happy stuff.

it’s really amazing what people throw away. for work, i put out a request to my church e-mail list to see if anyone had a small plastic castle that i could borrow for a program. last night, two friends called and said they’d found a castle on the curb and they snagged it for me. [...]

last night, i drove a friend and her bicycle home after a workout (she didn’t have her headlight and didn’t want to bike at dusk on busy frontage roads–who could blame her?). I helped her load her bike into my trunk and we ended up taking the front wheel off to make it fit the [...]

this morning on the way to work, there were clouds of blue wildflowers hovering on transparent stems about 3 feet off the ground. below them were tiny rolling hills of yellow wildflowers. pretty.

today i sang in a quartet at church. the song was a very simple, repetitive song, but it had some rhythm. there is something about singing in close four part voices, especially with only one person per part, that thrills my soul, resonates with something deep within me and pulls out a smile everytime.

lunch at a chinese buffet–not the best chinese, but hey, i got an eggroll and lunch was free! (well, i had to babysit for a few hours to “earn” it…) having a baby fall asleep on you while you fall asleep i swam in a lake for the first time since i’ve started learning how [...]

i get to say things like “whose bubotuber puss is this?” and “when you’re making the exploding filibusters, DON’T shake the flasks of danger!” today i learned that cleaning slime off of weathered wooden picnic tables is a pain in the petunia. but i got to sluice the sidewalk with a bucket of water which [...]

last night as i was eating supper, i realized that i biked 18 miles the night before, ran/walked 3 miles (or 5k) that morning and had just finished swimming 1/4 mile before supper. that means that i finished a whole mini-triathlon in less than 24 hours! granted, i had at least 8 hours of rest [...]

i had fresh, crushed strawberries with sugar over vanilla ice cream and stirred in into a soup before eating it. i think aunt c. was the first one to show me the joys of soupy ice cream. recently, i was talking to someone that was really grossed out by people eating their ice cream that [...]

as i ate supper on the porch, i was entertained by a hispanic father and his two sons practicing soccer (and shouting “gooooooaaaaaaaalllll” a lot) in the park right across the street. it made me smile.

yesterday, i was at work wondering what exercise i was going to be able to motivate myself to do and i checked my e-mail and there was an invitation from a friend to go on a bike ride!