Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Things I like about today

1. I am not dead. This cheers me more than it does on some days because I have been talking to my friends, listening to the news and generally am provoked, more or less in self-defense, to count what blessings are mine and what curses, minor and major, are not mine. It's sink or count.

2. I have figured out that I can ice the bottom of my foot - which has developed a strange burning kind of pain for no reason on god's not yet (here) green earth - while putting on makeup, thereby saving myself a whole 10 minutes I can't spare in the morning and enabling me to insert my right foot in a shoe and hobble bravely off to work.

3. I do not have three adult offspring living with me, one of whom ruins my entire night of sleep by yakking on the phone at 4:00 a.m. in the next room.

4. I did not go to the Dominican Republic to find every single travel arrangement screwed up and have my baggage lost until two days before returning. The baggage I didn't lose didn't contain life-sustaining medication and I was not in a place where I could not replace said medication. I didn't go, so I didn't follow the trip up with an emergency appointment with the dentist either.

5. The huge white blister on the inside of my lower lip - the one caused by a rogue strand of chicken in soup heated (by me) to past boiling - is healing. There won't be a scar. Not visibly anyway. And better yet, no one will phone to ask me if I was hit in the crosswalk accident they heard about on the news because I am too obviously clumsy to survive.

6. I do not work in a reasonable facsimile of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and am unlikely to encounter anyone, in my daily work, who can weave a blanket and bra together and make a hat out of it. No coworker will make me count how many cookies someone else eats.

7. Minor Deity fixed a Trojan virus on the computer at work and we got to have a pleasant chat wherein he accused me of surfing porn sites at the front desk of the library. I assured him that people liked that. My coworker assured him it made the place feel more homey. That broke up the work day nicely.

8. The number 20 bus at high rush hour was one of the newer models I refer to as "mini vans" and passengers were about standing in the driver's lap and on the dashboard by mile two. I gave my seat up for an older man who, while not looking terribly frail, was lugging shopping bags and appeared to be panic-stricken and frightened when he saw the lack of available space. That's not the good part.The good part was how, when anyone stands on the bus to give up a seat, it creates a tipping point and someone else or several someones also give up seats. A hefty man in work clothes offered me his seat. Okay. It's not much. But it counts because it reminds me that sometimes we are decent people if just reminded a little about decency.

9. I have traded a cow for a handful of magical dichroic glass cabochons and expect to see a beanstalk sprout magically from them at any moment. Or at least a few minor works of art. In a pinch, I'm sure they'll be tasty when I can no longer afford groceries - and the glass artist is having a very happy day. eBay loves me, too.

10. Someone gave me a compliment on LOE and someone else referred to this blog as "dessert." I had cookies to celebrate. I didn't count how many.

11. They say - the weather bastards, that is - that it will stop raining and driving cold gale winds into our little Maritime faces by Friday. They say that it will become almost warm and that bright and unfamiliar light will appear in the heavens during the day time. I'm only sort of counting that one. The weather bastards are always right about crappy conditions but they often miss on good ones.

All in all...well...I'm still standing. It's a lesser ambition than I once may have sported, but it's achievable. Hope you are all still standing too.

Love,

LJ

12 comments:

Mr. X said...

eBay loves us too. Regretfully, the credit card company does not enter into the same spirit of things.

We hope all heals and the sun comes out for you as well.
We'd sacrifice another chocolate egg for you, but we regret we've stuffed them all and will now require a serious diet.

Ho Hum...

(*hug*)

LJ said...

You've eaten the last of the sacrificial chocolate eggs? What's to prevent me from bidding on the red tango dancing shoes now, I ask? Oh.
Bank account. What, I wonder, does Mr. X buy on eBay?

Anonymous said...

Well, I was still standing, but now I'm rollin' on the floor. When I stop laughing, I'm probably gonna try that blanket-and-bra weaving thing...
Love, Jessie

Mr Farty said...

I got to feel good about myself for a few seconds yesterday when I gave up my seat with lots of leg room for a lady with a child in a pushchair. The kid stroked my beard and giggled. Yep, it's the little things that make life worthwhile.

Tell the weather bastards to get a move on and turn on the sun, we'll be there in four weeks. Vancouver, that's near Maritime, right? Same continent, innit?

LJ said...

Jessie...Unnamed Friend with Insane Job (no pun intended)has SO many stories these days, I'm hard-pressed not to start rolling them out. I'm trying to do right, but she HAS to stop telling me!
Mr. Farty, you charming creature! Geography lesson:
Vancouver - west side of large landmass. Yoga pants. Good haircuts. Sushi restaurants. Money.
Temperatures that make all Canadians hate the citizens. And oh, they are on a major fault line and sometimes their houses slide into the mud.
Halifax - east side of large landmass. Sweat pants. Bad haircuts. Money that doesn't know what to do with itself. And oh, weather that makes people want to line up and march, Lemming-like, into the cold angry sea.
There will be a test later.

herhimnbryn said...

Shouts of laughter here. Just what I needed.

Anonymous said...

I was sitting on the oik's sofa, or rather being engulfed by it. Compressed into it. Sofa and woman as one beige, blotchy mass.

Mr. X said...

Mr.X buys bits for cameras and PCs, books, CDs, DVDs and assorted other bits, usually for presents.

Boring, isn't he? :)

LJ said...

H laughing. Another blessing to count.
Ariel's description of sofa and woman, another blessing to count.
Mr. X buying presents, another....
and so on.

Anonymous said...

Well, if you'd stop surfing the porn sites on the front desk computer, you wouldn't get trojans. ;)

I wonder if I shouldn't just get Trojans for the front desk computer... ;)

LJ said...

Md- snicker.

Teri said...

Love this. I need to make a list like this. xo