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Out From Under the Umbrella 
May 1, 2014 at 9:24 am
Sounds good to me – I’m all for happy! Every time I hear that song I picture Gru dancing and making breakfast after falling for Lucy. 🙂
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May 1, 2014 at 9:26 am
Y’know as much as love animated films I haven’t seen Despicable Me.
Note to self: Watch Despicable Me.
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May 1, 2014 at 9:35 am
Everyone in our family liked the second movie better than the first which is where this tune shows up. Of course our kids have watched it hundreds of times so it isn’t quite as enjoyable as it was the first 5 times. 😉
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May 1, 2014 at 9:40 am
Well I don’t have kids, but I am a big kid. Is it weird that at 40+ I love animated films? Though I can see where after the umpteenth time it might be just a wee bit predictable. 😀
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May 1, 2014 at 9:51 am
That’s not weird at all!! Parents just use the excuse of having kids to do the things that they actually want deep inside to be doing – e.g. do you really think I buy my son a remote controlled helicopter or race-car for him?! 😉
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May 1, 2014 at 9:55 am
I’m guessing not. 😀
But I think that just means I’m not the only weirdo. 🙂
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May 1, 2014 at 9:59 am
woops – replied to the wrong one.
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May 1, 2014 at 10:07 am
Heh…happens to me all the time.
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May 1, 2014 at 9:35 am
Love it! Great way to start the day. 🙂
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May 1, 2014 at 9:40 am
😀
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May 1, 2014 at 9:58 am
😀 Yeah, we’re all weirdos, some of us are just better at admitting to it. 🙂
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May 1, 2014 at 10:07 am
Janelle, Howie’s not calling you a weirdo. He’s just admitting he is one(and I think agreeing that I’m one, too).
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May 1, 2014 at 10:47 am
I’ve always been partial to Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.” 🙂
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May 1, 2014 at 11:00 am
That song came to mind as I was discovering that the world may not be going to Hell in a handbasket as I was being led to believe.
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May 1, 2014 at 11:04 am
Heh, it’s a good one.
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May 1, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Big sigh of relief. No hell..nor handbasket. Wouldn’t the handbasket burn up before we got there? o_o
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May 1, 2014 at 11:17 am
That’s a good one!
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May 1, 2014 at 11:03 am
Nice. *snaps fingers* Happy Thursday.
Ruth — I wanted to make a comment to Howie but can’t because you apparently have your threaded (nested) comments set to default.
@ Howie — if you see this, I LOL’d loudly at your comment:
“e.g. do you really think I buy my son a remote controlled helicopter or race-car for him?”
😀
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May 1, 2014 at 11:08 am
Hey Victoria! Very glad my comment made you laugh! I was hoping it would make someone laugh. 🙂 I really like posts like these. Good to take a break from all the serious.
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May 1, 2014 at 11:13 am
So true, Howie. I told Violet just yesterday that I was taking a short break from intense posts and spending more time reading lighthearted posts. It really does help to decompress, and what better way than through posts with music and/or humor. It just feels good to let my hair down and feel the breeze flow through.. To you and Ruth — thanks for the endorphins. 😉
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May 1, 2014 at 11:16 am
You’re welcome Victoria – anytime. But I’m pretty sure those endorphins come from your own pituitary – I can’t send them through the interwebs. 😉
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May 1, 2014 at 11:21 am
Now Howie — of course they come from my own bio-pharmacy— BUT you do have to take ‘some’ credit. I appreciate the prescription. LOL
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May 1, 2014 at 11:28 am
🙂 I’ll take any credit I can get! I’m afraid I’ve run out of prescriptions though at the moment – still too early in the morning. Where’s that coffee when you need it?!
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May 1, 2014 at 11:31 am
If the Happy Song didn’t wake you up you’re hopeless!
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May 1, 2014 at 11:38 am
Howie, I can help you with that. Here you go.
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May 1, 2014 at 11:41 am
😀 Love it! Thanks!
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May 1, 2014 at 11:42 am
My pleasure.
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May 1, 2014 at 11:16 am
Here’s another clappy one:
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May 1, 2014 at 11:17 am
*listening*
Ark will love this. 😀
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May 1, 2014 at 11:47 am
One more:
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May 1, 2014 at 12:07 pm
Hahahahah — that does take me back to when I was a youngen. We had also moved to the dog forsaken South, the most religious state to boot, around that time. Oh little did I know what the Air Force had gotten us into. Two month later, we lost everything to Hurricane Camile, a cat. 5. Talk about an omen. 😀
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May 1, 2014 at 12:08 pm
*Camille
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May 1, 2014 at 12:20 pm
That’s…ominous. Hope I haven’t messed with your Chi! 😕
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May 1, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Nah — not at all. Still have a huge smile on my face. 😀
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May 1, 2014 at 11:11 am
I changed the nesting. I didn’t realize that was a thing.
I thought that was pretty cute, too!
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May 1, 2014 at 11:14 am
Yay — thank you!
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May 1, 2014 at 11:25 am
Here’s one I play when I want to cheer myself up – I think it counts as a happy song, because it always makes me smile.
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May 1, 2014 at 11:33 am
Heh…this one makes me smile:
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May 1, 2014 at 12:39 pm
LOL — A classic.
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May 2, 2014 at 10:12 am
Yep, I have a cover of that as the second song (after Mac Davis) on my Cheer Me Up mix.
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May 1, 2014 at 12:52 pm
Love your choice of a happy song. Here is mine… I only have animated ones on my mind because… children.
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May 1, 2014 at 12:52 pm
Whoops, I posted the whole playlist… well, there’s 5 of them, LOL.
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May 1, 2014 at 2:08 pm
My teen got me hooked on this parody of the Fox song thing:P
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May 1, 2014 at 2:18 pm
I hadn’t seen that one! It’s a good one, too.
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May 1, 2014 at 4:14 pm
LOL, that is indeed entertaining 🙂
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May 1, 2014 at 2:13 pm
Well, like I said, I’m a big animated film fan so these were right up my alley. They all made me smile. I’ve seen a few parodies of “What Does the Fox Say” that have made me chuckle, too. 😀
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May 1, 2014 at 2:27 pm
This one usually makes me laugh:
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May 1, 2014 at 2:31 pm
Ha! Are you a country music fan or just a Willie Nelson fan?
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May 1, 2014 at 2:48 pm
Mostly Willie Nelson. There are a few county songs I like here and there. I like folk quite a bit more which is a close cousin. How bout you?
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May 1, 2014 at 2:55 pm
My musical tastes are pretty eclectic. I like a bit of everything, really, but I’m particularly fond of 70’s music. I don’t think I have a favorite genre. If I told you one today it’d be different tomorrow.
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May 1, 2014 at 3:04 pm
I’m somewhat similar – for me there are awesome tracks from every different genre, but I like some genres more than others.
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May 1, 2014 at 3:06 pm
Yeah, I can’t say I’m a huge Blue Grass fan. That twangy, whiny stuff I just can’t handle. And I’m a Southerner!
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May 1, 2014 at 3:17 pm
The twang doesn’t bother me too much – but the persistent theme of losing the house, car, wife, kids seems a bit much. 🙂
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May 1, 2014 at 3:29 pm
Yeah, but if you play it backwards you get it all back. 😀
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May 1, 2014 at 3:32 pm
😀
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May 1, 2014 at 2:56 pm
Nice way to put a smile on people’s faces. Here’s my entry. By the way, my favorite line is the randomly placed “How is the weather?”
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May 1, 2014 at 3:15 pm
I can dig it! That is kind of random, isn’t it?
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May 6, 2014 at 7:40 am
Yeah, keepin’ it universal — one of the greatest solvents to parochial religion.
Happiness — who could argue?
Hadn’t seen this video – thanx. Fun.
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May 6, 2014 at 8:45 am
Such a fun, upbeat song, isn’t it?
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