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Happiness is An Unfogged Brain

I did not realize how fogged up my brain had gotten from all the damn meds I was on.  But now, about a month out from no meds, I’m turning mental cartwheels.  It is so GOOD to think again.  I have all these IDEAS.  (Yes, I might be manic.  That’s how happy I am.). Seriously, happiness is a brain that works.

What made you happy this week?

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  1. I just woke up at 4:30 this morning with all these IDEAS. So I wrote Bob some e-mails. Over 2000 words of ideas.

    He’s going to beg me to go back on the meds.

    1. I hope you didn’t skip any really life-saving meds. I’d love to get rid of all my extra pills, too, but my PCP does not think that would be wise. Grrr.

      1. Yes, we heard that, too. For two awards actually, so we’re very grateful to Australia. I have no idea how you can help, so don’t worry about it. I’m just happy Australia likes us enough to nominate us.!

  2. So happy to hear about your unfogging, Jenny! And I can’t wait to read everything your little grey cells come up with. I don’t feel sorry for Bob one bit. 🙂 I bet he enjoys a challenge!
    I really wish I knew how to achieve the same. I’m not even on a lot of meds, just permanently exhausted. And my brain also likes to go into hiding lately, when it thinks it’s had enough. Fog de luxe.
    THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who reacted to Matcha’s surgery last week. It helped a lot to hear your experiences and feel the encouragement and comfort. You are all gems, thank you so much. I am happy to report that the surgery went well, even if it took an unexpected turn. It turned out, after X-ray, that not just 2 molars needed extracting… 6 did. Bleh. At least her bloodwork came back in peak condition, so that’s something! Apparently Matcha has a dental condition with a long fancy name that they can apparently also shorten down to “tooth resorbtion”, which basically entails that the teeth will… self-destruct, to put it bluntly. It’s not our fault, but there’s also nothing to do, just hope she gets to use her teeth as long as possible. Internet tells me most cats don’t show symptoms of this until they’re 5, and she’s only 3.5. Double-bleh. Eventually, the vet said, they’ll very likely all need to be extracted, but for now, her remaining 24 biters looked fine. The stories you all told me of toothless kitties still living happy, healthy lives help enormously in this. Thank you again.
    We got such a scare from Matcha’s unexpected dental troubles that I promptly, same day as Matcha had the surgery, booked a check for Triple. We’d previously figured the vet had seen her enough, but now we felt we wanted an extra check. So, Triple got to say hi to the new vet’s office on Thursday. Everything looked fine inside the demon-maw. Happy and relieved. Triple was not amused, but nobody got eaten. It’s them small things.
    I was happy to read last week about your eyes, Jan! Hope is a good thing. Hang onto that and please let us know how it goes. With the move too, of course!
    Also Debbie, happy to hear your recovery is also progressing and that PT said you’d just been overdoing things a little. Fingers crossed pain will bugger off very soon and mobility and stability will return.
    HUGS to everyone who needs some, want some and/or just for being you. And thanks for remembering, caring and being safe, lovely, supportive and stellar people. You make the world a better place.

    1. It made me happy to see a post from you, Shass! I was getting worried. I feel your struggles with the kitties. I hope both of them continue to have, long, happy lives.

      Thanks for your encouragement.

    2. Sorry to hear that the news about Matcha’s teeth isn’t good but glad to hear recovery is underway.

    4. 6 instead of 2 is why we have xrays! (We were all thrilled to get a new dental xray machine a few years ago–the one we had stopped using was made in 1968! Dr. Bob, the founder, liked to save money.) I’m glad Triple is in good shape and will forgive you.

    6. I’m so glad Matcha is doing well. As to toothless cats, my vet told me that cats can do well without teeth as their gums harden up enough to even eat dry food, so as others here have mentioned, she will do well. And I’m also glad Triple’s vet visit went off well without anyone getting eaten!

  3. Similarly here, though completely different circumstances. My husband and I are finishing up 3 weeks of helping our son recover from knee surgery. Specifics: he lives in Warsaw, Poland, with his wife and nearly two-year-old daughter in a 5-floor walk up. His daughter/my granddaughter has just started daycare. Of course, she instantly came down with her first bad cold. So, first we nursed a sick toddler. Then we helped a newly operated on adult who is accustomed to doing most of the lifting in his family. (Our daughter-in-law is strong, but she has a highly demanding job.) Anyway, we’ve been very busy, have loved being around son’s family, and are now preparing for our exit. That plan is primarily to teach granddaughter to walk up and down 5 flights of stairs. Of course, she prefers to be carried. Training — aided by apple slices, mandarin orange sections, and small cubes of cheese — is successful so far.

    My life started getting ready busy last fall, and I haven’t participated as much in arghink as I would like. Hope to be back commenting regularly soon.

    The intersection of my experience with Jenny’s is that I have been taking care of others for months. Putting others’ needs before my own fogs my mind: I lose my senses of order and control. I am looking forward to returning to my wants.

    3. I looked after a colleague’s 3 year old for a morning last week. I had forgotten how similar looking after a toddler is to looking after a dog. I didn’t say that to my colleague and it was delightful but honestly cubes of cheese definitely work for both, don’t they?

  4. What made me happy this week is that my niece told me she is on the Dean’s Honour Roll at her university. Bursting with pride here!

  5. I’m happy that my brain is only moderately foggy. I blame all the details of the move, and medical appointments on top of that, for causing the confusion. Too many small details to remember and act on.

    I’m very happy that your brain, Jenny, is unfogged! It’s a bit alarming when a normally alert person declines in that way.

    Nothing but good times ahead!

    1. I’m also happy that I did not swallow the crown and tooth that broke a week ago, and that I saved the casts from getting a night guard several years ago. They will help the dentist make me a new bridge. Alas, it will be almost a month before that happens.

      1. Jan, trouble always seems to come in (at least) threes. I hope you’re not in pain in the meantime.

        My father once swallowed an expensive gold tooth crown. With commendable lack of squeamishness, he watched his stool and rescued the crown when it appeared and after cleaning got it put back in. I once had a (less expensive) tooth crown come out and did not swallow it, but I was living in Germany and had the interesting experience of undergoing a dental procedure in my iffy German. (That tooth later went in an extraction, I think.)

      2. I once swallowed a gold inlay and the cost of the gold for the replacement was much higher. Fortunately, the dentist cut a notch in the tooth for the inlay to hook into and the next time the glue wore out, the gold was not lost. I have , however, switched to porcelain for subsequent additions.

  6. I’m happy that your brain fog has dissipated!

    What made me happy this last week or so is that K1 and I are watching Future Man together, and the humorous references to 80’s and 90’s TV and pop culture are excellent.

  7. Brain fog is absolutely no fun and I’m glad to hear you’re feeling better.

    My migraine cluster ended mid-week, after 6 days. The sun came out, which helped considerably. I had FT chats with two friends and lunch with another which made me happy. Also had a long telephone chat with one of my favourite cousins. I made vegan moussaka which was delicious. I love moussaka but have not made it in years because I don’t eat dairy. The topping was made with cashew milk which turned out to be surprisingly easy. Leftovers were tasty too.

  8. Congratulations on the fog lifting! (I do hope you’re not giving up any meds that are keeping you, you know, alive.) I have had brain fog for years–fibro brain fog, which then got aggravated by menopause brain fog. But when I got long Covid in Feb 2020, then again, with bells on, in April 2023, the brain fog ramped up to a whole new level. It led to me having to leave my beloved job, and has really affected my writing.

    It hasn’t gone away, by any means, but just in the last few months I’m starting to see tiny sparks of creativity for the first time in years, and I am slowly beginning to write again, although nothing like I used to. I hope it continues to move in the right direction. Pretty please, universe.

    In the meanwhile, I’m happy because we’re having a warm-up, from the deep cold of the last month, all the way up to 33 degrees F. Everything is still covered with snow, but at least we’re going to have a few days where it is normal cold, not arctic cold. I’m really happy because I’m flying to Florida on Thursday for the Coastal Magic Convention on the ocean in Daytona Beach. Readers and fellow authors, beach, 70 degrees, time spent afterward with the author friend who came to visit me last fall, and a week away from the news and reality. I’d like to feel better before I go, and I’m praying I don’t get sick (I’ll be masking as much as I can, but it’s still a lot more risk than usual). But my mental health REALLY needs this break. Did I mention ocean?!

    1. Best of luck on continued disappearing of brain fog, Deborah. Florida??? Ocean is always good.

    3. Breathe as much ocean as you can. My headaches used to go away when we got about thirty miles from the Gulf.

    4. Ocean is very important to healing for some of us. I am so glad you’re going to Florida. It sounds like a great get together. You are healing. If you like me, it’s just taking a lot longer than you wish it would. Blessings.

  9. Happy today: some new writing has begun. It’s raining and I have nowhere to go / nothing to do but write. This is day 2 of 4-day weekend and DH is downstairs making breakfast.

  10. Reading a very funny YA, which usually is not my genre, but I picked it up from the coffee shop’s exchange box. “How Not To Be Popular” by Jennifer Ziegler. You can see how her plans are going to backfire, and she believably doesn’t, but it’s all going to be better than if her plan worked. Also enjoying “Unruly” by David Mitchell, so thanks for that recommendation, oh fellow argher whoever you are. Sorry to GBT early, but I never manage on actual Thursday, and books are one if my happies this week

    Other than that, thankful for sun, warmer weather, ice stuck in the front grill of my car melting, etc.

  11. My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

          2. The most applicable quote from Blazing Saddles for me is, “I’m so tired.” From Madeline Kahn’s song.

        2. I did see Blazing Saddles but, alas, failed to memorize it.
          Still, as somebody said, good authors borrow, great authors steal.

  12. I’m really happy you have recovered from brain fog. January to me was a month of blur. First time in a long while I had been sick. So much so that this morning I went looking for the large can of peaches I know I bought a week and a half ago. Took apart the cabinets looking and came up with nada. With that I realized I also couldn’t find the four pack of cream of soups either. I always check my receipt just to make sure of getting the deals, so they were there, but from between putting them in the cart, then onto the check-out line, also new to me bagging and placing them in the trunk of the car coming home and putting away, didn’t notice till today, I must still be in a funk.

    On the plus side yesterday, I made German potato soup from a recipe I saw on the internet using my own spin and checking other recipes for different ingredients and seasonings. It was delish.

    1. When this has happened to me, I have always found the missing food eventually, sometimes still in the car trunk and sometimes in unexpected places inside.

  13. My happy is that I got out for a 15 min walk because the sidewalks were clear.
    And I have been enjoying Olympic figure skating. And the weird scandals coming from curling and biathlon.

    Has anyone else been struck by how the biathlon bronze medalist seems to have fallen for bad romance tropes and thought that an internationally viewed apology would somehow make it ok that he cheated? I am all for his ex who managed without revealing her name to tell the world no, this doesn’t make it ok.

    1. Yep, the Norwegaian biathlon medalist made big news here with his confession. glad his ex has a good self preservation compass. The love of his live and he cheats after 3 months??? Thinking with his southern parts???

  14. I am so happy you are free of brain fog Jenny and feeling creative again, it must be a huge relief to you too.

    Went to my annual Yoga Lunch yesterday (Valentine’s Day), we do it every year (since we went on-line at COVID). There were eleven of us and it was great to see some friends I haven’t seen in a while and get loads of hugs and good chat. Confession – I’m not actually part of that yoga group since I retired but it is run by the same yoga teacher whose classes I still attend. I get invited to the Yoga Lunch because I was a founding member of the employer-approved lunchtime yoga class at my former employers office.

    It was bright and sunny yesterday after a month or more of dreak, dank, dark days which also made me happy. It never got above freezing all day but still….. Back to dark, dreak, dank again today.

    1. Yoga is one of my happies. Sometimes its just strenuous and sometimes its blissful and this week, both classes were in the bliss-out category! So nice.

  15. I’ve had a bad case of winter doldrums, which is perhaps a variant on brain fog, but I’m happy to say (at least tentatively) that it seems to have lifted with the end of the really intense cold. I can handle normal cold, but the days on end of never getting above 32F wore on me. But now we’ve got the winter normal highs of about 40F, and plenty of sunshine, so I finally feel like doing stuff.

    I’m also happy to be having ideas. I’m still (or again) working on a secret project series, and I’d been struggling with it, but this week I had ideas! Mostly about secondary characters and their backstories, and I’m adding to my “extras” files, where I’ve got a bunch of really short fairytale-type stories for these characters. (It’s a cozy fantasy, with elves and pookas and goblins and what looks like a hybrid human/polar-bear but no one’s quite sure what species he is.)

    And finally, I’m happy to be getting the urge to quilt again after weeks of my studio being too cold for prolonged work (barely heated, lots of windows to let in the cold). I’ve been trying to get the background fabric for a quilt to replace the one I made for my neighbors thirty years ago, and I’m really missing JoAnn’s Fabrics. Ordering online is tricky for fabrics when I have something specific in mind and need to see it in person. I didn’t like the first plan, something from my stash, and the second planned fabric was out of stock before my order was filled, the third one arrived but wasn’t what I thought it would be from the picture (my fault, not the seller’s), and now finally I’ve got something ordered that I think is going to work better, and is a newly released print, so it shouldn’t be out of stock any time soon! If you want to see a really messy and condensed diagram of the quilt (there’s a reason I’m a quilter, not a painter/sketcher), it’s here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUyO8lQEVpK/

    1. We’ve been in the teens, single digits, and negative numbers for a month, Gin, so I feel you. Today finally got over freezing for the first time in a long time. It was amazing.

  16. Happy to have finally been to one of my fav cinemas again. The prices have clinbed to a crazy ticket price – happy I had vouchers to make it bearable.
    Happy that my parents came, too, and liked the film a lot. A really good German film, only the trailer had me thinking it was a funny one while it dealt with grief, love, and being trained as an actor.

      1. “Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke”, by director Simon Verhoeven, based on the autobiography of actor and writer Joachim Meyerhoff.
        Bruno Alexander, the young actor playing him, was really good. He’s got quite some experience as child/teen actor, screen writer, director and producer.
        It’s set in Munich, my city: Josse/Joachim is living eith his excentric grandparents while studying at the very famous Otto Falkenberg acting school.
        It catapulted me back to my childhood – the cars, the smoking, the clothes.

        1. Thank you! Sadly, my German is terrible now. But perhaps it has subtitles. Munich was my mother’s favourite city too although she had mixed feelings later since she studied at the university there in the late thirties…

  17. I’m starting to feel like I am walking out of the fog too, but mine is dad-stress instead of meds. Or depression. The weather changing a bit has helped too and I am finally feeling like I can make decisions again. Everything was too hard there for a while. And the house is a wreck and I am running out of clean underwear… Still a ton of work to do and I am behind on everything, but at least I feel like picking at the corners of it again.

    3. Caring for a parent who needs help and won’t help themselves is incredibly stressful. Even when they contribute to their own care, trying to walk the line between helping and not taking over is stressful, not to mention the way it takes over your life. It took 4-6 months after my mother died to get my brain back – that said, even though it was impacting my mental health, I would have chosen to have longer with her.

      Take care of your self Lupe and hold on as much as you can.

  18. My happiness this week was getting out watercolor supplies and setting up a work area to paint Valentine postcards. They were very cute, even though not perfect, if such a thing exists.

    Also happy that the snow is nearly all melted.

    Blessings to all of you with brain fog. I had a species of it with chemo brain, but that’s mostly gone. I’m just slower now, which matters less than it would have thirty years ago.

  19. Congratulations Jenny on no brain fog. Mine was from hyper parathyroids and when it was removed life got so much better.

  20. If I have brain fog, I blame the chocolate! I have gone just the tiniest bit overboard buying chocolate snacks for the dotter and grandkinder, if 15 pounds can be considered overboard. There’s at least six pounds of Hershey Nuggets in their five varieties. Bags of just Reese’s Peanut Butter cups or Almond Joys or Snickers.

    I should have been buying apple slices or fruit baskets or healthier snacks, but… I like the dark chocolate nuggets with almonds.

    I watched the live-action How to Train Your Dragon yesterday on Netflix while nibbling ve-e-e-ry slowly on some Almond Joys.

    Chocolate. 🙂

    2. Did you like the movie, Gary? I thought it was very well done. The animation blended in well.

  21. I remember that decades ago when I was first put on blood pressure meds, I seemed to lose the ability to concentrate for long stretches in one many-hour session, and I had to adapt to working more steadily in shorter sessions, but that’s the worst that meds seem ever to have done to me mentally. (Physically, they’ve done a number on my ability to bend over repeatedly to scan low library shelves and to lift my arms over my head for a long period, such as when messing with curtain rods.) On the other hand illness, fatigue, lack of sleep, or low points in the dinurial cycle can befog me pretty well.

    1. Way back when I first went on beta blockers, I ended up with intense fatigue and brain fog. When I mentioned it to my primary care provider (also a friend), he wasn’t surprised. Said, “Yeah, I regularly ‘cure’ what people think is the beginning of dementia just by switching them from beta blockers to something else for the BP.” Apparently lots of people (but not all) have brain fog side effects for beta blockers.

      I was able to manage my BP for years with something other than beta blockers (or maybe not, but I didn’t know it), but after my heart attack, I had to go on them again. Eventually I figured out that if I take the pill at bedtime, it helps me to sleep, and doesn’t make me tired/foggy all day. And still keep my BP in the good range.

      1. I was on beta blockers years ago. My body decided it didn’t like them. Doctors figured that out after a week’s hospital stay. It was a nice little vacaiton.

      2. Good ideea, Gin! I’m taking mine in the morning, and I’m tired until the coffee kicks in.

        1. Atenolol.

          Be sure to check with your doc though. It’s generally recommended for morning, I believe, for best effect. I just couldn’t tolerate it in the morning, so bedtime was better than not taking it, and it does still keep my BP okay despite taking it at the less than ideal time

          1. So we had a very small dog boarding at work recently who got a very small dose of atenolol twice a day. He, of course, could not tell us if he was having brain-fog.

          2. I also moved atenolol to bedtime because of effects in the morning, although it’s been a while so I’m not sure whether the problem was brain fog or mild dizziness or what. I’m on other BP meds as well, so it seemed to make sense to spread them out.

  22. Jenny, You did say a whole back that you had an appointment with your doctor, so I take it that they are okay with your new approach? As Deborah said, I hope you’ve retained or found a substitute for any med vital to keeping you alive. (Not that a zombified existence is better than a shorter, fuller one, but hopefully there are substitute meds or a way to accept a minimal calculated risk. )

    1. They weren’t okay but we’re working out a compromise. Well, we had to, I flatly refused to go back.

  24. Happy: one of my oldest friends came for the weekend. I have a week off. I am crossing my fingers that a complicated work situation is heading to a positive resolution.

    And just finished a retead of Sylvester by Georgette Heyer. Hurray!

  25. My happy is that we opened another show this week, and people like it. There’s always something cool about being backstage. I’ve got more show marketing work to do today, but I can do it from the comfort of my home, and then I can take tomorrow off.

  26. Today I woke up on the wrong side of the bed., and only now around 4 p.m. do I feel OK. I think I’ve got the mid-February life is too hard blues. I could use a massage, a nap, and maybe a kitten or two. Or a warm swimming pool. A spa with kittens. (Don’t tell my cat.)

  27. I have cold. It is the worst cold in history. My house should be quarantined, my city should be quarantined. The entire state should be quarantined. On the other hand, I do not have brain fog. My brains were coughed out at least three days ago.

    4. Recovery is not possible. I am obviously the forerunner of a new disease that will overtake the world.

      It is possible that I am slightly hyperbolic.

      1. Maybe. Or maybe you are completely run down from years of caregiving and grief. I hope you feel better soon.

    5. Why does this remind me of Eric Idle singing,”Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” at the end of Life of Brian?
      I hope you and your quarantinable state feel better soon.

  28. I’m happy I read The Great Gatsby again because when I read it in college, I had limited life experience and I appreciate it more now.

      1. Well, the best thing I ever wrote was in fourth grade, but it was no Fitzgerald novel. And I’m sure that it would not have withstood the test of time.

  29. It looks like commenting is making me happy. I have been a bit brain-foggy for the past week but the weather warmed up and suddenly I can think again. And spring is getting closer.

  30. My happiness is that it’s finally stopped raining here in Portugal and the 10-day forecast is pretty well rain-free. We had pretty much non-stop rain for the last month – a series of atmospheric river storms, and while we haven’t had the disastrous flooding and winds that the country has had further north, it’s been bad enough, and definitely affecting people’s psyches. I got to take a long walk for the first time in a month (January 13, in London, to be precise), and it was heaven.

    2. I’m happy to hear from you under any circumstances. I often wonder how you like living in Portugal now that you are a few years in. But I have to laugh at the idea of going to London in January for a sunny break! My first time in London was in January and February of 1977 and I rarely saw a clear sky, just a lot of rain and occasional snow. It wasn’t until as I was leaving in the first week of March that the weather improved.

        1. No it wasn’t! The Clean Air Act was passed around 1960. By the seventies Aunt Snack would just have experienced a normal British winter.

          1. Which had a lot of cloudy days. But the city I grew up in had a lot of gray skies, too. The next year I moved to Minneapolis, which had colder days and bluer skies. But no thugs from ICE in those days.

      2. Honestly, it was kind of ridiculous to have better weather (well, drier) in London than in Portugal! Enjoying the sun now while it lasts!

  31. I’m happy that I read The Great Gatsby again because when I read it in college, I had limited life experience and I appreciate it more now.

  32. Glad your brain fog has lifted. Meds and complications or interactions between meds are not great.

    I am happy my sister is recovering from pneumonia and back at home. Spending a lot of time with her, she naps a lot. When she wakes up she sees me and knows she is safe. Same with our mother when she was in hospital. First day I stayed almost 12 hours with her. Mom was very paranoid bad people were after her. So…it is not a hardship. I take my Nook with me, catch up on reading and rereading and you tube.

    Happy I get an MRI in the coming days on my problem knee. DH gently insisted I go the ER yesterday. Finally agreed, so much pain and couldn’t walk upstairs.

    Loved Piper and Paul win the bronze in the dance skating competition. Their costumes were so beautiful. Who wouldn’t want “The Starry Night” on a dress or coat. A coat would be fabulous.

    And Canada win first gold medal today in doubles moguls. Yeah.

    What else? Just general happiness today. One foot in front of the other week. Lots I cannot change, so, making my sister feel safe and loved is the best. Stay safe and warm, winter is still here. It froze last night, think I lost the geraniums to Jack Frost.

  33. Happy that I filed my taxes. Happy that I got a minor medication screw up fixed (drug plan denied coverage) and the eye drops are on their way.

    Too many meetings, four, and a medical thing. But two of the meetings are virtual and the in person ones will have pizza. Yay.

    The weather’s warmed so the walkways are clearing and the roads are getting wider. Rain is expected on Wednesday so that will take care of the snow. Yay.

    Pixie’s getting her regular walks again.

  34. Hoping everyone’s brain fog lifts. I’ve been experiencing it, as well. But, I attribute it to my crazy schedule last week and this coming week. And taxes I’m going to blame taxes and they are done!

  35. I am glad you are better Jenny, keep an eye on your ankles, my father’s ankles swell up if he comes off his Diuretics. Other then that enjoy the flow of creativity

      1. I hope you’re right! I’ve never (before?) successfully germinated banananana peppers. There are a bunch (heh) on this plant. I like them in soups and salads.

  37. Like everyone else, I’ve got a bit a brain fog, although it seems more like low motivation, lack of focus, lack of energy, general blahness. Kind of like Maine Betty. Lots of unexplained sadness lately, but then again, there’s the dumpster fire that the world is and especially my government. That all said, Jenny, I’m happy your brain fog has lifted!

    My happiness this week was for Valentine’s Day, the hubby and I went to a local cat cafe and enjoyed time with cats. Then a nice dinner. Then a soap making class with a neuro spicy instructor. It was quite fun. The hard part is that we won’t be able to use the soap for a month so it can cure.

    I’m also happy I didn’t break a hip or anything else when I slipped on ice in my driveway, fell, and landed on my hip and elbow. I’m bruised but okay.

  38. At our house we celebrate the Apex of Apathy (or the Nadir of Enthusiasm). February is HARD, and chocolate makes it better, and half price chocolate makes it even better, so on Feb 15 we go find all the discounted St Valentine chocolate and consume it while admiring how much later the sun is up.

  39. I got to this a day late because I had a costume fitting on Sunday. Which was fun. I’m doing a Dave & Busters Commercial tomorrow and Wednesday. I’m happy for that. I’m happy my song. is working.
    I’ve been going around singing everything always works out for me. Everything always works out for me. Everything always works out for me. I’m well and truly blessed.
    And things have gotten a lot better better since I started singing it
    I’m so happy Jennie that your brain is unfogged and I am happy that honey pot plot is been nominated in Australia.
    My only sadness is I know there was a post last week where you were talking about the beginning of Nate and how you thought Bob did such a great job. I cannot find that post and I really wanted to read the rest of it.
    Hugs to everyone.

  40. Something else that made me happy this week – construction began on the US Navy Ship that will be named after US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. When she was a young lawyer, male judges nearly fell asleep until she represented a widower denied Social Security benefits when his breadwinner wife died. Social Security said it was a widow’s benefit. The all male US Supreme Court at the time agreed that was gender discrimination!

  41. I’m a little late to this party but I am happy I got my tax paperwork handed in to the tax preparer, who will do all the brain work for me as well as e-submit it too.
    Susan, I am going to try your singing idea, although where no one can hear me as I don’t have a singing voice (in other words, I don’t want to scare anyone! lol)

  42. Three more things that make me happy:
    I am a consultant and so can watch a lot of Olympics live so long as I don’t have calls scheduled.
    I have started making bread again and love both the smell and the warm bread.
    The 54 year old Minnesotan who is using his record as the oldest Winter Olympian ever to compete to speak publicly about what Trump has been doing in Minnesota. (I also like the way curling has I think 24 minutes per team to talk about strategy. I don’t understand the game at all but I approve of a sport where thinking time is taken seriously. Also the cheating scandal and filming… I never thought curling would provide some of the best story lines !)

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Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author and co-author of twenty-three novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, novellas, and short stories, and the editor of three essay anthologies. She lives in a cottage in Pennsylvania, where she often stares at the ceiling and counts her blessings.

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