Oh goodness … September is almost over! I can’t let another month slip away without getting something written down! Not that it’s a competition … so it really shouldn’t matter …
At any rate!
Here is a short list of (random) things that make me happy:
1 – Having no e-mails in my work inbox. I have a funny (and perhaps over-obsessive) way of managing my e-mails at work. On nearly every e-mail I send, I blind copy myself. This way, any e-mail in my inbox – whether it be an e-mail I have sent or an email sent to me – is an item that requires follow-up. A to-do list, really. Once an issue/email/task has come to completion, the e-mail(s) get filed away. And nothing thrills me more than having an empty inbox. (Oddly enough, my personal e-mail does not get this same compulsive-organizational attention!)
2 – I love – like, a whole lot – how Aaron will push the buggy whenever we go to a grocery store together. Or any store that requires a buggy being pushed around. He has done this since the very early days of our marriage … and I really couldn’t even tell you why. If I ever made a comment to him that I’d rather not push the buggy, I have long since forgotten. I’ve always just chalked it up to the very gentleman-like man that he is. To me, it’s in the same category as him opening my car door – which he still does, mind you. Every time we get into a car together. Or, shoot, even when we’ve met someplace and we have two cars there – he will open my car door first and send me on my way before he gets in his car. Between buggy pushing and car door opening – what more could a girl ask for?
3 – When someone acknowledges my ‘thank you’ wave. I know the windows on my car are very tinted – so it may be hard to see – but I will often thank the car behind me for letting me in. And I always watch in my rear-view mirror to see if they acknowledge and give the ‘your welcome’ wave back. And when they do, it makes me smile.
4 – Using an umbrella. It is such a rare occasion here in Arizona – but that doesn’t keep me from always having a big ol’ golf umbrella in the back of my car. When that one-day-a-year comes along, I want to be prepared – and covered! Listening to and watching the rain fall are two of my most favorite things – and what better place to experience both than being outside in the middle of it!
5 – When I’m filling up my one-compartment-for-each-day-of-the-week container of vitamins and I pour out exactly 7 vitamins into my hand from the main jar. It really is quite funny how proud I am when that happens!
My Quirky Life 
