D’OH!

After having to write an epic-length entry for August Daily Happiness, I went and forgot to post something for yesterday. Remind me not to do this next year. I am way too ungrateful for this challenge.

I honestly can’t think of a happy moment yesterday. I mean, it wasn’t a terrible day or anything, but it wasn’t good. Hmmmm…. I guess I’m happy that taking the dogs to my parents’ house was not the nightmare it usually is for one person to do. And they seemed very relaxed and happy with their Grandma and Grandpa (although my dad would gouge his eyes out before he would consider himself to be their “grandpa”….) And I had a nice, if short, visit with my parents before going home to pack and get ready to leave tonight.

Experience tells me I better post my happy moment for today now or I’ll forget to do it later. I like to start my Fridays with a trip to Starbuck’s for a tall non-fat vanilla latte and a piece of lemon raspberry coffee cake. It’s a lovely way to start the day, and today was no exception.

Now that I got that happy crap out of the way, I am clear to write BMC (bitch, moan, complain) entries the rest of the day. So there.

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Happiness Slacker

Holy crap, I have missed a bunch of days of happiness entries. Let me catch up.

Thursday, August 4 - this was a tough day for me. I think my happy moment for the day was getting home from yoga and taking a wonderfully refreshing shower with my new Philosophy Amazing Grace bath gel. You must focus on the little things when you are having a crappy day. As a side note, I bought the bath gel at the same time I bought some for Sarah for her birthday. I smelled it and read the bottle and thought she’d love it. Then as I browsed around the store, I couldn’t stop smelling it, and had to go back and pick up a bottle for myself. I almost kept the body souffle I bought for her, it smells so damn good! I don’t like bath products that smell like food, so most of the Philosophy line is wasted on me, but this one is a keeper.

Friday, August 5 - my happy moment that day was driving in the car to Austin with Jake. I like taking road trips with him, and we always end up having really good talks.

Saturday, August 6 - lots of happy moments here. Wonderful breakfast prepared by Sarah’s HUSband, seeing a fun movie, going out to a great dinner and seeing K, staying up late, chatting with Sarah and Mr. Sarah.

Sunday, August 7 - almost the same as for Saturday. We had another yummy breakfast, got to see our friend M, then drove home. We also enjoyed a quiet, dog-free evening watching TV and eating stir-fry.

Monday, August 8 - wonderful yoga class. My best so far. I love that I keep getting better every time I go. Still lots of things I can’t do yet, but I get closer every time I try. Makes me feel so accomplished.

Tuesday, August 9 - I guess my happy moment that day was getting home from work a bit earlier than normal. I’m really stretching it here, because the reason I was home early was because I had a doctor’s appointment for a yeast infection. How good can a day get from there?

Wednesday, August 10 - making plans to fly out to see Jake at Brickfest in DC. It was really nice to be able to decide to go and have the miles and the money to make it happen. That kind of freedom will be missed when and if we ever have a baby, so we need to enjoy it while we can.

Whew! That was rough. I shouldn’t let myself get behind on this anymore.

Oops! I Missed Yesterday

I missed my happy moment for yesterday.

Yesterday I was happy that Jake gave away our concert tickets and we just ate dinner together and hung out, watching the rest of An Evening With Kevin Smith, courtesy of Netflix. I totally need to get all his movies and watch them more often. I forget how fucking hysterical he is.

I guess my happiest moment today is feeling productive at work for the first time in a week or so. Still have plenty to do and my boss will be gone again tomorrow, so I’m not sure what I’ll actually do, but it felt good to keep busy today.

This was a pathetic happiness post. I forgot how hard this was last year too!

Happy Happy

I’m stepping up to Sarah’s challenge and doing the August Daily Happiness thing again. Call it Happiness Part Deux. Or maybe Redux. I kinda like Redux.

Anyway, I am happy today to have our air conditioner back. It may only be temporary, but sweet, sweet air conditioning. I’ll never take you for granted again!

Daily Happiness #31

I really enjoyed wrapping birthday presents for my husband last night. It made me all giddy. I can’t wait to let him open them!

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Daily Happiness #27, 28, 29, and 30

OK, let’s see…. I’ve had lots of happy moments since Thursday night, but I don’t want to pretend that I can remember what day they happened on. I’ll try, though.

#27 - Dinner at The Cheesecake Factory with Jake, his parents, his sister and our two nieces. Lots of fun and good food. And Jake’s dad picked up the whole tab. Very generous.

#28 - The party went off perfectly. Got to see and hold The Boy, who is so much bigger now than he was two weeks ago.

#29 - Bacon pancakes at The Original Pancake house. Seriously, if you’ve never had bacon pieces crumbled into your pancake batter, you have not lived.

#30 - As I sit here typing this, Robbie and Kiri are laying side by side in almost the same position, taking a nap together. So cute!

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Daily Happiness #26

Clean house! It doesn’t take as long when two people are really working hard at it. It looks pretty good, if I do say so myself. We dusted furniture, ceiling fans, and blinds, but not baseboards. Well, if you are looking at my fucking baseboards at a party, you have bigger issues than I can worry about.

Have a good weekend, everyone! I probably won’t get to post until Sunday.

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Daily Happiness #25

Two clean dogs. I am sore, tired, and wet, but the damn dogs are clean. And have brushed teeth. It makes me happy, but they are still kind of pissed off at me. Oh well, that’s why I am the Mamma. I have to make the tough choices.

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Daily Happiness #24

Happiness today was birthday shopping online for Jake. Hee hee! I love to birthday shop!

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Daily Happiness #22 and #23

Man, I have been a slacker lately. So sorry. I just haven’t felt very good at all.

Happiness last night was taking a lavender bubble bath, hot enough to fog my glasses. Really cleared out some of my congestion.

Today, it was wearing my pretty black skirt with the pink polka dots. I love black with pink polka dots.

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