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14 April 2010

I'm in a random negative mood. Can we post one teeny, tiny nice thing about our lives right now?→[More:](Feel free to post about a big old nice thing if you are, for example, a certain newlywed couple or the like)

Here's mine: I haven't washed my face with soap in over 2 months, and my skin looks great! I think the hard water here, combined with soap, was causing irritation and breakouts.

post by: muddgirl at: 17:12 | 52 comments

Kept on my diet, finished a bunch of work, signed up someone to Metafilter.

posted by The Whelk 14 April | 17:14

Am really happy. REALLY. New relationship is incredible. Never expected this.

posted by redvixen 14 April | 17:17

Flying to LA tomorrow for a week at the beach visiting my mom!

posted by danf 14 April | 17:21

My kid is making progress!

posted by Kangaroo 14 April | 17:29

I'm going to dinner w/ a friend form grad school who I haven't seen in over a year! Plus we're getting my all-time favorite meal!

posted by leesh 14 April | 17:30

Yay!

Here's one for MuddDude - his best friend (and the groom's best man at our wedding) is flying in to town for a few days this weekend! It's a totally last minute thing, but 'dude's super excited about it!

posted by muddgirl 14 April | 17:34

Also, since I mentioned that I was in a "random" mood, I will post this article I just found through some random googling, which takes a common problem that all engineers face on nearly every project (supply chain delays cropping up between the start of a project and the time that the parts are actually ordered), and blows it up into an international thriller. This must be how CIA agents feel when they watch, like, 24.

posted by muddgirl 14 April | 17:42

My daffodils are blooming.

posted by JanetLand 14 April | 17:45

Got a small stack of new classical CDs today that I'm saving to listen to once I get through this crazy work week.

posted by BoringPostcards 14 April | 17:48

Healthy happy fluffy black dog sleeping curled up against my chest!

posted by Wolfdog 14 April | 17:50

I'm sitting in a Carnegie library in Oakland right now, enjoying the sunshine streaming in the giant old window, and the beautiful tossed salad of people that make up my beautiful town.

posted by serazin 14 April | 17:54

My daffodils are blooming.

Oh! I fucking. killed. the whitefly. for good and all my seeds have germinated thanks to that lovely early summer.

Yaaay!

posted by The Whelk 14 April | 18:07

Blue columbine are blooming in my garden and I'm obsessed with the pretty watercolor effect of the blooms.

I had a GREAT hour long run/walk today after a great one last night too. Love bike riding season. Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day is so so sooo good. Reorganized the kitchen today in a fit of post-run-energy.

posted by birdie 14 April | 18:15

I have a blissful hour to myself now the baby is in bed and my husband has to work late. This rarely happens.

posted by gaspode 14 April | 18:28

It is spring here and the trees are all alight with buds or blooms. When I walk down to the corner of my block, I get lightly dusted with pink-petal confetti.

posted by Elsa 14 April | 18:31

Saw an amazing concert by Wilco this past Sunday at The Carnegie Music hall in our Oakland (not sure if it's the same Carnegie in Oakland as serazin). They played 34 songs lasting three straight hours, I loved ever minute of it.

posted by octothorpe 14 April | 18:34

Ooo! Oakland, PA - our Oak-sister across the country. Hail to you from the other Oakland!

posted by serazin 14 April | 18:45

My hair is long and shiny.

posted by msali 14 April | 18:46

Gaspode - isn't that the BEST??? I love my hubby and kid, but those rare times I have the house to myself is just .. heavenly. As long as they don't stay away too long.

posted by Kangaroo 14 April | 19:06

I received payment today for an article I wrote (which hadn't happened in over a year) and confirmation that payment is scheduled for two others; it's nice to feel like a Professional Writer from time to time.

posted by oneswellfoop 14 April | 19:12

The New York Times wants to interview me (for a job, nothing news-related).

posted by Eideteker 14 April | 19:24

I got the best dye and cut I've ever had in my life this afternoon. My hair looks so pretty, it should belong to someone else.

posted by jamaro 14 April | 19:38

it's my birthday! also middleclasstools!

wooooooo

posted by heeeraldo 14 April | 19:51

also I'm drinking at work, so bonuses all over the place.

posted by heeeraldo 14 April | 19:54

I explored the Logan Round House today.

posted by essexjan 14 April | 19:59

43839 messages in my work email. All. Perfectly. Organized.

posted by Twiggy 14 April | 20:02

I just finished a Skype meeting with my fellow moderators; it was more joking around than meeting. They are such a fun group of people. Cherry on top: I introduced a few of them to Merkins!

And birdie's picture is so pretty it is now on my desktop.

posted by deborah 14 April | 20:09

I explored the Logan Round House today.

*seethes with jealousy*

posted by BoringPostcards 14 April | 20:14

Gaspode - isn't that the BEST??

Hells, YEAH. I watched last night's Glee and read a magazine. Happiness!

posted by gaspode 14 April | 21:18

My pal lived to see another week on Idol! Huzzah!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 April | 21:57

I survived (but just barely) a trip to New York City.

posted by ColdChef 14 April | 22:02

I just spent the last 1.5, maybe 2 hours talking to my new ~~sweetie~~ BOYFRIEND and trading off reading out loud poetry we wrote when we were younger.

He also thinks I'm a better prose writer than he is. *swoons over my man*

posted by TrishaLynn 15 April | 00:09

Not news -- it's a few weeks old -- but I got into the grad school program I wanted. I'll see my parents and brother next month, all in the same place at the same time. And I think my garden has reached scallion self-sufficiency.

posted by tangerine 15 April | 01:18

My paperwhites are getting bigger. My asparagus fern lost most of its leaves during winter but is growing back now. I ate chicken and waffles two Saturdays in a row.

posted by halonine 15 April | 01:22

Happy belated birfdays, heeeraldo and middleclasstool! *whuffle*

posted by Specklet 15 April | 02:55

A few days ago, I found out my best childhood friend (since we were 4, I think) was almost 500 lbs about two years ago and is down to less than 200 lbs now. We're both right around 42 now. We'd lost touch and found each other through Facebook. I had to look twice at his pictures to see it was really him. He's also out and proud, which was a huge issue when we were teens. I'm so proud of him and grateful.

Happy belateds to heeeraldo and MCT. If either of y'all are ever in NW Arkansas, please let me know so I can provide happy belated birthday beverages.

posted by lilywing13 15 April | 03:46

I have a week off! I've got to do my tax as well, but hey - at least I earned enough to have to do tax!

posted by ninazer0 15 April | 03:47

It's my birthday! But don't tell anyone! It's a SEEKRIT!

posted by SpiffyRob 15 April | 06:34

Nice thing... I've cooked a couple of good meals this week. Veggy Moroccan root-vegetable stew with couscous, and chile con carne. Nom. Otherwise am feeling chaotic & overburdened so it's extra-nice to be making good food.

posted by altolinguistic 15 April | 06:47

serazin, make sure you pronounce Carnegie as car-NEG-ie and not car-na-GEE like New Yorkers do.

posted by octothorpe 15 April | 07:16

'tis the season for young boys to pick the dandelions in our yard and say, "here's a flower for you, Mama. Put it in your hair!"

posted by lysdexic 15 April | 08:17

The intermediate dance class I wasn't sure was going to run due to lack of signups has been given approval to run, even though there's only 4 people in it.

posted by sperose 15 April | 08:39

Sleeping with the window open.

posted by rainbaby 15 April | 08:56

≡ Click to see image ≡

Otto, the big boy now.

posted by chewatadistance 15 April | 09:57

Ack. sorry about the picture gigantor.

posted by chewatadistance 15 April | 10:09

Tasty tasty noodles for lunch, putting in tomatoes and etc. this weekend, free coffee from Starbucks today if you bring in your own reusable mug, no worries about getting taxes in because I did them in February this year, and life is good.

posted by Stewriffic 15 April | 10:20

It was my husband's birthday yesterday and we had a wonderful night together.

My kitties are playing in the box left over from his present.

The dogs have found a place to lay in the sun.

I made chocolate chip cookies.

posted by desjardins 15 April | 10:30

Thanks, chewie. I'm in a random bad mood too and the gigantor yellow lab reminded me that just barely ten days ago, I had a finished a long very complicated lesson on the intermediate slopes with a very encouraging instructor, who then sent me off on the trail over the mountain all by myself, and when I got to the bottom bit, I skiied through some trees that I'd been wanting to ski through for months, all by myself, and then when I got to the parking lot, there was a chocolate and a yellow lab, hanging out with their guys and their guys let the labs come plowing through a snow bank to roll around with me. And it was *awesome* cause I had a chocolate and a yellow for years and I miss rolling around with them.

Otto is awesome.

posted by crush-onastick 15 April | 12:04

My hair smells good, I like this pre-blow drying spray I got.

posted by rmless2 15 April | 13:33

I have learned something new about navel oranges. I have eaten many of them in my lifetime, and I always wondered why they had that weird bit of growth. It's also wonderous to think that every navel orange in the world is grown from the same tree, biologically.

posted by muddgirl 15 April | 18:31

Faint of Butt posted an awesome YouTube video of labs in the snow over on MeFi. (Otto must be about two now isn't he? He's looking very handsome.)

posted by GeckoDundee 15 April | 19:23

I love that video of the labs snow-sliding!

Also, I love this thread. I'm gonna save it for a day when things are less than grand, b/c so many of these comments made me smile IRL.

posted by chewatadistance 16 April | 06:53

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