This one deserves a new tag

I know I have a good life. I don't like it when people remind me, because I'm just like everyone else in that I'm not always happy with my lot in life. That's pretty much human nature. I've gotten better in recent years though. Love what you have and all that.

But there are days when I don't need the reminder, because it's slap bang in my face how amazing my life is. Yesterday was my grandmother's birthday. Now, she died 7 years ago, but we tend to visit the gravesite (the family plots) on that day, mostly because it's a great time of year to clean the garden area up and plant. [And because the other date of choice is May 16, which is about 12 hours too close to my birthday to warrant spending time in a graveyard.] So, yesterday, my mother, aunt and I went off to Toronto to Park Lawn to clean up the gravesite (there are four gravestones in the family plot area, as my great-grandparents are burried there on both my mother's sides). Then we went to our favourite Bloor Street restaurant for lunch and met up with one of the cousins who lives up the road (she's my favourite - shush!). We had a great catch up over pasta and veal and then drove back to my parent's house.

That would have been a pretty good day right there, because there were no arguments or yelling! [Or deaths] But then I took my little baby and drove out to Brantford following my aunt to the airport (airfield) there. And then she took me flying in her adorable little Cessna up to Owen Sound to find the [cousin mentioned above]'s farm they bought a few years ago - to be close to the ski lodge in Collingwood - and took pictures. Cousin's husband has wanted a flyover shot for a while (he used to own a plane too and is in fact putting in landing stripe on the farm property because a lot of his friends have planes). We managed to find it first, which was pretty good from 5000ft I think! Then we flew a loop back in very bumpy winds (oh well) and I still made it back to Burlington for 6pm.

So, really, a spectacularly awesome day. I know that.

5 days left. Big thing I've been putting off to do. Oh, and that book review that's due to the museum journal in June. Oops.

Oh, and I may have gotten a new computer. Completely accidentally.

BEST. THING. EVER.

I am not kidding. Scholastic has just announced a joint book deal between Cassie Clare and Holly Black for a 5-book series about a teenage boy (Callum Hunt...best name ever) and magicians. This is only topped by the even more awesome news of the books - the first to be released in 2014 - to be turned into movies! I'm only a wee bit jealous of that sort of authorial power. But the series will be amazing, of course! The next Harry Potter? Just in time to get the next young generation of boys reading again...!

This makes me even more excited about the Mortal Instruments movie(s). Can't wait. Also, I really really hope we get the Infernal Devices as movies too. Because Victorian London AND Shadowhunters? There is NOTHING better in the universe.

I is a happy fangirl today.

Also, there might have been a good day too. Teeth and eyes are both healthy and I didn't have to pay for either! On a slightly less happy note, having spent the day in the town I grew up in, I don't recognise ANY OF IT. Seriously, even the schools have been rebuilt. Not to mention the houses. The shops. Every road that had empty land on it. So long Oakville, you are the centre for hubris and greed now. I like you even less now.