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Practising Gratitude

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According to modern culture I have not succeeded in fulfilling any of societies expectations. I didn't go to university and get a diploma. My husband is the breadwinner who goes out and earns our households single wage, instead of going out to work I stay at home and nurture the children. For this reason we don't have a brand new car with personalized number plates, we have a 12 year old station wagon with powdering paint on the roof. We don't own our own home which we designed and built with all the new fittings according to the newest trends, we rented the best out of the cheapest houses we could find. The boys don't go to the hair dresser to get hair cuts, they get buzz cuts at home. I don't go to the hairdresser to keep my hair blonde, I touch up the roots at home. Our fridge is not full of deli meats, soft cheeses, gourmet olives and sun dried tomatoes or juices, flavoured milks and any other fancy things, we hav...

Birthday Presents And Christmas Gifts For Your Best Friend

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I'm one of the lucky ones, I have a best friend. Not everyone gets one and psychologists say you should always aim to have a good group of friends, that having a best friend is not only rare, but highly romanticized and over rated, I can tell you that it is not. I have a gorgeous group of friends and they are wonderful, we connect, we laugh, we can be honest with each other about all sorts of things, good and bad, we have a lot of fun and I know I can call or text them on a bad day and they know they can do the same. But my Bestie and I have something completely different going on, there is just something really comfortable and familiar about her, we have the same sense of humor, we have the same ethics and morals, it's like we live in the same bubble and I personally believe she is one of the most selfless and giving of all people, I have a lot of respect for her and how she lives her life. First of all, she is a support worker for people who have disabilities such as Asperg...

Sarcasm Is My Favorite Kind Of Humor

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I have always enjoyed a little bit of sarcasm and dry humor, a lot of people are highly offended by it and some even consider sarcasm a low form of humor, many people can't do it well and most people don't really know what it is and confuse it with just plain humor, but when it is done right, sarcasm can be one of the most joyful of monotone experiences, expanding your mind to new dimensions so I have included a few really funny mugs which are sarcastic or about sarcasm in this blog. Enjoy! Funny Hilarious Sarcasm Sarcastic People Shine Classic White Coffee Mug by Laugh_Your_Ass_off Design unique personalized mugs for kids online at zazzle.com Funny Hilarious Why Waste Sarcastic Opportunity Classic White Coffee Mug by Laugh_Your_Ass_off Put your favorite photo on a mug . Personalize Funny Sarcastic Ray Of Sunshine Mug Coffee Mugs by Laugh_Your_Ass_off View other Personalize funny Mugs at Zazzle.com Funny Hilarious Fluent English Sarcasm...

Addicted To Coffee

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I remember my first ever coffee. I was 13 and my parents had gone to church, I decided to stay home and clean the whole house instead of go to church, or as I fondly called it, the place where fun goes to die. The very fact that I willingly stayed home knowing I had to clean the house from top to toe while they were gone says it all. They were nice, those church people, but no kid my age wants to sing music from 1 year ago let alone 100, or sit and listen to someone talk about some jibber jabber I haven't had to worry about yet in my whole 13 years of existence, for an hour of my life I was never going to get back. I wasn't allowed to have coffee yet so I decided while my parents weren't home I was going to be naughty, boil the kettle and make one for myself to try so I treated the granulated coffee like chocolate powder - two teaspoons right? No, better make that three. My step dad liked one, but I was somehow sure I needed three. My step dad liked one sugar, but I was g...

Revamping My Funny Mugs

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I noticed I haven't been selling one particular mug which used to sell every few days so I jumped onto search and typed in "funny mug". My best selling mug is no longer number three on the first page. In fact, it's not even on the first three pages! And to be honest, I was expecting this, it has been a long time coming. This mug was from the early days, it was just a phrase written in smallish, folio font, waiting for customers to come and change the font size and style. It was a very plain looking mug in a sea of funnier, bolder, brighter mugs and funnier and fancier adaptions of it are now in its place. I was amazed it lasted for so long! These are the advantages of getting there first on Zazzle. So, now it's over for this funny mug I have decided to re-do most of my mugs because they are in my first store, they are all in Folio font and they are all plain. Different mugs sell here and there from time to time so I know they must be funny but they need to look ni...

Motocross Dirt Bike Fun And Madness!

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I have three boys. There are no sparkles in this house. There are, however, plenty of gaming console controllers on the coffee table, black grease marks on the walls and deadly, slippery sand on the tiled floors. My furniture is scratched and well worn from the climbing, driving and defending of turf as the hero verses the villain. Foot stabbing Lego, fast red cars, savage, prehistoric looking dinosaurs and a large selection of smirking action figures lay strewn across the floor. This house is full of noise, full of laughter, full of imagination, yelling, boisterous, sometimes obnoxious noise which bounces off the tiles and around the walls in the room. This is my home and theirs, and when my boys begin to go out and lead their own lives and then eventually leave the nest, the stillness and the quiet will be so very loud. It will be the sound of sadness, but also the sound of joy as they live their lives their own way. One of the loudest hobbies belongs to that of my oldest son who i...

Sweet Little Notes Here And There

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Growing up I had the amazing privilege of watching how my parents, who are still together now, expressed their love to one another. My Step Dad, always the romantic, would sometimes nip outside, snip a rose off the bush and bring it inside to give to Mum. He'd write her hilarious poems, when her hormones changed and her face got a little fuzzier he began to call her his peach and they laughed, he got her and she got him. Their gift to each other was laughter and friendship. What I remember most is a yellow post it note which would be left somewhere obvious with something really lovely about Mums beautiful red hair or something small my Step Dad noticed which he though was beautiful or soulful about her. Sometimes Mum would play a trick on him, she would write "I love you!" and then place it inside his sandwich, and it would lie in wait until lunch break with all of his other colleagues, luckily this was a rare occasion as my Step Dad didn't believe that this was how y...