I love ginger.  I don't know what it is about this sassy spice but it really gets my happy vibes jivin'.  It has this sweetness that is truly inviting and once you get sucked in, here comes the boom.  This wonderful smokey cinnamon flavour takes over.

My lovely daughter loves making my grandmother's recipe for molasses cookies, and  might  I say she actually has a knack for making molasses cookies.  In the recipe it calls for...you guessed it ...ginger....yum.

One of my most favourite desserts is a ginger cake that my mother makes.  You need to eat it when it is warm and with some whipped cream....Double YUM.  Just add a few peaches on the top of the whipped cream and you have now reached dessert heaven.  Yes, now the gods are looking down at you.

Now I am not only saying that I am a dessertaholic(perhaps sometimes I am), I also enjoy ginger tea.  I never even thought about making tea out of ginger root until a nurse(this is my shout out to Amanda, miss you) that I worked with suggested it.  So I went home and made the tea, and  added a little honey.  

I also like the pickled ginger that comes with the wonderful sushi that I get from Sushi Tonari in Bedford.  So very yummy.

So there you have it.  My happy for today is the most versatile root, ginger.

:o)  There is no Gilligan in this happy...

Sometimes when I think about tasks or jobs that I need to do, I will become overwhelmed.  It is rather disheartening when you think about it   It makes the deadlines seem closer and the pressure becomes more real.  This feeling sometimes will cause me to become inert having absolutely no forward moving motions at all.  Some people will lose hope, I just think smaller.

I think about the smallest thing that I could do, without difficulty.  Then I set into motion the tasks needed to do that small thing.  Chugga chugga..the motion is now back.  

Thank you for the small steps in life that allow the larger problems to become not so big and make them manageable.  Today, I am happy for small steps.

:o)  One in front of the other...

One thing that really makes me happy is when I get involved in a conversation that leads somewhere down a rabbit hole.  You must have experienced these conversations.  You start talking and before you know it, you and the person that you are talking to ask each other 'what was it that we were talking about.' This will eventually lead to a laugh between friends; knowing that if the conversation was as intriguing to each of you, you would never have had the discussion that you just had in the first place.

I take pride in the fact that I am a person that is easy to talk with, whenever someone is in need of an ear to lean on.   I care about my friends quite a bit, so when they need me, I'll be there.