My 2¢ For Today

Some days are full of sunshine & shiny pennies. Other days...crusty, barely identifiable coins and rain. Today was the latter.

But here's the thing about days like today...despite the rain and the two pennies I found absolutely covered in muck (seriously...I can barely ID heads from tails on one of them!), it was still a wonderful day. The dirty pennies are almost more fun to find. No, scratch that. They ARE the most fun to find!

I'm not exactly sure why I love the chewed-up, beat-up, dirty, gross pennies the most. Maybe it's my own amazement at seeing them in the first place. Or perhaps it's my sheer audacity at being unafraid of the germs I'm exposing myself to when I pick them up. Or still yet it might be the realization that many, many people walk right by these little hidden gems and never bother to notice or pick them up. Whatever the reason(s)...each one of those suckers puts a smile on my face and reminds me that happiness is happiness...even when it doesn't come in the form you'd quite expect. Maybe especially then.

So despite the rain, being late to class this morning, and being generally confused about life in general these days...I had two chances to say to get excited for a minute (yes, I ACTUALLY get excited about pennies) and say to myself, "YES! I found one!" And with those two pennies in my pocket being late wasn't such a big deal, struggling with my assignments was a joy, and I even ended up at an impromptu dinner with my sister and two friends.

I say a penny's lucky...even when it's too crusty to tell if it's heads up!