Sometimes you can have a great day due to one, enormous, incredible event-winning the lottery. Meeting the man/woman of your dreams. Being the first in the season to discover that black really is the new black. Tearfully accepting the Nobel Prize. Events like those are like getting the Hope Diamond on a chain around your neck, a big sparkly that everyone notices.

But for most average people like myself, a great day often consists of a string of wonderful little pearls that, once slung together on a string, you can wear around your neck and have people admire their perfectness. There's something on your face or in your walk that makes people say: Hmmmm...is she having a great day or did she just get laid? And the fact is, the day wasn't extremely unusual, only special due to the continuing theme of My Day is Outgoddamnstanding.

Like the past 24 hours were for me.

First off, Mr. Y and I troop to the IVF doctor, which was a rare and precious thing. I continue to ooze over my sweet and nervous boy, my boy who has agreed to the next step, my boy who has a body that I still just can't keep my hands off of. Mr. Y and I cook a nice red onion and goats cheese tart for ourselves and Emily, and we all turn in early due to exhaustion and, in Emily's case, not feeling well. Mr. Y and I curl into each other and then quietly heat up the bed, and then fall asleep a big tumble of limbs, the duvet thrown off and the window open.

In the morning we drive to the office together, since my meeting is in Company X premises all day. I love driving together. I love getting coffee together. I love knowing he's 2 floors up. And I feel very thin and cute in my outfit, trim in the waist and girlie shoes-perhaps the last time I can wear them until next Spring, as Autumn drifts around us-nicely turned out.

I got a text message from him during the day that was among the sweetest ones he's ever sent me. Sitting in my boring meeting, my phone lights up, and I flip open the lid to see his message: I think I am feeling more at peace with our relationship on a daily basis.

It fills me so full of hot oozy lava that I burned a smoldering hole right through the chair.

The meeting continues and although it's boring, it's with people that I enjoy working with. We tease each other and talk. We can work together, and although we don't any of us hang out together off-work, they are people it's a grin to have a pint with in the pub. When the meeting ends, my boy is standing in the hallyway waiting for me, looking so cute it makes my toes curl.

Mr. Y and I head to the grocery shop to buy fixings for dinner, and something about it just seemed so normal, so "this-is-how-normal-people-live". We push the cart. We buy juice. I touch his bottom a lot and he lights up when I see him once I turn the corner to the aisle he's perusing. We make dinner, a fantastic soup. We watch Mystic River, and then Emily joins us for our favorite show, an English show called Nylon, about an Englishman in love with an American woman (fiting!)

And the final cap in my feather in my 24 hour period? I was something of a fortune teller. Due to "not fitting in", he's resigned. No more dealing with him. That bastard is AWOL.

That's right. Von PettyPumpkin has quit.

Just imagine me walking down the hallway, throwing the Dr. Evil "MWAHAHAHA!" type laugh over my shoulder, doing a victory dance.

Cause I'm doing both.
Still.
Really.
Worried I might trip even.

-H.

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1 Fabulous! Totally fabulous! I am so pleased you had such a great day cause I know you had it coming to you. And I loved the description of the pearls and diamond. You go, girl!

Posted by: RP at September 22, 2004 11:13 AM (X3Lfs)

2 Today's message: don't f*** with Helen, she got mojo.

Posted by: Simon at September 22, 2004 11:51 AM (UKqGy)

3 ::: EXHALES LOUDLY ::: I've been quietly holding my breath regarding the IVF appointment. I do SO VERY MUCH want for you to have the deeply satisfying love that I finally found. I want it for everyone whom I care deeply for. You see, with a rock-solid foundation; together, you will weather the big storms and the little squalls much easier. And pearl necklace? You little minx, you. You KNOW where my naughty mind took me. What a lovely, lovely day; for a lovely, lovely girl and a lovely, lovely post about it! I wish for you to have a lifetime of these "goddamned great" days. Isn't it wonderful to have that secret smile? Bless you, girlie girl. Yay, YOU!

Posted by: Margi at September 22, 2004 12:40 PM (MAdsZ)

4 You tell the tale so well! I'm so happy for you, to have had that fanfuckingtastic day, and I wish you many, many more! Now, if I could just find mine!

Posted by: scorpy at September 22, 2004 12:54 PM (NWYlN)

5 Yay for making me laugh at 7:02am. Thank you, I needed that.

Posted by: Heather at September 22, 2004 01:02 PM (BIWxv)

6 Oh, cool. I am so happy he quit! Could life get any better for our dear Helen? I actually just woke up my husband to tell him! So, please tell me how you make that cheese and onion tart, please, please please?

Posted by: Beth Donovan at September 22, 2004 01:07 PM (10rgs)

7 That's fan-fucking-tastic, little flame! Best of luck on the IVF route too (a.k.a. AKU - All Knocked Up). Cheers

Posted by: Paul at September 22, 2004 01:25 PM (xdj7o)

8 yay for random happy happy days. I love days like that when you walk and you know you're the shit. Go helen!

Posted by: martha at September 22, 2004 01:58 PM (5HJ2h)

9 Perfect day. I am glad and hope for more of them for you.

Posted by: drew at September 22, 2004 02:11 PM (CBlhQ)

10 You GO girl!

Posted by: EAsy at September 22, 2004 02:13 PM (U89mk)

11 Oh..... THAT kind of Pearl Necklace. :wink:

Posted by: gymrat at September 22, 2004 02:28 PM (nnOa7)

12 The perfect day, indeed!

Posted by: karmajenn at September 22, 2004 03:13 PM (fx1A8)

13 Glad to hear life is treating you right these days. And glad Mr. Y can still make you ooze. And so entertained at how happy you are doing "normal" things like grocery shopping. I touch My Man's butt alot when we grocery shop, too. Weird.

Posted by: amy t. at September 22, 2004 03:36 PM (zPssd)

14 Sounds like a jolly good time! Hope it stays that way for a very looooong time!!!

Posted by: Mick at September 22, 2004 03:52 PM (VhRca)

15 Gosh, I'm so relieved that I'm not the only one around here who needs to fish his mind out of the gutter. ;-) Sounds like an absolutely wonderful day. You go, girl!

Posted by: Gudy at September 22, 2004 03:57 PM (n0CV+)

16 Man, we all need one of those days to re-energize ourselves! And I am sooo glad to hear that Mr. Pig is leaving. Nice.

Posted by: Almost Lucid (Brad) at September 22, 2004 04:03 PM (9gTyo)

17 My favorite secular artist, Chris de Burgh, has a song called "At The End Of The Perfect Day"; and in it he describes his perfect day. It's similar to Helen's post in that it's normal stuff with the people you love. When I first got out of college, I learned: it's not what you do, it's who you do it with that matters. The company makes all the difference.

Posted by: Solomon at September 22, 2004 06:22 PM (k1sTy)

18 I am so glad you had a great day, you had it coming to you!

Posted by: justme at September 22, 2004 06:22 PM (zdtiB)

19 just giddy for you and love watching you dance like that. I hope one day I will too

Posted by: stinkerbell at September 22, 2004 06:30 PM (HhU+M)

20 WOOHOO...24 hrs of pearls I can feel the buzz babe....

Posted by: butterflies at September 22, 2004 11:26 PM (mF/af)

21 No more Von PettyPumpkin? That's so great.

Posted by: the girl at September 23, 2004 04:52 PM (s67Kt)

22 Helen said: Von PettyPumpkin has quit. YAY! I hope it was your scathing comment the other day that drove him off.

Posted by: Amber at September 23, 2004 08:02 PM (zQE5D)

23 ""That's right. Von PettyPumpkin has quit. Just imagine me walking down the hallway, throwing the Dr. Evil "MWAHAHAHA!" type laugh over my shoulder, doing a victory dance."" Just Remember Helen when you run across him begging for change be kind.. give him some spare change and say "I guess we won't be sitting across from each other in court after all" You must be kind to those who deserve it... This fellow don't quite qualify though glad you had such and UP day!! My week has been a broken toe, four percriptions for before surgery, and 3d row tickets for Cats [[that being a good week for me]]

Posted by: LarryConley at September 24, 2004 05:22 AM (aontM)

24 ah sweetheart, I'm late on this one due to evil bacteria, but I just wanted to say Happy Day . it's amazing how good you can feel after a normal day just slips along so smoothly. And then, the icing on the cake with Mr VonPettyPumpkin... well. I totally understand how relieving that would be. Heh. *HUGS*!!!!

Posted by: goldie at September 25, 2004 12:23 AM (stGoY)

25 and I'm even later, but what a great day!

Posted by: melanie at September 27, 2004 10:11 PM (jDC3U)

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