today: positive, so far!

1. I CAN HAS SWISS BALL OFFICE CHAIR. It was very easy to put together, not too time-consuming to inflate, and now I am sitting on a yoga ball that doesn't roll away when I stand up and my neighbor across the office hall wants one too. (I let him sit on mine to demonstrate that even though he is about six and a half feet tall his knees will still clear the underside of his desk.) I can already feel muscles working in my back that I don't normally use when sitting.
   
2. I CAN HAS CUPCAKES. Today's LivingSocial deal was half price for a dozen cupcakes from Hello Cupcake, which is my favorite local cupcake boutique. (I am alive to the absurdity of the world we live in, where we have a selection of cupcake boutiques, but I'm going with it.) I have until February 3 to redeem it. I will have to ponder my cupcake choices (and what to do with a dozen cupcakes; I could eat them all myself but it would take a month, by the end of which they would not be as tasty as they'd been at the beginning, even with very careful preservation, I suspect).
   
3. I had a message this morning from the dude I had an apparently successful second date with last night. Without losing sight of the fact that the world is full of people who suck, it may be the case that there are also sufficient numbers of people who don't suck. Of course that could just be a girl who's happy with her yoga-ball chair and cupcake voucher talking on a Friday that happens to be the third payday this month.

Granted, tonight I am off to the airport to go visit the fam because we're finally burying my grandmother tomorrow. So it's not like everything is rainbows and sparkles. But generally speaking, things are pretty good right now.