Things I'm grateful for today...

1) When I was midway through dying my hair today and I dropped the applicator bottle, it bounced once on the (open) toilet seat, fell onto its side on the (open) toilet seat, and spun halfway around the (open) toilet seat before I (eyes wide, heart pounding) caught it. I'm grateful that I wasn't left with the choice of either half-dyed hair or toilet-dyed hair. I'm also grateful to have been given the opportunity to once again reflect on Radio Lab's "Time" episode, and it's observations on the relativity of time.

2) I spent two hours weeding and pruning in our yard today, and ended up with a mosquito bite on my elbow and a nettle sting on my hand. As I was also doing laundry at the time (and was therefore wearing nothing but clogs and a knee-length dress), things could've been much worse. I'm grateful that they weren't.

3) While Brett was driving home from work today, he called me up to chat like he usually does. We talked for awhile and he was almost to our freeway exit when he said "Oh God! Ohmygod!"

The last time I'd heard him sound like that on the phone it was because someone had just hit him. It was a hit-and-run, and we still have the dent in the side of our car to prove it. :( THIS time however, his panic was due to the fact that someone had just hit the car directly BEHIND him. I am grateful that both husband and car made it home safe and sound today.

4) Last Sunday at the grocery store I was in a broccoli mood so I bought twice as much broccoli as we needed for this week's menu. The broccoli was for tonight's tofu and broccoli coconut curry over brown rice, and I figured we'd just use all the broccoli tonight and end up eating a crap-load of veg (pun INTENDED).

Brett is always the one who cooks on curry night (he's the curry *king*), and tonight he BURNED the broccoli. The bottom broccoli was inedible, but the rest was fine. And since I'd bought double, we still had plenty. I'm grateful that I got my veggies tonight.

5) I've been trying to listen to Netflix's advice lately, so I've been working my way through a list of my "recommended" films. I queued "V for Vendetta" blindly a few weeks ago, and we watched it tonight. At first I thought it was going to be another "Ultraviolet" BOMB (which they recommended and I did not like), and Brett even said at one point that he wouldn't object to turning it off, but we stuck it out and in the end it wasn't bad. Well, it sucked a little, but I liked the message. Stick it to the man!!! I'm grateful that we have Netflix, and that for the most part they're good at recommending films I appreciate watching.

6) I could go on mentioning how grateful I am for this and that...everything from my homemaker status to the mites on my eyelashes, but this is my blog, and I don't feel like it. Instead, I'll mention one last thing:

Today while eating lunch, I happened across a YouTube video of quite possibly one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. If you're British (or more pop-savvy than me), you've probably already seen the clips I've posted below, but if you haven't seen them, you need to. The first clip made me cry. No joke. Real tears of joy. The second clip is just to confirm for you that the feeling you get from the first clip, that for that moment in time something truly and purely beautiful was occurring, was felt by the original television audience as well. I'm grateful for Paul Potts. :)