happy things

reasons why i'm in a good mood today:

- the weather is perfect, not too hot, sunny

- my clothes dried in less than 24 hours!

- i woke up to sun streaming through my window, silence.  that ended quickly, of course, but i enjoyed it while it lasted.  the interruption was john legend blaring from a neighbor's house, so still not a bad way to wake up.

- no more maggots!  if you get grossed out easily, stop reading this paragraph and move on.  if not, yes, i had maggots in my house.  the source is still unknown, but they were all over my kitchen counter and floor on tuesday morning.  while screaming and squirming, i sprayed about half a can of pesticide.  i can handle the termites, wood ants, slugs, snails, millepedes, spiders, lizards, cockroaches...but not this.  a neighbor told me they might be falling from the ceiling if there's a dead rat up there (oh yeah, because i have rats and bats living in my attic, too).  this of course made me freak out more.  i kept spraying all week, kept finding more each day.  but for whatever reason they are gone now.  thank god.  and franco put rat poison in the roof, so i don't hear them scurrying around at night anymore.  this could lead to more maggots, i realize, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

- rapid change of topic: delicious homemade coffee from a friend of a friend all morning

- cream cheese icing left over from a friend's birthday cake

- fun night out with michelle on friday

- running into a friend i hadn't seen in a while

- goodreads.com, a site for sharing books and reviews with friends.  you may've gotten an email from me.  if not, join!  i think i could waste a lot of time of this site.

- getting organized again after i let myself have a week off post-gre.  i have a great to-do list today, including things like blogging and eating lunch because i love to cross things off.  to-do lists make everything seem more managable.

- great memoir writing class last week, lots of positive feedback from the teacher and other students.

- lots of fun things to look forward to: mexican food with friends on tuesday, celebrating with michelle saturday after her gre, creole in the park, creole fest, fort young, my birthday, thanksgiving, christmas, conference in st. lucia in january...i know that seems like a long time from now, but it's really not.

- as of this coming wednesday, 6 months 'till i come back to the u.s.  this is a good and a bad thing, but i'll put it on the list anyway.

there are probably more, but that's all i can think of right now.  enjoy the fall weather for me.