What made you smile today?

A friend of a friend moved nearby and we have been corresponding via email, talking about getting together in a general way, but we haven't yet met. Today I went out for lunch and I saw someone who looked interesting, and for some reason idly wondered if that was her. So I was surprised to come home and find an email from her. I wrote back saying I was just thinking about you, I thought I saw you at _____ restaurant today, ha ha, and she wrote back right away saying I was at _______ restaurant today!!!

So now I have hope that if I happen to pass one of y'all in an airport, I'll be able to ID you.

Coming home to new kitty, Lacey, and having her run full-steam ahead to my room so she could plop on the bed and allow me to pet her.....

Its Friday, thats smile worthy of the greatest amount, at least this week it seems so much more so for me ..ahhhhh
and heck..now its half over..whew!

A job interview tomorrow!

Good luck, Larry!

Indeed - good luck!

Here is an example of how easy it is to make me smile!

I am smiling because I have: done the washing, swept the balcony, foiled the cats' latest attempts to start toileting in the potplants out there, vacuumed, done the furniture rearrangements I have been planning for the last couple of months - and they work - made more space in the study, cleaned the kitchen, talked to a friend for a long time, read more of "Middlesex" for the A2k book group and am generally all shipshape and arranged for the week.

Only, now it is Monday....

dlowan...never would have guessed you have potplants on your balcony...interesting

yes, easy smiles are a wonderful thing

Thanks - it went well.

Finding this website:

http://www.charthouse.com/product_film_fp.asp

Of course, I had to laugh when my company "rolled out" this "new" program I've been using (without giving it a name) for years.

Uh...... I...... Hmmm....

Getting my computer up and running again after ten days "down". Apart from my morning coffee it is the only addiction I have ever had but I come close to depression without it

Oh Eve, I know EXACTLY what you were going through. I have had that happen to me, and it's a bummer. Who would ever think that we could become so emotionally involved with a machine? Congrats on your computer's revival!

i went out today in a bit of a confused mood. ended up buying things. an egg-whisker, wonder when i'll need that. some new knives, which got me a kiss from anastasia, which made me smile. a muffin tin. and a cake rack (undeterred by my absolute failure at making a lemon-almond-ricotta cake last week).

considering that previous fiasco, i also bought can't-fail brownie mix. american import, in an american import-store i'd often passed by but never been inside before. they had dozens of kinds of cereal, too, and i immediately remembered how anastasia used to lament about not being able to find her cereals here. apple jacks sounded familiar: i was sure that was one of the ones she'd mentioned repeatedly! so i bought 'em - at a 7 bucks special import price, as it turned out ... but hell, it got me another kiss, so i'm all-right ;-)

two very dark kids sitting in the hallway of the building across from our balcony, probably stoned outa their heads, singing along to the walkman they share - which is probably why they're singing so terribly out of key, in these really highly pitched voices - "you - and I ..." - and the sound from the balcony of anastasia giggling about them.

(it's getting summer again

Now a guy comes along, walking his dog, and asks them to sing that bit again, and they do, while he stands there.

(Anastasia later says he's a children's book writer, got a lot of stories on the web. She knows this kind of thing about people in the neighbourhood. Well, she met him in the coffeeshop

nimh's smile posts always make me smile.

Not really a smile. . .more like a great big belly laugh at the spam in my mailbox when I got home tonight:

Terrydoolittle Grow your penis safely and naturally

I've been accused of having brass ones, but never the whole package! LMAO

Watching a big ole crane at work. What is it about cranes that make you stop, watch and smile!

A woman I've had on a crush on for years said I looked "dapper" today as we entered the building this morning. Nothing can go wrong now for the rest of the day, I know it!