Dr. Tom Perls, author, physician and researcher in the study of aging at Boston University Medical School has studied centenarians and has created this test to calculate how long you will live:

Calculate How Long I will Live

https://www.eons.com/calculator

Nothing says “Oops! I forgot,” like a grocery store bouquet and a gift card with “Happy Anniversary” hastily smeared on the envelope.
Sometimes it’s worth the express shipping. Bookmark these sites:

Need delivery quickly?

Red Envelope

This site displays the “earliest possible arrival date” with each gift, and also offer a “need a gift today” option for flowers. Signature red box and gift cards up the ante in elegance.

Flowerbud
Interesting flowers, elegantly packaged direct from grower.

Calyx Flowers
Grower direct flowers shipped in bud to maximize longevity.

Sundance Catalog
Nice, artistic jewlery. There’s also an outlet that offers special deals.

Next Day Cupcakes from Mrs. Beasley’s
Not your average delivery. Festive and delicious! (Weather advisory: They do not ship when weather conditions are too hot.)

Same Day

Martha Stewart’s arrangements are available same day through 1-800-flowers.com

A single stem of her favorite flower with a hand-written note on a blank card inviting her to dinner (with a cd to set the mood while you get ready) gets better reviews than a large bouquet.

Phone in an order to go from your favorite restaurant, bring it home and serve it with a gift cd and some diamond earrings*. Or better yet, a birthday dinner, prepared by you.

(*just threw that diamond earrings in there because I had someone reading over my shoulder! You know what to do….)

Happiness is a way of being. Happiness is a choice. In America, the pursuit of happiness is a right. With the markets tanking, our mortgages soaring, and the future shaky at best, only half of us are ‘flourishing.’

Studies say we can blame 50% of this on our genes, 10% on life circumstances and the big remaining 40% on our intentional activities. Think money is the difference? Guess again. The richest Americans (earning $10 million or more annually) report happiness only a little bit greater than their office staffers or blue-collar worker employees. How about being married? Isn’t that supposed to be good for men?

Author Sonja Lyubomirsky asserts through her research that, although married people are happier than single ones, the effect of marriage on personal happiness is actually quite small. In a landmark study of 25,000 residents of Germany over 15 years, results showed that marriage led to only a 2-year boost in happiness.

It’s all downhill after 65 too, according to a study of WWII veterans. Things don’t start heading down the slippery slope until after 75, according to the results.
Another study documents that if you reminisce at this stage in the game, you’re time will be happier than if you don’t.

If you still have some respectable calendar left to thumb through, take heart and get moving! Four months of aerobic exercise has been found to be just as effective at treating depression as four months of Zoloft. Now, that should make you happy.

An easy inexpensive way to solve this problem is with a photoelectric cell. These cells are simpler to install than some electric timers and wont have to be reset in the event of a power outage. The installation is fairly simple. The lights will go on automatically when the sun sets and go off when the sun rises. They can be purchased at most home centers, I got mine at Home Depot. There are styles to fit most styles of lights and lamps. Yard lights also have cells to automatically turn them on and off. Tools needed, include pliers, wire strippers, wire nuts and a drill and bit. After installing use a piece of black electricians tape and cover the eye to see if the light goes off. A lot of people use their fingers or thumbs to cover the eye of the cell, this does not always work, the skin lets in light.