What made you smile today?

1) Listening to Calypso music, last night, reading up about it a bit, today still singing in my head

2) Spending a lazy afternoon + evening on Sunday with Susannah, just chatting in a kavezo and going to a movie.. relaxed, comfortable, just right.

3) Getting my dublab.com package! Two, even. I had donated to their "proton drive" in November, its my alltime favourite eclectic radio station, and anyone who donated got a package. Except I never got mine <sniff>, so I emailed them about it week before last, and got a very nice email back from one of the guys, saying they'd send another one. Today, my colleague brought both of 'em to my desk, arrived on the same day. We unpacked 'em and there were CDs, t-shirts, a mag and booklets, stickers, a button it was like Santa Clause!

4) Reading on the NYT website (yes, the communication in our organisation could be improved) that one of the main projects we were gonna set up this year, which had been suspended pending reviewed approval, will go ahead after all. This is good news not just because it's an interesting and important project, but also because, well, if it's still going to be set up roughly in the way previously envisaged, it'd mean our jobs are guaranteed up through 2008! Still crossing my fingers..

seeing that markr kept my car the color I like it.

The Third Annual Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet. During the Super Bowl, Animal Planet has several hours of unscripted programming. An arena is set up to look like a football stadium. Puppies are let loose in it. All that's in there are toys, water bowls, and puppies. Couldn't help but smile.

At half time, they change to the Kitty Half Time show. Clear out the arena of puppies and a cat "gym" is set up with lots of cat toys. This kitten part made me laugh out loud.

The puppy dynamic and the kitten dynamic is actually what made me laugh. Puppies playing with each other, romping around. Occasionally playing with a toy. Kittens playing with toys and snarling and hissing at other kittens who try to get close. No interaction at all.

Puppies and kittens--definitely smile-worthy.

What made me smile today was someone who is very special to me telling me he missed me while I was gone.

Seeing more photos of my 2 week old nephew (whom I haven't met in person). One of the photos was of him under the blanket I knit for him.

The Grammy Awards.
Hubby and I watched it, from start to finish without turning away in disgust, for the first time in several years.
Kicking it off with The Police doing Roxanne was choice.

here's one that in its original form made me Grit and Grimace --


we've had a slow shower drain for a few weeks now, so saturday i plunged the hell out of it and removed a shite load of hair n' junk.

so i'm thinking we're in the clear for the next 3 months or so...

this morning i'm in the shower, and i notice the water's not draining.

"WTF!!??" i exclaim.

so i grab the plunger, and give it what-fer for about five minutes.

nothing.

water just sitting there, mocking me.

so i'm starting to work a contingency plan: calling a plumber to snake the gawd-foresaken thing.

i continue showering, and after awhile i look down -- no water.

something in there finally decided to let go (perhaps grudgingly), and the water drained as i had expected it to...

timberlandko made me smile today.

signing on to a2k for the first time in nearly a year and finding some familiar "faces."

Seeing TerryDoneIntroducedMeToTotallyAddictiveLemonHeads here

Beth made me smile.

we only received about 10-15 cm of snow instead of the "promised" 30 cm !

the snowplow still managed to push plenty of snow into our driveway entrance
hbg

The side street my place is on the corner of allows parking only on one side during the winter months.

This couple across the street has a driveway for 1 car, and they have 2 cars. They pretty much "reserved" a spot for themselves right in front of my place, by replacing the car on the street with the one in the driveway if the car on the street has to go somewhere. It's annoying.

So last night when I was shoveling the sidewalk, I shoveled a huge pile of show up the rear bumper and against one side of the car on the street. Today that all turned to ice. The guy was out there for a long time trying to shovel it out, but that car still isn't going anywhere. Good times.

OCCOM BILL made me smile because he called me darlin

I can have two in one day I think.
Someone on this forum called me darling too and that made my smile. I just don't know if he wants me to say his name so I won't.

WOW 2 in a day. I have a big smile now. I just love words like that. I am not used to them so oh nevermind if I continue I just might want to nevermind that one too. I am sure anyone could figure it out.

I just noticed today that I have the www box at the bottom of my box. I have to give credit for what is in that to Ticomaya and Timberlandko (I hoped I spelled that right). It actually belongs to them and I am borrowing it. That made me smile. Not only the www but what is in it and the two up there ^ that I mentioned earlier in this post because I think they are both nice.
What is in it made me smile not for the contents but for the way it was put together and someone cared enough to do all that in memory of so many others. The situation is sad. What was composed is what I am happy about.

Slappy's sweet revenge, so well deserved......

TTH--sometimes just a word of kindness works wonders, doesn't it?

Actually, that presentation "belongs" to a long-time cyber-acquaintance of mine, it's creator POW/MIA activist Steve Golding. Steve is a New Yorker personally - and deeply - impacted by the WTC attack. Steve's presentation has been part of my A2K profile from the day I got here, and has been linked either in my signature or my profile across many forums, boards, and groups since November of '01. Ticomaya adopted it from me - acknowledging same (but I'm too lazy to chase down the link) a few months back - and I'm more than happy to be able to play some small part in bringing the presentation to the attention of others. I think its important.

I'm thinking timberland is a friend of mine but i could be wrong, I'm a liberal.

I think it is very important too so I thank you for letting me use it.
I will never forget. I make it a rule not to use stickers or pictures of any kind on my cars but, I made the one exception over the approval of my spouse. That is the side by side picture of IWO JIMA (2-23-1945) and the firefighters holding the US flag (9-11-2001) and the saying "we will never forget" on the rear of the car I race. That way every time I drive it (it is street legal) whoever is behind me has to see it.
I want it to always be remembered. I cried that day when I saw it happen on TV. I was in disbelief. It still impacts me in that they sent police officers and firefighters that I know from the area I live to NY to help in the recovery. So, thank you and your friend very much. He did a beautiful job in creating it.