Happy list #58

Not because I need cheering up (for once), but just because I went to bed last night incredibly happy over sheep. And rats. And got to sing loudly in the car to bouncy music on the way to work.

I am mostly putting on blinders and ignoring Katrina, though thankfully my company has started something where they'll match donations up to a certain amount (yay!), so must write out check to the Red Cross soon. But otherwise, I think the past few weeks have totally emotionally exhausted me. It sounds really horrible and unfeeling, but I can't bring myself to think about this. I don't think I have the energy for it.

Actually, now I am less happy and more in the strangling mode, thanks to work. So... on to the next happy list!

• Yellow nightgowns with silly-looking sheep on them (um. Yeah. I admit to ownership. They are happy! Plus, sheep.)


• Matching blue nightgowns with silly-looking rams on them (these are my sister's! I am not the only person with sheep PJs! Plus, we wear them together and then the sheep and the rams can ogle at each other!)
  
• BPAL's Shanghai, which first off has an awesome name, and second off, smells like honey lemon green tea, and I adore it.


• Pretty yarn


• Stuffed Animals With Capitalized Names


• Too (2) much fun with numbers (########) in parentheses!


• The little rubber frog paperweight I found in the office, who is now contentedly grinning in my cube


• Cubicle culture (maybe not happy, but it amuses me to no end and generates lots of funny stories)


• My 2004 Cow Calendar. December has a cow on the couch watching TV, captioned "Cowch Potato." I am easily amused


• Flipping through fashion magazines with friends, complete with much snarky commentary on the return of bubble skirts (why??)


• Alton Brown's Board of Beans! And the Wheel of Beans! And his "Cutting Board Blues" song!


• Similarly, AB's stand mixer with flames painted on the sides, like a motorcycle


• Thanks to coffee_and_ink's tip, being able to name my iPod "Cthulu."


• The fact that my Tivo is named "Flamingo"


• Flamingos with yoyos in Fantasia 2!


• Dreaming that one of the groups at work awarded me and got me a gigantic Boston cream pie to celebrate. It was gargantuous.


• Labor Day Sale! Bonus: having my mom here, as she seems to like buying me more expensive things that I would get for myself


• Finding fellow Miyazaki fans


• Very hardy plants that have not yet died despite months of neglect!


• And the big one, today at least.... THREE DAY WEEKENDS! They warrant MAD!CAPSLOCKING!

Er, hopefully these aren't really boring to everyone who is not me...

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So. I've finally gotten my head out of the sand and started really reading up on Hurricane Katrina. I am so, so, so very depressed now. It's not that such a thing has happened, even though just that is horrible. It's what's happening now in the city, the people who couldn't get out being stranded there, stories of rape and gunfire and possible (confirmed?) violence. It feels too much like Lord of the Flies, or even bits of War of the Worlds, all the apocalyptic survival stories out there that bring out the absolute worst in human nature.

I can't really think about that right now, because it just makes me despair and because I can't live believing that that's all there is to people, that we will always revert to our worst selves in these situations. So. I dunno. I guess I will focus on the things that I can do and the things that are helping. Anyhow, I am glad I posted another happy list earlier, because it makes me feel a bit better.

( Stuff on me and optimism and pessimism and maybe even altruism )

I'm not quite sure what the point of all that was (I probably lost it somewhere around eight paragraphs back!), but this is a public post just because I figure it can't hurt and because the openness on LJ about a whole lot of things really helped me.

Er, right, I am out of sappy mood now! You may all emerge!

And because I figure people could use some cheering up, a happy list addendum!

My new face towel that has a yellow terrycloth rubber duckie on it and blue trim makes me very happy as well.