Annoying things & small pleasures

 Annoying things: 

• No one (very few people, anyway) remembered it was our wedding anniversary. Our FORTIETH anniversary!  :(   
• (Small pleasure:  ALI bloggers & other childless friends came through for me and made me feel better.  Thank you!)  
• Older Nephew was rear-ended while driving home from work one night recently, and is now suffering from whiplash, requiring physio (which, happily, seems to be helping some). The driver who hit him was a young girl, freshly licensed -- and looking at her cellphone while behind the wheel. (Are you surprised?  : p )  
• There was enough damage to his car (a 12-year-old hand-me-down from BIL) that it's basically a writeoff. BIL is on the hunt to find him a new one.
• We've all heard that you shouldn't drink and drive, but PLEASE, don't text or otherwise look at your cellphone while you're driving, too!  
• The water spout in the shower cubicle in the master ensuite bathroom has been dripping for months now... and (as a result) so has the drain. It's been getting worse lately. You can HEAR it dripping (although I've found that laying a piece of paper towel over the drain at night stops the noise... no way I could sleep with that going on!).  I shone a flashlight though the grate where the water goes down, and it looks like there's a bit of a clog forming. Ugh.  :p  I have had "CALL PLUMBER" on my to-do list for eons now (there are a couple of other things we need them to do too, in both bathrooms), but we're just too busy right now, so it's going to have to wait until we get back from our trip west. 
• (Not the annoying thing:) Dh tried on his suit -- for the first time since his dad's funeral 7 years ago, I think -- and it fit! It was pretty snug before, but he's lost some weight, and he will need to wear a suit to his cousin's son's wedding in August. (Weddings here are NOT casual dress!)  
• Related annoying thing: we checked his dress shirts (he had a few nice ones in the closet, left over from his work days), and they ALL had yellowing around the collar & cuffs. (!)  We bought him a new white one at the mall earlier this week. 
• Not enough sunshine lately.  :(  

Small pleasures:  

• We did have a lovely anniversary dinner.  :)  We had steaks, something we don't have too often these days, and wine -- and we had dessert:  Billy Miner Pie, which is kind of a signature dish for this restaurant chain:  mocha ice cream on a chocolate cookie crumb crust, drizzled with chocolate and caramel syrup and sprinkled with slivered toasted almonds.  Yum!  (I don't know what tomorrow's weekly weigh-in will look like -- but it was worth the splurge!)  
• We took four large shopping bags full of books to the thrift store this week (mostly ones I have cheap e-versions for).  I was keeping count as I filled the first two bags (44 books), but I forgot to count how many were in the last two bags -- but you get the idea...! I do hate letting go of books   :(  but my bookshelves were getting awfully cluttered, so I knew it was time to do a cull...!  and my shelves look much neater. (For now anyway...! lol)  
• Window washing (the accessible outside windows of the building -- whatever's on the balcony is our responsibility) is currently underway! (Clean windows make me happy! :)  ) 
• Pre-vacation pedicure this afternoon. :)