Accentuate

[mrissa]

In a locked post, someone on my friendslist has asked for positive/cheering/entertaining things. So I'm skipping the cranky rant for the moment, and here you go, ten good things:

1) The guy who fixed my shoulder did a really good job. It's still sore, but you'd expect that under the circumstances. Full range of motion has returned, with very little popping and no nausea. Yay. Also, he sounded like alecaustin, which was really relaxing. I think the rest of my friends should donate voice templates or other similar traits to body-related personnel. (matociquala is exempt as she has apparently already donated everything but her scent to my main doctor.) The massage therapist only sounded like Alec -- he looked a bit like a fairer-haired version of Legs/Walla, one of my lablings from when I had lablings, and he smelled like Dayton's Eighth Floor Auditorium. But that was okay.

2) I finally finished wrapping the stuff for the wee Amber Lynn (my NIECE, in case you weren't paying attention). She gets a HAT. Well, two, but one of them was sold separately. Hat! I mean.

3) I also have a new spring hat. I might wear it when we go for Amber's christening. Then we would be adorable in our hats, me and my NIECE.

4) I have something good to read (but I can't say what), and when it's over, I have library books. I like a stack of library books as yet unstarted. It's such a hopeful thing.

5) Minicon is coming up, and I get to see some people and meet other people in person for the first time, and I expect I will be able to almost totally avoid the Guest of Honor, and I haven't started freaking out about the number of people involved yet. (If I repeat that I haven't started yet enough times, maybe I never will start.) (...Nah. I have a pre-con freakout before every con.)

6) We have been invited to three weddings, one for a family member and two for friends who are marrying people who are already becoming our friends themselves. Also I don't have to fuss about what to wear, just about fixing that tiny thing on the purple dress, and my mom will live here soon, so I can use her thread-owning prowess for that. (My mom has every color of thread. Seriously. All of them. "Pale country puce"? Yep. It's in there somewhere.)

7) It looks like my cousins will be in Omaha when I am there. Since they don't live in Omaha, this is a total bonus, and not one any of us planned around. Thank you, universe! The three of us aren't all together much these days, now that Kari lives in Iowa and Mary in Texas, and it'll only get harder to work out times in common when my folks don't live in Omaha any more.

8) If I am a really good Mris all day long, I can have boysenberry sorbet with Ghirardelli chips on it as a reward after supper. If I am a really bad Mris all day long, I can have boysenberry sorbet with Ghirardelli chips on it as an incentive for improvement after supper. This is a good system.

9) There were two mallard ducks out in our bushes this morning. They upset missista, but the male's head was so shiny and green in the new light, and when I opened the door to get the paper, they flew away promptly and stopped bothering her.

10) I have a friendslist that will share its positive stuff with me, too (RIGHT?), and that can't help but be a good thing.

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Another reason I wish I could get to Minicon.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I wish you could get to Minicon, too. My whole friendslist should be able to go to Minicon. It would be good. Some of you-all would choose not to, but that's a different issue.

[rosefox]

Positive stuff:

I'm getting married in two days!

I know there's more, but that's kind of distracting me. *)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I can't think why it would.

Anyway, I hope it all goes beautifully and your One Wrong Thing is small. (Every wedding has at least one thing go wrong. It's just the nature of the universe.)

[rosefox]

We came home tonight from the rehearsal dinner to a sign on the front door of the building that said "No heat and no hot water".

Fortunately, our videographer lives a few blocks away (actually closer to the restaurant than our place), so we're going to shower at his place tomorrow morning. A 3:30 ceremony start time gives us a little leeway in our prep, at least. I hope that suffices as a jinx.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

re: 3, I'm sure you're both adorable out of your hats, too. But hats make for doubleplus adorability, it's true.

re: 7, can I come over for dessert?

re: 8, the yellowdog has decided that chasing geese is a good idea. I keep telling him that when he gets bitten, I'm not going to feel bad for him, but I don't think he believes me. (He's probably right, but still. No more chasing geese!)

re: 10, I have my new laptop, and the sun is shiny and bright, and even though I have overdue library books, I am hoping to have new ones ready for pickup when I go to drop these off.

Or I may just walk the dog down there today to drop them off and do a good thorough browse-attack tomorrow or Saturday. There are many books on my Amazon wishlist that don't have excerpts available, so I'm not sure if I want to request them or not.

I whittled said wishlist down to two pages (compact view) yesterday, by applying the ruthless culling method of, "Do I _really_ want to read this? Am I _sure?_" Now it is less overwhelming. Plus: more space to add things that I _really_ want to read!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Of course you can come over for dessert. When should we expect you?

Ista also disapproves of geese. Almost as much as the rest of us hate geese. The housemonkeys have been known to shake our fists and shout, "Stupid geese!" out the car windows in unison. Scary but true.

[ckd]

Good stuff:

Snow yesterday became sun today.

A mysterious object has arrived on campus. (Will amuse MIT and Harvey Mudd alums, may irritate Caltech folks.)

This morning's been quiet at work.

Minicon!

[columbina.livejournal.com]

bwahahaha.

yes, that is amusing even to former members of the MIT community.

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

re: #6 - hopefully mine is one of them. We've sent the invite, however, I'm not keeping track of the RSVP's.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. I haven't been able to send the RSVP back yet, though, because we don't know what the timing of our Michigan trip will be. Hope to make it to your wedding, of course.

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

These are some very good good things. Thank you for sharing them.

In partial recompense, I offer this: http://www.classycaps.com/images/gallery/french%20poodle.jpg

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We are not getting one for Herself.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

and I expect I will be able to almost totally avoid the Guest of Honor

I just discovered that I am going to be on a panel with Mr. GoH.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Lucky, lucky you.

I was going to say, "I haven't heard about doing a reading, and I told them I was a willing victim reader," but then I looked at the schedule, and it appeared to have no readings on it at all. So.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I'm going to plan on reading and bring something along. If I'm not onthe schedule, then no harm done.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I saw the mallard the other day, and he's pretty fabulous. Like if they had duck shows, he'd be a show mallard.

[ksumnersmith.livejournal.com]

I've now spent far too long imagining the Westminster Duck Show, with people running in a big circuit with their ducks waddling along on the end of long leashes ...

[zalena.livejournal.com]

This is nice. I'll try to post a list of positive things on my own journal.