early turban, a photo by EP Holcomb on Flickr.

I’ve been pretty down on myself for gaining weight this year and not being able to magically (Weight Watchers, AHEM) melt it off, but then at work today something nice happened. I saw an elderly woman with the most incredible, fluffy cloud of white hair being wheeled into the lobby by an aide. She looked at me and cried, “Oowee, isn’t she beautiful?” to the aide, who smiled at me. She then called to me, “You know? You’re really beautiful!”

“Thank you,” I smiled.

“Don’t thank me,” she shouted, lifting her hands up into the air, sloshing her coffee, “Thank GOD!”

Later on I talked to her a little bit, and as I was walking away I heard her remark, to no one in particular, “Gee, she sure is cute.”

Not a bad day.