Twenty reasons to smile 27/09/11
Twenty reasons to smile ;-)
Having recently hit the big 40 and despite the lavish use of expensive creams, I can’t deny the laughter lines around my eyes. What causes them? Smiling and laughter of course! Today was a pretty ordinary day for me, but it gave me so many reasons to smile.
My youngest son declared he knew why I wore tight jeans, ‘to hold in all the fat’, he said – it wasn’t even 7 o’clock. Ouch. A grimace – but that’s an upside down smile!
8 ish my older son says his trainers are too tight to do cross country in, so I tell him to borrow mine, we both wear a 41. He smiles and I smile sneakily – he had no idea how bad they smell.
9am, a call from the school – muddy trainers but no school shoes. So I make my third trip to the school in 45 minutes. I was greeted by a rueful son in his socks. I hand over the shoes and we smile, he knows I’d never let him down.
My daughter was watching a Barbie fairy film and I got down to some work. She began to bounce up and down on the sofa, ‘stop bouncing on my sofa!’
‘I’m not bouncing mummy, I’m flying ... and it’s all of our sofa!’ She’s four years old and would sell her Granny.
This week’s sales almost hitting the four figure mark – a very good reason to smile!
I received a very positive review of my first three chapters on another site, and a lovely one from LD on the W/c. (you flatter me LD!) Big cheesy grin!
Got chatting with a buddy about a new project and I smiled enthusiastically, A LOT as we bashed ideas off each other. Sometimes that’s the best part of my day!
The sun comes out and it starts hotting up – I love the sun.
I chatted with another couple of buddies about a get together before Christmas – I am really looking forward to it.
I got some excellent advice from a new friend which helps me big time with the basis of my new plot – thank you Spi – a really big grin for you.
Really hot afternoon so soft top was down – no better feeling – well not when you are driving anyway!
The Cure came on, ‘just like heaven,’ reminded me of my college days and my first love ( turned out to be cheating git) but I smiled anyway for the good times.
I spent more than I should on some flowers for a friend who’s daughter has just left for university, I know she will love them.
My middle child’s Birthday tomorrow, I smiled as I chose his card, he loves Spongebob – I prefer the starfish, Patrick who looks like a giant tongue.
I creased at my husband’s text message when I told him that the ninja lego my son wanted for his pressie was nearly a hundred quid. Needless to say I picked something he and my wallet could both love.
I arranged a girlie night out on Friday with my friend to see our favourite band – nights out these days are few and far between. I not only smile, but I do a little dance as well.
I came home to be presented with a card from my middle son which tells me what a lovely mummy I am. I was thoroughly delighted – I could actually read his handwriting.
I read a lovely comment from a Clouder about my post, thank you Veek, I am blushing again.
Kids have
almost settled and I have taken residence in the dining room for
now sitting on my new office chair with my new back massager on
shiatsu massage with extra heat. Now that gets a mahoosive,
contented smile and the day isn’t even over yet!
Oh one last
one, that makes it twenty one, just poured a large glass of
Barolo - )grin(
What made you smile today?
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Q. What the longest word in the English language?
A. Smiles - cos there's a mile between the two esses
Sounds like you had a mile of smiles...
Lots of things can make you smile if you are prepared to put the bad stuff aside and just remember, it's good to be alive. It won't get better than this. However, this afternoon I was reminded, via a conversation with a colleague about time spent in Hong Kong, of a drunken argument in the lift in the Caravelle Hotel in Happy Valley with my old friend Gary over whether we had been drinking in Lockhart Road or Connaught Road. We were very relaxed indeed and he was so relaxed yet animated that I managed to press every button between his floor and mine without him noticing. He was twenty odd floors up from me. 15 minutes later my phone rang and I was treated to a tirade from a very pissed off Yorkshire man. At the time it made me roar helplessly with laughter. At this distance it makes me smile, just a bit.
Eldest son, who's 5 made me smile on saturday when I returned from the hairdressers with expensive new do. He said, ''I don't mind your hair mummy, I love you anyway.''
Kids eh :D
Good one Noodle,
Sorry to say I haven't read your SA update. No life at the moment.
Enjoy your girlie night out.
Badger waiting for me in the field, ready for his tea.
The running joke about sneaking out at midnight to sellotape our glut of apples to other people's trees.
Thanks for this ND - loved it.
Trying out my new birthday roller-skates by taking a trip to the post office in them, and imagining people's looks as I passed them. They're very smart. White, pink wheels, lovely little stars on the side...
A perfect card received from my Ma and Pa :)
and a few beers. And a couple of glasses of red wine. And...
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