Fred just reminded me of our every-five-years-or-so project, 1000 Things We Like (I guess since we've done it twice now, it's thus far 2000 Things We Like and Counting). If you want in on the action, meet me back here in 2012, but in the meantime, this list reflects that today is a fairly well-balanced day, but I wish it were more 1000 Thingsy:
Good: Kashi Raspberry Chocolate Granola Bars
Bad: Realizing the fridge you've been storing your lunch in does not work, and is basically a well-sealed cupboard.
Good: Catsitting, and ensuing cheerfully one-sided conversations about weather, snacks, and people who are jerks.
Bad: Looking down during yoga class and realizing your black pants are covered in white kitty fur.
Good: Nice weather.
Bad: Short attention span.
Good: Gorgeous fountain pen in the mail.
Bad: Attempting to listen to instructions on how to fill fountain pen over the phone, shortly followed by realization that one is soon to be covered in ink and/or very embarrassed at a high-end stationers.
Good: K's birthday.
Bad: K far away in England, unavailable for celebration/cake/hug. In fact, all of the most ardent supports of 1000 Things are unavailable for hugging or any close-at-hand celebrations.
Good: Literary Salon at the glammy-glam Spoke club on Tuesday night.
Bad: Being too old to go out during the week without being sad the next morning.
Good: The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
Bad: Adams still dead.
Good: When I get home, cat will be there.
Bad: Now worry constantly when I am out that cat will eat plants and get sick.
Good: Internet for random useless but friendly and entertaining yammer.
Bad: Useless URLs.
Good: Well, it'd be better with a "b", in my opinion...
RR
Rebecca Rosenblum...
is a writer and editor who likes a lot of stuff. This is a blog about that stuff, and also her writing. Rebecca is the writer-in-residence at Jean Vanier High School, and was a juror for The Journey Prize 21. Her work has been short-listed for the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the National Magazine Award. Her first book of short stories, Once, was published by Biblioasis and was one of Quill & Quire's 15 Books That Mattered in 2008. Rebecca's stories are occasionally seen in Canadian periodicals and her second collection, *The Big Dream,* is forthcoming from Biblioasis.
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I find that 'going out in the evening and then being sad the next day' thing to be very disconcerting. I can't recall when it first started happening, but it's increase in frequency certainly seems to be in direct correlation to my decrepitude. Sigh.
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