When I can keep a plant alive and it doesn't die immediately after I bring it home.
Stopping to smell the flowers. Literally. It’s a fun adage, but it’s also an enjoyable pastime. While relishing a pit stop for the senses you might also amuse a few passersby and maybe even inspire someone else to give it a try.
The way new socks feel on my feet.
This secret service dude may be over-armed for the task at hand, but that just makes it more adorable. Happy Mother's Day. (The first half of the video lacks audio, but the second half is heartily entertaining).
Web-O-Joy: Brinner
This week Joyful received the following submission: “When the love of my life makes us waffles for dinner.” We’re big fans of mushy love here at Joyful, but we’re also big fans of the meat of this submission—brinner (that’s “breakfast for dinner” for those not in the know). A recent episode of “Scrubs” asked viewers to look deep into their souls and ponder the question: is it okay to keep something from your spouse if it means that you get brinner? Joyful would never advocate jeopardizing a marriage for brinner, but this meal could certainly test the moral fortitude of the best of us. I remember going out to dinner at Denny’s with my grandparent’s when I was about 6 years old. “Wow, there are pancakes on the menu,” I remarked. “They serve them all day—you can get some if you want” my Mamaw replied. My life would never be the same. U.S. News & World Report notes that brinner is an economically sound dining choice as well as a time saver. Baking blog Get Sconed! offers some fine vegan brinner ideas. Brinner with bacon is awfully hard to resist, though.
What lends brinner its singular appeal? Breakfast is tasty anytime, but I think the joy of brinner goes deeper than this. And it’s not just about saving time or money. It’s about freedom. Pure, delicious freedom. The ability to change the deepest nature of the most important meal of the day in an act that threatens to alter the very fabric of space and time. Plus, it’s crazy tasty.
break it down: stop in the name of love stop sign my pet fish musicals cabbage heads a note from a friend the smell of fresh baked bread man eating carnivorous plants venus fly trap cobra lily california pitcher plant waterwheel plant drosera sundew my black and cream polka-dotted umbrella anteaters wearing sweaters cause for joy or deep despair white house police secret service ducklings
5/12/08 Zany Stop Signs, Carnivorous Plants, and An Act That Threatens to Alter the Very Fabric of Space and Time
