The best thing that happened today was mailing off the work that I've spent the past five months working on. Eek... scary, but liberating! Fingers crossed that it's somwhere approaching what the editors were hoping for...

Not that money is the be-all-and-end-all to me at all (infact, if it were, I'd be very disappointed with my life), but the best thing that happened today was receiving confirmation of my pay rise. It's kinda nice to have that vote of confidence from my boss, and for her to believe that I'm worth paying a little bit extra for.

The best thing that happened today occurred in the early hours of this morning. A dear friend is leaving the country, and to be on a makeshift dancefloor in a spraypainted basement for her leaving party, and to see our smiles as us six remaining party heads bawled our heads off to Tiffany's finest was a very special memory to hold of her, and of the last time I'll see her for a while. Bon Voyage Emma! xox

The best thing that happened today was being struck by writing inspiration just in time to make deadlines. I've always been pretty good with deadlines, but with the onset of years and the fullness of life I've been slipping a lot recently.
However, today I have made huge steps towards meeting two deadlines that arrive at the end of the month.
And in working so hard today (I've pulled an 8am-12pm mega writing session today), and being fuelled by the inspirations that working on them has surprisingly given me, I've actually grown not to resent the two projects in question that at one stage felt like complete albatrosses. Hooray!

The best thing that happened today was discovering this blog post making out like there's gonna be a film made of the best book I've ever bought my niece...

Haha, made me giggle!

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The best thing that happened today was finding this photograph...

The best thing that happened today was bicycle & tricycle related. I came home from work to find my housemates Kate and Dave outside in the sunshine fixing Kate's new Pashley bicycle. I brought my bike out and they helped me fix the puncture on the back tyre, and then we realised that the square bicycle basket that came with Kate's bike, but that she was no longer using, would look *perfect* on the back of my trike. I've been looking for a box or crate to put on the trike for a while, and this wicker basket was just the thing. So Dave cable tied that on to the tricycle for me whilst I went inside to get tea and cake for us to have in the sunshine. Whilst I was inside I saw I had some post, and it was this gorgeous bicycle necklace I treated myself to last week.

Then I went out on my tricycle on a glass bottle retrieval mission. At the weekend, on my way between various places, I had spotted several bags of empty beer bottles (mix of green and brown, different sizes) dumped on a patch of grass by the wayside. This was just what I needed, as I am collecting beer bottles to put round the edge of my vegetable patches to create a border, but I drink bottled beer so infrequently that it was taking forever to collect enough. So me and my trike not only helped clean up a local green spot, we also got bottles to make my garden even prettier! Then my cycle ride home through the park at night, with PJ Harvey on my headphones, made an amazing end to an already great evening.