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Don't mess with seniors...

We went to breakfast at a restaurant where the 'seniors' special' was two eggs, bacon, hash browns and toast for $2.99. 'Sounds good,' my wife said. 'But I don't want the eggs.' 'Then, I'll have to charge you $3.49 because you're ordering a la carte,' the waitress warned her. 'You mean I'd have to pay for not taking the eggs?' my wife asked incredulously. 'YES!' stated the waitress. 'I'll take the special then,' my wife said.. 'How do you want your eggs?' the waitress asked. 'Raw and in the shell,' my wife replied. She took the two eggs home and baked a cake.

101 reasons to be happy - Reason number twenty

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Being a mother. Being a mother is so exhausting sometimes, and sometimes it can be painful, but mostly, it is the best thing that ever happened to me.

101 reasons to be happy - Reason number nineteen

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Godchildren Claire and Gabriel, I love you!!

101 reasons to be happy - Reason number eighteen

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Advent

101 reasons to be happy - Reason number seventeen

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Cheesecake...

101 reasons to be happy - Reason number sixteen

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Driving a new(er) car, (preferably manual) that handles well, accelerates quickly and is just fun to drive...  Zoom! zoom!

Why marriage is good, even in 2010

Imagine for a minute that marriage never existed.  Fidelity/infidelity as a result, also never existed.  Imagine that the wishful thinking of Jean M Auel in the Clan of the Cave Bear and the rest of the series Earth's Children, is actually the norm.  In these books, from the time a girl becomes a woman (from her first menstrual cycle on) and the time a boy becomes a man (after his first kill - about the same age as for girls), they can just have sex with whomever they want, whenever they want.  Babies are gifts from the Mother or from the Great Cave Bear, depending on whether you are homo sapiens or Neanderthal, and they have no idea that sex is involved.  At least in the books, "mating" does exist. If you are Neanderthal, your mate is chosen for you and you are stuck with him/her until one of you dies.  Homo sapiens also mate but some do separate - although this is rare.  So families are more or less stable, children are brought up by the mother and her mate. Yet t

101 reasons to be happy - Reason number fifteen

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Coffee beans covered in maple-flavoured chocolate... MMM mmm!

101 reasons to be happy - Reason number fourteen

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Fabric

101 reasons to be happy - Reason number thirteen

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Sisters...

101 reasons to be happy - Reason number twelve

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flowers

101 reasons to be happy - Reason number eleven

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paint/wallpaper/decor items...