1. What is the best free advice you have to offer?
“If you really want to be happy, no one can stop you.” – Sister Mary Tricky
I have a hard time remembering this one sometimes – that I am the one holding the reins on how I’m feeling, that I am the one who is in control. Too often, I think, “She made me mad!” when really, it was ME who let SHE get under my skin. I think it’s important to remind myself that I am the one who is in control of my happiness.
2. Someone has given you a million dollars. What would you do with it?
The practical side of me would first pay off the house, pay off the car, pay off Hubby’s student loan (because I already paid all mine – YAAAAAHOOOOOO!), max out my IRA for the year, max out the kids’ college funds for the year.
AND THEN.
I need a vacation. So I would probably do that. I also have a list of things I would like. I’m not usually a “I want…” kind of person, but lately it seems I have a few things I would like – like a new digital camera (because I’m convinced it’s not that I take crappy pictures, but that I have a crappy camera), a laptop because Hubby’s accounting software bogs down our shared PC so much that it drives me buggy, and other assorted gadgety things.
And then I would probably donate some to charity because I’m not entirely a greedy, me-me-me beast.
I love the quote – I may just have to post it on my desk.
(And your Pumpkin knowing whose “night” it is completely cracks me up – only since I don’t have to get up in the night you understand. 🙂 May the teething end SOON!)