Counting My Blessings

[ladysprite]

Good Things About Today:

1) It is a glorious, warm, sunshiney, beautiful day. I didn't have to put a jacket on when I went outside to go to work, and I am sitting here in the office neither hunched nor shivering.

2) Working in Davis Square means that I can sneak out to run errands on my lunch break, and actually enjoy some of this sunshine.

3) My irises are blooming, with the most amazingly beautiful deep dark purple, almost black flowers.

4) I get my workout buddy back tonight, after an almost-4-month hiatus.

5) The sore throat I woke up this morning seems to have vanished, rather than bringing other symptom friends to visit - with any luck, it'll turn out to have just been dry air from not running the humidifier last night.

6) Rereading "The Shadow Rising," I'm beginning to remember why I think this was my favorite of the Wheel of Time books. The characters are all past first level, the world is starting to be established, but things haven't quite gotten as unwieldy and out of control as they will later in the series. I have an escape to another world in my pocketbook.

7) Adorable healthy guinea pig patients are a wonderful way to break up a day full of sick animals and overtaxed coworkers.

And that's just today. And tomorrow is supposed to be warm and bright as well, and I will wear sandals and maybe a sundress and go for a long walk, and with any luck the hardest decision I will have to make is whether I want to get ice cream or iced chocolate. And then there will be the first episode of So You Think You Can Dance, and a few days after that there will be parties and friends.

It's amazing how much of a mood change a little bit of sunshine can bring about, for me....

Edited to add: And hey - surprise bonus farmer's market, when I went out to run my errands! Which means more flowers, and free samples of Taza chocolate, and a fresh oatmeal-coconut cookie to go with my lunch. Almost awesome enough to make up for my leaving my debit card in the ATM when I stopped at the bank, like an enormous bimbo. Oh, well - at least I noticed it about ten minutes after the fact. Not soon enough to get the card back, but soon enough to put a freeze on my account before anyone did anything with it. Win some, lose some....

Comments

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Guinea pigs!

[anu3bis.livejournal.com]

for example, it's opening day at the Davis Square Farmers' Market.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

So I learned when I went out at lunchtime! It's pretty impressive, too - I'll sure as heck be back there again...

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Almost awesome enough to make up for my leaving my debit card in the ATM when I stopped at the bank, like an enormous bimbo a fallible human being.

With all due respect, I fixed your typo there. I think enough people have done this that newer ATMs don't ask for your PIN until after you've removed your card.

I once found someone's ATM card in the machine, still logged in with the PIN, after hours, so I couldn't just take it inside. My first thought was to see if the person was in the phone book and return it directly, but my mother-in-law (who worked at the bank) said that was absolutely not a good idea. She took the card from me and said the bank would take care of it.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wondered why all the ATMs around here had been converted to those card readers like on gas pumps where you're not even allowed to leave your card in it. The arguments banks used to make against doing that was that the machine couldn't confiscate cards on suspicion of fraud if they were set up that way. Which, since that practice was pompous and ineffectual anyway, was never a terribly convincing argument.

Also, Doctor, as a dues-paying pedant, I feel obliged to point out that, even in the absolute worst-case scenario, you could only be a quite small bimbo.