joys of a new sponge

it's sunday night, 1855 hours pm in the evening, i'm listening to Dion and the Belmonts sing about Run Around Sue pretty much on repeat.  i really really really like that damn song....

i'm tired, like all the life force has been sucked out of me.  i'm not a close friend of time, so i don't know when the last time i wrote was, feels like a week, but it all started thursday....

went for a kick ass ride thursday, turns out i really really love riding my bike and it makes me happy.

friday, i went for another ride.  i rode pretty fucking well, rode stuff i hadn't ridden before, i was catching air like a pro fisherman catches trout, hucking like i was getting paid for it.  it felt GREAT.

then friday night i lay in bed, cramping my ass off, for no real reason.  i'm pretty sure i was dehydrated, especially since i was pissing brown sand.  

saturday, got a bunch of bananas and went to work early, we had an "event,"  and we worked for 12 straight  hours, non stop, granted there was beer involved, but at the end of the day, i was done.  got home and i could barely stay awake.

this morning i woke up super early and went to work.  it was slow, thankfully, but i'm super tired.

so, what was the highlight of the last few days, other than the super awesome kick ass ride friday?

I GOT A NEW SPONGE!!!!  everyone looks for joys in big things, they look for major events or huge instances, they want spectacular views and grand adventures and major things to make them happy.  well, my new sponge made me super happy.

i finally replaced my old, dirty, tattered, worn out sponge, with the tomato sauce stains and pieces of burnt steak and other detritus stuck to it.  i was pretty sure i was making things dirtier each time i used it to "clean" something.  i finally broke down and got a brand new bright yellow sponge with a kelly green scratchy scrubby pad.  the old one, which used to be yellow, had it's scrubby pad smoothed out over time, it was more of a "spread the dirt around" pad.

it didn't take an amazing sunset atop a mountain overlooking the sea with whales doing backflips and van halen rocking out on a floating barge and a mass of large breasted hot women dancing topless to make me happy.  it took a 79 cent imitation creature of the sea to bring me joy and pleasure.  it wasn't lasting joy and pleasure, but it did the trick, and even now as i think of it, it brings a smile to my face.

it doesn't take much for happiness, and i'm sure the happiness comes from inside, the fact that i can get joy from something as simple as a sponge.  external things cannot make you happy, including my cheap yellow sponge really, but if you let it, i guess, you can get happiness from ordinary objects, and so i wonder....why do you need an object?  why can't you just have the happiness?  i'm sure you could, if you wanted to, but perhaps it's easier to manifest happiness through and avatar?

either way, it cheered me up and made me feel good.

now i'm gonna drink a cup of hot tea, maybe wash some dirty dishes with my clean new sponge, and go to sleep.

tomorrow back to work.  and maybe a really good bike ride afterward.