Author Archives: happycontessa

Remember when I posted about going to do my good-for-me walk at my Community Center?  Well, that was not working for me.  I felt like the little rodent that goes around a circular cage and just goes nowhere.  It is always running in place.  That’s exactly how I felt.  So due to that excuse, IContinue reading “Change of plans…”

  I kind of live in a very special bubble.  I like it that way.  I didn’t used to be that way.  I used to have a need to be informed, know whatever was going on in the world.  This need to know.  Didn’t like to be in the dark.  The picture above is moiContinue reading “Me and my ignorant Universe…”

It is the journey…not the destination…Right.  I had all these plans for today (remember that most of my postings are written the afternoon or evening before).  Beautiful weather, good disposition, going to the Mall in Raleigh, hoping to find good opportunities to look good in new outfits paying very little, etc.  You get the picture.  Then afterContinue reading “Grandiose plans…”

Depressed…this is a word that has been recently annoying the heck out of me.  We use it so lightly.  When we don’t have a valid reason for anything…there it goes…”I am depressed.” Ok.  Let me go first go ahead and list some things we SHOULD NOT DO  when we are feeling not so groovy… Get on theContinue reading “What not to do when you are feeling depressed…”

Meet the ladies at my dental spa.  Really, you must be thinking I am nuts, but honestly when I go for my dental visit, that’s exactly how I feel.   I feel like having a spa experience.  They have such good karma there.  Always checking if you are doing ok and working around you so then youContinue reading “Visit to the spa…I meant my dentist, and surround yourself with what you love…”

As far as I can remember, I have always been a control freak.    So I was surprised at my reaction this morning when I was taking my daily doses of my sunny sun, reading a book at the same time on being efficient and being busy doing the things you want to accomplish, because as this guyContinue reading “Little tick tocker, big me and crooked things…”

I learned something new!!!  Yeah!!!  Did you noticed there is a title under the picture?  One more for the neurons to remember.  Oh yes, this is supposed to be about my hair (didn’t I write something that had to do with it already?).  One more won’t hurt, while the muses are away.  I went for a driveaboutContinue reading “Angels in my neighborhood…and other hair issues…”

“Learn to love yourself first so you can feel what is to be loved, and then you can proceed to love those around you.  If you don’t know how it feels to be loved, how are you going to be able to feel what is to love others.”  Noury A movie line comes to mind …”youContinue reading “Love to the world…”

I had decided when I started this blog, that I would not discuss politics, and some religion issues.  But today I will make an exception.  Due to the fact that our brothers and sisters in Egypt are going through a change of monumental magnitude, I will say a few words. I was born and raisedContinue reading “An exception…Egypt”

I remember how this my very favorite painting came into our lives.  I had just started a job with a Fortune 500 company in Northern Virginia.  I started the job at the end of March 1984, had gotten married in November 1983, were planning to close on a townhouse in Reston, Virginia in June 1984. Continue reading “Life’s rearview mirror…”