Things that made me happy today:
- Upon arriving at where I park for work, there was one last parking spot that was guaranteed not to get a parking ticket. Score! Someone pulls into the lot ahead of me. Bummer. The spot was the very last one on the right. The spots on the left side of the parking lot are OK, but due to the genius that is the Park Police, are limited time spots, thus, open to sporadic ticketing. The very last two spots in the lot are permit parking only. I was going for the third to last spot. So I followed in front of me dude praying to the parking gods that he went for one of the many many spots on the left. But no. He goes ALL THE WAY to the end of the lot and stops right in front of my cherished ticket-free parking spot. And I could hear the thought process in his head: “Is this a permit only spot or one that is ok? Should I risk parking here and getting a big ticket since I don’t have a permit? Or should I just go back around the front and take one of those? WHAT DO I DO???” Well bless my stars because he went around to the front! I pulled into that puppy lickety split. Rock on!
- Someone who I adore and hadn’t seen in two months came back to work today. We spent most of the day catching up and not really getting all that much work done.
- Beef chili over rice for lunch. None of this veggie chili crap. Boo-yah!
- On the way to pick up Boy from school, I enjoyed a refreshing Coke Slurpee. While stopped at a traffic light, I looked over at the car next to me. In it was a father wearing a bright yellow t-shirt, who was turned around towards his two kids in the back seat, and singing, bopping, and laughing along with them. He had a huge infectious smile on his face. As he turned back around, he saw me looking at them. He had a look of momentary “uh-oh” but then when he saw my smile, he smiled back. It’s always fun seeing people having fun with their kids.
- My kid shared with me all about his new superhero alter-ego. It involves a jet pack, scuba gear, and a monster truck.
- Pizza night and Thursday night TV (Survivor, CSI, The Office, 30 Rock) with the husband.
- Getting my new blog setup with husband help and figuring out how to change some of the coding all by myself - and it worked.