Happiness50 Day 233 (9/10/26)

Today I saw one of the fire department’s comms people, Daryl, who was excited to tell me that the Mayor’s Office comms team is really looking forward to some sort of event around the start of paramedic core courses at our partner, UDC, on October 22. He also told me that he would make sure I was recognized publicly for all the work I put into making it happen. That made me feel really good.

Happiness50 Day 231 (9/8/26)

(Oops, forgot yesterday!)

Kim has a couple friends who spend a lot of time at our house: Tayona and Xavier. Tayona turned 19 last week, but due to some miscommunication, we didn’t end up celebrating with her. Xavier turned 21 yesterday, and Matt made sure to ask him where he wanted to go to dinner. He chose a very good, but very loud, Italian-American place I had never heard of called Grazie Nonna. It made me happy that we could celebrate with him (especially since he hadn’t planned to celebrate at all!) and buy him his first legal drink (a glass of Chianti, naturally).