Green: not just for envy.

Greetings all.

I haven't written in a while, mostly because I only want to write about something notable, funny, ironic, etc. that I've been fortunate enough to witness. But so few times in my writing--and in my life--do I take the time out to simply kick back and enjoy the day. Even rarer are the times that are I take the opportunity to reflect of such a display of awesomeness. And today, March 10, 2009, was a flippin' awesome.

I didn't win anything. I didn't magically lose weight. I didn't even have sex with eleven international movie actresses like I do every other day. Today (technically yesterday; woop woop for the night owls) was slightly above ordinary, accented with sprigs of delight. Here's why...

*I was off today. Enough said.

*I got to sleep in even later than I normally do, and Ike and Tina next door didn't even wake me with any early morning domestic shenanigans. Nor did anyone's over-audible vehicular music festival rattle my walls.

*The weather was perfect. After venturing to http://thefuckingweather.com, I learned it was 81 degrees and that it was "fucking hot...yet not hot enough to warrant wearing a Speedo." All day long, I marveled at the clear blue sky, basked in the radiant sun, and then cut the shit and turned on my car's AC.

*I had on a completely new fit. Since it was the first clear, warm, beautiful day in a while that I've been fortunate enough to witness, I decided I should dress to celebrate Spring's slightly early arrival. My grandma kicks ass and buys me clothes when she can manage to do so. But don't tell my mom or aunts because "they don't need to know." I put on the denim shorts accented with green threads she bought me during winter and the green shirt she got me some years ago but i never wore because I was afraid of how that much green would look on me. But naysayers be damn, today was the day.

*I (along with some co-workers) helped out a friend who REALLY needed it. I'm not ballin' by any means, but when I have a little bit to give to someone who is in desperate need, I try to help. Seeing her so elated by other people's generocity put a spring in my step. Now I see why Oprah gives aways cars and humpback whales on her shows.

*I did my laundry...Everyone needs clean underroos.

*I got lined up. The dude at the barbershop edged me up nicely and gave me a great goatee. It's just too fucking bad that these simple proceedures took almost one hour because he got too involved in a barbershop debate about rap music, its artists and their influences. Nonetheless, the whisker grooming makes me look better, so I felt better. If only I had those green Chuck Taylors.

*I ate dinner with a friend and had a good conversation while doing so. And earlier in the day, I talked to my newly married friend who just returned from his honeymoon in Spain. Needless to say, he's a happy man.

*I saw The Watchmen. The movie was average at best, but, since I hadn't been to a full-price movie in quite a while, and I vowwed to see this movie ever since watching its trailer before The Dark Knight, I had my face in the place at 9:05...

*Three hours later, I am home enjoying a Whataburger "medium" chocolate milkshake that I am pretty sure started out as vanilla and made the ever-so-obvious transition into chocolate.

And now I'm chillaxin at my house watching one of my newly-favorite movies, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Still wearing my green.