Happy Thing #8: Being asked, repeatedly, if I would be working tomorrow ( Read more... )

Happy Thing #7: The weather outside is frightful... Or was; there were a lot of nervous folks at work today, popping out of the back room to check the progress of the blizzard. A few went home very early; folks who drive out of town for this job, who don't need to be ditched for the sake of the company ( Read more... )

Happy Thing #6: Tonight Vilmos and I are going out for dinner, just the two of us. Last night we stayed up just talking; no computer and no TV and even no music, just two voices together. This morning I watched him sleeping before I got out of bed, and wondered yet again how it is I am so fortunate as to have him in my life ( Read more... )

Happy Thing #5: I walked home from work today, through the wind and the darkness. I havn't really walked since the surgery, and it felt good to feel strong again.

Health and fitness, these are very happy things.

Happy Thing #4: Today I am going downtown to my favourite indie coffee shop, to meet with friends I've know for 19 and 25 years, respectively.

My happy thing today is the stability of life in this city that allows for knowing people long enough to know them. To fit comfortably into conversation that ranges any and every topic. To understand ( Read more... )

Happy Thing #3: Mouse has decided to stay home from school. He's been fighting this cold/'flu that is going around, and is feeling worn out and fuzzyheaded. So he's opting to stay in and just concentrate on catching up on his homework. Currently, he is cuddled on the couch with a knitted blanket and one of the cats ( Read more... )

Happy Thing #2: When I look out my window, I see a yard full of birds and squirrels. Dragon is curled up on a chair in front of the window. I have a warm house, and we have money enough to feed small creatures inside and outside of our home.

To have enough; to know contentment in my heart; this is a happy thing.

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Happy Thing #1: Today I shed another knitting albatross. Without any guilt and with a certain degree of relief, I tossed the lace baby blanket I'd begun when we started trying for our third child. It was some beautiful knitting, and would have made a gorgeous ( Read more... )