This made me laugh so much. Bwahahaha!
Month: March 2017
Appreciations 3/31: The precious, the pretty, the practical, and the preternatural.
My dearest, darlingest Pam, who inspires me and makes me laugh daily, and who as the first person to show me how any situation can include fun. (Just ask yourself, “How could this be fun and easy?”) One of the best lessons I have ever learned! ❤️
Ida’s language right now!
Bellanean = jelly bean
Ephanant = elephant
Meatfoaf = meatloaf
and best of all…Allelcome = you’re welcome. 😄
Beautiful art by Sarah and by my Grampa. 💚
Half-sheet baking pans that double as lego sorting pans. Of course.
My magic toaster, who once again popped my toast out of the right side and into the left!!! I cannot explain how happy this makes me.
If you’re in the mood to smile…
Appreciations 3/26-3/30: Diana and the Beautiful, Wonderful, No Bad, Very Good Day. (Plus a few other things from before that.)
The aforementioned BWNBVG Day
Starting the day with Katie at Carley Coffee!
Small vehicles carrying precious coffee beans.
Completing several tasks that have been on my to-do list for more than a YEAR!
Fun socks.
Walking around Uptown on my first 10,000+ step day in at least 6 months.
Cina’s good news! Plus her silliness. Heck.
Window art with Sarah & Ida. I love our ever-evolving, communal art!
Dragons!
Sarah’s way with words. Did you know that croissants are a donut-adjacent food? 😆
Ida’s breathtaking bedtime performance, ending with a mash-up medley of classic songs – Itsy Bitsy Spider, You Are My Sunshine, ABCs, and Old MacDonald. Brilliant!! 💚
Other things
From now on, any day that I am neither prepping for nor undergoing a colonoscopy shall be considered a Very. Good. Day. 😉
Jeff, who got up at WTF o’clock to transport me to the procedure and keep my company while waiting. And my folks for babysitting me after the procedure.
The med student who rubbed my back and patted my shoulder during the procedure (which took longer and was more challenging than usual for a variety of reasons).
Me, for trying to do Laughter Yoga during the procedure. Even sedated I am hilarious. (And Jody for introducing me to the practice in the first place!) Ha ha ha ha ha! ❤️
Looking forward to next week….with NO doctor appointments for the first time in several months. Wonder what I’ll do with all my spare time!
Appreciations 3/20-3/25: ABCDs
Apples, art, aardvarks (because double a’s! Oh, and llamas, too, then because double l’s!).
Bubbles, breathing, boundaries.
Coffee, coffee, coffee. Plus chocolate.
Daily dose of Duncan delights 😀 including, but not limited to…
• dancing & doodling
• getchu me & getchu you
• laughing & lake-walking
• rabbit-spotting and reading
• singing & silly-ing
• wandering & wondering
💚💙💜❤️💛
Appreciations 3/17-3/19: All the meals with all the people, walking carrots, lego rainbows.
So many marvelous meals…all in one day.
Beautiful brunch with the brilliant Alison and Amy.
Lovely lunch with my darling daughter.
Fabulous Friday fish feed with the delightful Duncans and the charismatic Korpi-Dean couple.
(Though I might be alliterating a little too much….) 😛
Sarah’s infectious laugh and occasionally inappropriate humor. Chesty McBigRack. Ah hahahahaha! 😝
The wonderful folks who came to help me film the kickstarter video. You all rock, Kristin, Carol, Michael, Nick, and Sarah!
Katie and Cina, for lending us their apartment for the video shoot. 😊
Ida dancing. Anywhere. Anytime. 💜
Carrot legs.
Lego rainbows.
Appreciations 3/14-3/16: Catrobatics, spiralizer & toddler workouts, sleep constructing
Toby’s slo-mo post-nap descent from the chair. Catrobatics!
I love funny conversations – and that I have so many of them. 😀
1. When I called to schedule my tax appt, the first date avbl was the day I’m scheduled for a colonoscopy. The scheduler and I laughed and laughed about how given the choice between working on my taxes and a colonoscopy, I picked the latter. Hahaha!
2. At my infusion appt, my nurse and I were discussing my myriad bruises and she suggested that perhaps they’d come about due to my secret nighttime construction job. Sleep constructing! Bwahahaha!
Scrumptious spiralizer meal Sarah and I made. A delicious sweet potato noodle dish, a decent upper body work out (srsly. sweet potatoes are NOT interested in being spiralized.), and surprising looking sweet potato sculptures resulted.
My new personal trainer, Ida! Loves being chased, lifted, twirled, danced with, and bounced. Workouts have never been so fun! ❤️
Remembering things. I made an unscheduled grocery run, so didn’t have my list. I still managed to get 13 of the 14 things that were on the list. #win #everythingisagame
Appreciations 3/8-3/13: Galloping, blustering, and brunching, oh my.
Luna when she gets her crazy on and gallops up and down the hall over and over. Silly old girl. Hahaha!
Watching the world on a blustery day.
Enough energy to start my tax prep.
The reliable and friendly mechanic I’ve worked with for decades.
Soft PJs.
Friday night race group. So good to have a place to learn and stretch and grow.
Seeing I Am Not Your Negro with a few people from the group. What a thought-provoking and powerful film. I also super appreciated the chance to talk about it with Ellis after the movie.
Birthday brunch with Sarah & her folks. ❤️
Watching Ida dance. So much joy in such a tiny person! 😀
Pretty snow to make the cold temps a little easier to tolerate.
Legos, naps, sunshine, smiles, giggles, hope, coffee.
Appreciations 3/2 – 3/7: Gatherings, grownup-ing, glorious weather
Gorgeous weather for walking. Outside! That was fun.
Yum yum yummy fish and chips.
Dinner with the Duncans and the girls.
Sweet birthday gathering for Tom and Jeni with the fam.
Coupons for free tulips from the grocery store. Yes.
Current version of seriously-happy.com. More changes on the way. Meanwhile, UNICORN!
Me, doing my version of being a grownup. It involves lots of legos.
Sunshine, thunder, snow, wind. March is so funny!
Appreciations 3/1-3/2 – Slumber, sunshine, and silliness!
Another decent night of sleep. That’s 2 in a row, folks. TWO!
This morning’s beautiful peachy-pink skies. 🌞
Good meeting with the GI doc on Tues. A couple more tests, but at this point looks like we might be able to treat with meds instead of surgery. Yay!
Still life with Toby and Lego flowers.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I’m chortling in my joy…
…from having energy. Wow! Yesterday was thrilling – I made my bed! I ate some food! I did some work! I might do all of those things again today. Maybe I’ll even leave the house!
The extremely silly fun Sarah and I are having as we figure out how we want to run the household. Her response yesterday, when I accused her of buying sponges twice in a row? “The sponges I brought with me into the relationship do NOT factor into the household sponge accounting going forward.”
Oh hahaha! She makes me giggle. 
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