TODAY IS:

World Gratitude Day

TODAY’S QUESTION:

When is the last time you hugged someone you don’t live with? According to a YouGov survey, for almost a third of respondents, it’s been a while:

Less than a week ago -- 21%
1-2 weeks ago -- 8%
3-4 weeks ago -- 6%
1-2 months ago -- 7%
3-4 months ago -- 8%
More than 4 months ago -- 31%
Don’t know -- 9%
N/A – I do not hug people -- 9%

TODAY’S TOPICS:

The Sunday Blues are more like the Sunday Stress …A new survey found that people start to feel anxiety about the upcoming workweek at 3:58 p.m. on Sundays. 88% of respondents said they regularly feel anxiety on Sunday about what Monday morning will bring. The survey also revealed that a whole lot of us are working on the weekends – with the average worker doing about three hours of unpaid work on Saturdays and Sundays. 45% said they were looking at emails, 38% said they were going over presentations, and 31% said they made business calls over the weekend. And the survey found that people think about work and their jobs about six times a weekend.

Are you happier around your friends than your family? Don’t be embarrassed to admit it … because you are definitely not alone. A new study from Southern Methodist University found that people are happier when they’re with their friends than with their spouse or kids. In fact, the research found that people reported the lowest levels of happiness when they were with a significant other.Ouch. But there’s a pretty good reason for this: The study found that when people are with friends, it typically involves fun, social events. The time spent with family tends to involve less fun activities – like doing chores. So basically, it’s not so much who you are with – but what you’re doing.

The lesson in all of this – according to SMU psychology professor Nathan Hudson, is to make an effort to do fun things with family – not just with friends. “It’s important to create opportunities for positive experiences with romantic partners and children – and to really mentally savor those positive times. In contrast, family relationships that involve nothing but chores, housework, and childcare likely won’t predict a lot of happiness.”

We’re getting bigger …Anew reportshows that the obesity rate in American adults is 42.4% -- the highest rate in history. And get this: The adult obesity rate has increased a whopping 26% since 2008. Childhood obesity is disturbingly on the rise as well. Data revealed that 20% of kids from 2 to 19 are obese. In the 1970s, only 5.5% of children were obese. Mississippi has the highest adult obesity rate in the country at 40.8%. Colorado has the lowest at 23.8% (Eat This, Not That)

Why do things like this never happen to me? An Australian couple won nearly $500,000 in a lottery jackpot ... by accident. Apparently they thought they were buying a ticket for one game, but bought a ticket for a different game instead. That mistake was worth $453,135.59 "Can you believe I was actually meant to buy a ticket into another draw? This was actually the wrong ticket," the man said. "It was a complete mistake, a very good mistake."Ya think?(UPI)

Where do you look when you drink from a water bottle?This is completely bizarre, but the other day aReddituser asked this very question -- and it’s fascinating. First things first, you need to drink out of a water bottle to figure it out. For some people, it’s straight up into the air. For others it’s staring at the water in the bottle. And depending on how thirsty you are, other people simply close their eyes until the bottle is empty. It’s such an unconscious thing we do, and you never really think about where your eyes go during the process, but once it’s brought to your attention, it’s all you can think about!

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