THE RULES: You are giving hypothetical three gifts. One gift will make the recipient HAPPIER. One gift will make the recipient HEALTHIER. One gift will make the recipient SMARTER. You don’t need to say who you’ll give them to (unless you want — and you can link to the recipient to tag them for the meme) but you’ll need to justify your answers in one sentence (per gift.) Copy this whole entry and replace my gifts with your own — then add the link back.

Your gift to the blogger who told you about this? A nice little link back to their post goes right here, of course.

HAPPIER: Local art — because we broke down and spoiled ourselves with an amazing print by a local artist this past summer, and not only does it look aces on our wall, but I get all warm and fuzzy whenever I look at it.

HEALTHIER: Long underwear — because despite my reservations about the chilled climate, I began running regularly in the deep of last winter, the only remaining and looming excuse being the cold, and with a good pair of long underwear any would-be runner has very little cause to stay inside.

SMARTER: A one-year subscription to Audible — because I hesitated for a number of years and now my ears are full of great (audio)books I just don’t have time to read otherwise, and no, this is not an official plug.