Let me start by saying this was a crazy good weekend.
Gelato was involved. Need I say more?
Probably not, but if you know me at all, you know I’m going to because I’m horrible at keeping things to a minimum. In fact, I’m the opposite of brief.
Despite my standard non-brevity clause, which I’m pretty sure is inked into my contract in blood, I’m afraid I’m not going into my standard Week in Review level of detail today. Sure bills got paid, laundry was done, floors were washed, family visits went down and I even geared up for a houseguest, who arrived yesterday and will be staying pretty much all of April. Yep, that’s a visit of magnitude right there folks.
As much as I’d like to give you all the deets, and believe you me I would (self-congratulatory posts are my thing; they help stroke my already inflamed ego), I’ve been a bit too busy. I don’t want to leave you totally hanging though, so instead I’m going to share the first seven happy days in my #100happydays. It’s all the rage on Instagram these days and far be it from me to stay off the bandwagon.
Basically it’s exactly what it sounds like; you post one picture each day of something which makes you happy, and you continue the trend until you reach one hundred happy days, at which point you will be swallowed up by the happy gods and tossed into their heavens of feather beds, healthy kitties, and dancing unicorns. I can hardly wait.
Let’s get listing:
- Day One: Morning Sunrise: this one shockingly speaks for itself.
- Day Two: Samantha, my sweet and shy feline, spends her mornings sleeping on my microwave. It makes me batty in a strictly hygienic OCD way. I disinfect it often.
- Day Three: Kale smoothies. Since buying a pound and a half of kale at Costco, I’ve been downing it like it’s going out of style. I’ve also starting making ice cubes for future smoothies because that’s a lot of kale.
- Day Four: Snack plates abound. Snack plates make me ridiculously happy so I packed some for lunch last week. In clockwise order (as if there were any other kind), we have hummus, clementines, raspberries, sliced bell peppers, cheese (Smoked Cheddar, Asiago and Gouda), wheat crackers and carrots and celery. Toss in two more clementines and this was lunch last Thursday and Friday.
- Day Five: Bob Marley. I wasn’t puffing on ganga at 7:44 a.m. and yet I knew Every Little Thing is Gonna Be Alright.
- Day Six: I went farmers marketing, and I bought… breakfast. It wasn’t intentional by any means, especially since these items were all purchased at different stands, but it certainly was delicious. On Saturday, I had an omelet with sautéed onions, pepper jack cheese and microgreens with two slices of English Muffin bread. I guarantee they serve this breakfast in the happy gods heaven.
- Day Seven: the Hubby and me holding hands over an incredible dirty rug. I have two things to say about this picture. One, this is totally staged. We don’t typical hold hands while sitting at the dining room table, but I wanted to include the Hubby in my #100happydays and two, this rug was vacuumed less than forty-eight hours before this photo was taken, which means Spring is definitely coming because the cats are shedding like maniacs.
Oh, there was one another thing which went down last week that I should probably mention. I finally got a Twitter account, coercion was involved and yeah, I have no idea what I’m doing, so tweet at me, or whatever it is the kids say these days.
Enough about me. Let’s hear from you.
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Have you jumped on the #100HappyDays bandwagon yet? If not, you should think about doing it. What pictures would you share to show your happy days?
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I think it’s a lovely thing! I wanted to participate but three days in arow had no photo to share. Maybe I was too picky 😉 I should try to participate again. Going back to your little personal blissful moments sounds like a great way to feel happier in the long run.
You should sign back up again. Participating causes me to take a moment and take pleasure in the little things, which allows me to appreciate them that much more.
Prepare for twitter harassment!!! OH HAPPY DAY!
Not gonna lie; I don’t get Twitter at all.
Tell me about it! The cats are shedding like CRAZY!!! It’s driving me CRAZY!!! I love your happy pictures! They make me happy! I hope you have an incredible week my friend! xoxo
Thanks for stopping by AND LINKING UP. I love you because you rock! This could be today’s happy picture. 🙂
Since Pharrell’s song Happy is pretty much on continuous replay in my brain, if not on the computer music-generating thingymabob, I don’t need no stinking Instagram Twitter 100 Happy hoopla.
However, I will say that I’m happy to see your Happy, down to the held hands. The dogs got their post-Dog Prison/Camp/Spa/Kennel vacation bath and much fur was shed. Probably a Wee Oliver Picklepants’ worth.
I have to say I had a great week, even if that week involves someone in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry finding my iPhone (in it’s case, with a bunch of my business cards tucked into the case, a photo of the family at my spouse’s promotion to LtCol ceremony on the cover and the ICE contact at the top of my list) and choosing not to turn it into Lost & Found but instead buy an app and do who knows what other nefarious things with it.
It’s just a phone, and even though the spouse couldn’t nuke the phone before the thief removed his ability to nuke it, I was able to get a new phone, same number, and restore everything–contacts, apps, etc so all’s cool with me.
And, since it’s my blog, I’m posting another layered vegetable appetizer, again using avocado, a mere month after I posted a similar dip. Value added, though–I managed to make and map a layered vegetable appetizer collage (shown up there in that little thumbnail) and added that collage to all 6 of the posts shown in it. So now anyone visiting one recipe can click on the photo and go to a bunch of other layered vegetable appetizer options.
Oh, and Buzzfeed’s Kale thing–that was cool. I think? I think. No negative publicity, right?
No such thing as negative publicity. In fact, I think it’s pretty damn fabulous.
Hopefully, you were able to get the sex tape videos off the phone before it mysteriously disappeared. 😉
Thanks for linking up!!
LOVE 100 Happy days (although I kinda forgot to keep doing it at day 47). ah well. they’re still happy days.
Yeah! Welcome to the twitters!
Thank you for the official Twitter welcome as well. Not sure I responded accordingly but seeing as I don’t really understand the whole Twitter thing, I’m sure it’s fine.
For the love of snack plates I’m drooling over here… and wishing I’d gotten more veggies for lunches this week! Also you got a twitter?! I’m going to be the grumpy old blogger “what’s that tweeter thing? Nope don’t know how to use it” maybe it’s time I got on the bandwagon after all.
Yes sign up and we can learn together how to tweet and not-tweet and whatever it is the tweeters do. 😉
I just ran across a recipe that I thought would make you happy: http://www.sippitysup.com/asparagus-bread-pudding-ottolenghi-style/
#stinkypee
#fuckyeahyoucancurseontwitter
I do like this recipe, in part because he referred to his green stalks as “Big, fat, jumbo asparagus” and also because he used chive butter, which I happen to have in my freezer at the moment. I had to do something with all those chives last fall?!
#fuckyeah
Omg, you guys have to check out this post! http://lifeaslaurenblog.com/2014/03/07/denver-restaurant-week-the-oceanaire/
Specifically the part with the asparagus that was ” like eating a hot dog made of vegetable”! Bahaha!
You mean to tell me asparagus aren’t like eating hot dogs made of veggies!!
That was a great line.
How did I not know you were in Ohio?! (Just saw on Heather’s blog, haha.) I’m from Columbus! I’m in Virginia now, but I’m headed back to Ohio this weekend!
Yep, I’m in Cleveland, and I love it here.
I hope you have your own fabulous weekend in Ohio too.
You got a Twitter!!! How did I not realize this yet?!? Taking a quick break from commenting to go follow you… now. Done 😀
So I’m digging this whole 100 happy days thing. I’m doing a memory jar where I write down a good memory from each day, but I kind of like the idea of having some kind of visual reminder, so I maaaaay have to jump on the bandwagon… and probably forget 4 days in 😆
Ps – you know I love the snack plate!
Do it! Jump on the back wagon. C’mon; it’ll be fun. You can take pictures of your snack plates and dub them your happy days!!
I totally made a Twitter account a few months ago, and have been on it maybe…three times? I don’t have a damn clue how to use it and only signed up to stalk Tom Hiddleston, which I don’t even do. I have like…4 followers. I hate Twitter haha.
What I don’t hate is that snack plate, and farmers market haul. SWOOON. I also want gelato..but it’s not vegan..I want vegan gelato.
I don’t get it either. It seems significantly less social than FB and IG. It feels more like I’m talking at people, rather than with me, and I don’t like that so much. I suspect it’s user error though.
They have vegan gelato at my local place: The Sweet Spot. Lots of vegan gelato; all kinds of flavors. Yup, they’re pretty much the bomb.com.
Aww, microwave kitty!
Also known as a troublemaker. 😉
Well I just have to say that THIS post makes me very very happy! Plus, thanks for clueing me in on the whole #110happydays thing…I’ve seen it around IG but had no idea what it was! Love the lovey dovey hand-holding pic…even it I knew it was staged before you said so! 😉 And I just want you to know that it totally made my weekend to spend 2+ hours chatting your ear off! We should definitely schedule these on the regular…pencil me in, would ya? I swear, June canNOT get here fast enough! And you know, it’s probably gonna FLY by and then I’ll be missing you just the same. Hmm, I may have to see what I can do about a little trip north this summah! 😉
I like our phone dates, and there are very few people I can spend that much time talking to on phone, which means you are special pretty lady.
I think a trip up North this summer would be perfect. You can stay here instead of some crazy hotel halfway across town and shenanigans will ensue. I need an excuse to have a mimosa; it’s been months and months.
Gelato, hubbies & smoothies = obviously the best weekend ever
Right. That’s some fancy math right there, and I like it.
You had me at gelato…..
Just kidding. You had me at a guest staying a month…..Now I won’t feel bad for making an executive decision to stay two when I come by Cleveland. 😉
What an interesting 100 day photo challenge! Social media outlets like instagram only let you limit your dialogue to a picture- I like your twist on it here! And you getting twitter = amazing.
You can stay as long as you want or as long as we can keep finding gelato. I know a couple of good places, so I suspect you’ll be here for awhile. 😉
I think the first definition of gelato was more accurate.
I absolutely love the idea of this 100 happy days.
For some reason I always am surprised when someone’s house is not like mine. Take for instance your kitty cat on top of your microwave. When I first saw that picture I was just momentarily thinking “How is that possible?” But then it was… “Oh, unlike my microwave at home which has a vent/wall right above it, in Meghan’s house there is space.” Duh. Either way, you’re cat’s a genius, space-defying or not. What a perfect place to swipe some food. Hot out of the microwave.
There’s actually not a ton of space on top of the microwave since it’s in a little box inside of our kitchen island. She hides there from Oscar, the smallest kitty with way too much energy who tends to chase her all over the house. Since it’s her safe place, I generally don’t kick her out, but I do clean it often.
Gelato is awesomeness pure and simple.