Today was a fantastic day. A great, old friend came back into my life and I can’t think of a better addition to my Tuesday. That friend is chocolate Teddy Grahams.

Early this afternoon I had a hankering for a snack, nothing too big but enough to squelch the “I’m hungry” voice beckoning from my belly. I opened our pantry cabinet dealio to hunt for potential remedies. My eyes scanned over boxes of Pop-Tarts, granola bars and peanut butter crackers. I started to choose one of those satisfactory but not excellent snacks when I came upon a truly exciting box.

Teddy Grahams have been one of my favorite snacks since they were first thought of by the guy who invented them. I loved them before he or she even told anyone else about their idea for a bear-shaped cookie-type snack that comes in several delicious flavors.

We didn’t have them very often at my house, but they were a staple in my grandmother’s snack cabinet. There was nothing finer than a trip to Nana’s, complete with noshing on Teddy Grahams during a break from the pool.

Today I didn’t have quite the same experience. It’s about 37 degrees outside and there’s no pool here in the basement. But the taste of the Teddys brought me to my happy place like granola bars could never do.

Another recent smile-inducing moment was brought to me by my good friend TV. Actually, it was whomever decided a Web site called OnlineBootyCall was a good idea and made it happen.

Now I’m not saying I’m all about utilizing such a service. I just enjoyed this commercial for the site as it played during a popular TV show last week. The sheer bluntness of it is incredible. It’s not one of those jeans commercials where the only reason you know jeans are involved are because there’s a pair slumped over a chair deep in the background. You know exactly what OnlineBootyCall.com is about.

Don’t want a pesky relationship? Don’t want to promise marriage just to hook up? OnlineBootyCall is for you!

And lest you think I have abandoned reading for additional hours of television, here’s the stack of completed books in 2009:

That’s seven so far. For comparison sake, I was just finishing the second of 2008 at this point in the year.

This year’s picks thus far:
-The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
-Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
-You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers
-IV by Chuck Klosterman
-The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
-The Winter Of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
-The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon