the LiTtLe things that make a BiG impact

So today was an okay day...better than the past few, that's for sure. I had a good smile, a good laugh last night, and happiness surrounding me. That constitutes a good day.

My good smile: During lunch today I was sitting outside with my one other friend who has that same lunch (Tusi). We were sitting under the trees in front of our school and a car comes through the circle....no big deal....right?....WrOnG. The car, every time it went a bit faster than before whined quite pathetically. It started to parallel park and that sort of maneuvering takes a good bit of putting your foot on the gas. So it whined.....and stopped whining....whined some more.....decided it should stop once more.....but wait, "I think I need to keep whining because I'm not parked yet." Then finally, after an amount of time that should not have been allotted to parallel parking had been spent, the whining stopped completely. Tusi and I looked at each other and started laughing. Not only at it's habit of pathetic whines, but because it took so long to park. As we are talking about it the whine begins again. We look up and see the car pulling out of its so painfully obtained spot. After such efforts the student the car was waiting for came out and hopped in. It whined at us once more and left forever more. :) Tusi and I looked at each other again, laughed and that was the end of it.

My good laugh last night: I cannot honestly say that my dear sister Lydia is always in her correct mind. Last night I was reading Crime and Punishment for AP English Literature. I was laying on the couch and everyone in my family was just doing their own thing....not very exciting. I don't remember how it started but Lydia began talking in a Russian accent, saying the most ridiculous things. One small moment I do remember: My mother was on one as well and they were throwing comments back and forth. Mom had hold of Lyida's hand and was pulling away (Lydia wouldn't let go). Lydia started saying,"Give me hand! Give me hand!" in her Russian accent and it became so hilarious that I was eventually laughing so hard I couldn't breath. My mom (jokingly) said,"We need to give her CPR! Lydia! Do mouth to mouth!" Lydia: "I no give mouth to mouth." Mom came over and sat on the couch with me. Suddenly Lydia shouted,"If she give you mouth to mouth, at least you no give her hand to hand because she RIPPP it off!!" adding a gesture of thrusting her hand off into who knows where, referencing when mom was pulling Lydia (and Lydia refused to let go). Then I almost fell off the couch. I was thoroughly entertained. Half of the entertainment may have been that we were all quite tired.....maybe.

And then Happiness Surrounding Me: Fall time is, for me, the most joyful of times. Even though it is quite stressful with school, friends always make it better....well, most of the time. Like today. Everything seemed almost right. And almost right is as good as it gets with me. When everything IS right there will be no wickedness in the world. So almost right it is and that made me so happy. I love my family, I love my friends, I love those who put up with me even when I don't deserve it, I love those I put up with when they don't deserve it, I love those who love me, I love those who hate me. I love. And that makes me happy!

Tonight was the High School Band/Orchestra concert in which I played the adagio of Mozart's 21st piano concerto. It wasn't the best performance, but it could have definitely be worse, thank goodness it wasn't. I won't lie, I'm glad it's over, but I have learned that I need to practice a lot more than I thought I did. And that's that. I'm happy it's over.