What made you smile today?

That's cool!

05/05/05 will be cool, too.

Not till 3 April in most places outside the US.

I call today "John Phillip Sousa Day"















March Fourth (Har!)

There was something that made me smile and then even skip just now when I started walking home ... but I've lost the feeling, can't recreate what it was now.

I do know what brought it on though: the snow, covering the street in white, in this case the Springweg, which normally is a pretty enough downtown street but now was quite magical. You see, it was snowing yet again, and most of the cars - apparently, never realised before - only go up that street as far as the sidestreet leading to the parking garage. Beyond that the street now looked untouched, covered, like the roofs, in a white fluffy blanket. And with Hotel Karel V on the right and a row of small houses, some built there a few hundred years ago by a benefactor for poor cityfolk - the cutest houses, and with white walls - on the other, it looked very much like a medieval town street, like in a childrens book illustration or fairy tale.

Having gone to Cafe Springhaver after working late, at about 10:30, I came out a little after midnight, and walked to the streetcorner - and right at that place, you're in the spot where on the one hand you can still hear the music wafting out from the pub, one of my favourite tunes in fact (Crystal Frontier by Calexico) - but on the other you can sense almost a wall or blanket of nighttime silence surrounding the place outside, the snow muffling all sounds. Felt like, you know - being on some holidays, and leaving the club or pub sometime in the night to suddenly find yourself in a cold night, with an amazing dark sky filled with stars above. The kind of feeling you remember from some school trip. In this case, the tick-tack of a bicycle somewhere near, but out of sight, and the distant conversation of two guys cycling up from the other side added to the picturesque scene - like some Olde Dutche etching. I folded up my umbrella and started walking down into the snowy street scene, and yes, skipping - noone to see, anyway. Further down near the canal, I twice saw a couple running and sliding down, wheee, that was cute too. Last night it got to -21 degrees celsius in one place up north - the coldest it's been in a March night since 1845, apparently, which was also the only previous time its ever gotten that cold in March here since they started recording temperatures.

we call it happy birthday mrs. hamburger day!

Nice visuals nimh!

I smile a lot at work with the kids, but some moments are more funny than others. Today, there was a Terry Gross interview with John Travolta on npr. They played one of the BeeGee's dance tunes and I started one-hand dancing (while driving). I stopped and noticed that the little nephew (1.5 years old) was trying to imitate the moves. He had one arm zig-zagging around in front of him with a big smile on his face.

What REALLY made me smile today was a graphics sent to me by a friend that shows a guy being chased by a goat to have sex with him when he got caught with his pants down. It was t-o-o-o funny!

that was not a goat C.I. that was a donkey

From one of my good advocacy friends....<still laughing>

Who was watching the animal? LOL

Well then, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mrs. H!!!
Ad multos annos

Yeah, from me too!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS. H.

Happy Birthday To Mrs H. Hamburger!

Now if somebody could just tell me where hamburger and mrs. hamburger are, I'd be a lot happier. Parents.

They decided to take off for Hilton Head a day early - and I really don't know where they are. Parents.

<sigh>

(I'll pass on the messages once I find them )

Happy birthday Mrs H!

(I envy you your very comfortable relationship with your parents, ehBeth!)

something for msOlga (should be clickable) that made me smile when hamburger sent it the other night (he's been scanning pix for me to add to the family album thread here)




we'd just moved into our house (the hamburgers still live there 40 years later) and were posing for a pic to send to family in Germany to show how well we were doing. but we really only had that one piece of furniture in the living room - the lovely radio they brought with them on the boat (which lives with me now)

ehbeth, your pulling on my heart strings, playing me like a violin.

So hamburger is real. Do you call you mom cheeseburger? And if so, would that make you their little chicken nugget?

Cute thoughts for you folks. That made me smile. What a nice family, nice pic.

Aw, Beth, you look just like your mom. What a sweet picture.

link to hamburger at 2 y.o.



(swimp - I actually have hamburger's features, but mrs. hamburger's expressions - when I'm animated, I am ALL mrs. hamburger)

Great pictures! Thanks.
THEY (whoever they are) said today in Virginia was going to be relatively mild with the temp in the low 40's. A chance of a little rain, THEY said.
It started snowing just as I left for work at 7 am and didn't stop until a few minutes ago. A couple of inches of snow.
The mailman dropped off a package the size of a shoebox. Seeds that I had ordered. Packet after packet that I lay out on the floor. Corn and beans and cucumbers and peppers. Herbs and flowers: basil and lavender and daisies and petunias.
Spring is coming and this year I'm going to have the best garden ever.

I say that every year. Some years work and some don't. But hope springs eternal, doesn't it? If the Red Sox can win, then maybe the Cubs can, too, and maybe, just maybe, everything in my garden will grow well also.

I got a phone call from San Fran - my current housemate is out there on bidness and our former housemate (back out in Cali for medical residency) called together. They are going to be spending the afternoon together and they sounded very happy.