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The world always looks brighter from behind a smile=)...
Today has been such a wonderful day =) Starting off with thoughts of Ulzhan which brings to me a smile, which then helps me to start the day. Then I arrived at work to see a wonderfully sweet e-mail from Ulzhan =).. Along with a little story about a teacher of hers who has traveled to many different places in the world. He had told her that he realised that there are two things that people understood wherever he went...coca-cola and smiles. =)...
A little bit later in the day I got a call from my Chief (boss) asking to meet him at his office. It was about the raises from the annual salary review which is now semi-annual. I can't say what my raise was but believe me it had and has me smiling and exceeded my very high expectations of it. As April would say like woah nelly BIG!
Later on in the day a co-worker of mine shared an absolutley amazing childhood story of his. He is from Hungary and born in either late 40's or early 50's. After World War II Hungary as well as other countries that were part of the Soviet Union wanted to break off from it. I will try to keep this as little political as possible. But basically there was a Militian army in Hungary opposing the Soviet Union rule. There was Soviet tanks rolling down the street right infront of his house and lots of gunfire and attacking happening very close to his house. Since it was a militian army meaning a civilian army fighting the Soviets and were extremely outnumbered. They would fight and then when the Soviet army was close they would retreat throwing there weapons away, so then they were just regular citizens again to avoid being killed as best they could, though thousands did die. Ok now to the story... Keep in mind at this time he was a very young boy. One day during the start of this war when he was in there backyard playing. He found some new items which to him seemed like plants, so as he has seen his mother due before he dug a hole for them and planted these new found plants in their backyard. He went to his mom and told her to come look at the new plants he found and planted. When she went outside she found that these new plants were not plants but hand grenades. One of the militian army must of tossed them into their backyard while retreating and my co-worker being so young knew not what they were. Luckily these grenades did not have there pins pulled and were safe. Crazy aint it? Perhaps guardian angels do exist...
And just after lunch I recieved another very nice e-mail from a friend of mine Germaine. It's been a great day and I am smiling =)... I hope your day has been great also and that you are smiling with me =)...
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