901 - Start your Thanksgiving preparations early.  That way you will have time to try new recipes, make fun place cards and decorations,  figure out your guest list, and have a more leisurely time of getting ready.  You could even surprise everyone with a mystery guest - a long lost relative perhaps.  Be sure to accept all offers of help and say yes to people who want to bring a side dish. As for clean up - many hands make light work!  This is the season of blessings and gratitude and you are a hero for hosting!

902 - Pick a subject to research.  Try something you have always been curious about - World War II, Elizabeth Taylor, archeology, a U.S. President, the history of your town or state, your family's genealogy - whatever!  Look things up on the computer, go to the library, read some books and magazine articles, take some notes, go where your research leads you - literally!  I have always been fascinated by authors who travel to find out information.  For example, if you were researching a President - you could go to their Presidential Library, or the town where they were born, or to the National Library of Congress.  I have always wanted to go to a separate room at a big library and be granted access to a famous person's letters, diaries, and personal papers.  

903 - Write a real letter - you know, with pen, paper, an envelope and a stamp.  Whoever receives your letter will be happy and impressed.  They might even write you back!

904 - Do you have odds and ends of greeting cards that just seem to pile up?  Sit down with your address book and check out who could use some encouragement, better health, birthday recognition, or even a fun postcard.  I am sure you remember how pleased you have been when somebody has taken the time to remember you in the past.  

 905 - Collect stamps!  I collected stamps for a couple of years in my childhood.  I loved matching the stamp in my hand to the image in my album, and oh how I loved those little hinges I would use to affix the stamps into my stamp book.   My beloved Grandpa was a stamp collector, and by hook or by crook, I managed to inherit his stamp collection.  Oh me!  Oh my!  Recently, I have been trying to figure out how to collect stamps in light of the sticker stamps we have these days.  I finally went to a stamp collector's show and I was in paradise!  I met a wonderful professional stamp collector who showed me around, introduced me to people, and even gave me a bag of stamps!  He said the best thing to me - there is no right or wrong way to collect stamps.  However you decide to do it is the right way.  Those words were music to my ears.  So I do a bit here and there, buy some stamps at the post office, look at my childhood album, and my Grandpa's big grown up album, and just have some stamp fun.   PS - there is a new Betty White stamp out!

886 - 900 Fun Things to Do

 886 - Find some of your childhood TV favorites in reruns and take a walk down memory lane!  GRIT channel on Dish streaming features old cowboy movies and series.  You can find "The Rifleman", "The Lone Ranger and Tonto",  "Gunsmoke", "Zorro",  and more.  Of course you can also find "Seinfeld", "That 70s Show", "Friends",  "The Andy Griffith Show" and others.  Prepare to ride the nostalgia train!

887 - Really enjoy a piece of chocolate.  I have noticed that if I let it melt in my mouth, the delight is extended.  Chewing is too fast!  I was on a bus once, in the middle of the night, with a Hershey's bar and a cold bottle of water.  Each little segment of the chocolate seemed to last forever.  It is my happiest food memory!

888 - Call someone you haven't connected with in years and hang on for the ride!  My friend Cindi from high school is coming over this Wednesday morning for tea.  We have only connected haphazardly over the years, so I am ready for a gabfest!

889 - Display a childhood favorite doll, teddy bear, train etc.  I have my Ginny bride doll on a hutch in my living room under a glass dome.

890 - Write an unexpected thank you note to a person who has made your life easier.  For example, it could be to a friendly cashier, mail carrier,  your real estate agent, a librarian. or a police officer.  We are surrounded by people all day long who make things go more smoothly for us.  It's nice to give them appreciation.

891 - Rent a ridiculous car.  I am looking forward to having a red convertible weekend soon!

892 - Walking in the rain with an umbrella!  I happily took a stroll around the neighborhood with my pink flamingo umbrella recently.  I didn't even get wet!  The sound of the rain on the umbrella was delightful!

893 - Start a gardening tradition with your children or grandchildren.  Here are my grandsons, Andrew and Nate after just after planting their annual circle garden in my yard.  They startied picking out flowers and putting them in their garden when they were 4 and 6 years old.  Now they are 20 and 22!

894 - Putt putt golf with friends and/or family on a beautiful day.  Go ahead and hit that hole-in-one that you've longed for!

895 - Color a mandala with crayons, colored pencils, or markers.  There are plenty of mandala coloring books and also available on the internet.  Very creative and calming.

896 - Enjoy a jammer day.  I'm having one right now!  A jammer day is what I call a pajama day, but it can be whatever you slept in the night before.  Just roll out of bed and enjoy your comfortable day!

897 - Bake some cupcakes or cookies and give them out to people throughout your day, even strangers!

898 - Watch a movie you have loved and seen many times before.  I always love it when someone says, for example, that they have enjoyed "Star Wars" 34 times!  If I have viewed a movie more than once, I look at the sets, the props, the cars, the clothes, the hair styles, etc.  I notice that the movie becomes even more alive when I do that.  

899 - All day long, you have thousands of choices to create a good day.  It is likely that you can't even count how many choices you have!  Build a good day!  

900 - Give a present for no apparent reason.  Wrap it up and decorate it.  You will be making someone's day!!