What made you smile today?

[Tuckervill]

Mountainchick wins!

My son made me smile today when he said I had to be the best mom ever.



Karen

[Kimmyt]

this!

[KnottedYet]

Oh! Mocha! His Broccoli! The feet thing!! Thanks, KimmyT!

I smiled today because after a nasty ending to my workday (major b*tch, but I didn't tell her off because I was on my way out the door) I managed to get ALL THE WAY up the beastly hill on my commute without having to stop and walk. AND I got all the way up the two later mini-beast hills that I sometimes walk.

And that sweated the angry right out of me!

(and realized that some people are so miserable and pathetic that there is no point in being angry at them)

[Starfish]

Am doing a sad job this week, cleaning out my parents' house to sell after they both died very recently. Unexpectedly found a couple of notes my mom had written to me in the past. Brought a smile in the midst of a sad week, month, year.

[roguedog]

Pook's post about the paper doll!

[roguedog]

oh.. sorry to hear bout your parents, starfish but glad you have good memories.

[enzed]

I'm glad I started this thread.
Everyday life can seem to be dull & hard at times, so it's nice to get a good surprise.

What made the letter mean so much to me is that next year there are going to be big changes. There's going to be new management in charge of the ride & a new catering company running things. We're not to sure what to expect, all we do know is that our close-knit team is not going to be the same next year.
At the last "group" dinner, everybody was giving speeches & saying thanks for the years of hard work. Faye actually had tears in her eyes as she was talking to us. To be honest, so did I.
Oh well, it's an end of an era, but I have heaps of memories to remind me of the good old days.

It's nice to have made such good volunteer friends. Most of them are over the age of 40 (I'm not quite yet 30, so I'm known as the "young one").
One lady, Lily, thinks I'm a such nice "girl" and a good worker. It's quite sweet really - jokingly I call her my "Camp mother".
And then there's my other friends - Alex (AKA Scotty - he's originally from Scotland), Norma (who likes bird watching), Little Bob (the route marshall who's nice to talk to), Phil (the luggage guy, with a really loud voice & a great joke telling ability) & heaps of other people.
The chefs were a great bunch to work for. The head chef "Charlie" may seem bossy at first, but get to know him & he's really very easy going - on a good day he'd give me a wink.
All the other chefs were nice to us - and to be honest kinda "cute".

All in all, it's nice to have made such good friends.