Therapeutic.

Therapeutic.

Things that made me smile in the last 72 hours:

• A fresh clove of garlic, just dug from the ground, and eaten whole.
• Busting a move to "Bust A Move" at Liar's Club with my special lady and some of my best friends.
• My niece.
• My nephew.
• Bashing Harry Potter and deciding that "muggles" are in fact crossbreeds of beagles, pugs, and mutts.
• The inevitable roast that occurs at any of my family events. We're sharp wits, we are.
• It was ultimately a bad idea, but it made me smile at the time: White Castle.
• Band practice.
• Elvira Arellano's arrest and deportation.*
• Being told in great detail just how poorly a bar I particularly loathe is doing. Petty? Yes, but it still made me smile. I'm not proud of it, but ...
• The new Earlimart album.
• Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
• Thoughts of simpler times, when it just seemed like there was so much more time.
  

*I believe 100% that we need immigration reform, but that self-centered scofflaw was doing he movement more harm than good.