Good things about today

A nice quiet day today.

First off, when I was out cleaning my car (it's going in for repairs next week), I heard distant bells. In a few moments, the familiar melody of an ice cream truck came around the bend. I saw the tiny truck drive by, and nearly flagged it down to buy a drumstick or a pushup pop. It rounded the bend and its little melody followed it before I could give in to its haunting lure.

Later, after a flash thunder and hail storm, in the freshly washed air, I found a perfectly golden leaf clinging to my car window. As I drove to the rest of my errands, I passed a golf course. The late summer storm had left a snowy white covering on just the greens.

Good Things about Thursday

Today I had a good day. A handful of small things come to mind that made me smile or laugh or touched me in some way.

First, on the news this morning, the winning lottery ticket for the $365 million jackpot story made me smile.

Later, I went to Chick-fil-a for lunch (which is a good thing all in itself) and when I came back to the office, I made the day of one of our IT contractors by telling him where the nearest Chick-fil-a was located.

Back in the car, I decided to turn on my cd player instead of the radio and found unexpected music from my youth that made me smile and sing along. We Didn't Start the Fire got a double play even.

Finally, driving down to Aurora, I passed a large dump truck that had a giant Transformer Autobot sticker on the driver's side. It caught my eye and I laughed out loud as I passed the truck.

Somedays it's the small stuff. Today was one of those days.