Ever have one of those days when you're just happy for no apparent reason? I did today, my friends. I woke up before my alarm clock and was actually happy. Alarm clocks and feelings of happiness shouldn't even belong in the same sentence. I even had a good song in my head! I managed to go jogging too, due to not having to work until noon. Well, I've never enjoyed jogging in the slightest, but it's good for me... right? Luckily I had good music to keep my spirits up.
My first assignment of the day was to make lunch- chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, and frozen spinach. Not exactly my first choice (especially the spinach), but it was good nevertheless. Not to brag, but I make some good mashed potatoes. A bit chunky, with butter, buttermilk, salt, copious pepper, garlic, and a bit of green things- like oregano or whatever. Mmm delicious :) And today they were super good, most likely because I haven't made any in months. Not even Dana's complaints about them being too spicy could bring me down. They weren't even spicy. Stinker.
We then went on our usual Friday swimming excursion. I don't like swimming. But this time wasn't that bad, since I mainly went on the big slide with the girls. It's pretty big for an indoor swimming pool. Nothing for Hurricane Harbor, but it's still the biggest slide I've seen at a swimming pool. Jilli got such joy from going down the slide with me that it was impossible to have a bad attitude about climbing that spiral staircase.
I got home and started immediately on the wall. The paint stripper looks like, well, some sort of cross between snail slime and snot, with a very chemical smell. It has to work for 1-3 hours before you chip off the paint, so I took a trip to Real,- while waiting. They are having a sale on Ritter Sport chocolate. Who on earth would do that? They sell well enough at 89 cents... but 69 cents?!? I had to buy six bars. And the cute cashier was there too. And then my iPod decided to play awesome songs. The weather was great, I had chocolate, a nice bicycle ride, good music... Ok, back to the wall. Removing paint is a much more enjoyable experience when you use the proper materials. I would've worked for longer, but I had to go inside at 9:00 when it started getting too dark to see properly. There is something extremely satisfying about hard work. Maybe we Americans have forgotten that as we've gotten pulled into more "'intellectual" work.
Anyways, it was a nice day. Nothing extraordinary (except the random chocolate sale...), but I had a good mood all day. It's all in the attitude, people :)
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