<p>Kind of a bad morning. Started off the day with snow, which I am really tired of. </p>
<p>I forgot to move my car into the drive last night and I got a ticket for parking on the street. </p>
<p>But I went to McDonalds and was able to get the Happy Meal, Wizard of Oz Dorothy today. I swear I squeeked, “Yeah!”</p>
<p>The day is looking up!</p>
<p>The contractor showed up at the rental house this morning and the air conditioning is fixed! 
Just in time, too, supposed to be 86 today…</p>
<p>I was reading the NYT online this morning early - 6:00am here on the west coast, and I got an IM from my senior in New Haven. </p>
<pre><code>“Why are you up so early, my dear?” she asked.
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<p>MY DEAR! This is my 22 year old, calling her mother, my dear!!?? That made me smile. :)</p>
<p>I was grumpy during my drive in this morning, until I heard Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” on my XM, always puts a smile on my face (can’t wait to teach that song to my grandkids!)</p>
<p>Jon Carroll’s column today on mismatched socks
<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/11/DDGTLOSC6E1.DTL[/url]”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/11/DDGTLOSC6E1.DTL</a></p>
<p>1.) I had a great lunch at Panera with my beautiful daughter, and we listened to music from “Tick Tick Boom” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie” on the way there and back. :)</p>
<p>2.) S’s gf came by this morning to pick up a letter of rec that I had written for her for a scholarship application. She was down about some issues related to her family, and I was able to offer her a safe place to vent, confide, and get major {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}—and give her something to eat! When she told me that she has absolutely NO idea what she would have ever done without me, it made me smile…and I have no idea what I would do without her either! :)</p>
<p>3.) S2 is tearing up athletically right now in both track and spring league basketball, despite his team’s loss last night. :)</p>
<p>4.) It’s sunny, if windy, after a day of solid rain yesterday! :)</p>
<p>5.) I have amazing friends whom I love dearly…EVERY DAY!! :)</p>
<p>6.) dadofsam posted above me, and he always makes me smile! Hi dos! :)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Well mine sounds a little shallow now compared to Berurah’s but I’m going to add kickboxing (non-contact)</p>
<p>I smiled to see the Duke boys exonerated and can only imagine the rejoicing in their families.</p>
<p>I sometimes search for photos of things to make me feel good. Today I found a pic of an incredibly fuzzy baby chihuahua. Now, that’s nothing but good right there.</p>
<p>My brother, the computer programming geek, sent me the following suggestion:</p>
<p>Go to Google Maps. Under “Get Directions” type in “New York” for starting point and “Paris” for destination. Then carefully read all of the directions.</p>
<p>THis made me smile!</p>
<p>TheThree Duke men were found to be innocent and all charges dropped. :)</p>
<p>Last night, a “hot” spring day-seemed like nearly 70F- wound down to a lovely sunset with a concurrent low tide walk on the beach with my pooch, what a peaceful way to end the day.</p>
<p>My son eating a big plate of Easter turkey dinner leftovers and saying" Mom, this is the best- even three days later." (I just threw out the remaining leftovers. We must be approaching the food poisoning danger zone)</p>
<p>My son didn’t get thrown out of school three weeks before graduation for sitting-in the President’s office.</p>
<p><a href=“At sit-in, students urge USC to ensure apparel is not sweatshop-produced”>At sit-in, students urge USC to ensure apparel is not sweatshop-produced;
<p>churchmusicmom: that works for me, too</p>
<p>Hi, Berurah. I smiled this morning 'cause it was raining, which means I can wait a while before I have to fix the sprinklers.</p>
<p>If you want to see what’s coming up in my garden that makes me smile, check this website:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.napairis.com%5B/url%5D”>www.napairis.com</a></p>
<p>Dude two people above me stole the thunder, but I am happy as a forking clam that my boys got all charges dropped! It will make my year to see Crystal Gail Mangum to get more than 6 months behind bars; and it will my my decade to see Nifong get disbarred and do two years in the crowbar hotel, and to be put into genpop with the bezerker skinheads. But a man can only dream.</p>
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OMG, I’d be smilin’ too!!! Just gorgeous! :)</p>
<p>Add me to the list of those <em>really</em> smiling for the DUKE lax players!! That particular smile won’t fade for a LOOOOOOOONG TIME! :D</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>My daughter sent me a picture of a sign in Boston:</p>
<p>With dozens of theaters, we offer almost as much drama as the average teenager.</p>
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OMG!!! ROFLMAO!!! 
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