What made you smile today?

I said "No kidding!" to my neice today. She picked it up, played with it, and within about 10 minutes (and a few dozen "no kiddings!" later), she had the expression down pat.

Been here quite a while Eva - take it you are from Tulsa or close. Were you talking about the Jazz in June? Let me know and we can get together if you are in the area

I grew up in OKC, Bill...northwest part of town. Went to school at Stillwater, have lived in Tulsa since '79. My grandfather (at age 12) was in the 1890 land run, so I've been an Okie since birth.

I have an uncle & cousins in Norman, and I go down there at least a couple of times a year. We were there just last month when my son played in the state piano competition at OU. I may go again in July when my favorite aunt flies in from San Francisco to visit her grandkids (the cousins.)

Will you be around mid-July?

Occom Bill being smoke-free for damn near a week!!

Yes Eva, let me know as the time gets closer and maybe we can make a date. Now, that's a wonderful smile for a day My
family (gg grandmother) moved to Allen's Chapel Texas in 1852. This is south of Durant about 3 miles from the Red River. I'm just so surprised we haven't met before now

Hey, congratulations Jer, keep up the good work

It's a small world, Bill, and it just keeps on getting smaller!
Your post gave me a big smile!

Yes, I'll let you know as soon as plans firm up.

I held hands with my husband last night, over the table, in a restaraunt. We didn't talk very much...just out for a bite and then home for...television...and laundry...and kitchen tidy up...


Mundane maybe, but really good anyway...

It's is a pleasure when we can - just remembered, the girls will be in camp next week, so we have 5 days alone Oh, what to do first I don't think this has happened in the last 6 years, a whole week

And, a date with Eva coming up next month - lacks to smile about this day

A little group of women rushing up to my desk.
Flowers!
For me!
The new girl on reception accepted delivery - didn't know where my desk was - so the whole gaggle came along to bring them (and find out who sent them :wink: )

Awww. Flowers for Beth. That's smile material too.

Shaved the beard, leaving only a mustache. Coworkers look at me quizzically. Takes them a while to figure out what's different.

I smile everytime I find this thread and read the posts. Also, badly needed rain in Denver is making me smile.

uhoh!

Montana got a new kitten!!!

(see Gallery)

Its the gay midsummercanal festival, as I found out hopping outside to fetch a Cheeseburger - and apparently even the fairies have not overlooked the all-dominating football championships. Big platform on the canal, chockfull of people, DJ playing some house tune, very cool. I walk over the bridge and see one very gay tall guy flirtingly lean over to a guy his age, and when I walk by I catch a snippet of their coversation. "No, well, you know I'm not all tha-at into soccer myself, of course, but no, re-eally, it was a go-orgeous game, they played wo-onderfully, really wo-onderful!".

<grins>

We have an Italian intern at my work, she went to watch Holland-Germany out by the canal last week, they'd put up a big screen there. She came back sincerely impressed: even Italians are not that crazy - "everybody was really wearing orange!". She didnt mind tho, she added - when Holland scored, everybody had erupted, started running up and down, screaming, and then all the guys around her started hugging each other - and her, of course. And they were pretty cute.

Otherwise soccer provides no smiles tonight ... <grumbles> ... suckers.

I went to the birthday party of the little girl I used to care for. She ran over to me and nearly knocked me down with the impact of her hug. She had been very impatiently awaiting my arrival. I feel special. <grin>

Awwwww....

I went to a festival thingie today, too. One thing I like about this thread is it forces me to file things away, a good writing habit I've gotten out of.

One thing that made me smile -- a little girl (2?) with bright red curly hair and thick coke-bottle glasses. Really cute. Her mom had red hair, too, a few shades more muted.

As I was watching them, I did a double-take as red-head's double comes charging up, about 2, coke-bottle glasses, cute as a button, fair but haircolor undetermined due to giant hat. The doubles' red-headed mom comes up, the two r-h moms obviously had never met before, they quickly got into a lively and impassioned conversation as the mirror images played in the sand together.

They were all so obviously soul mates -- not just the red-headedness but how they were dressed (doubles' mom had a gorgeous outfit, pink dress with a sheer yellow-with-pink-floral cotton shirt over it, worked great with her coloring), just simpatico.

What else... a gorgeous little black girl, about 3, and among a multi-cultural sea of possible mothers realizing that a very white (pale skin, light brown hair, blue eyes) woman was the mom, because they looked SO much alike. Thinking of my friend who is a typical Minnesota Scandinavian (blonde, freckled, tall and strapping) and is married to a Vietnamese man -- she is a stay-at-home mom, and when she goes out with her kids, people always think they are adopted. :-( I thought of saying to this mother, "your daughter looks so much like you," but that is something that takes the right touch, and the opportunity didn't present itself.

Hmm, maybe this belongs in the random observations thread...

I know what made me smile, though -- going over to the music part of the festival, and sozlet dancing and dancing, and then seeing some kids running around and just boom running after them, and all the kids running hither and yon and collapsing in giggling heaps and then getting up and running some more.

This makes me smile too :-D

My wife treated me to go see Terminal today with Tom Hanks. Too obvious a fiction made into an experience of a Russian visiting the US, but with cutsie events and story line. An okay move, but not sure I would recommend it. Wait till it comes out on t.v.