Brighter

[mrissa]

I don't know about you, but this makes my day better.

Other day-brighteners include Godiva's dark-chocolate-covered dried raspberries and the dog's Igor platypus toy. And making slow but definite progress on a couple of things.

How about you? What's brightened your day?

Comments

[jebbypal]

That is great news for you all!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing the good news. I don't know them, but know what it's like to be a mom with a hurt kid, and was really hoping for the best. So glad he'll keep the eye!

What made my day was the biggest bird feeding frenzy over the ocean I've ever seen, hundreds of gulls and cormorants and pelicans swirling madly around and folding themselves into arrows to dive into the bright blue sea. Ten little sprays a minute!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're fond of that! Seabirds and I get along best at about the current distance.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Playing mad scientist with my bread robot, which leads to wonderful spicy bread smells. And it's a very pretty shade of grey outside, even if I am wearing a tank top in January.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am wearing a tank top in January

I don't have to tell you that's wrong. You already know.

Your icon reminded me that we decided when we were living there that California was the anti-Narnia: occasionally Christmas but never winter.

[fiddledragon]

Being very productive at work with plans in the near future for making yummy bread to share :)

[sraun]

Oh, good news!

What's brightened my day? A perl script from johnridley. Having just figured out that my chances of being able to order my new toy (a Nokia N810) on the first of February are pretty good. Having already ordered iraunink's Valentines Day present.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I got to play with power tools!
Okay, a power tool. I borrowed a friend's drill to put holes in a big plastic bin meant for worms. Eventually, it will be filled with shredded newspaper, leaves, and whatever plant matter my kitchen generates-- I expect a lot of broccoli stalks. And worms, of course. By April, I expect to have some quantity of soil instead of newspaper, and I will be able to feed my plants better, as well as limiting my contributions to landfills and the stinkiness of my kitchen trash.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the update. This accident gave me some of those "mom freakout moments" so I want and need to know that things are going okay. (The mom freakout effect was truly a surprise to me when I became a mother--like a little panic attack you have just thinking about bad things happening to kids.) I declare porphyrina True Hero in advance for the home care regimen she is about to undertake. I don't know what's worse--all the eye drops, or the activity restrictions.

My mother-in-law had an eye injury in childhood, and for most of her life had little vision out of that eye. It was a pretty normal life, and then about ten years ago, she was able to have surgery to restore her vision. I just realized that it was not that many years later that she lost all of her hearing in one ear. Geez. What luck. She hates that about a hundred times more, I think.

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

I've had very little hearing in one ear since birth, and am used to it. But I would hate losing most of the vision in one eye. So I understand how your mother-in-law feels.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

nothing NEARLY as good as your news, but I got a start on lining up the rooms for Oral Arguments in April. That job is the bane of my spring semester.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

The photos I linked in my journal entry (http://columbina.livejournal.com/146677.html).

Good news on the Robin front. Although I deeply sympathized with the PLEASE PLEASE QUIT IT I DO NOT WANT TO OPEN MY EYE.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I had a nice lunch with Levi, and got a lot accomplished at work.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am still a little boggled that I am acquainted (and at about the same level of acquaintance) with two Levis in this city. I keep thinking they must be the same guy somehow, but they are clearly not. Even though I never have seen them in the same place at the same time.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Are you suggesting that Levi's secret identity is... Levi?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No one would ever guess!

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I am happy you are feeling brighter. Such good news about your godson.

I had three day-brighteners. First, I discovered one of my photos is part of a Google photo widget thingie, which means approximately 1000 people (really, approximately, not exaggerating) have seen it in the last twenty-four hours. Fame! No fortune yet.

Second was talking to my friend Bart via google chat. I miss Bart. Wish he lived closer. We could be in a band together. And speak French, which we both do, and none of our other friends do.

Third was seeing people be excited by the prompt for the first day of Deathless Pose 2.0. I am always delighted to be an instigator of creativity.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Je parle un peu de francais.

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

Let's hear it for Real Goctors!

So glad he's on his way to okay.

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

Being around my kitties before I hit the road again.

Glad to hear the hopeful news about your bestboy.

[ann1962]

Oh I am so glad for them.

I made pizza tonight for dinner, and the crust came out just right. This was very brightening.

[one-undone.livejournal.com]

Finally being in a position to do a very small something back for someone who has done several kind things for me has brightened my day today. :)

[redbird]

*whew*

What's brightened my day is noodles at my usual place in Chinatown, and the weather pleasant enough for the trip to seem worth making.

[rosefox]

Godiva's dark-chocolate-covered dried raspberries

Oh my goodness. I wonder where I can find those.

My day was brightened immeasurably by cooking a really excellent (and not overly expensive) steak to perfect doneness and consuming large quantities of it. For dessert, sinboy had ice cream; I had more steak. I've been craving steak for weeks and have had two very disappointing restaurant specimens--one rather greasy and both quite overdone and tough--so I'm not only glad to have had a lovely dinner but relieved at breaking my bad luck steak streak. (That sounds like a tongue-twister!)

I'm really glad Robin's doing so well. I hope the trend continues.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

One imagines Santa Claus bought the dried raspberries at a Godiva store or possibly at a Macy's.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Makes my day better too.

As does a square of chile-cherry-dark chocolate; 70 F weather; and deciding which calligraphy pieces I'm going to work on next.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

70 F weather in January would make my day so much worse; I'm glad you got it instead of me, so that it makes your day better.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

I was thinking what a fine thing it is that we both live where we belong. It's not that I was miserable in Michigan, but it never fit me. And I have other friends for whom Tennessee would not suit at all.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Indeed, the number of people Minnesota wouldn't suit is rather larger than the number of people it does.

Which suits me fine; I don't really need many more monkeys.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

A glass of riesling and some time to relax, after a looong day.

And the fact that my seminar on the phonology of accent doesn't actually want the undergrads in the room to run the study we're designing for our term papers. I am unsure what I'm supposed to write a paper about in the absence of data and facts and other such research papery items, but I just got 986896159812365 hours of my life back between now and April.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That is many hours. Probably enough that you can sit down and have your nice riesling.

[tewok.livejournal.com]

The Robin news brightened my day.

I spent it with my father in the ER, after he started vomiting blood. He probably has an ulcer, but with the amount of blood he produced it seems more like a ginormous gutwound.

So, scary, spooky day spent with my life-long role model. The news about Robin certainly brightens things up for me.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I hope that he has a treatable ulcer, or a treatable whatever else it was, and that treatment commences soon!

[tewok.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the good wishes. It turns out he had five ulcers, two of which were pumping blood into his stomach. They've been cauterized and the others are being medicated into submision.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Uff da! Tell him to be less of an overachiever in this field!

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Getting out of the house for the first time in a few days.

And the news about Robin.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Great news!

What brightened my day...hm...there were troll mountains in Boulder when I left work. Dusk, fog, misty flurries.

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

You know, a lot of people complained about it, but one thing that brightened my day yesterday was the sudden warm. It got up to 62 here yesterday in wintry Michigan and there were all kinds of people out walking and it was great. The year has turned, it seemed to say--this isn't here yet, but it's coming.

First we just have to bitter colds of late January and February to deal with... :P

But I am cheered anyway.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like January Thaw. It is my bane.

[ex-kaz-maho.livejournal.com]

Hi. *waves from UK* It's my first time posting, though I've lurked on and off for ages. :)

Sounds like good news for Robin - I've been reading your updates with heart-in-mouth.

What brightened my day, yesterday? My copy of DUST by Bear arriving from Amazon. Not that I don't already have enough books to read...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hi and welcome!

My copy of Dust has gotten held up by Amazon weirdness: the person who bought it for me for Christmas also bought snurri's book, so they're hanging onto my copy of Dust and shipping it with Superpowers. Which seems strange and petty of them.

[ex-kaz-maho.livejournal.com]

*nods* I hate it when they do that! It seems completely random as to whether they will split an order at no extra charge, or whether they're going to hang on to everything until the last possible moment. Bizarre.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Other people's good news brightens my day. So does the news that dark-chocolate-covered dried raspberries exist. They so obviously needed to...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Except now they're gone!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Nooooo...!

*laments*

[carbonel]

The knowledge that I have a manuscript coming to read and comment on.

Also, that the chimney sweep that I made an appointment with three years ago called this morning to set a time to arrive, just when I was thinking that the chimney probably needed cleaning. ("Peter, dear, the sweep's come!")

Also, I now have a pretty-much-complete set of Tamora Pierce's books. Plus four dupes, because I thought that one shipment was complete when it wasn't, so I double-ordered, but never mind that.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Yay Igor platypus!