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Happy Third Birthday To Optimistic Musings

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  • Sep 24, 2026
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Three years ago today, I clicked publish for the very first time at my new home: The Optimistic Musings of a Pessimist. (Here’s the first post!) I’d had a fairly well-established blog that was accidentally deleted; after taking a month or so to lick my wounds, I came back with a newly designed space (a…

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Things I Know by Heart, Things I Don’t (And Things I Really Should) + Guest Post!!

A quick note: You can also find me over at The Frugal Girl today, where I’m talking about how intentional spending habits allowed our family to spend extended time (110 days, to be exact)…

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  • Random, Personality Insights
  • Sep, 23, 2026
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Do “Heavy” Books Impact Me Emotionally? And How Do I Read So Much?

I get asked two questions about my reading habits with surprising regularity:

Does all the tough subject matter I read—particularly nonfiction—ever start to feel too heavy?

How do I read so many books?

Let’s discuss.

DOES ALL THE…

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  • Reading, Ask Me (Almost) Anything
  • Sep, 22, 2026
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The Complete List of 200 Never Have I Evers…

I haven’t decided if I’ll keep this series going: 200 seems like a natural stopping point, but it’s also a lot of fun and I continue to come up with fresh ideas. Regardless of…

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  • Life
  • Sep, 21, 2026
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Happy Things Friday: 18 September

Happy Friday. Taking the week off blogging was wonderful, but I really did miss prepping a Happy Things Friday post. It’s become such a gratitude constant in my life and I felt a bit…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Sep, 18, 2026
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The Cool Bloggers Walking Club Is Back! Join the October Walking Challenge

Somehow I blinked and we zoomed right from walking together in April to it being time to organize the October edition.

This will be the 6th iteration of the Cool Bloggers Walking Club (CBWC)—a very…

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  • Cool Bloggers Walking Club, Exercise
  • Sep, 17, 2026
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Thrifted Sneakers, A Free Trampoline + Other Recent Frugal Wins

It’s been weeks since I gave a “frugal wins” update, and I feel like enough have accumulated to gather them up for a little post!

We got a great deal on thrifted sneakers. While we…

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  • Sep, 16, 2026
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