happy stuff.

lately, it seems that every day, when i heat up my lunch at work, someone wanders in and says, ‘oh! that smells good!’ and i usually look at it and think, ‘yeah, it does smell good!’ people seem especially impressed when i bring an ear of corn on the cob. ‘really? you can just cook [...]

today at work, i went to a craft work party. see, we have to create pieces for over 400 crafts for each week of storytime and the people who are in charge of putting all of this together were feeling a bit overwhelmed, so they asked if we could pitch in and help. a surprising [...]

so i’m putting together a “kit” for a storytime about monsters this quarter at work and i was having trouble coming up with any flannel board stories about monsters (there was one for “where the wild things are” and that was pretty much it). i found a little rhyme about 5 little monsters that seemed [...]

i am feeling much better now that i’ve had a few days of rest. (thanks for asking!–and yes, i think that chocolate pudding and bananas are still in order, brad!) i even got through about 3 books! i laid around so long that i got kind of tired of lying around and decided i had [...]

today i’m feeling sick, so my happy thing is remembering my bike ride from a few days back and flying down a curvy hill. i remember thinking, “i may never get to slalom back and forth on a snowy hill with skis, but i think that this might be sort of how it feels.” standing [...]

yesterday, when i went to the local asian/latino grocery store, i discovered (for the second time this summer) that they had bagged some of the avocados that were on the cusp of way-too-ripe and priced them to sell. i bought 5 avocados for $1.50 (total, not each). and they are still mostly good! this is [...]

yesterday, i biked through pathways lined with sunny yellow flowers taller than me. it somehow felt regal. today, a friend shared home canned peaches with me. they are like gold. canning takes so much work and it’s so hot and yet there is nothing that tastes quite as good as a home-canned peach. when i [...]

it’s amazing how many more interesting weekends this summer has contained now that i don’t work most saturdays. (i’ve also visited the farmer’s market less frequently, but i can make do) this past weekend, a friend generously opened up his family’s lake house to us for a visit. what a wonderful time we had! i [...]

this morning i got to play with a baby for a few hours. a friend of mine, who moved a few months before her baby arrived, is in town this week to do some research, so she was looking for some childcare to facilitate her ability to study. i happily volunteered my morning and had [...]

mr. happy stuff and i have never had a chance to visit door county and we’d always heard such nice things, so this past weekend, we finally packed up and went to the great northern thumb of wisconsin. we had a wonderful weekend! on friday night, we went to the hands on art studio to [...]