SUNNY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!

things that are good right now, right this very minute:

▲▲▲ there was a day last week where we spent the e n t i r e  d a y outside. we met friends in the park, we met other friends in the park, we met more friends in the park, i broke in a new pair of shoes (they broke me in let's be honest), and that sun just kept on shining as if it had nothing better to do but lure my freckles out of hiding and cook the tops of our heads to a nice medium rare. it was so good. the sun made my arms itch and i love that feeling!

▲▲▲ my dad amazoned us a dvd of tom sawyer. we watched it last night and oh boy. it is about the worst movie i have ever seen in my whole life but i love it. i think only because i know my dad loves it. sometimes i think about my dad and all the silly ways i take after him and it's just all good. i carry your nose with pride, dad. i carry it with pride.

▲▲▲ lastly. we had this hysterical episode last night regarding brandon's student loan debt. (all the time i want to type "our" student loan debt, but really . . .) it was actually kind of wonderful and now i am going to tell you about it. 

so yes. brandon was checking in on his student loan account when he saw, to his great and astonished horror, that someone had scheduled a payment for the full amount of his student loans. like, the fu-uu-uuuull amount. all of it. the full amount is something like unto the price of a house. a big-ish house. sooo.

so first he sat up really straight and stared at his laptop like it was growing ears. his eyes started shifting about nervously. you could see the panic level rising . . . rising . . . rising . . . yup, there it is. ding ding ding!

then his hands went straight to his hair.

"ohhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyy . . . . . . ." he breathed. and then silence.

and then he became a total statue at his computer. for, like, we're talking a full two minutes here. no moving. real intense eyeballs.

"what happened?" i finally asked. generally in these situations i know it's never as bad as it looks, because brandon is the biggest over-reactor on planet earth. the rule goes, the more freaked out he is, the less likely it's actually any big deal. i felt pretty confident about things, cause he was losing it.

he told me about the scheduled payment and then whispered, "can i borrow your phone?" because by the way, this is the guy who earlier that day left his phone in the bathroom at work and didn't notice it was gone until after he'd left the office for the night. soooo, it was that kind of day for him already.

so the thing is, occasionally this happens. a loan is transferred from one bank to another, and in the process of the one institution paying it off completely and then getting their records straight it shows up looking funny in the account for a few hours. brandon knows this. i know this. we both knew this. brandon hadn't accidentally selected "pay this sucker off, to hell with it," but seeing it happen is different from knowing it happens.

the point is, there will never be anything funnier or more wonderful than the sight of poor brandon holbrook standing nervously over the trash can where my cell phone was charging, with a finger in one ear and the phone to the other, saying "help! help! help! help!" repeatedly at the student loan automated phone menu person who clearly wasn't understanding a word he was saying. and just knowing it was fine, and that we weren't about to be a hundred million dollars broke the next day, and then watching him hang up and say, very casually like i hadn't been there to see the whole thing go down already, "it's okay, i'm not going to freak out."

it was just so funny. and i just love him so much.

▲▲▲ THIS article about sperm trees, and THIS one about puke trees. we have both on our street and let me tell you, YES. on both counts. 

▲▲▲ bee tee dubs, writing this much is exhausting.