In some ways it is.
Hiya TDoo - happy easter!
HI K!!!!! Happy Easter back at ya!
Another wake up from sleep smile ...
Yesterday, A. found a note i made an earlier time, when she'd been asleep in my lap, and had said something cutely surreal and instinctive in her sleep. Perhaps because of that, this time she caught herself in a repeat. She was asleep in my lap, on the couch, again, i absent-mindedly stroked her neck, while lopsidedly navigating an impractically broadsheet newspaper (god give me serious tabloids). Suddenly she spoke: -"We've got to fetch the puppies from the cleaner's" - then instantly frowned, in studious concentration, eyebrows triangled close to the bridge of her nose - and woke. Caught herself there, opening her eyes into my broad smile. "I was sleeping", she therefore noted to herself, and to me, and added that no, probably we didnt need to fetch any puppies from the cleaner's.
With that, she turned around to go to sleep again, but this time with more determination than previous times after such impromptu midnight poetry. I would hate to miss it, though. They are brilliant lines.
What made you smile today?
I just got back from a market run. On the way home I pass some salt water bays where I saw 3 swans and some snowy egrets. That always makes me happy.
sick today, very sick. smiled when bf sent me a virtual garlic toast and tea in an email.
hope you'll feel better soon, dagmaraka!
Got a HUGE chuckle out of Diane's parody of GWB on "A Continuing Story"...see Original Writing. :-)
greedily devouring clean morning air heady with the scent of freshly cut grass.
What made You smile today?
A little boy <so cute> with his mom at the local small grocery store ~ the mom didn't have change from her purchase to buy a bag of chocolate pretzels for her son who was very upset but trying not to cry. I motioned to the mom if it was ok if I bought the pretzels for her son, his mom smiled, I smiled, then we received a big grin and "thankyou" from the happy little boy.
smiles today
I was sitting on a chair under the trees, enjoying the sun and overlooking the picturesque canal with the factory at the end, and I was trying to read. Birds were chirping in the trees around. Cellphone rang - brrreep. I looked around, annoyed, nothing but a few passers' by, the birds kept on chirping, I read on. Brreeep, again. I looked up - well - et cetera. Took me a while to realise that I was now witnessing that phenomenon I'd read about in the paper: birds imitating the ring of a cellphone. The same, insistent, breeep, repeated just irregularly enough in between the varied chirping to every time again take me by surprise and have me look up. <grins>
A week or two ago I also passed through that neighbourhood by foot after bringing A. to school. The streets there are relatively narrow, people sitting outside on their stoop. One sidewalk had been chalked full - an Arabic-sounding girls' name - heart - Arabic-sounding boys' name - repeat - ad infinitum. For some twenty meters, alongside some three houses, every street tile had been chalked full with her-heart-him! Homegirl must have written it down two hundred times! Now that's puppy love ...
nimh
Nice description.
I hadn't heard about birds mimicking cell phones . . .ha! ha! that's great.
The puppy love story made me smile. Then I thought: 'There IS a difference between 'puppy puppy love' and 'human puppy love' . . .ie. in the case of the latter, puppies make more puppies if they're not careful . . .kinda makes me glad that MY two puppies are grown up!
The other day I was sitting in the park, a bird flew down to the ground, looked up at me, and said "Can you hear me now?".
I was driving my neice into the city when she said, "I want to listen to rock'n'roll." As if that weren't enough to melt my heart, she said, "dammit." "What was that?" "Dammit Dammit Dammit" It was all I could do not to drive off the road I was stiffling my giggles so hard. I most definitely don't go for the tepid "dammit" when I swear - this time it was her mother who messed up. But, the real grin I got from the situation was the look of mischeivousness on her face.
I'm smiling now because the craving to snap bubble wrap has been satiated.....for another day.....
nimh is my bestest friend in the world right now! Thanks for the GREAT link!
<no, I'm not obsessive-compulsive.....what makes you think that?>
No problem my friend.
<grins>
(Reminds me of those Greek colleagues I have, big arms always gesticulating or welcoming, big voices - who always go: "my frrriend - liisten -" <grins>)
I'm getting a little distracted by your avatar though - what is it you are doing?
