13 Reasons to Smile
1. Nature’s facelift: a smile
2. Not only do we look better when we smile, we feel better too. Research has shown that smiling relieves stress and triggers hormones in the brain that promote feelings of well-being.
3. Last Thursday after pointing out that a road near me is named Shooting Creek in reference to moonshine days, I was asked if we had moonshiners today. I answered, “I hear tell there are some still.”
4. Last week a total of six stories I had written came out the same day in 3 different publications. “We could wallpaper a room with them!” I told Joe.
5. Your body doesn’t care if your smile is real or not. Either way, it releases good hormones that make you happy. Smiling actually makes you feel like smiling!
6. I used to love Reese’s peanut butter cups but I gave them up for Lindt.
7. In response to my post titled “I Love View,” my blogging friend Pearl commented, “Nice title, you punny lady.”
8. Liam Pat… wore his hat … to the grocery store and laundry mat … The only time he took it off … was when he went to the barber shop! ~ First stanza of a nursery rhyme I’ve been writing for my new grandson Liam.
9. I named THESE two noisy geese at Mabry Mill Yakkity Yak and Quack.
10. I have an original painting hanging on my wall by an artist from Texas signed S Miles.
11. A smile: “It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. ~ Dale Carnegie, from his book How to Win Friends and Influence People,
12. A man named Harvey Ball designed the first Smiley face, while working at State Mutual Life Assurance Company as a freelance artist in 1963. It was popularized in the early 1970s by two brothers, Bernard and Murray Spain, who used it on buttons, bumper stickers, and mugs. In 2008 Walmart lost a legal battle to trademark the smiley face graphic, which it uses in its “roll back the prices” sales campaigns.
13. How to make great French fries: THIS is the first step.
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November 3rd, 2010 11:46 pm
Lindt will win out for sure….. especially some with the white creamy chocolate centers!! YUM!
November 4th, 2010 1:49 am
Love Lindt. I’m especially partial to their dark truffles. Mmm…
November 4th, 2010 5:50 am
Love your reasons to smile! And I love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups too!!
November 4th, 2010 6:47 am
#6 such great chocolate- This duo of grandboys leaves a smile in my heart..sk
November 4th, 2010 6:59 am
Bryce is so cute! Can I borrow number 1 for tweeting purposes? =)
November 4th, 2010 7:21 am
Congratulations on the article publications. That is good work!
November 4th, 2010 7:39 am
Okay, number six made me literally laugh out loud. Great pun! (And I’m normally not a fan of those.)
Happy TT!
November 4th, 2010 7:50 am
I love your list. Thank you for sharing! 🙂
November 4th, 2010 8:23 am
Great list. I love your puns. 🙂
Laughter really is the best medicine and a smile helps it all work out!!
November 4th, 2010 9:03 am
What a nice, positive list! I love it. All great reasons to smile.
November 4th, 2010 10:23 am
I love # 11 Great list 🙂
Happy T13!
November 4th, 2010 10:48 am
You’re punny 🙂
November 4th, 2010 1:28 pm
Your puns are fantastic. They all brought smiles to my face.
November 4th, 2010 4:37 pm
Well, the Lindt one definitely got me! Nice Thursday 13.
November 4th, 2010 9:26 pm
I thought the lindt was a mistake……such a catch on words and love them too. Only you can’t eat just one.
I could watch the video of Byrce over and over again. xo
November 5th, 2010 3:16 am
I’m smiling reading your 13 😀
My Thursday 13
November 5th, 2010 10:52 am
CONGRATS on #4!
Luv #1
I really enjoy reading your blog
November 7th, 2010 4:23 am
Remember the song “Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella”? I thought of that with this post of yours. Everytine I see a NEW Video of Bryce, he is more and more grown up–more and more the Little Boy as opposed to the Baby Boy….Time is moving quickly, isn’t it?
November 9th, 2010 8:28 am
this post makes me smile!
November 9th, 2010 10:47 am
just too clever…the kids have a grand role model mama.
November 13th, 2010 10:31 pm
Smiling is really the best thing you can do.
Everyone responds to it, and worlds change. From babies to the elderly…it always works wonders.