What made you smile today?

Jjorge, it's so nice to see something positive written about stepchildren, and so refreshing!

Thank you for the lovely poem too, it made me smile!

Had a little out of body moment, looking down at myself standing in the kitchen ironing a little frilly pink party frock. (Sozlet went to a birthday party today.) Not something I ever really thought I would be doing, and made me smile.

were you wearing a red scarf on your head? <giggles>

this quote from henry miller (and the fact that it made me think of this thread and habibi) made me smile:

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

That Leprechaun Gautam has me smiling already!

Misti,

My Step-Daughter's a peach!





PS So are you!

Oh, nice quote, Stasia!

Yes, I had a red scarf, also a starched pinafore, apron, and little red pumps that hurt my toes. Ouch.

The following dialogue made me smile last night:

Sozlet: I fell in the toilet!

E.G.: You did...?!

s: Yes, and Mama flushed me, because I was a poop! (Insane giggles)

E.G: (Laughs) What kind of a joke is that?

s: A POOP joke! (More insane giggles.)

*Ditto Soz! That IS a nice quote Stasia.


PS aren't kids wonderful!!








*Notice: Limbaugh and his Limbaugh lemmings don't have a copyright on 'ditto'.

I just received a phone call from my son living in Europe that his wife gave birth to our first granddaughter this AM. Not only am I smiling I am grinning from ear to ear.
AU.

Congratulations, au. That is very smile-worthy.


One of my little dogs made me smile late last evening. She amuses herself when Bailey and I aren't keeping up with her demands. Her newest little game is to take a tiny kibble, shove it under a rug, and then play hide and seek with it. After stashing the kibble under the rug, she moves away a bit, then rushes the rug, growls, lifts the rug, and apparently discovering the kibble hiding there (surprise!!!!) she leaps back and then rushes forward again to attempt the kibble from running away. Watching her hide the evil kibble and then track it down is grin-inducing, even when every muscle aches from gardening.


Congrats again, au!

LOL over sozlet anecdote

Congratulations, au!

anastasia - yes! <nods> indeedy.

lately, i find, that i open this thread too late ... like, i sit down in the evening for some reading at the computer ... and i save reading this thread for the last, cause it will make me smile before i go to bed, and i dont wanna go to bed with some politics thread in my head <nods>. BUT - now i do it the other way round, and go to the politics threads first - and that means, that by the time i get here, i've forgotten what it was that made me smile today!

like, a day or two ago, we were simply bicycling to the ice cream place - tha waz all. but i smiled a coupla times on our (short) way there ... little things. i forgot which ones though! there were a group of black kids standing around a bench, there where the canal goes in two directions, and they had a ghettoblaster out, music flooding, and they're all bouncing and talking and hanging out and smiling back at us - that was one. but what was the other?

today was a really relaxed day ... made me smile just kinda in general. nothing particular. the heat. heat = good. and having a little money to spend again today - this weekend was hard! getting different kind of bread, rolls, cookies even, for late breakfast - and, yeh, anastasia making the breakfast table. it looked homely. 's good to have a day off. ;-)

ehBeth, nimh
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Not only was I smiling, but almost fell off the chair after reading that Stephen King has a new issue of the 'Tower' series due out in November.....that is SO far away.....

Congratulations, au! A new baby in the family!

Yay au!

Congrats Au!

nimh made me smile twice today......First with some words of encouragement, then by describing the breakfast table as "homely" instead of "homey." Yeah, so I LMAO at that one....sorry nimh!

uh oh, whatdido?

<goes for dictionary>

oy. err, sorry anastasia, thats not what i meant! <grins>

y'all, making fun of the non-native speakers ... <grumbles> ... <grins>

Thank you one and all
AU

congrats and huzzah! to au!

he'll soon make his grandaughter coo,

he'll burp her and hold her,

and watch her grow older...

My kids better make ME one too!!

friend called up and said, "Let's go golfing at 4 !"

butterfly in main street

OK that made me smile.

Just around the corner from here is the canal - big one, its the canal around the old city, where the gates to town used to be. I was passing down there on my way to the neighbourhood grocer, down past where you have this "football cage". This is where theres always a group of Moroccan and black kids kicking a ball. They're like, 20 or so.

This time the whole group o' them had rushed to the canal side, gesturing, spreading out. Just when I was approaching, a canal boat came past, and they're all yelling at it, "Welcome to Holland! The weed here is good!", and I hear one guy gesticulating at another, "the boat'll do it, the waves!". Oh, duh - it's their ball - its in the middle of the canal and that water aint for swimming. Except the waves didnt do ****, it just kept bobbing up & down out there.

By the time I'd turned the corner and turned around, they'd discovered one rowing boat that wasnt all locked up, and were busy boarding it, like pirates. No paddles, but hey, someone quickly found this meter-long bit of driftwood. One of 'em on there, the other jumps on just in time, and off they go, like its some boys' book. One "rowing" with the driftwood, the other discovered a lifesaver, and after putting it around his neck first, he decided to use that for rowing. They made torturously slow wobbly progress.

When I crossed the bridge they'd finally made it to near the ball, lassoing for it with the lifesaver. When I got back from shopping at the Turkish grocer's (love it - so cheap - its like you're a kid in a toy shop, you can just fill your bags and it wont ever seem to count up!), they were kicking ball again.

Funny thing is - nobody even noticed! I was the only one looking. Meanwhile - its so bloody hot - the guys at the students house the other way around have hauled out their couch again, as well as a inflatable baby-swimmingpool. They're hanging out, beer in hand, feet in the water ...