Being Easily Amused Makes The World A More Magical Place

Here are three things I've discovered in the last day or so which make me happy:

1. Arugula leaves are called 'rocket' in Britain and Europe. So now when Mum and Dad come back from Italy raving about the rocket salad they had at their Tuscan villa, I can assuage some of my jealously by making my very own rocket salad, instead of thinking that Canada is deficient in the salad side of gastronomic delights.

2. Minotaur, the store which for months has merely been a tantalizing sign winking at me from out my apartment window, has finally revealed itself: it is a games store. And not just any games store -- a store with giant dice and monopoly pieces in the window, and a cool hanging metal sign out front with an "M" designed inside a tiny labyrinth.

3. We're finally getting a real crash bang thunderstorm. I love thunderstorms.

Sometimes I feel bad for people who don't derive pleasure from such small things as these -- I mean, it's not as if they chose to not be amused by them. But my easy sense of happiness means that something as tiny as discovering the name of leafy vegetable can infuse my whole day with a rosy sort of happiness. And in true Bento form, I feel guilty that I am somehow blessed with easy happiness where other people just don't get it.

But right now I'm too happy about the thunderstorm to feel really guilty. whee! Thunder!