Things that are making me happy today:
- The smell of the crisp, clean Fall air.
- The sound of old mix tapes after they’ve emerged from long hibernations.
- The sight of Sam Brown’s drawings on paper.
- The little man’s hugs, as he begins to comprehend the difference between baby touch and bear touch.
- The taste of pancakes for dinner.
And some bonus sensory stimuli (things that also make me happy):
- The Aeolian Ride, which is the Inflatable Suit Bike Ride, of course.
- Friends of friends of friends. Turns out my old pal Noel is a friend of the husband of the force behind Gengki Gang Hats (considered making a little flow chart graphic to help make sense of that statement). I’ve been a long-time fan of Lindze’s work, but haven’t been able to choose just one style of hat. Though if I were forced to, it might just be the Choco Cat Hat.
- This gorgeous gallery, documenting the super-sizing of Star Wars action figures from 1979 to 1997.
- The little man’s increasingly appropriate use of pronouns. The boy has been talking about himself in the third person for some time now, and has never had a handle on pronouns in general. So he took me by surprise this morning. Upon seeing that the husband was wearing my headphones the little man quite correctly said to him “you are wearing her headphones.” It may seem like a small thing, but this is a HUGE deal for us.
There’s just one more sense I left out, and that’s a sense of guilt, for not quite hitting…all right, for completely missing more than one deadline I set for myself this week. But I do like what Douglas Adams said on the matter:
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” 