If You're Happy and You Know It...

I have a "5 Things to Be Happy About" tear off calendar.

I know...it's a little odd. But sometimes, the bulleted items that are listed bring me a small sliver of entertainment. I sometimes think, "Why would anyone be happy about that?" or "What on earth IS that?"

In any case, I tore off the page this morning, I looked at yesterday's list of 5 Happy Things and realized that I must not have read them. Here they are--the items from yesterday, Tuesday, September 12th:

• a cat tearing through a room
• Captain Underpants books
• spiderwebs flecked with dew (I might argue with this one)
• the original Star Wars trilogy
• cereal bouncing into bowls

I read the above list and thought about the 4th one. Is it possible that when this 2006 calendar went to print sometime last year, that they actually knew that the original Star Wars trilogy was going to be released on DVD for the first time on this particular date? (Yes, the original trilogy, as it looked in the 70s and 80s, before the later-added special effects has been released. And yes, we bought it. We've given more money to George Lucas over the years than anyone else I know...)

I somehow doubt that the release date was even announced last year when they would have gone to press on this thing. I just think it is a really weird coincidence. I thought it was odd and I just had to share it with you.

And I also wondered if anyone else thought that "cereal bouncing" might be a little bit of a stretch for a happy moment. Just wondering...