I had just a lovely day.
This morning was devoted to a work seminar I helped organize, and it turned out really well. Only one or two hiccups, and those hiccups didn’t diminish anyone’s training experience.
All afternoon I studied for Son of Series 7: Series 66. I have been trying for two weeks to pass just Chapter One and I have failed daily. I fear it might be the lack of junk food. Tomorrow I bring fetal carrots to work; that’s the closest I get to sugar.
That was the only black mark on the day, however. Someone thanked me for something I’d done for them. I bought travel money belts on Amazon and was able to answer yes when Gary emailed me demanding to know if they were Rick Steves recommended moneybelts. I took 21 pushpins home from work. Marcia’s boss asked if I was stealing them, and I answered, “Yes.”
And finally, the best thing to happen today: It was 78 degrees when I went home, and even better in the shade. I went out the first time in months and weeded the garden where Mom and Dad’s ashes are. An hour before sunset, the wind rustled the leaves in the trees and whispered, “Autumn.”
Hello Autumn. I know you’ll be elsewhere while I’m tromping through Forest Park at LouFest this weekend, but it was so nice to see you again, just for a moment.
12 responses to “The Cool Breeze”
Now imagine that your central a/c stopped working in 8/16. The night that went down to 64 degrees almost made me weep with joy.
You sound right cheery! Rick Steves will guide you through Paris like a champ! I love Rich Steve’s Paris.
Today I was screwing off at work and ran across an article about the best sites to see in London if you only get a week. I get to the bottom to see that the author was the one-and-only Rick Steves, who I never would have known about if it hadn’t been for you. I rolled my eyes in his general direction (and his article wasn’t even helpful!)
Glad to hear you’re having a great day!
Tami – Yikes! Is it fixed? Hatttie- I am often cheery, I’m just easily distracted. This morning I was on the p-atio next to the rose bush and a hummingbird flew right in front of my face. After a few seconds a giant bee showed up in the rose bush and I saw it in the corner of my eye. I glanced at the bee and when I looked back, the hummingbird was gone. That’s too symbolic of my life lately. Tonya – Even better is the COncierge.com article on 10 things NOT to do in Paris (not by Rick Steves): http://www.concierge.com/ideas/hotspots/tours/501423
Ah! Nice change of pace. We should be getting our autumn teaser tonight.
I’ve been hesitating to admit this because it seems a bit stalkerish, but I entered Saint Louis on my iPhone world weather list, and have been astonished, amazed, stunned and stonkered by the extreme range of your temperatures. Truly.
I can feel the autumn too. My friend and I took our kids to one of those pioneer-type village things yesterday and it was sunny but no humidity. Blissful.
Becs – Enjoy! Big Dot – It’s not the extreme range of our temperatures, it’s the humidity.Allison – It’s particularly obvious in the shade.
My a/c is not fixed. I am dreading Sunday, which is supposed to be back in the 90’s. I do not know why the circuit board ordered on Friday afternoon is not yet arrived, but I weep with despair about it.
Tami – buuuut -it’s fixed now, right?
I’m melting my way to a higher weight. No, I don’t understand how that works, either.
Tami – Uh, it’s the added weight of water in the humid air pressing on the scale?