August Happiness Challenge -- Day 20

Today's Happiness: a postcard. My aunt/Godmother sent a card from her reunion with my cousin and his family in the Great Smoky Mountains. She was excited to report they saw a bear. I'm tickled that they were thinking of me and besides, it's great to get something other than bills (and there were three in today's mail).

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Thanks be to Hulu and headphones

It's a slow day at the office. We had a meeting at about 10:00 and then .... crickets chirping. I got a good workout in and then discovered Hulu has Magnum PI reruns for free! I saw the episode where Lassie's mom was a hooker! My headphones allow me to watch in privacy. Which is good, as I scour Hulu for more guilty pleasures.

August Happiness Challenge -- Day 19

Today's Happiness: Second hand books. I bought a copy of the popular biography of Obama's mother, A Singular Woman, for $2 at my local library book sale. I picked it up to put it in my briefcase and a note fell out: Happy belated birthday to Nancy from Dani. Nancy's gift was so late because Dani's life has been "a gerbil wheel," including a vacation to Montreal, business trips to Sengal (!) and Uganda (!) and the purchase of a new condo in DC. Dani's siblings have been busy, too: Mark finally married his girlfriend and now has a teenaged stepdaughter, Suzy and Kris are good and busy with their kids, and Gene had chemo this past spring to treat a small site on his lung. And, like me, Dani has a hard time battling her weight and meeting nice men.

 

There's such a romance to second hand books.

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