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[37_ttej]

I like deep!

I read, "I like derp" and thought, 'Hey, I can do that pretty well!'

 

[ChainedUp]

Yep, looking at me actually saying something. I know you felt the ground shake.

 

[may_I_please]

So people use alts to strike up conversations with people they already talk to

I know I'm a little naive but why?

 

[makinmepurr]

I made an alt, right before I returned to lit. I thought I wanted to start over. I wasn't sure I wanted to still be Purr, after going through my divorce and feeling so un-Purry. But, after "being" someone else for a very short time, I realized it was way better to just be me.

And thinking about it now, I think alts appeal to many because of the freedom anonymity brings. That freedom we had before we were known here, to create ourselves however we wished to be seen. Even if that meant just honestly being who we are. So, not all alts are suspect in my book. I get it.

 

[37_ttej]

So people use alts to strike up conversations with people they already talk to

I know I'm a little naive but why?

Because some of us took a break from Lit and couldn't remember our account details.

Or in my case there is just too much awesome masculinity to be confined within one profile.
I have to have two.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fat-bastard.jpg

 

[SweetSam42]

Quick zip back to the happiness question. I think the idea of choosing to be happy is a great one, and I'm glad to see happy people here who are able to do that in their lives. I certainly know people who choose to live with an outlook of gloom and doom who would likely be better off if they thought about it a little more.

But for some of us (10% of us, in fact, according to the CDC), happiness isn't a choice we can just make. Just as I don't choose to have unhappy/sad days, I can't choose to have a happy day. It's not always up to me. I try. I'm just not always successful.

 

[Miasorrow]

I have no alts. I am happy.



Good luck with the new thread Daddy Chained...

I apologize for not elaborating much..

 

[ChainedUp]

Good morning everyone. It's time to lighten the mood around here a bit. So today's question is simple: what's your favorite Christmas candy? Has it changed since you were a kid? Do you make it, buy it, or hope that someone gives it to you?

 

[DesEsseintes]

Christmas is not about candy. Tsk tsk.

It's about presents!!





Kidding. Happy birthday, Jesus.

Sucks that he was born on Christmas Day, though. Whatever people say you never get as many presents as if they are separate. Poor sod. And I hope they kept the receipt for the myrrh.

 

[TheSilverLining]

Good morning everyone. It's time to lighten the mood around here a bit. So today's question is simple: what's your favorite Christmas candy? Has it changed since you were a kid? Do you make it, buy it, or hope that someone gives it to you?

Is Christmas candy even a 'thing'? I missed a trick there, like.
IMO the only candy synonymous with Christmas is this.
Look at me using the word "candy". Ha.
I can't pull that off.

 

[37_ttej]

Also, what actually is a Christmas candy exactly?

I believe Christmas Candy is very tasty.

http://garmahis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/image/Freebies/Christmas-Candy-girl.jpg

 

[DallasDonna]

Happy birthday, Jesus.

Gracias, chica!

 

[RubenesqueAphrodite]

not awake enough to pick my favorite candy, but my Christmas pasts were filled with these:
http://img1.findgift.com/Graphics/Gifts/250/349/PR_226349.jpg
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/qM4SIpeU-Ns/hqdefault.jpg
http://lgcdn.candyfavorites.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/brachs-cherries-1-298x300.jpg

 

[dutchrain]

Round 3 anyone?

Of course! I am so glad the link was in the last post when I looked this morning!

Slipping in on a hump day morning, wondering how many of you had sex before logging I n today? That's not the question for today, just something that crossed my mind when I wrote "hump day".

My question comes from a thought about happiness, that you can't be happy unless you know what it is that you want. Knowing what you want doesn't guarantee happiness but not knowing guarantees that you won't find it. Knowing gives you focus, allows you to put into place the plans & actions to get/have what you want. Once you have it, happiness can occur.

Disappoint happens when you believed that you knew what you wanted, achieved it, and realized you were wrong, that your happiness lays elsewhere. Disappointment is a risk that comes part in parcel with happiness.

Do you know what you want?

I want to have my cake and eat it too.

I did not. That would be a questionable event being that I get up at a very early hour.

For me, I think Happiness doesn't have to be driven by accomplishment. I can experience happiness just walking into the house after work and smelling dinner being prepared. Or or hearing about what someone else has accomplished in their day. I am rarely satisfied (happy) for very long about achieving a goal that I set for myself. I usually look to the next thing I want to achieve upon accomplishing the last one.

By the same token, I have learned that If I cannot be happy with where I am currently, I wont be happy elsewhere either. It has taken me many years to accept this truth, and I am still practicing the application.

Happiness is not always easily achievable. Overall, I'm a pretty happy person. But a lot of things in life but us hard at times.

For me there are two categories of things that make me happy.

1. Things I need to be happy.
2. Things I want to be happy.

The first group are necessities and without them I won't be happy. The second group are items that make me happier, I guess. More frivolous stuff. People say things and stuff doesn't make you happy. I say that's shit. I mean, if I don't have the first group, the second won't make me happy. But I'll say this, ever seen someone frowning while riding on a jet ski?

I think there may be some confusion as to the difference between "Joy" and "Happiness"
What I described in my earlier post would have been better stated as Joy. Happiness is fleeting, where as Joy can be had even where Happiness is not present.

Indeed, it can. Happiness is something that is sought after by things that are outside of ourselves, like riding a jet ski. This is happiness but it is not sustainable.

In my opinion, by moving the happiness target, it means that one is always in search of something that just simply cannot be attained. Focusing on attaining happiness in things outside of ourselves, beyond our control, is more than likely the easiest way to create the exact opposite of what one is searching for.

I think when we focus on being grateful for what we do have, instead of what we don't have, we enable ourselves to feel happiness more often. This doesn't mean that we have to be complacent, that we can't strive for something different, but how are we to ever know ourselves, to know what we truly want in life, if we are focusing on something as temporary as happiness?

Quick zip back to the happiness question. I think the idea of choosing to be happy is a great one, and I'm glad to see happy people here who are able to do that in their lives. I certainly know people who choose to live with an outlook of gloom and doom who would likely be better off if they thought about it a little more.

But for some of us (10% of us, in fact, according to the CDC), happiness isn't a choice we can just make. Just as Idon't choose to have unhappy/sad days, I can't choose to have ahappy day. It's not always up to me. I try. I'm just not always successful.

The above answers I quoted because the clever people who wrote them reflect my own views on happiness and on how to get it. Thank you!

Good morning everyone. It's time to lighten the mood around here a bit. So today's question is simple: what's your favorite Christmas candy? Has it changed since you were a kid? Do you make it, buy it, or hope that someone gives it to you?

My favorite christmas candy are the cookies I bake. There isn't much of a christmas candy tradition here anyway, except chocolate fathers christmas. It is all about cookies in Europe! Cookies and Stollen!

I dunno how these people find time to post as alts.
I think it's kinda sad people can't just be themselves.
I think for the most part people who have an alt are
hiding their true self for pretty sketchy reasons.
Not all but the majority.
Maybe I'm just a cynical bitch but for most of them
I think they have something to hide. To me it's deceitful if
you aren't honest about who you are.

I do have an alt for Ampic reasons. I didn't feel "attacked" by your post, Smile, but I just felt a need to clarify.

 

[multitalentman]

Good morning everyone. It's time to lighten the mood around here a bit. So today's question is simple: what's your favorite Christmas candy? Has it changed since you were a kid? Do you make it, buy it, or hope that someone gives it to you?

Chocolates . This have been the same all my life. I like the ones given to me. I don't make candy well. Not one of my talents.

 

[rubydlite]

I'm not so much into candy but these barley suckers always remind me of Christmas.

http://www.timberlakecandies.com/Images/x20pops.gif



My dad passed this tradition on to me....

 

[GiggLeGasm]

My family was more likely to sit in wonder at how my mother could make such artistic cookies..
but my favorite candy that we only had a Christmas was...

http://media1.onsugar.com/files/2010/12/50/5/192/1922794/b6e53939248f3ab2_ribbon_candy.png

 

[rubydlite]

My family was more likely to sit in wonder at how my mother could make such artistic cookies..
but my favorite candy that we only had a Christmas was...

http://media1.onsugar.com/files/2010/12/50/5/192/1922794/b6e53939248f3ab2_ribbon_candy.png

Ahhh yes!!!! My dad said they always got one barley sucker and a pack of ribbon candy in their sock. He did for me and I do for my kids!

 

[GiggLeGasm]

Ahhh yes!!!! My dad said they always got one barley sucker and a pack of ribbon candy in their sock. He did for me and I do for my kids!

isn't that funny? we tend to think of traditions as event oriented - but those little things that we pass on to our children get missed. I still think of my parents every time I put a little whipped cream castle on the hot chocolate and sprinkle it with gold sugar.. because it's a tiny little tradition.

 

[ViciousTease]

Good morning everyone. It's time to lighten the mood around here a bit. So today's question is simple: what's your favorite Christmas candy? Has it changed since you were a kid? Do you make it, buy it, or hope that someone gives it to you?

Every year, as far back as I can remember, I would buy my Daddy a box of chocolate covered cherries for Christmas (Momma bought 'em when I was little, but they were "from" me). He'd open them, then I'd sit in his lap and we'd eat the whole box. No one else in the family likes them. I still buy him a box every year and we eat them together.

http://lgcdn.candyfavorites.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/brachs-cherries-1-298x300.jpg
Thanks, RA for the borrowed image!

This at my grandma's house every year. I miss that ...

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608039491151203381&pid=15.1&P=0

And these little devils. I cannot make it through the holidays without them.

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608033903398225864&pid=15.1&P=0

 

[All_4_Love]

These...
http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y417/all_4_love/christmascandy_zpsc4c2c759.jpg

And...

http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y417/all_4_love/gingerbreadhouse_zpse3db6f8c.jpg

Also, I grew up in a Sicilian family. I have many fond memories of my grandmother spending hours upon hours in the kitchen baking Italian Christmas cookies. They were divine! One of these days, I hope to be brave enough to attempt baking them myself. My beloved grandma was an amazing cook, a hard act to follow.

http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y417/all_4_love/italian-christmas-cookies-recipes-29_zpsd811a753.jpg

 

[All_4_Love]

Every year, as far back as I can remember, I would buy my Daddy a box of chocolate covered cherries for Christmas (Momma bought 'em when I was little, but they were "from" me). He'd open them, then I'd sit in his lap and we'd eat the whole box. No one else in the family likes them. I still buy him a box every year and we eat them together.

Oh, my heart just melted. I love that you shared this memory.

Daddies are so special. I love mine with all my heart and soul.

 

[Lord Pmann]

Fun pmann fact- I used to lick the gingerbread house when I was like 5 years old. And this is one that was reused year after year. I once ate one of the pieces of candy and blamed my dog.

I have to say one of my favourite holiday candies or dessert type foods is a Rice Krispy Treat. I just love them so much.

 

[makinmepurr]

My Dad always got a big tin of Almond Roca every Christmas. We would each put one in our mouths and go "mmmm mmmmm mmmm". What a sweet memory.

 

[All_4_Love]

My Dad always got a big tin of Almond Roca every Christmas. We would each put one in our mouths and go "mmmm mmmmm mmmm". What a sweet memory.

*sigh*

My heart runneth over.