Much better.

[mrissa]

I got a nap in this morning already and am doing much better. Seems like time for a list of good things, starting with:

--The dog no longer feels the need to dance on my head every time I lie down. So I can take a nap with my dog. This is cozy.

--The Thai place near us finally became willing to serve markgritter and me dinner again. I think this was the third or fourth time we'd tried them recently, and they'd been closed all the other times. So I have black bean beef leftovers in the fridge, lo, abundantly.

--While I don't usually observe birthdays, I'm listing good things today, and I will note that it's awfully convenient that seagrit did happen to get born, because otherwise I wouldn't have a sister-in-law, and that's the closest thing either of us got to having a sister. Only we just get the fun bits and not the memories of how the other person always got the front seat and popped our balloon that one time.

--I have new pens for marking on manuscripts and index cards. They are not as schmancy and long-term-lovable as my fountain pen, but they are darker colors than my last set, and they're new and shiny, green and red and purple.

--The rest of the forecast for the week here has highs beginning with the number 5, which is a perfectly respectable number for an October high to begin with, even if it does mean the likelihood of picnics for me just now is rather small.

--Cool showers. I have become more fond of hot showers than I was as a kid/teenager, but I still like cool showers best when the weather permits them.

--And: L'shanah tovah and Ramadan mubarak, folks. I really love living in a city where the article about the coincidence of holidays has a picture of Jewish and Muslim girls standing around talking and laughing.

What's your good stuff for the day?

Comments

[fiddledragon]

good stuff for the day is working for a company that has been wonderful helping me deal with less than ideal circumstances :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And I'm more glad for you than I can say, on that count. And glad you're staying safe and taking care of what needs doing.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I found a big bug in an automated report we're developing.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Was it shiny, that kind of green beetle shiny kind?

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

My Rhy is coming over to spend the afternoon, and she's bringing burritos.

It's 64 degrees outside, and I'm going to go out and spread some mulch soon.

I did my stretches and I'm seeing small amounts of progress.

I have hair! Not enough to opaquely cover my scalp yet, but enough to be all plushy.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Are people petting your head?

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Not just random people, but J and Rhy and my folks and K sure do.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That's the best: you might have to harm random people if they tried it.

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

I've discovered a new supermarket (well, it's not new but I hadn't been there before), part of a German chain, that's exactly like a supermarket in Germany, down to the dairy products (yummy yogurt!) and energy bars. Cheap and non-nasty wine, too.

N came home from school with a 9 (out of 10) for a math test.

And I'm writing again! Haltingly, probingly, but it's wordage.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Tonight I'm making pizza with sauce made from someone's gift tomatos.

An interesting-looking mystery involving wild orchids arrived on hold for me today.

My boss approved (with some stipulations) that the staff could wear costumes for Halloween and have a potluck to boot!

I recieved dry oatmeal raison cookie dough which will wait without spoiling until I am in the mood to bake it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I hope your tomatoes were still good enough to make sauce with!

What are you wearing for Halloween?

halloween costume

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Well, I have to be 'a happy storybook character' but at least I'll have a nametag so there'll be no guessing mishaps. I'll probably just wear my Ren garb & pick someone to be.

If she'd allowed literary characters I was going to wear all-tan and be a Brave New World Gamma.

Re: halloween costume

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's fun to be a Gamma. I'm glad I don't have to work so hard as the Betas. And ooh, I'm glad I'm not a Delta.

Re: halloween costume

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Wait. There are happy storybook characters?

Where?

tomatoes

[greykev.livejournal.com]

They were delicious! I made the sauce and heat-sealed the jar as soon as I got home. I'm still trying to figure out the correct proportions of spices though. The fennel seed was a step in the right direction, but it still tasted suspiciously like spagetti sauce. Less oregano perhaps.

Re: tomatoes

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We get some tomato fennel soups from Byerly's sometimes, and I like fennel that way. It does not, however, belong in my limpe, under any circumstances whatsoever. Orange zest sometimes, fennel never, anise is right out.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

The sky is the most incredible blue and the air is pleasantly warm, without being too hot or sticky.

Morgan has been my shadow all day, following me around and throwing herself down at my feet. Kittens have the softest fur ever.

Even thought the air feels like summer, the birds think it's fall. The red tail hawks have been circling and calling over the river all day long.

I had potato cheese soup and warm bread for dinner a few minutes ago.

[ellarien]

What's your good stuff for the day?

Butterflies! Big yellow-and-black ones, and smaller ones prettily patterned in brown and orange and white.

A breath of almost-coolness in the air, and the prospect of high temperatures in the high 80's next week.

The season 8 Stargate SG1 DVDs are out.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If we had temperatures in the high 80s next week, I would not consider it a good thing, but I'm glad you're happy.

It's raining fit to beat the band here, and that makes me happy.

[ellarien]

It's relatively a good thing, at least -- as far as I know, it hasn't been that cool here since May. Enjoy your rain!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Reasons I Don't Live There, #475. Uff da!

[(Anonymous)]

I got an e-mail from the prison librarian that said among other things: "All the books you donated last time are loaned out to the readers."

I must confess that when I give books to a public library I sometimes feel sad when I during later visits see my book on the shelf, just as no-being-read as it would have been on my own bookshelf. Or, even more ridiculous, I check the online book catalog to see if my books are loaned out or not.

Aet

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's lovely to have them appreciated, to be sure!