“Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.”
-Gertrude Stein

Is there one thing that you do every day, or used to do daily, that mattered? Or, what is important and interesting about the place you live, or a place you once lived? Write about it with as much detail as possible.

"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
Honore de Balzac

Think of a time when you (or your character, if you are writing back story) thought you were more happy, or more unhappy, that you actually were, in retrospect. What made you happy or unhappy? Why was it not as significant as you thought at the time?

Yes, I know, September is a long way off. I've got some great ideas to make this year's challenge a little different but just as much fun as last year's. In the meantime, I'm going to post a weekly prompt here every Friday to get your (and my) blogging juices flowing!
Here's the first one:

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…’. — Isaac Asimov

Can you remember a time in your past when you said "That's funny..." ?