First, I don’t make resolutions I prefer to set goals. And I don’t want to get all philosophical either. But when the clock strikes 2016, it will be thirty years since I kissed my parents on New Years Day.
My philosophy: Live, Love, Laugh
For anyone who hasn’t decided on resolutions I have a few suggestions:
- Be proactive about your health. I never see this on anyone’s list, but it should be there.
- Laugh more. Love more. Life is stressful whether you laugh, love, complain, or cry. Choose laughter & love. They are the best options.
- Do what makes you happy. Don’t fool yourself. Happiness is a choice you make everyday (not a goal or destination). Don’t spend your life looking for the cloud behind every silver lining. Be happy.
- Surround yourself with positive people and thoughts. This is plain and simple. Happiness attracts positive things to your life.
- Gratitude. Be grateful for what you have, nothing lasts forever. When you learn to focus on the glass half full, it changes everything in your life.
Hoping you and yours will be Living, Loving, Laughing in 2016
What can I say more! Cheers to that!
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Cheers
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Beautiful! Happy New Year
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Happy and healthy 2016 to you and yours.
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Thoughtful suggestions.
Happy New Year to you, your family and friends 🙂
Love and light ❤
Anand 🙂
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Thank you. You are a positive person full of so many wonderful messages. Keep up the good work. Love and Light.
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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Yes I am also thinking of focussing more on the health of mine and family.
Wish 2016 bring more health, wealth and peace.
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That is good to hear. We share the same wishes. All the best to you. Thanks for stopping by.
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I am making a list too. and I have full intentions of pushing myself this time 😉
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Good for you. Will you be posting it?
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Yes definitely. Posting it will keep reminding me that everybody knows, so its better I stay on track. Haha.
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Hahaha That was good. Putting pressure on yourself. lol Can’t wait to read yours.
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Soon on you screen 🙂
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Thanks
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A big thing for me this year is to surround myself with good people. Great suggestions. 🙂
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Thanks. Positive, motivated people help to bring out the best in you. But I find the Queendom is pretty positive already. Smile.
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What a nice thing to say. Thank you.
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Excellent list. Have a happy and healthy new year.
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Thanks Charles. Wishing all the joy, happiness, and prosperity life has to offer for you and yours. Hoping 2016 will be a better year for us.
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I hope so too. 2015 has definitely worn out its welcome.
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Laughing. I agree.
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Great list! Have a happy new year 🙂
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Thank you Happy and healthy 2016 to you and yours.
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I do not make resolutions either. I don’t even have goals. I just live day by day in my own little world. Maybe I should set goals. Who knows? Happy New Year my friend.
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Sometimes its good to live day to day. Did you get my comments on your New Years post from yesterday? I have tried to start using my phone for blogging and twitter. I think I will stick to my laptop. Let me know please. Wishing you a 2016 full of happiness, health, and smiles.
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No I did not receive them. Everything I have ever written has been done from my phone. I have never put pen to paper.
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Interesting. Last night I (thought) I responded to your post. Then, I was trying to write in twitter, I cursed my ass off & tossed the phone.
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Laughing!!! That happens sometimes.
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When I cursed & tossed the phone, it reminded me of you.
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Oh dear.. Your inner Scarlett was showing. Lol
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LAUGHING Yeah, I guess it was.
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I love her.
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Me too. We agree on quite a few people. Scarlett, Grisham, Sparks, Jolie. On Friday night the Rebels.
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Yes!!! I am most ready for Friday night. ‘Nawlins will be wild.
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Laughing. What a splendid way to start th New Year.
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Absolutely!!! #HottyToddy
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I went to the website. A pleassure to read. Someday you will have to educate this Yankee regarding what HottyToddy means.
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Hotty Toddy has no real meaning, but it means everything in Oxford. For fans, students and alumni, it is a greeting, a cheer and a secret handshake all rolled into one. Hotty Toddy is the spirit of Ole Miss.
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Gotcha. So, Friday night is Hotty Toddy. Seriously, I will be watching.
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Ole Miss is amazing. They are a class act. Smiles.
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If I lived in Mississippi, Friday night I’d watch the game in a bar to enjoy the crowd. Good luck.
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I am sure that would be fun. And thank you.
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So, I am guessing you will be up late that night.
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Oh yes!! Till the end.
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Simple, well thought out, achievable. I especially like the one about pursuing health. Here’s to New Year 2016, a great time for all.
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Thanks for stopping by. Wishing you and yours a happy and healthy 2016.
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Happy New Year, my friend! I hope it’s your best one yet. Cheers!🍸
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Thanks. Wishing you and yours a happy and healthy 2016 full of love, peace, and inspiration.
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I usually don’t do resolutions, but these seem easy enough. Is there one for retaining a bitingly sarcastic edge…or does that just come with the passing years?
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Hmmm. You’re a native New Yorker like me. I think it comes with the program.
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All great resolutions! Thank you for the reminder…as for my own, hmm…still working on those!
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Make sure you include happiness. Thanks for stopping by. Wishing you and yours all the very best in 2106.
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Oh, absolutely. However, if I decide to try and quit eating chocolate for a month I think my happiness levels might plummet – oh well…A very happy New Year to you.
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Eat le chocolat. Excuse me, my French isn’t very good. lol We need to do what makes us happy. As they said during the French Revolution – Let them east Chocolat. My, I am silly today. Always eat in moderation. I wish a happy and healthy 2016 full of licing loving and laughing for you and yours.
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A great reminder of things we so often forget. Happy 2016.
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Happy and healthy 2016 to you and yours as well.
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Excellent Objectives….Let’s all embrace them…. 😉
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Thanks for sayig that.
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Great suggestions – I try to remember many of these everyday, sometimes I forget. Wishing you the best in the new year. 🙂
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Thank you. I hope 2016 brings much love and laughter to you and yours.
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great resolutions–t hink I will incorporate them into my 2016
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Smiling. Happy 2016. Wishing you all the best
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I’m with you on the happiness, the love and the laughter and living will be necessary for all of those to happen. I don’t have any resolutions and never will do. I want more of the same. I want to be able to continue to inspire, motivate and provide insight. Laughter is really important to me on many levels, not least because it hurts like hell and I’ve spent many an hour with my Bestie (The Redhead) on the floor, gasping for air. There’s not much that comes close to that. On the loving front….I’d like to love myself just that little bit more and I say this because it is the foundation necessary to be able to give more love. It is important to remember that we need to give to ourselves just as much as we need to give to others. Oh and of course, not forgetting a little bit more ink for good measure. I’ve a whole canvas yet to be filled. Ideas always welcome.
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Oh, thank you for contributing your wonderful words to this post. Loving yourself is the key to life. And laughter is one of its greatest joys. Well, I hope you fill more of that canvas in 2016. And I wish you and yours, and Redhead the brightest, sweetest, and happiest new year
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Likewise. No doubt I’ll be running in the mud with her very soon and talking nonsense and smut before the week is out. I’m so glad that we aren’t overheard while running or we’d be slapped with a couple of yellow cards or some such. It doesn’t bear thinking about.
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LOL The visual made me laugh. Very funny. Be careful in the mud. lol
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Agreed agreed agreed 😊 thank you for sharing
Happy new year 😀
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Smiling. I wish you and your a 2016 full of Living Loving and Laughing. Your page is open on my laptop, after lunch I will be harrassing you with comments. That will be my sweet dessert.
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That made me laugh😅 harass away and enjoy your lunch 😊
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Thanks
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Number three would be a challenge for a martyr like me. Always on the lookout for clouds. Clouds may bring rain. Cali need rain. Cali needs me? Remind me to work on my logic as well.
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LOL Hey, just focus on the silver linging. I may have to board a plane and do a raindance for you guys. Just a bit afraid the cops will lock me up. Have a brilliant 2016.
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Wonderful words to live by … in a new year and every day. Wishing you only the best. Blessed that I am ending 2015 with your new friendship and beginning 2016 with it, as well.
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I treasure the day that I found your blog. So, what is your outfit to enter the New Year? Wishing you and yours a 2016 full of living loving and laughing.
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Well, if I didn’t have to pick up my son from a party at 12:15, my preferred outfit would be …. none. I’d be in bed, bringing in the new year quietly. Perhaps with music, or a good book or writing. Smiles. But since I will be out … jeans, blouse and boots. Laughs. Maybe in the new year I will become less predictable.
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OMG LOL Writing sounds like a good idea. More for me to read. Less predictable is always good. And as for the first visual you gave me…..thanks. lol
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A less observant soul would have missed that image. Writing is a good idea especially since I have an exciting writing adventure to look forward to. Smiles. I’m glad I could make you laugh today.
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LOL You are very special. Wink
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These are great! I love the gratitude one. I have a gratitude book I write in everyday. It really helps me on days I feel defeated. Reminding myself of everything I do have. 🙂
I count you as someone I’m grateful for. You’ve been a bright spot in 2015! I know 2016 you’ll also be counted as such! 🙂 Happy New Year! 🙂
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A gratitude book. Carisa you’re amazing. I once had an apartment I detested. I can’t tell you how much I hated it. Well, one day I lost my job and months later I had to leave it. For a couple of years I struggles to avoid being homeless. Guess what, while I avoided being homelessness, I remembered that apartment and it looked like paradise. We must be grateful for everything. Especially when God brings angels like you into our humble lives to brighten our days. For that I am very grateful.
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Wonderful list. I agree that taking care of health should be at the top of any goal or resolution list. Have a fantastic 2016.
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I have never included that on any list. I have learned. I hope you have an inspriring 2016. (More for me to read). Wishing you and yours a 2016 full of living loving and laughing.
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Love the alliteration of these resolutions Andrew! I agree with every single one of them (oh common, don’t act surprised 😀 )
May your resolve remain strong throughout the New Year! 🙂
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Smiling. I know you sahre in the power of love, creativity, and positive thinking. Thank you. I wish you and yours all the best in the coming year.
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May yours be enchanting! 🙂
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Thanks, see how I butchered that have with sahre. Wow. And all I drank was a chocolate milk.
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lol.. spelling doesn’t count in the AM 😉
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It’s after 2 PM here. I have no excuse.
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😀 😀 if you say so..
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Good luck with your goals!
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Thank you. And I wish you the best of luck in everything you chose to do. With time, I know you will feel better and brighter. I hope to accompany you on that journey.
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Thank you.
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Why so quiet?
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Huh? Thank you!
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LOL
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I agree that being proactive about one’s health should be number one and I also, don’t make promises, I have goals and standards. I did write a couple of happy poems that I hope will give you joy in knowing you inspired me to also, write about the relationship of joy to happiness and not only, sorrow.:0) May your 2016 be happy, joyful, and deeply satisfying in accomplishing your goals.
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Thank you Your words bring me so much joy. Writing about love and relationships can be so rewarding. I must read these poems. Joy is indestructible. May you and yours have the happiest and healthiest 2016 full of love, joy, and laughter. Are the any specific poems I should read?
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La Vida Gusta and Sonoran Whisper…you have wonderful New Year too. God bless, heal, and keep you.:0)
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La vida es maravillosa. Oh, you’re naming the poems. This jerk is blushing. I will read them tonight. Thanks for sharing. I wish all the best to you and yours. May 2016 make all your dreams come true..
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🙂 Blushing is good for circulation. lol! type-atcha-later…
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LOL You are much fun today.
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Great sentiments. Seems so simple, yet so few follow these simple ideas that would improve the quality of their lives. Hopefully, this time these ideas strike home and begin a newer, happier lifestyle. Thank you for sharing and offering a better chance for happiness to those in need.
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Thanks. I think they are simple steps to enrich lives. I hope it does change a few lives, even if its only one. Thanks.
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Wishing you and yours a warm and happy New Year, prosperous in words and friends.
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Smiling. Love that prosperous in words. I hope you and yours have the sweetest, healthiest and warmest 2016. May the year bring you inspiration and joy.
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An excellent list and all quite easy to achieve. Happy New Year to you 🙂
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Thanks for reading. Happy 2016 to you and yours.
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if one follows all of these, it is impossible to not have a balanced life and a joyful year throughout. I never make resolutions, it is hard for me to follow them but these resolutions are worth following and I would to follow all of these. Wishing you and your Family A blessed, prosperous, healthy and joyful year ahead. Loves. xxx
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Thank you. Sometimes people make the mistake of thiking they live to work. We live to be happy. I hope your 2016 is a blessed one full of smiles.
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My philosophy: Live, Love, Laugh……… and don’t be shy to be *Loud* about your philosophy! Happy New Year!!!
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I WILL. Thanks. Wehen everyone learns to live like that, perhaps the world will be a more pleasant place. Thanks for stopping by. Happy and healthy 2016 to you and yours.
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I will try my very best to follow your wise goals and am thinking of you and your parents.
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Smiling. Yeah, I always think of them as the clock strikes twelve. Thank you. Big hugs and kisses for you and hubby. You are on my list for my year end prayers. Have a happy one.
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Thank you for all your kind words.
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Wise and so so meaningful and indeed, like attracts like and we are the authors of our own destiny…subtly, we make our own choices, often not even aware that we have fallen down the same pot hole again! I wish you a Happy New Year, and indeed all on here, a new awareness of all that IS, here and now, and the Presence to be able to see…and Thank You for your thoughtful post… 🙂
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Well expressed. Thank you for contributing your insightful words to this post. It is greatly appreciated. Wishing you and yours a 2016 full of lving loving and laughing. Be well.
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Positivity is one of my goals for 2016 as well. Being proactive about our mental health is as important as our physical health.
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Well said. Thanks for stopping by to contribute to this post. Happy and healthy 2016 to you and yours.
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Reblogged this on KCJones.
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Thank you for helping spread these thoughts. I really appreciate it. Happy 2016.
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Love this!! Happy New Year Andrew😘
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Thanks for stopping by. Happy and healthy 2016 to you and yours.
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It’s so easy cuz I love your blog😉
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LOL You are to sweet. Keep this up and I will blame my cavity on you.
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That’s okay, just don’t send me the bill😆
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LOL
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I could do 1, 2, 3 and 4 more easily if my company burned to the ground tomorrow (er… metaphorically speaking, of course). Number 5 is the important one for me, though. I do make a genuine effort to think about my life this way. Often, I’m just stunned to be here at all. It’s an amazing thing to be alive. 🙂
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LOL It really is an amazing thing to be alive. Not sure what to wish you about the company fire. My post on Monday will reference you & your blog. I’ll be posting more or less at 7AM eastern standard time. Hopefully, you can get in on the fun early to give people a taste of your humor. Happy 2016. I will be reading your Feet Doing the Talking in a little while.
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My goodness, thank you very much! That’s extraordinarily kind of you. I’ll definitely make a note in my schedule book.
Tempted as I am to pounce on visitors to your blog one by one as they come through the front door and try to sign them up to a complete leather-bound set of BunKaryudo, I realize that would be rude, so I promise to behave myself.
But seriously, though. Thank you so much. I’m stunned and rather lost for words.
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Hey, I have been under the weather so please excuse the delay in my response. Find those lost words. My piece is about Lonely Author running for President and considering you for Veep. Of course that depends on your ability due to the James Bond thing. My pleausure my friend. Hope it brings a few extra numbers to your delightful blog. Have a good one.
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I’m sorry to hear you haven’t been feeling so well recently. I hope you get better soon.
I was very interested to read about the contents of the piece you mentioned the other day. It sounds hilarious. I’m really look forward to seeing it.
Incidentally, if you ever do decide to run for President, I may be available. I heard a disturbing rumor, as yet unconfirmed, that Daniel Craig may sign up for another James Bond movie. Has the man no shame?
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Blasphemy!!! What can I say. Some people have no shame. They just sell themselves for 20 million dollars.
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Shocking, isn’t it?
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Happy New Year – Andrew to you and family 🍾
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Thanks. Same to you and yours.
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Happy new year to you..
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THank you. Wishing you a brilliant and happy 2016.
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I just found your blog via Bun. Great stuff! Happy to start following you:-)
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Thanks fopr stopping by. I will folow yours as well.
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What more can be said? If it were me saying it: a lot. However, it would have amounted to exactly the same thing and would have been redundant. I have yet to master the art of ‘short & sweet.’ Practice makes perfect, yes? I’ve been browsing your blog today and I have to say, I adore it. 🙂
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Thank you for saying that. I find short blog posts get more “true readers.” This is the only blog post over 300 words. I am going out to do some errands. I opened a tab with your blog. I will visit you in the afternoon. My name is Andrew. Nice to meet you.
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How thoughtful! My name is Beth. Nice to meet you as well.
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Greet meeting you Beth. We will get to know one another better as we share our blogs.
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What a typo. Great to meet you.
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A LITTLE EARLY FOR THE NEW YEAR—CHOOSE HAPPINESS ANYWAY!
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Thank you John
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This is an pleasant post Andrew. I came here because I needed to read something light and I found this. Well and I needed my friend. Having a rough time. But I hope you are well and having a great Christmas. Ps I love all of your advice in this post.
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LOL . I forgot all about this post.
Sorry, about my late response. MY little holiday break set me way back on comments. I am finally catching up.
Sorry about the rough time. Are you still going through a rough patch?
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Naw I’m good. Lol I’m sure you are overrun with comments to respond to. I shouldn’t haven’t bothered you with it. But glad you found this!:) you the greatest!:)
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Seriously, are you okay?
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I couldn’t be better if I won the lotto suga!:)
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We need to travel the world….
Lol
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I agree! No plan though, no time limits to worry about. We can just do what we want when me want. How’s that sound?! Lots of laughter and dancing. You can’t write your beautiful poetry and I can read it:) How about that?
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Sounds wonderful.
Girls are okay?
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Yeah. My oldest told me yesterday that she’s getting married on October 14th and I can come if I want.:/
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Well, that was a sweet invite, huh?
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Yeah, I had so many dreams for her. Even for her wedding.
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I know how you feel.
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