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What's made you feel grateful recently? I've just returned from running, and I'm feeling so grateful for the body that I have. As I age, I'm becoming more aware of how health and mobility have to be maintained. So, I'm grateful for feet and legs that get me where I need to go, a mind that allows me to work and be productive, and a spirit that's still filled with energy. Life is good.

If you read oracle cards, do you use the guidebooks your decks came with? I've heard some people who read oracle cards say they don't use them; they read using pure intuition. For those not in-the-know, the guidebook tells you what each card in the deck means according to the deck creator.

What sort of Linux do you think I should try if I'm not very tech-savvy? I've heard it's difficult to use if you aren't a computer whiz.

When it comes to remakes, do you prefer shot-for-shot remakes, like Gus Van Sant's Psycho, or ones that try to have their own voice? I would, personally, rather watch something with its own voice.

Hello, I have just completed my seventh post. I hope to hear from you soon. Best Regards, Kennedy

If you have lived in a city long enough, you know it has those special spots that tourists rarely find and guidebooks never mention. These might be a cozy café tucked in an alley, that amazing hole-in-the-wall restaurant, or the peaceful park off the beaten path. Do you have such places in your city that you would want the world to know about? Share your local treasures and discover others. Oh, and do not forget to share pictures if you have them!

Social media is a great tool for connecting with other people. Or can I say it used to be so. Remember the early days when you could connect with your friends and family, but now you only seemingly can do so with strangers or people you meet out and about? Even though we can now share our lives with thousands or millions more people, are we truly more connected?

I have just bought anew car and need advice. I used to bring my previous car to a mechanic I knew for servicing and check-ups. As I was selling the car, I realized the guy was not doing the checks he said he was, even though he was charging me slightly above market rates. I want to do things right with this new car and was wondering if any of you have tips on how to pick a great mechanic.

I use this matrix quite a bit alongside a pomodoro app and task management app I downloaded. The matrix helps me prioritize my tasks, the task manager helps me create to-do lists, and the pomodoro app helps me stay focused and track how much time I spend on each task. These techniques have helped me become more productive, with my productivity tracking app telling me I am now over 40% more productive than I was when I started using them.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever received pertaining to personal happiness is to simply care a lot less about what people think or say about you. In many cases, most people do not notice or care about you unless they are in your immediate or inner circle. Most people are too in their heads or worried about other things and their lives to worry or think about you. For this reason, it does not make sense to let what you think other people think or say about you rob you of your happiness.

Why not go another way and watch the Inside Out series. There are only two movies in the series, and they are both quirky and great at teaching different lessons. The first deals with how people react when they are uprooted from their home and familiar environments, and the second deals with life changes. What do you do when life changes? Do you stick with the familiar or try to fit in with the new? That sort of thing.

Another great option for losing weight without going to the gym is tracking your food intake using a mobile app. As @bonzer above said, creating a caloric deficit by utilizing more calories than you consume is the best ways to lose weight, and you can only do this if you know how many calories you consume in a given period, typically a day. A mobile app can make tracking this data quite easy, and there are numerous options for doing so for both Android and iOS devices.

Hi. I "hit my 7th".

It kind of depends, for me. All things considered, I would really prefer dubbing (unless I'm trying to learn the language in question) because reading a movie I'm trying to watch while I'm watching it kind of sucks. Plus, subtitles have a tendency of moving too fast for me to read everything. On the other hand, the actors they pick for dubbing are, usually, so horrible that the movie gets ruined and sometimes subtitles are at just the right speed. Something I do enjoy doing, though, is watching a foreign film without dubbing or subtitles. It doesn't work with all movies, but some are so animated that you can figure out what's going on most of the time even when you don't speak the language. It's kind of like watching a silent film.

There is this movie I found online called The Sand that I watched because I thought it was going to be enjoyably stupid, but it turned out to, actually, be a good film. It had the kind of plot you would find in some awful B-movie (killer sand), but they made it quality by writing a good script. It made me start thinking all those other movies were bad out of lack of effort or lack of skill rather than what they were trying to make the movie about.

I, too, like quirky films. Firstly, I'd like to agree that Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and Young Einstein are very worth while movies to see. And, if you like Young Einstein, Yahoo Serious has a couple other movies: Reckless Kelly and Mr. Accident. As for my own personal recommendations, I'd like to suggest Rubber (an homage to the things in movies that are there for no reason) and, also, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (a french film directed by Luc Besson).

Which kind of chess set do you prefer? The normal, ordinary ones; the normal ones that are fancy; or the theme sets? I don't really have a preference, myself, but there's such a variety these days.

I noticed an old book from the '70s about "microwave cooking" on the internet. It had recipes for cooking whole meals from scratch entirely in the microwave. This is a new concept to me. I mean, I'm used to the idea of heating things up in it, cooking TV dinners in it, or maybe using it to cook one small part of a from scratch meal, but using it as a primary cooking source.....I didn't even know you could. So, does anyone here do this? Completely skip the stove/oven and cook everything in the microwave? I'd like to hear how this turns out. Do things cook well? Are they still juicy and tasty?

I got my first laptop without a cd/dvd drive (which seems to be standard, now). I like it and it's nice and thin and light and everything, but I still kind of miss being able to stick a movie in or listen to one of my cd's. Even save something without it having to be on a flash drive. And, yeah, I know I could use external drives, but it's just not the same. Preferences anyone?

Does anyone here like to color pictures on coloring apps for their cell phone? I've had, at least, a few over the years. I, personally, think they're fun. Plus, if you color a nice one you can download it to your phone and use it as a wallpaper or on your lock screen. I'm not always crazy about the color choices they have for pictures, though. Some apps seem to have a habit of choosing off-the-wall colors for their pictures and kind of ruin them, in my opinion. The app I'm using, now, is pretty cool, though. The colors are nice and it's different because you drag your finger across the picture to color it in, as opposed to tapping like most/all other apps. It's called, Color Swipes.

It is indeed possible to lose weight without ever spending a dime on a gym subscription. Simply put, you lose weight when you burn more calories than you consume daily. To get started, aim to consume 300-400 fewer calories than your daily requirement and fit in a basic aerobic exercise such as walking, jogging, or cycling for at least 30 minutes a day into your daily schedule. Stay adequately hydrated and sleep for 7-8 hours every day. Good luck!