The Optimistic Musings of a Pessimist

Just Give Me the Smiley Face: A Pet Peeve

A quick reminder that today is Day #1 for the Cool Bloggers Walking Club: October Edition (you do not need to be a blogger to participate). There’s even a printable if you’re inclined to…

Personality Insights, Pet Peeves, Random
Oct, 01, 2024
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I’m Not Here…

…because I’m Kristen’s Meet A Reader guest over at The Frugal Girl talking all things thrifty and frugal.

I’ll be back in my blog space tomorrow to vent about a pet peeve (hey it can’t…

Blogging, Budget, Guest Post, Money, Thrifting
Sep, 30, 2024
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Happy Things Friday Turns One

Today marks one year since I clicked Publish on my very first Happy Things Friday post. I started this series on a whim and here we are a year later.

It might sound ridiculous…

Habits, Happy Things Friday, Joy, Personality Insights
Sep, 29, 2024
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Happy Things Friday: 27 September

September is almost behind us; typically that astonishes me but this September has felt pretty accurate at being twenty-seven days so far. There haven’t been high highs or low lows for me, but there…

Favourite Things: June – September

It has been a while! I find Favourite Things posts are getting harder to write because I re-use old favourites over and over and don’t tend to be very adventurous with branching out and…

Where Do You Keep That? (Part Two)

This is the first of (at least) two follow-up posts about where we keep various standard household items.

The first two categories were inspired by Engie.

SUNGLASSES

I am the only one who can always find their…

Are You Clean, Neat, Both, or Neither?

I’m not obsessive about neatness or cleanliness, but I definitely would tend toward neatness. I like everything to have a place and everything to be IN that place. But when it comes to cleaning,…