A few sappy and/or happy things

1.  I’m sure the statement I’m about to make has limits, but there is nothing like a morning bike ride in Southern California’s February weather to remediate most levels of my exhaustion.

2.  There is a mother/daughter pair on my hockey team.  The mother is our team captain and is about my mother’s age, and the daughter is in college.  Seeing them together, talking about laundry or sarcastically sniping at each other, makes me miss my mother.  It’s approaching ten years now since I lived close enough to see my mom all the time.

3.  I actually have two confirmed purely social events on my calendar in the next week.  This may be unprecedented;  what is even more astounding is that I’m actively looking forward to both of them.   On the other hand, I love today because there is absolutely nothing written in the box for today.  Glorious.

4.  www.environmentalgraffiti.com has recently become one of my favorite websites.  The pictorial nature top tens can hold my attention for way too long, but I mean come on… crater lakes!  Underwater volcanoes!  Awesome.  Plus, this story.  Ha.