Good Stuff.

[mrissa]

buymeaclue wanted a good things post, and I firmly believe in indulging buymeaclue just now. (And other times, too.) Also it's good to think about stuff other than being tired. So, good things today:

1) We will have new living room chairs soon. Chocolate-brown leather rocker-recliners. The new red couch is not due in until early February, but the chairs are on sale (markgritter still has to go test one out today to be sure it's the right incarnation of chocolate-brown leather recliner), and the current chairs...well. They have not been stellar for quite some time, being hand-me-down grad student furniture. But they hit a critical point furniture hits, where it gets worse quickly and soon becomes entirely unusable. And we can afford new chairs, so.

2) Bookses. So far I am enjoying buymeaclue's recommendation of lo these many moons ago, Kelley Eskridge's Solitaire. Also I have several other books on my pile from Christmas.

3) Bookses, take two. I have gotten some work done this morning, and it went pretty well.

4) Breakfast. I like breakfast. I usually have a flour tortilla smeared with Nutella, and that's always nice. Sometimes I have oatmeal or a muffin or toast or a scone or Grape Nuts or blueberry cereal or something else instead. All those things are nice, too. Mmmmm, breakfast.

5) Lunch date. markgritter and I are going out for lunch as soon as we are both clean and decent.

6) Andrew. One of my old friends is stopping through tomorrow afternoon for a bit. He will have his fiancee with him, and I like and approve of her.

Hmm. That's a tomorrow-ish good thing. So yesterday counts, too:
7) German food with timprov and markgritter and dd_b and lydy. With really good pear cider, called perry cider, which I had to have explained to me.

8) Trivia. Did you know that when Marian Anderson played on the Mall, her accompanist was Finnish? True story. I like little fact-nuggets like that. I like the rattling things they do in my brain, and how they pick up other bits and stick together. Writers are Rube Goldberg machines, I think, but sometimes kicking a gong with a boot on a stick is the only way to get an ice cube in your drink.

9) Sheets. Nice, soft, clean sheets. Staying up all night made me extremely appreciative of sheets.

10) Ice cream. Sometime today I get ice cream. It might be caramel ice cream made with liquid nitrogen and topped with hot fudge. It might be vanilla ice cream with cloudberries and Ghirardelli chips. It might be boysenberry sorbet. I don't know yet, and I don't have to know, because there will be ice cream, and ice cream is good.

This is not as easy for me as it is some days, so do feel free to add your own.

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

1. The apricot and orange clouds at sunrise when the rest of the sky is palest grey and the wind is still.

2. My youngest cat grooming one of my eyebrows because she's apparently concerned about my personal hygiene.

3. Getting my opened bills back in the mail today after I stupidly posted them on Wednesday, not realizing they were in with the bills-ready-to-go.

4. Fresh, hot, black coffee and all the morning to drink it in.

5. Planning a secret surprise gift for my friend's fiftieth birthday.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have some surprises to think of myself, actually, though I think the birthdays in question are 52 and 78. I may be a year off on the first one, but I'm absolutely sure of the second: my grandpa is fifty and a half years older than I am.

I'm also amused that the gmail ads on my notification of this comment were for chairs, lunch menus, and hockey stuff. Uhh...hockey stuff? On the happy stuff theme?

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Hee. Hockey is LOFF!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

For true.

I was saying to cristalia that it looks like a lot of SF writers 50 years ago were male baseball fans, and now a startling percentage of the ones I know are female hockey fans. It amuses me.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Buying a fuzzy mouse toy for your kitten that cost all of $1.79 and watching her fling it all over the room in total and utter glee.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I miss the bop.

I'm glad I don't have to recover and take care of her this week. But I do miss her.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Heeeee. Thank you! ::loffs the Mris::

I don't remember recommending Solitaire, but I recommend it to everyone, so I'm not actually surprised. Glad you've liked it so far as of this post and hope you continue to like it. I should read that one again. ::loffs the Solitaire::

Hmm, good things.

1. My dad was here this weekend. We ate food and dogwalked and went to the library and got me a replacement phone and got me a new bookshelf and I got hugs.

2. I have a replacement phone. The old one was very very old, and the new one is shiny and text-messages. Fear me!

3. I have new and improved bookshelves, and all my books are now in the living room. This, ala my 15 things about books meme, makes me very pleased.

4. My Bulls have won two in a row! I do not understand my Bulls this season, but not understanding why they win is much nicer than not understanding why they lose.

5. I had happy happy lunch with a new friend today and we talked about books. Boooooooooks.

6. Did I mention the new and improved bookshelves?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We, too, have an additional bookshelf available today: markgritter exchanged the broken one we bought for an un-broken one. It's not assembled yet, though.