Cheer-Up-athon

[vanillafluffy]

Welcome to Vanillafluffy's First Annual (maybe) Cheer-Up-athon!

Scanning my f'list, it seems like most of us are going through some kind of agita and/or angst. Families, relationships, jobs or lackthereof---it's always something.

As a wise man once said, "I get by with a little help from my friends." I'm inviting my friends (and their friends, and anyone with something constructive to contribute) to particate in this Cheer-Up-athon.

I'm not asking for money, just good mojo. (As long as it isn't that whole "Well, it could be worse, you could be sleeping in a box" schtick, because really, that doesn't work.)

Let's have your compliments, well-wishes, inspirational quotes, suggestions of activities to brighten someone's day---preferably low-or-no-cost, since times ARE tough. Also welcome are Gifs, icons, picspams and fanvids, macros, happy ending comment fics, recipes for your favorite comfort food and good news in general.

This is going to be an on-going event. After a few days as is, I'll change the date so that this post stays at the top of my page and you can keep adding to it. Post as often as you like, and feel free to pimp.

Keep it positive and upbeat, be kind to each other and play nice, y'all.

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Comments

[joker-satx.livejournal.com]

I say that if you want to be cheered up, plop in a Bugs Bunny Video..you can't go wrong with Bugs!

Jansson'sTemptation

[ruric.livejournal.com]

Jansson's Temptation is a dish I picked up from a chef called Tom Vernon who had a TV prog in the UK years ago called Fat Man In the Kitchen.

Ingredients:

8-10 baking potatoes cut into chips (2ins long and 1/4 ins thick)
1 large spanish onion sliced
20 anchovy fillets drained and cut into half inch lengths
3oz butter
1/2 pint of single or double cream
2ox breadcrumbs

Preheat oven to 200 degrees C (400 F), Butter a pie dish. Alternate layers of onions, anchovies, dabs of butter, potatoes ending with a layer of potatoes. Pout juice from anchovy tins and half the cream ovr the top. Top off with toasted breadcrumbs are more dabs of butter.

Cook for 35 mins, add the rest of the cream and cook for 10 ore minutes.

Eat.

Reheat leftovers the next day for something which is as close to breakfast (lunch or dinner) of the gods as you can get.

YUM!

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Fred and Ginger!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxPgplMujzQ

[michelleann68.livejournal.com]

At University I listened to the cure's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Album so often, and it is a pretty depressing album, not really happy songs, but I think Mr. Smith is a genius in a way, b/c the last song, while maybe not lyrically the best on the Album, always pulled me out of any funk..

Fight by the cure


Sometimes there's nothing to feel
Sometimes there's nothing to hold
Sometimes there's no time to run away
Sometimes you just feel so old
The times it hurts when you cry
The times it hurts just to breathe
And then it all seems like there's no-one left
And all you want is to sleep

Fight fight fight
Just push it away
Fight fight fight
Just push until it breaks
Fight fight fight
Don't cry at the pain
Fight fight fight
Or watch yourself burn again
Fight fight fight
Don't howl like a dog
Fight fight
Just fill up the sky
Fight fight fight
Fight til you drop
Fight fight fight
And never never
Never stop

Fight fight fight
Fight fight fight

So when the hurting starts
And when the nightmares begin
Remember you can fill up the sky
You don't have to give in
You don't have to give in

Never give in
Never give in
Never give in

[tourmaline1973.livejournal.com]

Rowan Atkinson & John Cleese, circa 1980 - one of the funniest things I've ever seen:

[hllangel]

Because everyone can use more hugs.

[majolika.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuqJJMSK15U&feature=related
(no idea why i cannot embed it)

and of course:
http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

:)

[tourmaline1973.livejournal.com]

And I pimped this post in my own LJ (http://tourmaline1973.livejournal.com/309819.html). Cos we all need some happy fun times now.

Was going to share a Tom & Jerry favourite, but I think I'll create a post at my own LJ instead, so that this page doesn't take 100000 hours to load & then crashes :)

Edit: The post is here (http://tourmaline1973.livejournal.com/310102.html), and I've also created a Cheer-up-athon tag in case the urge to be happy & cheerful takes hold :)

This commenter came to you by way of Kgal.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Sesame Street clips on YouTube are pretty much guaranteed to raise my mood.

Walking my dog for fun (as opposed to walking him to get from A to B) is also good. If you don't have a dog, you could always borrow one from a neighbour- and yes, you do have to give the dog back! Or you could try volunteering as a dog walker at a local animal shelter. I'm not sure how it works elsewhere in the world, but over here in Merrie Olde Englande, places like Dogs Trust and the RSPCA are normally only too happy to have extra dog walkers.

[ang5fam.livejournal.com]

I cheer myself up by making some kind of pasta dish and curling up with "Godfather 1 and 2." Bada Bing!!

[ladyjane]

My motto: I shall contrive.

My mantra is times of stress: This, too, shall pass.

[sbjb.livejournal.com]

Ah, youtube. So much there to cheer up with.

How 'bout this one: The original broadcast from which the Donald O'Connor/Gene Kelly VW ad was taken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnFiqRiZh1s

And, just to make sure no-one thinks drugs will help cheer you up, I present:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

Gene Kelly tap dancing. On roller skates!



(Hope that embed code works.)

[kukkurkurat.livejournal.com]

If you don't know Hyperbole and a Half- start with the first post (which had me in stitches) then just keep reading. <3


http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

When one can write about her rather horrific events in life like that... *grin* I am all for blogging!