What made you smile today?

urs, Here's a short clip on the San Jose Taiko:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v97/imposter222/?action=view&current=MVI_2778.flv

I bought new books. That always makes me smile. I found the graphic novels Darwin's On the Origin of Species and Logicomix: The Search For Truth (about math). I also found an everyday physics book called The Velocity of Honey which I am loving! All while I was trying to find some Christmas gifts....

What made me smile. I did some photoshop pictures of my niece and my sister loved them. so that made me happy.

I just got found by my closest high school friend via a Facebook search!

I have been trying to find her for years!

This is amazing, incredible!

(Now I suppose I'm going to have to learn to do the Facebook thing? Do these internet challenges never end? )

We just spoke on the phone!
She doesn't live very far from where I live!
We're meeting for lunch on Sunday!

Amazing, amazing ...

Yay!!!!!!!!

I can't tell you, Deb ... I'm just knocked over by this!

We used to nick off from sport, in year 12, & read 3 parts apiece of The Crucible in a school hidey hole, instead. (I have to smile, remembering this. )

Then she went off to NIDA & I went my way in Melbourne ... & poof! Totally lost touch after a few years after that! Years & years ...

I'm just chuffed!

#Enjoy your reunion


I love nicking off and reading The Crucible!

Thanks. I'm sure I will.

We were going through our intense idealistic, "religious" phase, I think! As one does.

Oh my yes....one does.

I was a Buddhist by then.

Yes?

Do tell.

When I said "religious" I meant in that heightened state of incredible idealism of late adolescence.

Erm......not sure what to tell.

Logic rejected christianity......

Ditto.

I was just curious about the manifestations, is all.

this did...

http://able2know.org/topic/138861-7#post-3836067

got an early christmas gift from my audio book club, free copy of tim curry reading a christmas carol

I didn't join the Church of Bokonon until I was 28, "Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."

I was eating lunch in a restaurant with some friends who have a little girl who just turned five last Tuesday. Her name is Jess. She's very bright and beautiful and full of questions. There was a lady at the next table who seemed very preoccupied and not in a very good mood and I noticed Jess observing her closely. When the woman finished her meal, she quickly got up from her chair, paid the bill and walked out the door slamming it on her way out.

Jess asked her mother in her very loud voice, 'Mum, why did that lady slam the door?'
Her mother said, 'I don't think she did it on purpose Jess. I think she must be in a hurry.'
To which Jess replied, loud enough for everyone in the room to hear,'Yes, I think probably she has to wee (pee).'

Funnygut, eh?





You made me google!

A glass of champagne at a ridiculous time: 11:30 am, at my hairdresser's (lead-up to the festive season & all that ...) . Initially I knocked back the offer (today being a busy day for me & the hour) but but she suggested 1/2 a glass, instead .... OK, alright! I got a full glass, anyway. It put a whole different perspective on my morning!

I wonder if her 9:30 am clients get the same offer, too?

A Christmas letter from a relative -- in the middle of her grandchildren's gradeschool achievements and such, she mentions that one of her daughters has a new job -- a position in the Obama administration (not cabinet but not far). I know she's proud and doesn't want to seem braggy (and she approves of Obama, she's been a Republican most of her life but actively campaigned for him well before it looked like her daughter would get anything), just made me smile that it was so tossed-off.