What made you smile today?

so hearing about our love brooke will make you smile then huh?

Oh yesssssss!

Wherever the "seed" of love is planted ..... there is a smile.

Talking to the the Bear family.

Amigo and msolga, yes it was good news. For me at least. I have had the same doctor for 24 years. I was one of his first patients when he set up his practice. I haven't talked to him since I moved from California, although I do talk to his office staff every two weeks. He just called to see how I was doing. Wanting to make sure I was still in one piece, I suppose! To have such great rapport, trust and friendship with my doctor means the world to me. Although I do have to find a doc in Oklahoma City eventually....

Amigo, I'm glad I could help to make you smile. Any day that the sun comes up and we can also get up IS a great day, isn't it? Believe in the blessings of small miracles....one day at a time.

Awwww, Husker. Even with everything you are going through, you still know how to share the smiles. Doghouse or not, you're the bomb.

Crossed the big Andrassy Boulevard by the (red) traffic light when I saw no traffic coming ... halfway across a van was coming from the right, so I had to slow down to let it pass. It was a police van. The cop inside was laughing and literally, demonstratively wagging his finger at me as they passed by.

Lots of laughter at Buttercup and Austin's new apartment yesterday.

BoGoWo is always giggle-inducing.

Seeing cavfancier's parents again was nice, in a light glad-to-see you way.

Spending some time talking to the cavUncle was interesting. cavfancier certainly came by his sly, subversive sense of humour honestly. Thinking about cavfancier's humour is making me smile again today.

The last time I smiled was about 5 weeks ago. Since then I really have had no reason to smile, especially not today. I feel like I have been hit with a lot of bad luck lately.

Aww, pragmatic. I'm sorry to hear that....hope you feel better soon. Maybe this will help...

I saw a guy out jogging with his dog. He was into a good run, you know, the kind where you hate to stop -- coz' then you'll get all winded?

But then, his dog suddenly stops, goes into a crouch position and takes a poop! So the guy had to come to a dead stop too.

O.K., it's not that hilarious...but it made me smile!

i found out yesterday that my sister is having her first child. that means im going to be an UNCLE!!!!! yay i cant wait...

Congratulations, Uncle Seed! That's very, very cool. I am happy for you and also very happy for your sister.

What made me smile today was talking to my son and his dad (my former husband) They had spent two hours talking to a recruiter this morning and after my son took the short preliminary placement test, the recruiter told him he could basically write his own ticket and do anything he wanted to do because he had scored so high on the test. My son could join as a Warrant Officer, which he really wants to do. I am very proud of him and very, very excited about hearing his final decision!

Lady J (Let me preface this by full disclosure: johnboy is a combat vet from VN. Very much pro-soldier. johnboy is vehemently against our involvement in Iraq. We'll leave the whys about that for discussion on the many other threads).
I would strongly urge your son and his parents to be very cautious about what the recruiter is promising. A "short test" gets your son to "write his own ticket?" Watch that recruiter and get everything down in meticulous notes and get everything in writing.
A warrant officer? When johnboy was with the 101st Airborne, those were the pilots of the helicoptors in the Army in VN, many of whom were younger than I was. An amazing group of people.
My best wishes to your son. I hope he gets to do what he wants to do. rjb

Lday J please listen to johnboy as a soldier myself recruiters really do lie and make things sound better then they really are. please be very careful.

Okay, trying to put a smiley face back on this thread, but it still may have a way to go:
Andy, one of my employees, is the singer in what used to be called a Goth band, They have, over the years evolved into something else. I am not sure what category they put themselves into now. They are pretty successful, with a couple of tours to Europe and many gigs in the US. Five guys in the band.
Their manager is a fine lady named Gwen. She books the shows and handles the finances. A very smart person. She is married to Shawn. He is an HIV/AIDS victim due to a blood transfusion when he was a child.
Gwen and Shawn go to a lot of schools to talk about AIDS.
A BBC (British Broadcasting) documentary filmmaker based in the US made contact with Shawn, Gwen and the band (Bella Morte) this past weekend about a project he has in mind. Interesting.
Okay, let's get back to happy stories about vignettes in your lives.

realjohnboy and seed,

Thank you both very much. Your input, as a former soldier and a current soldier mean a lot to me.

I know this decision is one that my son, Chris, does not enter into lightly and he is not easily taken with false promises and fast talking. In fact he has been researching this option for over 4 years. We have one family friend who is currently a General in the Army and another family friend who is career military and currently serving his time as a recruiter, but in a different state. His uncle and his cousin both served in the Marine Corps, one in Force Recon and the other in Special Ops. He has had a lot of input, both for the positive and for the negative from each of these people on a very regular basis.

At the age of ten he was invited by the John Hopkins University to become a member of their society for gifted youth, which he did. When he took his admissions test to college several years ago at the age of 17, the college called me to tell me that he had scored the second highest score of any applicant taking the admissions test to date. He is also a member of Mensa.

He has his degree in Computer Sciences, but that hasn't been enough for him. Now at 25, and like I said, after 4 years of research, he has pretty much made up his mind where he wants to go career wise and find a niche that will satisfy him mentally and intellectually. Provided he meets the requirements, he definitely wants to go in as a Warrant Officer and he is looking for a career rather than just a few years of service.

I remember one time a couple of years ago, he met a recruiter someplace....at the mall or something and this recruiter was the type I think you are speaking of. Full of big promises and constantly hounding Chris to just sign and we'll see what you qualify for kind of thing. To Chris though it has always been, let's see what I qualify for first, get that in writing and then I'll decide if I want to sign. The recruiter eventually stopped calling.

Lucky for me (and for him), Chris is NOT impulsive or easily wooed. His decisions are very thoughtful and very concise. I have every bit of confidence in him that he will make his decision completely based on what he knows will be in his best interest.

Keep a good thought out for him though, would ya?

So nimh was walking down the street today and...

(we are back to the the orignal mood)

... and nothing. Sorry.

Yesterday tho this kid stopped me and asked me something in Hungarian (he was, like, nine or something.) I didnt understand so I asked, primitively, "mit akarsz tudni?", "what do you want to know?" He said, "there's that something something" <pointing to the shopwindow of the closed toy/gadgetshop we were standing by> "down at our corner they have it too something something would like to buy it something something up too high something what is the price?"

OK, got it. Package with plastic shield and sword was indeed high up in the narrow shop window, and the pricetag was minute - even I had to stand on my toes to read it. "Seven hundred and ninety nine", I told him, and off he went with a thank you, bouncing home.

I got an invitation to get dressed up and go out on a "fancy" type of date tonight. Dinner and drinks at a very nice restaurant. I don't know which one, but I love getting dressed up as much as I love living in my levi's.

Water's down again now. I never got to show how beautiful this was to anyone.

(I'm down too.)

At least the girl here is as cute as ever - and she lets me tell her so (and smiles).

"what made me smile".Laghing at my own joke on A2K.I'm an idiot