At the store

I went shopping today. You know I'm still five inside when I spend the most time in the toy section. I found bouncy balls that were extra bouncy. I find those extremely entertaining! Crayola is making glowing sand! Sand to play with in the dark! It says it may stain things.  I'm curious to know if I end up staining something if it will glow, long-term!

Catching up

Apparently, I'm not getting to this every day.  It's a new habit that I am going to have to concrete.

I will try to recap my week and pull all of the entertaining items out.  Monday, I went to my volunteer job at the zoo.  I was just doing some cleaning.  One of the enclosures I was cleaning was for a pair of ferrets.  They are adorable!  They are so inquisitive and energetic; I love to watch them run around their enclosure trying to get on just the right level so they have a decent view to see what you are doing.
This week, I finally finished a rock climbing problem I had been working on.  I'm not very good at climbing, and I'm terrified of heights.  When I grabbed the top of the wall, though it felt like a huge accomplishment.  It might not be huge, but I love the feeling anyway.
For a couple of days this week, I had been continually injuring myself (unintentionally).  I feel fine now and looking back on it is just silly.  I landed on my foot wrong and stretched my shoulder out too far climbing.  I hit my hand at work at just the right angle to make my fingers hurt, too.  The funny part is that it happened altogether, as far as the time frame goes, and I was really upset about everything hurting.  Two days later, however, and everything is de-pained, if not back to normal; it's ridiculous to see how upset I was, you would have thought I was three.  

I am going on vacation and I'm pretty excited.  There are sure to be many little things to enjoy during vaca!



Also they have come out with jungle themed Mother's cookies!  There are green frosted ones!  They don't taste different, but I love them more anyway.
 

The Beginning

So occasionally, okay probably really often, I act or sound like I'm still five years old.  This ends up meaning that no one is surprised when I play in the sand like a five-year old or can entertain myself with a box.  Sometimes, this entertains others; and I'm sure sometimes it annoys people.  However, my aim is to contribute to my own and other peoples' enjoyment of random things I notice or that I found humorous and entertaining that day.

My thought is this: there are so many little things every day that are beautiful, random, funny or otherwise smile-to-face-bringing that they should be able to easily counteract a bad morning or crappy afternoon.  It takes so much energy to be glass half-empty, and I would rather devote that to being glass half-full. 

Fair warning - I'm an animal nerd.  So you know when the mere sight of a doggy or kitty makes a three-year's day?  Mine too.  There will be many such random animal sightings.

Fairly decent view of the city from the freeway.  Nice weather, the mountains are all green.

This is a field full of COWS!! ....only an animal nerd gets this excited.

Look how pretty this mountain is and there are some clouds.  Just ignore the power lines, they're not important (artistically speaking).

Horses!!!

A rose bush.  Its interesting how many phases of growth one plant can be in at once; there are buds that haven't opened yet all the way to roses that are dying and drooping.