Happy-yes

HAPPINESSYES.

I've read a great many books on the topic of happiness and gratitude in recent years. It's wonderful that there appears to be a definite shift in people's perceptions or expectations of what defines happy-ness*. No longer do we assume that happiness is limited to those with bucket-loads of money, or those who live in a state of constant hysterical laughter.  We have grown enough as a people to understand that different people express and feel happiness in different ways.

T - I - Double Guh - Er!

That Tigger is a very bouncy fella.

I like to think I am part Tigger at times...those times when I'm not all pre-menstrual, peri-menapausal and mid-life crisis-y.  Those times when i'm not all "woe is me", "life is hard" all said with a Scarlet O'Hara type hand motion to my forehead, all dramatic like.

http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/870/1/1/how-to-draw-tigger-from-winnie-the-pooh.htm

I do have an inner Tigger that likes to spring forth and bounce periodically.  I wish I was Tigger-licious all the time, but I think that would be exhausting (for both me and everyone around me).  But it does feel extraordinarily invigorating to get my 'bounce' on after coming through the grungy dark period of the past few weeks.

One is the lonliest number

With so many people in the world, how is it one can find themself feeling so lonely?

We're a planet comprised of 7 billion people. How is it then that I sometimes feel so alone? And if feeling lonely was't bad enough, throw into that mix the fact that i feel like a foreigner in my own land.  Have you ever had one of those days  where you feel like you are speaking a language so alien that even men from Mars and Women from Venus can't understand you? I have recently read that that whole Mars/Venus thing has been scientifically proven as boloney...we're just different. Well duh!  Do you ever have one of those moments the minute you open your mouth, you feel people are instantly tuning out and hearing only "blah, blah, blah" instead?

Ah! Young love...how sweet & dysfunctional are thee!

Ah! Young love...so naive, so immature, so unsophisticated, yet ever so charming!

Who hasn't been blessed to witness the giggling prowess that is the 15 year old teenage girl in pure, utter, blushing-because-he-looked-at-me, undying lurve? Or the teenage boy in all his pimply, voice-breaking glory, professing everlasting adoration to his I-can't-imagine-ever-living-without-you first beau.

Cash Cow

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM "CASH COW"?

Collins English Dictionary describes ‘a product or acquisition that produces a steady flow of cash...’.  The slang dictionary (must get me one of those) further describes ‘a dependable source of money;  a good investment’.  Wikipedia goes on to explain that ‘a “cash cow” is also used sarcastically by sales and business people to describe a customer or organisation that has no control over its spending; quite often used to describe a business where spending is out of proportion to the services or goods received.’ 

Something smells in the bloomin' flower business

Something smells in the beautiful world of floristry...and it ain't roses!

My handsome 16 year old drummer boy son is going to a formal. Not his, that was last year. And I'm pretty sure he'll have another for when he's in Year 12 next year. No, he's been invited to accompany a beautiful sweet young thing to her formal. So, this year I figure we (and by 'we' I actually mean 'I') will learn from the mistakes of last year when shock, horror, we didn't get first gorgeous sweet young thing a corsage.

Hello hello.

Perhaps not as monumental as Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon, but so begin my first steps into the blog-o-sphere. In all honesty this wasn't my first choice for spruiking my opinions and my wares. I had a web page that I really, really liked...alas I can no longer afford said web page and have decided (albiet without any other choice) that this blog will have to suffice. But I'm sure it'll be super!

I'll attempt to figure out all the thing-imy-doo-dads and gidgets to make this page aesthetically pleasing as well as entertaining to read. Enjoy! Feed back is appreciated as long as it's kind (I have not developed a thick enough skin for anything less). I hope you will follow my blog and encourage others to do the same. Cheerio for now. Kylee xox