Some music that makes me feel happier when I'm having a bad day... or calmer when I feel stressed about life... good for a sorta "meh" day like today

I Feel Lucky- Mary Chappan Carpenter  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCMQvOEE0cg

I Take My Chances - Mary Chappan Carpenter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kyGik7LVf8

piano music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YihqEwLfJoM

Don't Know Why - Norah Jones (sad but very nice to listen to) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJA5UFv1Hu8

Breathe Me - Sia (another sad-ish one) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fXzc06HuEQ

Cowboy Take Me Away- Dixie Chicks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hntXAO_Rq7c

I Get Knocked Down (But I get Up Again) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ-fDxfUD58

...What's "lovlier" than feeling happy ??

You guys have got to see this.  It's so absolutley adorable!  And I love the drawing/painting style... so cool.  I haven't yet gotten around to reading these comics from the beginning, I just subscribed to it a few days ago... but it really just makes me smile.

http://parakeetjones.smackjeeves.com/comics/804029/happy-love-day/

By the way, happy love day!

From The Mother Earth News Special (With Poster) Issue NO. 12:

I thought this was interesting...  I might try it sometime, since my hair is very straight, and only holds a curl if I braid it overnight with just the right dampness.

If you've read "Little Women," by Louisa May Alcott, you may remember the entertaining (but somewhat hapless) episode where Jo attempts to curl her sister Meg's hair for a party: 

  '...On New Year's Eve the parlor was deserted, for the two younger
girls played dressing maids and the two elder were absorbed in the
all-important business of `getting ready for the party'. Simple
as the toilets were, there was a great deal of running up and down,
laughing and talking, and at one time a strong smell of burned hair
pervaded the house. Meg wanted a few curls about her face, and Jo
undertook to pinch the papered locks with a pair of hot tongs.

"Ought they to smoke like that?" asked Beth from her perch
on the bed.

"It's the dampness drying," replied Jo.

"What a queer smell! It's like burned feathers," observed Amy,
smoothing her own pretty curls with a superior air.

"There, now I'll take off the papers and you'll see a cloud
of little ringlets," said Jo, putting down the tongs.

She did take off the papers, but no cloud of ringlets appeared,
for the hair came with the papers, and the horrified hairdresser
laid a row of little scorched bundles on the bureau before her victim.

"Oh, oh, oh! What have you done? I'm spoiled! I can't go! My
hair, oh, my hair!" wailed Meg, looking with despair at the uneven
frizzle on her forehead.

"Just my luck! You shouldn't have asked me to do it. I always
spoil everything. I'm so sorry, but the tongs were too hot, and so
I've made a mess," groaned poor Jo, regarding the little black
pancakes with tears of regret.

"It isn't spoiled. Just frizzle it, and tie your ribbon so
the ends come on your forehead a bit, and it will look like the
last fashion. I've seen many girls do it so," said Amy consolingly.

"Serves me right for trying to be fine. I wish I'd let my hair
alone," cried Meg petulantly.

"So do I, it was so smooth and pretty. But it will soon grow
out again," said Beth, coming to kiss and comfort the shorn sheep.

After various lesser mishaps, Meg was finished at last, and
by the united exertions of the entire family Jo's hair was got up
and her dress on. They looked very well in their simple suits,
Meg's in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and
the pearl pin. Jo in maroon, with a stiff, gentlemanly linen
collar, and a white chrysanthemum or two for her only ornament.
Each put on one nice light glove, and carried one soiled one, and
all pronounced the effect "quite easy and fine". Meg's high-heeled
slippers were very tight and hurt her, though she would not own it,
and Jo's nineteen hairpins all seemed stuck straight into her head,
which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant
or die.'

...If you do attempt this method of curling, I would suggest that you take a word of caution from the passage above, and try simply letting your hair set overnight, instead of using heat to set the curls.  Or, at least proceed with caution... and stop before you smell burning. ;)