My toaster has a smiley face inside of it! Smiley mornings! 😀
More wonderful work with my lovely clients. What an amazing job I have. 🙂
Thinking about the people in my life. I am continually astonished by my great good fortune to know and love people who regularly inspire, amuse, and delight me. I am so lucky. ❤
More delightful words I encountered today: Sanguine. Propinquity.
Colors. I realize I talk about/appreciate them every day, but wowsers. The view down this street is just going to get more and more amazing during the next week or so. So fun to watch the transition! Those flaming leaves against the azure sky are just knocking my socks off.
Socks off! Sandal weather on October 7th! True, I added long pants and a sweater, but still. Glorious weather for a midday walk!
The helpful people of Minneapolis. Clearly this planter was having some trouble seeing, so somebody found it a pair of glasses so it could see the fall leaves, too. 😛 
Always looking for fun during the work day, I have a new way to do my to-do lists. Yes, it involves coloring. 😉
Bird adventures in (and on!) the house and car this week… When we were at the laundromat on Sunday, we went out to sit in the car for a few minutes since there were no open seats inside, and a huge crow flew first past the car and then landed on the roof! !!!! …and that bird was HUGE! Then this morning, a woodpecker decided to do some drumming on the house (which is stucco) for a few minutes, and then a beautiful cardinal couple hung out in the bush in front of the window for a while. Hello birds!
The season of amazing color changes. I love how altered the leaves look from one day to the next. Big blazes of red throughout the neighborhood today!
Sara, for being a delightful friend on so many levels… and for understanding that I needed to know about the Mischief Toy Store RIGHT AWAY. 🙂
Another exhilarating night of singing with my beautiful Earthtones friends. AND I get to sing another low alto part with my buddy Pam! 😀
Hearing all the good newses from Pam today. I love when my friends’ lives go well!! ❤
Another gorgeous morning spent with my sweet friend Sarah and darling Ida. Walked up to the Farmer’s Market and around the ‘hood. Pure bliss on so many levels. ❤
Delicious farm veggie scramble with today’s farmer’s market haul – zucchini, scallions, tomatoes, and spinach. Yum!
Despite starting the day low on energy, I got a second wind late this afternoon… and finished out the day pretty darn satisfied – besides my awesome morning with the Duncan girls, I got a new cover letter and resume written, went to the laundromat and got all the laundry cleaned, folded, and put away, bought groceries, cleaned the kitchen, and logged more than 12,000 steps for the day. Phew. And now to bed…. 🙂
Ooohhh 4.44.
Katie’s rainbow birthday present. I like snark. I also like rainbows (the rainbow presents — all rainbow items — were in the black box). 😉
Apple picking with Katie, Cina & Mckenzie. I love this tradition – and what nice weather we got! We decided to pick Cortlands & Sweet Tangos this year. The Cortlands are ginormous! And tasty! 🙂 
So much fun hanging out with my work & prov buddies Amy & Alison. Oh how they delight me. ❤
A really good night of sleep. Not sure what all the hubbub was earlier this week, but last night sure was a nice change of pace! 🙂
Finding the BBC radio dramatisation of Wodehouse’s Joy in the Morning – with Richard Briers (from Good Neighbors) playing Wooster. Oh what fun! Doesn’t matter that I just finished this book. Richard Brier’s Bertie is spectacular. Oh, fun fun fun.
The glee I feel when assembling and wrapping a gift that is both very silly and sure to please its recipient. I love when things line up perfectly like that. 😀
My completely awesome job. I get to do work I love with people I love. So lucky!
Getting to see and talk with John today! How great are video chats? So great! 🙂
Finding time for a walk today. Ohhhhhhhh that sunshine. I love the late afternoon quietness of the city after kids get out from school and before folks are getting home from work. Bliss.
Gorgeous weather. Those blue skies! That sunshine! I love it.
Driving home around the lakes with the windows open. The water was soooo blue and the breeze was just right.
Seeing a big group of people on Segways at the lake. There was something inexplicably delightful about the sight of all those people on Segways, all smiling, laughing, taking photos and videos. They looked like they were having so much fun! 🙂
Katie’s birth day, all those many years ago. What an amazing adventure began that day! ❤ ❤ ❤ Happy birthday to my fascinating, funny, bright, beautiful, snarky, sweet kid! 😀
(And as a gift to you, Katie, I took out “smart” from that sentence since I knew it would bug you to have two alliterative couplets and one triplet. You are welcome. 😉 )
I love cultivating and enjoying a brain that is easily pleased and amused! If you’ve spent any time with me, you know that things that please me tend to elicit a gleeful response. 😀 Yesterday, I was amused not only by the thing that amused me in the first place, but also by the reaction of a new acquaintance to my gleeful response. She said, “Wow! What a great response. You’re like a kid.” I agreed. Then she said, “It’s good to be like that sometimes!” I grinned and told her, “I’m like this most of the time.” So there ya go. I stand at the ready, waiting to be pleased and amused. 😉
Pretty sunshine and shadows playing across the kitchen.
Seriously crazy cats. That moon the other day has turned them into playful lunatics. Ahahaha — they’re acting just like kids. 🙂
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