!!!
2) What is your favourite caffeine delivery system?
That would be chocolate…chocolate covered caramels! Of course, the frozen Twix is to die for!
3) What was your best cup of coffee?
Definitely the cappuccino…yum!
4) What was your worst cup of coffee?
Starbuck’s YUCK!! Don’t ever order black coffee!
5) What does your favourite mug say?
Mickey Mouse…LOL 
6) How do you take your coffee?
BLACK in the morning!!
7) When was your first cup?
I have absolutely no idea. I do remember taking it with cream and sugar but got rid of both through the years.
8) Have you ever gone on a coffee tea date?
Nope. Is this one? If so, it is my first
The most difficult part is not the receiving the invitation nor thanking the sender. It is not even the questions for these require fairly simple answers without a great deal of thought and are truly fun to think about. Hardest for me is the giving…who to invite? Who not to invite? Is there anyone I would NOT like to join me in a cup of coffee?
Since joining the blogosphere I have met so many wonderful people and established some of the best friendships ever! I want to THANK all of my visitors and followers for stopping by for a little catnip to hopefully carry you through the day with a smile.
My Invitation…
It is with thankfulness and gratitude that I invite all readers of this blog post for coffee. In accepting the invitation, Like and/or leave a comment, copy the questions, answer and post to your site along with your invites.
Have fun and have a cup of coffee while completing your post and invitations. If you don’t like coffee, have a cup of tea or whatever you prefer. Just enjoy the day and smile 🙂
Complete this sentence: A morning without coffee is…
NATIONAL HUG DAY
With all the posts catnip has been featuring lately about hugs, she was not aware of the National Hug Day. Well, there is one and it is today, January 21. Visit Awakenings for information about this national day. Don’t leave without watching the two videos.
Awakenings: National Hug Day
Click the picture!
Also here are the links to the prior “HUGS” posts from catnipoflife in case you missed them:
Hugs Sent Your Way. . .
HUGS & THANK YOUS!
HUGS: The Universal Language
Hugs, Hugs, & More Hugs: Are you a hugger?
Of course, I have to leave you with a new video. In this one, be sure to look closely at the expressions on the animals’ faces. Don’t tell me they do not have feelings!
SMILE!
Smiley faces, smiles within
Today is Monday
Let the smiles begin!
Smile today, tomorrow, too
Keep on smiling
The whole week through!
Smile! Smile! Smile!
Legend & claims resound
Takes more muscles to frown
Generation upon generation has passed along the saying “it takes less muscles to smile than to frown.” If this is true, then one might conclude smiling requires less muscles, thus burning less calories and thereby conserving energy. As with many things passed along through the ages and having been around so long, the cultural landscape of this saying has taken on wide interpretations and variances in recorded data. Let’s take a look and see if there are indeed supportive facts or is this simply a statement of fireside chatter?
Remember the game where a line of people stood along a wall, one person whispered a phrase or statement into the next person’s ear and that person whispered to the next person, and so on? It became a hit because the last person in the line had to repeat aloud an interpretation of what he/she heard and it rarely, if ever, sounded anything like it started! Sometimes it became so distorted it did not even make sense but it certainly brought on its share of smiles and laughter.
Keeping that scenario in mind think about the saying “it takes more muscles to smile, than to frown” but in the context of actual numbers, i.e., how many muscles it takes to smile vs. the number of muscles it takes to frown. As with the little game and because the saying is so widespread, the number of muscles to form both expressions has changed from telling to telling. Different people hear it differently and pass along supposedly the version they heard as absolute truth with absolute certainty…without a shadow of doubt!
From Snopes.com, here is a sampling of some ways this saying has been interpreted and passed along.
It takes 13 muscles to smile and 33 to frown. Why over work? (Washington Post, 5 December 1982)
It takes four muscles to smile, 20 to frown and roughly 317 to appear amused when a Celine Dion imitator, who happens to be a man, sings a song about, er, flatulence. (The Denver Post, 29 September 1998)
Don’t they know it is said you use 35 muscles to frown and four to smile. Don’t tire yourself! ([Queensland] Sunday Mail, 18 August 1991)
It takes 50 muscles to make a frown – but only 13 to produce a smile. (From a 1931 book)
To me, the best comes from the scientists. They conclude it takes 41 muscles to frown and 17 to smile. Makes you wonder…um-m-m-m?
Scientists have WAY too much time on their hands!
Frowning does use more muscles and as a result, burns more calories!
Conclusion: On a diet? SMILE more!
What are your plans for today? Will you fill the day with smiles or mope around feeling blue? Mondays ARE a new beginning!
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If you are not smiling by now, start dancing! Ever seen anyone frowning on a dance floor? Dance in the kitchen, dance down the hall, dance on your way to the bathroom! Dance! Get the picture? Dance & bring on the smiles!
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