Family friends' house fire

Our dear friends who have known me and my family for fourty plus years -> three members of that family recently had a devastating house fire and lost everything. They are like family to me and have been there for us through thick and thin. I will do my best to help them during this trying time. If you have space in your heart to also help, please do so. It doesn't have to be monetary -> positive thoughts and prayers work too. Thank you and much love. 💞

Wear eyeglasses without shame 💗🤓👓

https://6abc.com/news-anchor-wears-glasses-on-air-for-daughter-abc-7-chicago-tanja-babich-wls/8633500/

"So in a gesture of solidarity, I've been wearing mine all week to make this point: Whatever people say or think about you is none of your business. Just be yourself, authentically and unapologetically, the rest will work itself out," Tanja Babich, news anchor. 💗🤓👓

I wish someone told me the glasses thing when I was a kid. I had very low self esteem and I cared way too much about what people thought! Proud to say that today I don't give a rats ass! I wear my glasses proudly and I also go without makeup regularly and without shame 🤓👓😀💞💗👍🍋

Thank you to my friend Lora for sharing this story with me. 🤗👍🍋

Santa 2020 funny

Happy quote from Leonardo DiCaprio

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people."
~Leonardo DiCaprio, IMDb

Happy birthday Leonardo DiCaprio. Thank you for bringing fun and smiles to the world through your movies and good work. :-)

Punctuated by a Lemon (humor podcast) 🍋

 Please take a look at mine and my brother Russ's humor podcast called Punctuated by a Lemon. 🍋 Thank you!

Illiana's Kittyland Podcast

 Please take a look at my young niece's cute podcast. Illiana's Kittyland Podcast. Thanks!

My favorite Blindspot quotes (TV show)

Blindspot, season 3, episode 16, Artful Dodge
"Did they finally approve my request for a therapy llama?"
~Rich Dotcom


Blindspot, season 3, episode 13, Warning Shot
"Doing the right thing doesn't always come with a reward."
~Kurt Weller


Blindspot, season 3, episode 13, Warning Shot
[Rich is a criminal in FBI custody].
Edgar Read: "You choose a hacker party I explicitly told you you couldn't go to? People's lives are at stake. Do you want to be off this team?"
Rich Dotcom: "Okay, first, somebody had to answer the phone, right? Two, never meet on the other guy's turf and C, I mean it worked, didn't it?"
Nas Kamal: "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think he made the right call."
Rich Dotcom: "You've always been my favorite."


Blindspot, season 3, episode 10, Balance of Might
"You know what it feels like to be let down again and again by the people who are supposed to care about you? ... You suck it up for the people you love and you show up. ... You don't get to say no because you don't feel like it, because it's not convenient for you."
~Blake Crawford


Blindspot, season 2, episode 12, Devil Never Even Lived
"Feelings aren't like memories, you can't just pull them out of a file. I think that they have to be earned."
~Jane Doe



^^^^^^
FBI story musts [in good humor]: 🤣
1. Slap table hard in an attempt to get answers.
2. "Freeze! FBI." [But does anyone running away ever actually stop? Nope, in fact they run faster].
3. The look.
4. Someone must be forced or thrown through a window. Bonus points for landing on a glass table or skidding through dirt - depending on direction. Even more points if the window is not glass.

Coronavirus memes

Bacon! =P

My favorite Bones quotes

Bones, The Hero in the Hold (2009), Season 4, Episode 14.
"Character's who you are under pressure. Not who you are when everything's fine." ~Dr. Lance Sweets

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The Signs in the Silence (2011), Season 6, Episode 21.
"People lie, but bones always tell the truth."
~Dr. Temperance Brennan

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The Money Maker on the Merry-Go-Round (2014), Season 10, Episode 7.
Conversation between characters Dr. Temperence Brennan and FBI Agent James Aubrey.  Brennan is helping Aubrey feel better after they both realize their shared connection of parental abandonment.
“My father was a criminal, too. I was fifteen when I was abandoned, and I was angry for years.”
“How did you get over it?”
“I didn’t.”
“So this isn’t a comforting talk?”
“No. The pain is always there. The challenge is to not try to make it go away.”
“Really not comforting.”
“Fighting it is a problem. We fight to try and change the past, or push it away, but the pain is part of who we are. It’s like the discovery of the quark. It upended all of our theories about physics. There was fury, fighting. But it was true. And when it was finally accepted, it gave us a better understanding of life. If we had denied it, there would have been no progress.”
“What a really brainy analogy.”
“Because I’m very brainy. ..it’s not easy, Aubrey, but nothing of value is.”
......Here's my interpretation.  Pain is always there in our lives - different topics, different causes - the pain is there.  The challenge is not to make it go away and push it away, but rather to accept it because it is part of who we are.  It is important to embrace what has happened to us, own it, change in positive ways on our own accord.  Nothing of value is easy, but it is worth it.  :-)

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Bones, The Woman in the Whirlpool (2015), Season 10, Episode 20.
"I realize how quickly relationships can change and how important it is to value those you have right now." ~Dr Temperence Brennan after doing something unexpected.  She pleasantly surprised her intern Jessica Warren with a Technetium X-ray item for her Periodic Table of Elements collection.

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Bones, The Next in the Last (2015), Season 10, Episode 22.
"In our culture, we all search for closure. but closure is an illusion.  Science shows us that the universe is constantly in flux.  It's what allows our friendships and our love to constantly surprise us."

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Bones, The Senator in the Street Sweeper (2015), Season 11, Episode 6.
"Sometimes the best things in life happen against the odds."
~Angela Montenegro

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Bones, The Day in the Life, Season 12, Episode 11.
"Whatever happens, it's going to work out. I used to spend so much time looking back and thinking, 'What if I had made other choices?' And then I realized, I love my life the way it is. Live for right now, that's the only thing you can do."
~Angela Montenegro

Recipient of a Random Act of Kindness :-)

Tonight a stranger paid for our dinner at a restaurant.  It was a pleasant surprise.  I was pretty impressed at his kindness and friendliness.  In this day and age of negativity, it's refreshing that we can take joy in the little things that mean a lot and the actions of unsung heroes.  Faith in humanity restored!  :-)  Pay it forward, world, pay it forward.

Train Passengers Sing Over the Rainbow!

"It's not what we have, it's what we enjoy that brings happiness."
Spellbinding. Faith in humanity restored. :-)