“Happiness is about making right choices. Depression comes from making the wrong choices. We only need to change our consciousness.”

via Get rid of depressive tendencies | Tickled By Life.

I came across this link as part of a professional group to which I  belong online. Someone posted it as a “great article” but imagine my horror when I actually read the article.

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Not in my top ten list of things I want to discuss loudly while on the pot in a crowded tourist bathroom:

“What is that thing with the blue string?”

“That’s a complicated question. Can we talk about it later?”

“What is this box on the wall?”

“It’s a little garbage can.”

“What is it for?”

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When you live in my house, you get used to a lot of things. Things That Are Odd. I often say things I never thought I would have to say, or hear things I never expected to hear. Usually they are difficult to explain out of context, particularly to strangers.

I love my kids, they are such characters. My youngest boy is a very serious little fellow, he takes himself rather seriously. He is finally starting to grasp verbal communication and that is making him more friendly but he is definitely way more reserved, and frankly much more naughty, than his brother. He is the child who inherited all of Luna’s bad habits, like digging in the trashcan to look for sandwich crusts.

» Continue reading “Being raised by a pack of dogs. Dogs with gross habits.”