What made you smile today?

The guy who I dated last week (and we have kept in touch over the phone) rang me up last night and said that I am like a drug - very dififcult to get hold of, but the more you get, the more you want Laughing

Cute sentiment - has me smiling since yesterday night !

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Seeing Montana give cannistershot whatfor. I like that woman.

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Getting a nice condolence email with pictures of some very cute doggies from a very sweet person.

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Riding my bike for the first time after my shoulder separation. HUUUUUUUUGE smile all day Very Happy

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An email from O'Bill's sister -- thanking me (and by extension all of us) for taking over arguing-with-Bill-about-politics duties from her. ;-)

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going to San Francisco today!!!

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dagmaraka wrote:

going to San Francisco today!!!

Have a bowl of Uncle Ben's on me.

You're leaving at the right time...it's colder than tits today.

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Oh, oh oh, oh! I forgot!!! I met John Malkovich yesterday, TWICE!!!! He said Hi to me! How is that for the biggest grin ever? I should add that he is my most favorite actor ever. Anyone saw "Ogre"? He is simply fantastic. He was just strolling through Harvard square, i was talking with a friend when I spotted him, so of course i stared at him and started smiling. He looked back, smiled and say 'hi'. i was so darn overjoyed. and then i bumped into him again, he was just perusing books and magazines out on Eliott Street, as a mortal human being. Totally made my day, even if it's fickle and petty.

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dagmaraka wrote:

He looked back, smiled and say 'hi'. i was so darn overjoyed. and then i bumped into him again, he was just perusing books and magazines out on Eliott Street, as a mortal human being.

What? No tour of his brain? How disappointing! Wink

Seriously though, I know how you feel. A couple of weeks ago, at my favorite Munich CD store, I bumped into Alfred Brendel, one of my favorite pianists. (We even share the same birthday!) It's weird how ridiculously happy encounters like this can make even perfectly sober grown-ups.

Good for you! Very Happy

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Smiling at my compulsion to look up Alfred Brendel just to find out the day of Thomas' birth: January 5, for anyone else who might be interested. Sometimes I get so caught up in something that it takes me some time to realize what I'm doing. Strange, that's what I am.

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Saw my first person, this season, wearing a hat with earflaps. It makes me smile every year. It's such a goofy look. Particularly this year, with everyone having their MP3 wires heading north. Wires going into an earflapped hat. GOOOOOOOOOOOOFY !!!!

Laughing

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Very funny, Bethie. Also makes me feel old, since I do not own an MP3 or even know how ti use them.

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My 5 month old always has me smiling. Last night I took her in the shower. I was holding her in my left arm. She loves the warm water beating down on her back. At the end of our time in there she reached out to the showering water and began slowly opening and closing her left hand under the stream...she then looked up at the shower head to see where all of this fun was coming from.

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Hi PamO

Aren't babies wonderful! Very Happy

(especially when you're a grandparent and all you get is the fun part)

My reason for smiling today?

I had planned to fly out to Kingman Arizona on the Sunday after Thanksgiving to take care of some family business.

In 1964 my parents had bought, through the mail, five acres of what was essentially worthless desert land, that now, after all these years, has achieved some considerable value.

Yours truly, as my late mother's executor, has to view the property, get a fair appraisal and find a realtor etc.
...but, I wasn't too enthusiastic about spending a week out there by myself.

Now however, my brother Jack (recently retired and with time to do as he pleases) has decided to go along.
We'll fly into Las Vegas and drive down to Kingman. We'll be staying in a casino-hotel in Laughlin Nevada just over the Arizona line.

All of a sudden this trip looks like fun! Very Happy

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jjorge, good for you! I'd love to be able to do something like that! You're going to have a great time.

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My 9 month old is starting to dance. Just about a week ego we turned on some upbeat music, and she kind of pause, then looked over and started sort of wobbling along with the beat. She's gotten a lot better since then thought. She's got rhythm.

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Just had to smile when I read this in Richard Dawkins' new book, The Ancestor's Tale":

In 'The Ancestor's Tale', Richard Dawkins wrote:

"Dr. K. Belayev took captive silver foxes, Vulpes vulpes, and set out systematically to breed for tameness. By mating together the tamest individuals, Belayev had, within 20 years, produced foxes that behaved like border collies, actively seeking human company and wagging their tail when approached. That is not very surprising, although the speed at which it happened may be. Less expected were the by-products of selecting for tameness. These genetically tamed foxes not only behaved like collies, they looked like collies. They grew black-and-white coats, with white face patches and muzzles. Instead of the characteristic pricked ears of wild foxes, they developed 'loveable' floppy ears."

[skip three pages, in which Dawkins explains how humans came to get rid of their allergic reactions to milk sugar and grain. (The technical terms for these allergies are lactose intolerance and grain intolerance.) Interestingly, this part of human evolution was driven by selective pressure from human culture, as opposed to humans' natural environment. Dawkins then proceeds to the punch line:]

"Is lactose tolerance just the tip of the iceberg? Are our genomes riddled with evidence of domestication, affecting not just our biochemistry but our minds? Like Belayev's domesticated foxes, and like the domesticated wolves we call dogs, have we become tamer, more loveable, with the human equivalent of floppy ears, soppy faces, and wagging tails? I leave you with the thought, and move hastily on."

The way Dawkins said that put a huge smile on my face. I love Richard Dawkins!

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:-)

OK, so when sozlet was a tiny -- about a year old, say -- she ADORED this video we had called "Nature Babies", which is just footage of wild animal babies from National Geographic and such, beautiful, and with various kinds of music in the background.

There was one part that I just HATED. It shows a baby bird falling out of its nest, with a sound effect of "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!" as it falls, forever, cutting out (ending that segment, starting another) just before it goes splat. I couldn't stand it, was annoyed at the stupid producers of the otherwise great video for including that part.

Well, just got a video from the library called "Geo Kids", it's National Geographic for preschoolers. It's very cool. Was watching, and saw a familiar nest, familiar camera angle, familiar baby bird -- there she goes! Oh no! It was the exact same footage.

But this time, they didn't cut away, and showed -- the baby duck landing in the water and paddling away!!!! I hadn't realized it was a baby duck -- brown and tan, not yellow, and in a tree fer chrisssakes. Though in retrospect it's obvious.

This made me so happy! That baby bird DIDN'T go splat! It just went for a li'l swim!

I love happy endings. :-)

(And nobody bring me back to reality with the thought of a predator lurking...)

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That is hilarious Soz. Laughing

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