Today

Things that made me happy today:
-- Getting through the statistics exam. I don't know how I did, but it's over and that's good.
-- Seeing Chad after a year. He kissed me hello and goodbye, and it's good to have another friend who greets me with something physical after not seeing each other for such a long time (the others being Sarah and Erika). After being home around my friends who hug and kiss me all the time, I sometimes get kind of sad that I don't have many friends like that here.
-- Getting some of my pre-hurricane stuff back. More than I thought. Some I had written off as gone and had replaced. Now if I can just figure out where to put it.
-- Getting a big bunch of broccoli at the expensive grocery store up the street for only 99 cents.
-- Getting organic macaroni and cheese at the expensive grocery store up the street for only $1 a box.
-- Seeing that a hand-drawn rhino Zabrina drew for me when we were doing our masters survived the hurricane and has found its way back to me.
-- Seeing that the suitcases my friend Alysha painted for me survived the hurricane and have found their way back to me.
-- Seeing that my favorite headband and my ancient POW/MIA bracelet (that is so faded you can barely read it) and a multistone necklace and an amethyst bracelet my sister gave me all survived the hurricane and have found their way back to me.

Things that made me sad today:
-- Hearing that Chad's grandmother died in April.
-- Paying $7.99 for 24 bottles of Ozarka water at the expensive grocery store up the street because there wasn't any at Walmart on Sunday when Erika and I stopped in there for supper makings.
-- Making the decision (again) to give up some homemade pieces with sentimental value because of the risk of mold. Now I get to grieve all over again because I thought they were gone, then I saw them again, then I had to send them away.
-- Finding old pictures of my cats Ite and Janey and Nay's first service dog DJ.
-- Finding old pictures of my sister, my brother, and my friend Kim.

Things that made me giggle today:
-- Chad saying that after packing up a bunch of my candles and incense and aromatherapy oils, he's starting to think I'm a witch.
-- Buying a bottle of Arbor Mist sangria zinfandel and a container of trail mix and a container of cashew cinnaraisin granola as a congratulations to myself for getting through the statistics exam.
-- Finding an old Halloween picture from when I lived in the dorm, and Nay, Suzanne, my sister, and I dressed up as the Addams Family. My sister looked eerily like Gomez. And I didn't make a bad Grandmama. ::grin:: Hey, that picture of me in that costume got me two marriage proposals at camp a year or so later.