Blue Water Day

Sometimes it doesn't take very much to make me happy.  A good cup of coffee, a kind word, an easy commute - all things that can change a so-so day into a good day.  My youngest son has taken to setting his alarm clock to go off at 7 am, two and a half hours before he needs to be at school.  At 7 o'clock I'm the only one awake in the house, usually sipping a cup of coffee and perusing the newspaper.  I've gotten used to listening for the alarm followed by muffled footsteps as he makes his way downstairs.  He's often toting a blanket as he passes by me at the kitchen counter.  We exchange a quick "good morning" and then he proceeds to the couch in the family room where he promptly falls back asleep.  Recently, I asked him why he gets up so early if he just goes back to sleep anyway.  He explained that he wants to be sure he sees me before I go off to work, that otherwise he won't see me until after school and those are the worst days ever.  Now, 8 year olds can be prone to hyperbole and I doubt those days are the absolute worst ever.  Still, it made me feel pretty good inside and I realized my days feel better when I see him in the morning as well.

Today, I had another reason to be happy.  It was a blue water day at work.  Our office is located in an older building that was once a high school.  The building has a limited number of restrooms that are shared by all tenants and anyone else that happens to be wandering through.  They get kind of gross pretty quickly.  Now and then, though, they do get cleaned.  And when they do, the cleaning crew leaves this blue water in the toilets - kind of like proof that they were there.  I love going into the restroom and finding blue water toilets.  It means that the bathroom has been cleaned and even better, that no one else has used that particular toilet since it was cleaned.  This morning, two of the four toilets still held blue water.  Even better, one of the two happened to be my personal favorite.  A good day, indeed.