Day 36 Things that make me smile - Basketball

One would think with all of my posts about hockey that it was my favorite sport, it isn't. I like and watch hockey because all of my nephews play hockey.  My first sport love is basketball.  I played basketball until my sophomore year of HS - the reason I quit is a long story, maybe another day...  

Anyway, one thing I like to watch is college basketball, especially Minnesota Gopher basketball.   Tonight the Gophers played Purdue - the game went into triple overtime.  While the Gophers lost, coming home and watching a basketball game after a long day made me smile tonight.

Day 35 Things that make me smile - Watching the game with Jerome

When you are 14 years old, life is a lot busier than when you were younger.  It also means that Auntie is not needed to watch you when your parents are out which means I don't get to spend as much time with him.  Tonight I got to sit next to Jerome during Ben's game.  And while he was busy with his job of recording during the game we had time to catch up before and between periods.  We talked about a lot of different things - he has grown up to become a awesome young man.  I enjoyed my time with him tonight (Margrette was there too) and tonight that makes me smile.

Day 34 Things that make me smile - A hot shower

Saturday morning I went to take a shower and found only cold water.  When I went to investigate, I found ice on the floor in the utility room and realized I would need a new hot water tank.  This morning the plumber came and by the end of the day I had a new hot water tank and a new garbage disposal.  While I got to take a hot shower at my sister's house yesterday, it was nice to be able to take a hot shower in my own home - and tonight that makes me smile.

Day 33 - Things that make me smile - DVR

Being gone for a few days I had a pretty full DVR.  Tonight was full of repeats due to Super Bowl.  So instead I weeded through my DVR list and tonight that made me smile.

Day 32 - Things that make me smile - Lapdog

Today was a crappy day - started with no hot water to discovering ice in my utility room  to turning off water for all in my row of townhomes to now thinking I need a new water heater.  (plumber coming Monday morning bright and early)

But the one good thing was picking up Ella and bringing her home.  Tonight after a bad day, I sit on my couch with my little one snuggling in my lap again and that makes me smile.

Day 31 - Things that make me smile - Making connections

As I said before I was on vacation this week in Orlando.  As part of this vacation I chose to attend the FETC conference (yes this was my choosing and paid for it myself)   When I go to conferences that the district pays for, I make sure I attend every session I can and even extend learning gatherings.  The beauty of going to a conference that I paid to attend - I could go to as much or as little of the conference that I wanted to attend.  Thursday I attended sessions and Keynotes, today I went to the opening Keynote and spent about four hours walking through the vendor area making connections that will support our Digital 1:1 Initiative.  I talked to many vendor and am excited to go through all of the pictures I took to dig into a bunch of new sites and products.  (I took pics of information instead of taking brochures)  Thinking about the new connections and possibilities makes me smile tonight.

Day 30 - Things that make me smile - Downtown Disney

I love to shop!  Tonight I decided to go to Downtown Disney and walk through the stores.  It was fun to wander and overhear excited families talking about their day and finding a special treat.  Walking around and finding a few treasures made me smile tonight.