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Friday, March 03, 2006
Today, and a Friday Five
Things that were nice about today (I should make "ooh, a list!" a category, don't you think?):
- Last night (close enough) at AWANA, C recited nine verses from the book of John (10:10-18) without one mistake, in front of the whole group.
- It snowed. Granted, it was slushy and wet, but it looked pretty coming down.
- The power went out for a while.
- I had about an hour and a half of quiet in which to read, and so I finished Oliver Twist.
- It was T's Friday off, which meant that all day I kept thinking it was Saturday and then I'd remember it was only Friday and get that extra-weekend-day little mini-rush.
- My Pride and Prejudice (2005) DVD arrived in the mail.
- I went for a drive and took pictures.
- T took us out to lunch and I didn't totally destroy my diet.
- We had brownies and ice cream tonight and once again I didn't totally destroy my diet.
- I've lost three pounds since Monday (it always comes off way fast in the first week, so don't send me alarmed notes yet).
- I just finished a LONG-awaited update on one of T's pages which I won't link here because it has all kinds of stalker-friendly personal information on it.
Man. No wonder I'm happy.
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I found a Friday Five. Remember the Friday Five? It's appalling that I can be nostalgic for something that recent, but in Internet years, I've been writing in one online journal or another for a geologic age at least, so you must forgive my silliness on that.
1. What color is your hair?
Brown. It's gotten darker since I was a teen and now it's actually a shade of brown that I like. Really brown with no real blond in it. Maybe the contrast has something to do with the Sun-In fixation my friends and I had in early high school, I dunno.
2. When is the last time you accepted a dare?
I can't remember. I make bets with T all the time; does that count? No? Dare me to do something then. I'm just in the mood.
3. Do you think you could have an affair?
Ah, no.
4. How often do you feel like walking on air?
Often.
5. How about despair?
"To despair is to turn your back on God." It's Kevin Sullivan and not L.M. Montgomery (as far as I know), but I still think of that line whenever I hear the word. Somebody stop me before I go off on a huge wild tangent about how very much Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla Cuthbert reminds me of my grandmother. Oh. I guess I should answer the implied question. No, I don't think I've despaired much, ever. I'm too much of an optimist for that, and even when I'm depressed (which does happen) I always have a sense that it's temporary and that as much as it doesn't FEEL like I'll ever feel happy again, rationally I KNOW I will.
That was... a little weird.
