Thanks so much for all your comments on Friday.

I had a fantastic family-filled birthday Saturday (one which started with a kind tribute-post that had me LAUGHING OUT LOUD).

This comment from Friday’s post stuck in my mind throughout the weekend:

Sounds as though you have already chosen to view your life through the prism of gratitude and happiness.

I do think that’s true.

I adore my life and yet can entirely see someone else looking at it from the outside and thinking :

Really? You’re *that* excited about it?!  huh. It looks as though your life could get a mite repetitiveboring at times.

All of life, in my opinion, comes back to how we choose to view our world .

(insert your rant *here* about how we’re chemically predestined to view the world in a particular fashion. Lay it on me. Ive heard it all before…)

I have chosen to be an optimist.

And that’s my question to you: Optimism? Pessimism? What’s yer ‘mism?

Now the give-away.

My *favorite* part is that, in a way, the give has absolutely nothing to do with the post.

My *favorite* part is that, in a way, the give is 100% the backdrop of the post.

My cup isnt half full it is running over.

It’s this overflow (see below) I’m completely excited— especially in this economy—to send your way.

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Lay it on me, People: Optimism? Pessimism? What’s yer ‘mism?

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