What made you smile today?

This happened Monday night, but I'm still smiling from it.

I called my Dad to see how he was feeling. He got his flu shot in September, but managed to get the flu anyway. Had a nice chat with him and said good-bye.

Not five minutes later my phone rings and I hear my sister say 'hold on' and then I hear my niece ~ 'Auntie Rae Rae, you cannot call dis house widout talking to me' ~ very indignant and I could picture her stomping her wittle foot on the ground.

So, we talked about kid stuff and then Grampy. I asked her for a huge favor 'could you get a BIIIIIIG glass, fill it with water and ice and take it to Grampy?'. (He's not drinking enough fluids.) My niece says 'sure, sure, sure I can do dat'.

Such a cute kid.

OH YEAH! CONGRATULATIONS UNCLE GUATAM!!!!!!

ahhhhhh! It's nice to see Rae smiling. Hmmm. Wonder if Uncle Gautam is a giving uncle. I would expect so.

Miss Letty,

Smiling gets a little easier to do every day. Especially with a cute, blonde, three and a half year old actually wanting to talk with me now!

Congrats Gautam :-)

Rae
It's always beautiful to see you smiling ;-)

Careful ladies! I go from smiling to sobbing very quickly these days!

Thank you both though.

Today I went to a Memorial Service, a beautiful service it was.

It didn't make me smile, but I did do some crying, not for the deceased, because I didn't know her that well, just for the whole life 'n death thing that we all face someday.

I smiled because of all the lives this lovely lady touched, and I will remember her for that.

grumpy grumpy grumpy.

Ok, I had a few smiles at the developing relationship between Eliza and the new nanny who'll be taking care of her starting tomorrow.

Pachelbel.

the canon?

of course

as c.i. says I didn't find me name in the obits this morning nor did i find a toe tag...thats good for a smile any day..

This?

I laughed, so sorry, when I read BigDice's post that read "I freak out!" It reminded me of mispeaks by friends who don't speak english as a first language. And then that made me miss my former housemate Dagmaraka and my current housemate Francesca.

Grumpy grumpy grumpy.

Yeah! Where's Dag? Hasn't been around lately?

Damn, it has gotten cold in Virginia. Damn cold. Maybe 15 degrees in the early morning. I left my house, heading east on Rio Road (a long -i- on the pronunciation of Rio for a strange reason. BTW).

There was an incredibly beautiful sunrise over the little mountain range to the east. The sun was still down at 7am but the clouds over that area were almost blood red. I pulled into the parking lot at Hardee's to watch for a minute.
I heard the announcer on my local NPR station suggest that, if we could do so safely, we should stop and look at the huge "paper moon" that was setting in the west right then.
I didn't see that today. But I did see it yesterday.
Probably not tomorrow. It's starting to snow. And it sure is cold. -rjb-

Dag's back in Europe, before that she was super busy. Hopefully she'll be popping in soon.

It really felt like a spring day today with clear skys and sunshine. Felt good!

That's it! I'm going to Virginia to warm up!


INVENTORY IS FINALLY OVER!!!!!!!!!!! (for me, at least)

Yay TerryDoo!