What were the low and high points of your day?

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We had dinner with friends, who have two sons (Nathan -6 and Luke-2), and part of their evening/dinnertime ritual is to have each family member share the "low/high points of the day". My friends say it has become an important part of getting Nathan to talk about things at school he might not otherwise say.
The wonderful thing, of course, is that it happens every day.So you want to be specific.
I'll start:
The high point today was visiting friends who just bought a house, and seeing how much incredible work they have done already. And imagining the great parties I can attend there!
The low point was coming home to a very hot apartment, and my SO didn't feel like talking much. I was feeling effusive and then didn't know what to do, because it's too hot to do anything.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Low: Waking up after not sleeping well.
High: I'm hoping this will be the Ponys show I'm going to later.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

High: being offered a job (and accepting it) at the end of the interview!
Low: the heat and humidity coupled with eating too much bread for such conditions. (but the bread was sooo good and fresh! It could not be helped! A weather-appropriate salad was no match for it!)

Seriously, not a bad day (oh no, fresh bread! what will I do?! yeah, the tragedy...) in a stretch of quite good days.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

(it is weird that rrrickey and then rrrobyn posted. but okay too.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

Low: something depressing, I'd rather not say, but something specific.
High: writing my Fucking Ten and remembering that all in all, life doesn't suck SO bad.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

I forgot to add that you can choose not to participate (according to my friends family ritual), but should say why.
Like Truckdrivin' Buddha, for instance.
It's a very low key, no pressure thread. Although very high key, pressurized posts are welcome!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

low: missed the 7:10 bus by about 5 seconds
high!: got a gorgeous pair of red campers half price! yay

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

low: trying to explain to a mega-corporate client that 67 is not a large enough sample to base decisions on.

high: homemade pupusas delivered to the office with banana emapanadas

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

high: potential resolution
low: potential resolution

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Low: Hmm, probably having to get up to go to work, never like that. Oh wait, there was the one doof on the phone at work. He was annoying.

High: Stuff, things, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

low = getting up for work & being at work.
high = going home from work & everything after that until... see above

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday:
Low: Rangers winning
High: Listening to Kate Bush afterwards

I had a bit of a shallow day.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

neither highs nor lows in my working week: i just live like a robot.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

As this day just started I'll talk about yesterday (which could be any other day as my days are all the same. :-))

Low: Woke up with a headache again. Quelle surprise as I'm stressed out. I really need to stop having panic attacks and be pessimestic.

High: Rubbing my ever growing belly. Waking up next to my husband. Having a walk with the dog and taking pictures with my new camera.

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

Low: Too many to choose. Getting home from my exhausting day, tired, ill and hungry, and finding my housemates being all... married... in the kitchen. And then "breaking up" with my therapist over the phone. Never dumped a therapist before. And even then, I just kind of bottled it, and said "I can't really talk right now" rather than "I don't want to make another appointment".

High: Erm... naked Jared Harris? No. Uh. ::thinks:: A friend of mine had good news on a career front - she got offered a second interview for a killer job? That's the best thing that happened all day.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

Low: waking up in the first place.

High: eating the delicious lentil soup that M had left for me, watching old episodes of Wife Swap in bed.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

Low: Too many to choose.

:-((( Will you get a new therapist?

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

I don't think so. I don't really see much of a point, anyway.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 07:53 (twenty years ago)

and finding my housemates being all... married... in the kitchen

I don't know how you can cope with having married housemates. I know I wouldn't be able to.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

Low: sitting on the couch at about 2.30 this afternoon with a sick dread in my stomach, not wanting to go into work, dog-tired and beyond fed up.
High: my lubly boy asking me what would help cheer me up on msn, so when I said "I just want a baaath!" he said "call me just before you get home and I'll draw a bath ready for you to jump in as soon as youre home". Aww, luv.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

Low: having to try and sort out over a grand in cash my boss took from conference delegates without writing down who they were, how much they'd given her and what they were paying for.

Highs: morning off work, new CDs, new clothes, a gossipy phone call, good company in the evening.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

"High: my lubly boy asking me what would help cheer me up on msn, so when I said "I just want a baaath!" he said "call me just before you get home and I'll draw a bath ready for you to jump in as soon as youre home". Aww, luv."

A bath IS the most lovely thing in the world. it is beastly hot here - east coast of US - but i still have my evening bath. My SO hates the hot,hot heat, so he's not drawing it for me, but our usual behaviour is:him, drawing my bath, me sinking into it, us talking.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

low point-waking up and not feeling well still(sorry no more posting about this I promise!)

high point-incredibly soppy texting with girlfriend

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Pretty non-descript day so far. All I can think of is...

Low: train to work was really slow and stopped for a few minutes at a signal. i get really tense and nervous whenever this happens lately, but it was fine really.

High: erm, arguing my way out of a paper bag on the Goldfrapp thread?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Low: General pervading feeling of something not being quite right.

High: Emails from current crush.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Low: Seeing boss's boss inthe hallway - just the sight of him sickens me.
High: Sending out outdoor movie invitations for this weekend.. Oh, you're all invited if you feel like travelling...

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Thanks!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Low: checking my bank balance
High: i got a text explaining that my mystery birthday gift had arrived at my friend's house.

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

High: reading ILX
Low: reading ILX

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

we did highs and lows for the week at my bible study last year. it was nice.

low so far: getting up to go running. just didn't want to deal with it today.
high so far: buying tickets to go see great big sea on friday!

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Two lows (can I have two?): slept late so I didn't have time to walk the dogs this morning, which messes up my whole day.
Spent 45 minutes driving four miles in town.

Two highs (for balance): the lady we collected books from this morning gave us coffee and cold drinks, which was lovely. And I got some excellent shoes today for my wedding, which I've been scouring town for for ages.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Low: Getting SLAMMED on ILM for what I thought was a rather inoccuous post re: a new, albeit a slightly lame, idea

High: My wife smiling this morning and saying "Wow! I feel better today!" after being laid up with a nasty chest cold for the past two days.

Penultimate High: Listening to a GREAT live bluegrass show at work. I love me some high lonesome harmonies.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

You, accentmonkey, can have as many highs and lows as you want. Because we all want you to be shod when you get married.
(also because you said, on ILB "I can't be arsed with all this scrolling!! And I can't be arsed for many things - in honor of you!)

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

low: feelings of Postmodern Alienation
high: Listening to Radiohead

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Thanks aimurchie. That's such a nice thing to say.

You will be amused, then, to learn that I am getting married in a small ceremony because I can't be arsed organising a wedding.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I just had a low. I found out that one of my colleagues is in the hospital because she was injured by a hit-and-run driver.

― Land Ho (dymaxia), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

still early here on west coast of US, but like this thread so want to post.

low: waking up and getting out of bed for work. (never an easy time)
high: being at work, as I finally have a job I love.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Low: finding that I have $2.10 in the bank to last me until Monday.
High: having a bratwurst for lunch.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Low: getting off the elevator to go to work, and finding three people waiting! including the clinician! And i wasn't late!
High:A nice exchange with a clerk at the bank. We talked about movie rentals. He made my day.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Good luck Trish!

Low: I had today off from work and had planned a bunch of things to do around the house, but the heat kept me from most of it.
High: Seeing my wife's lovely face and giving her a big squeeze after she'd been away for a couple of days.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Low: being chewed out by my new boss for not getting him food at the Thai restaurant after asking him point-blank, "Do you want anything from the Thai restaurant? Cuz, you know, I'm heading over there."

High: ...Um. None yet.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 11 August 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

low: being really tired all day, sympathetic sadness at hubby's tough day at work

high: having my day of fatigue coincide with a day off so I could take a big fat nap, having a great big salad with some friends who were nice enough to drive downtown just to have lunch with me, having my husband give me a big hug and tell me how much he loves me.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 11 August 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

low: having my wallet lifted in a bar at about 1am
high: having my cooking complimented by a friend i provided some excellent congee to.

― Secundus Covarient (s_clover), Thursday, 11 August 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

high: job interview went ok
low: reading ilx

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 12 August 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

"high: job interview went ok
low: reading ilx
-- tokyo nursery school: afternoon session "
I would love to hear about your interview. I had one yesterday and I'm feeling lost - thinking too much about it. I'm questioning myself at this point!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been on an interview in ages, but I felt fairly comfortable about the whole thing. I am kind of thinking "oh, I could have said that" but hey, what's done is done.

New high point: cathartic gossip, and being able to laugh at what 3 or 4 years ago I was crying myself to sleep about.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 12 August 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

My interview was within the agency I work for - so I have a better shot at the job. But that was weird, as well, because it's hard to answer questions about a job you already have.
I don't know how I feel, really. I'm scared to get the job, and also scared not to.
Low point: not getting the recycling out for weekly pick-up. I'm in a third floor apartment, so this is always a big deal.
High point: A long chat with old friends.I love me my telephone!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

low: dragging myself out of bed to go running when i really didn't want to and getting back an hour before work, which turned out not to be plenty of time due to waiting for the shower. and i get to do the same thing tomorrow!

high: buying toilet paper.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

high: tasty salad from pret-a-pretentious
low: being told by the person i was doing work for that i wasn't working hard enough, even though i was busting ass and breaking my back, and he spent the whole day schmoozing with his buddies on the phone (on calls he was too delicate to place by himself!)

― some stockholm cindy talking (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 12 August 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

ugh, I hate that

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 12 August 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

low point: waking up at 3am with an asthma attack
high point: being told I was a demographic goddess at work

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 12 August 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday...

HIGH POINT: Walking out of a job interview knowing I'd pretty much aced it.
LOW POINT: Realizing that it's not really a job I want.

Today:
HIGH POINT: Efficiently rectifying an electrical problem in our apartment with a new surge protector, allowing us to not have to unplug everything else in the house when we turn the air conditioner on for fear of blowing a fuse.

LOW POINT: watching my little giggly troublemonkey of a daughter yanking out my Echo & the Bunnymen and XTC boxsets from a bookshelf and slamming them against the floor with giddily destructive abandon.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

yesterday:

HIGH POINT: Scoring some much-needed furniture.
LOW POINT: Crying about something. I don't even remember what.

Today:
LOW POINT: Waking up after only 5 hours of sleep.
LOW POINT: Being snippy with my boss because I was in a rotten mood.

I'm still waiting for a high point.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Low point: foot.
High point: head.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

low: feelings of Postmodern Alienation
high: Listening to Radiohead
-- sleep (enemy.airshi...)

Surely these are related?!?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Low: Getting out of the shower to find the toilet had been overflowing since I got in and there was an inch of water on the floor and water running out of the kitchen light fixture on the floor below and even into the basement below that.

High: Eating pound cake and brownies for breakfast.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I have a new high point of my day. At last. It's

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Yacht Rock.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

High : something work-related which I had been dreading because I thought was going to be incredibly stressful turned out to be really straightforward. Hurrah!

Low : Fell out with a good friend. Possibly my fault, because I can be a prat sometimes.

― C J (C J), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

yesterday

high point: walking to 7-11 and getting laffy taffy last night. We all realized we were almost out of breath from trying to eat the taffy. Then drank some groddy beer with KARMA in the title on the patio. Nice.

low point: nothing specific. me toiling.

today the high point so far was walking around the park. the fountains were on and I wanted to jump on the flamingo paddle boat.

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Today's low point: being told that my car needs work and realising that I don't know if I believe the guys, or if the figures that they're quoting me are realistic. Which made me feel bad for not knowing more about my car, and bad for not trusting people when they're just doing their jobs.

High point so far: my little dog, who is a bit under the weather at the moment, fell asleep with his head tucked under my arm. It was very cute.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

that's hot! lemme know when she starts her first band.

― some stockholm cindy talking (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

LOW: JOEK!
HIGH: RISING WHIRLWIND SNOOZE BUTTON SMASH

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 12 August 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

high: I got a package in the mail! My friend B finally return some books and a cd I lent him nearly two eyars ago!

low: work & eating too much junk food

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

high: finding a couple of great books on the dollar shelves at the cool used bookstore around the corner; watching a douglas sirk film festival on tcm (all that heaven allows is on now); getting to talk to someone i've been wanting to talk to

low: the weather

― some stockholm cindy talking (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Low point: the first 30 minutes of being back to work after only a couple days off. High point: possibly, eating Burmese tea leaf salad.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

another low: my first gray hair

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

low: my job sucks and it was about to get better, but stupid management power trip bullshit prevented me from doing what i was supposed to today

high: making friends with liquor store owner because i walked in and they were listening to air america and i got so excited i had to say something and then we talked about being liberal and "cool" for fifteen minutes! and i got cheap wine!

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

High: moving all my stuff to my new apartment
Low: Being told by the landlord that the carpets are being sprayed and I can't move in until late, late, late tonight.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

(xxpost) first! you're lucky. i'm only a week older than you and i'm sprouting gray hairs faster than i can count them!

― some stockholm cindy talking (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

High Point: Waking up, without a sore throat or headache (both of which had been dogging me), having slept well, listening to Lil Kim's "Lighters Up" while eating cereal and feeling the bass pound the apt. floor and knowing everyone is at work so it doesnt matter.

Low Point: Working, knowing I have to be here til 11 PM on a FRIDAY NIGHT.

― deej.., Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

oh also another high point: walking out the door this evening and seeing firelies dot the foggy air of the cemetery across the street.

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

High point: Salumi sandwich for lunch
Low point: Getting dragged to a happy hour at a "dueling piano bar" - I counted two Dave Matthews Band songs! Lots of 30 year old frat boy types! Drinks in 86 oz plastic buckets with big pink straws! My head is still rattling.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday:
Low Point: Sitting next to The World's Angriest Teenager at the Braves game last night. Also, the piss they call beer and sell to people, expecting them to drink it with a smile on their face.
High Point: A conjugal visit with the wife! I was beginning to think I was doomed to celibacy.

Today:
Low Point: SO sleepy on the last part of the drive home from Atlanta. I have no memory of the last 35 miles.
High Point: The Dekalb County Farmer's Market. OH MY GOD. I spent $175 and could have spent $575.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 13 August 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

ooooh i miss southern produce on the side of the road!!!!
peaches and boiled peanuts!

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Saturday, 13 August 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

The Dekalb Market is very different from a roadside stand, though those are great too. It's an international grocery, greengrocer, butcher shop, bakery, fishmonger, beer and wine merchant and restaurant the size of a Home Depot. It was amazing, and I'll be back in Atlanta in three weeks for a return visit.

I also went today to the Atlanta Farmers Market, a market so big you drive up and down the rows of vendors — it's too big to walk.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 13 August 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

oh man! suddenly i miss the south! this has never happened before!

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Saturday, 13 August 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

Low Point; sleeping in cause I couldn't face the fat pincers of a fitness assessment
High Point; seeing some goslings and being freaked out by a swans neck.

― Nellie (nellskies), Saturday, 13 August 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I have not had any low points in the past couple of days. This is possibly a Bad Sign, or maybe I'm just being cheerful in a good way.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 13 August 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

high points: getting the law and order game at a yard sale & buying new yarn & having fun at colorwork class

low: going to work, having to park very far away from the store, and having to walk in the heat

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 14 August 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

Low point -- neckache reached a precis this afternoon; wished for a taser to shock the knots to a pulp.

High point -- thug sulking through the aisles of the SA on 14th and LaSalle yells out: "Hey, you ain't got no lettuce up here?!"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 August 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday:

High points: driving along in the car grumpy in a traffic jam that looked like it was going to make me miss kick-off in the Celtic game then having the gloom lifted by "One Night In Bangkok" being played on the radio. Also going dancing with Ken C, and seeing an old friend I hadn't seen for about four years.

Low points: The hour or so at Parkhead when I couldn't see any other result except losing to Falkirk at home (note to non-football fans, this is bad and embarrassing), the lack of air conditioning at the club meaning I couldn't dance as much as I liked for fear of melting.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 14 August 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

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