She's Just Not That Into You

Last week there was "the list" list, so I thought it only fair to give you my "not-so-much list" this week.

Ladies these dudes are for the taking, no need to stop here, no collecting $200.

Here is my "Let's-Just-Be-Friends" list.

Matthew McConaughey

Bradley Cooper

Channing Tatum

Johnny Depp

Who's on your "I'm busy washing my hair" list?

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Come Read With Us

Let's get our read on.

Here we go, the first three selections (plus one bonus one) for #BookChat are listed below. It was a lot of fun to watch the votes come in and to see which ones were in the running and how the list would change several times before leveling out.

You'll notice three books listed during our regular meeting time at 9pm EST on the second Friday of the month and one additional book (Confessions of a Scary Mommy) added to the first Friday in May. She's from Baltimore, her book launches April 3 and I'd love to support her.

Hope to see you there and feel free to leave any questions in the comments. If you have books you'd like to nominate for the next go 'round just leave a comment, shoot me an email, Tweet me or send me a note on Facebook and I'll make sure they get added to the list.

Without further ado, here's the list.

April 13: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin 

May 4: Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood by Jill Smokler

May 11: We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters by Garrison Keillor

June 8: Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Did your favorite make the list?

Lent for the Non-Catholic (Year 2)

My first trip to the Big Apple was Christmas of 1996 and I was immediately struck be the sheer lack of smiling going on in the city that never sleeps. Over the course of the week I was in town I decided that I would single-handedly try to increase the smile factor of the cozy 8 million residents by coaxing out their smile reflex.

If I could smile...a genuine smile...at every single person I encountered, perhaps a few would return the gesture.

Although I didn't get too many in return, I celebrated each one with a little jig and a holler.

Fast forward to several years later when my baby brother and I were out rollerblading while he was in town when he asked me if I was doing that "smiling-at-people" thing, because after they passed me he was getting a ton of smileage. <--Yep, I just made that up.

Cue, this year's lenten resolution to smile more and often...I dare say at anyone and everyone that crosses my path.

Also, I'll be wearing that yellow scarf up there for at least some portion of each day.

Who could resist an upside down frown at that bit of sunshine?

Smile on!