Daddy Date

Well, a good mornin' to you, Internet peeps!  For the third or fourth day in a row, it is an absolutely gorgeous day!  There's not a cloud in the vast Texas sky, the sun is shining brightly, the birds are chirping, and the temperature is just right.  It does my heart glad.  After waking up this morning at 5 a.m. to let Molly outside, I crawled back in bed and already had to pray for God to help me choose to have a good attitude today.  I don't know about you, but some days just feel like they're going to have some bits and pieces of rottenness in 'em.  And I'm learning that much of that depends on my attitude as to how rotten a day it will be.  Things kinda got messed up with our night schedule the next two evenings because of a lack of communication between me and my mister, spring cleaning is taking me much longer than I thought and I'm ready to be done with it, and I want to write the blog I've been mulling over for the past couple of weeks (keep expectations low though)!  So see, I have to watch my attitude as it's already creepin' out all rotten-like!  But the beauty of the day calms my heart and puts a smile on face.  So did this post by Confessions of a Pioneer Woman.  For you dog lovers, you gotta take a peek at it!

And this absolutely gets rid of any mere notion of rottenness:  I have a lunch date with my Daddy today!  He's coming to Austin on business for the day and I'm meeting up with him for lunch.  I want to take him somewhere new downtown to eat, so my friend, Liz, who is a downtown girl, and citysearch.com were most helpful in providing some quality options.  Depending on what he's in the mood for, these are the choices I'm giving him:

*  Sweetish Hill Bakery for light sandwiches, soup, or salad...and of course, something irresistible from the baker!  I have been here once for breakfast, but that was years ago.
*  The Onion:  pizza
*  Hickory Street Bar & Grille:  for burgers and other such American food
*  Iron Works:  for bar-b-que

Anticipating our time together today makes me reflect on the first time I came to Austin when I was ten years old or so.  My Daddy had some business to do in Austin for the day, but he brought me along as well for a little Daddy/Daughter day.  He took me to lunch at The Driskill and we roamed the Capitol where I was much more interested in the squirrels running around the grounds than anything else; I had never seen so many cute, furry squirrels before and I was quite enamored!  It was a special day together and I know this afternoon is going to be, too!  Yes, it's going to be a very good day!