My sister made dinner!

Photographers residing in the city of Philadelphia. (Just one of them, actually.)

Conversations with people from my sign language class while waiting for the bus in the rain. (Biking to class in the rain was no fun, and I was nearly killed more than once. Better to bike in daylight!)
Running into old friends on the same bus.
Not having to lug a frigging mountain bike up four flights of stairs, for once.
Reading a non-school book, and following its contents.


Hmm. I want pancakes.

royal canadian air farce

The pancakes were tasty.

yummy....pancakes......

Hour and a half-long phone conversations about how dysfunctional our families are, how lame bipolar disorder is, and how good pancakes are.

Air America
Big pirte hats and fake pirate knives in the reduced section.
walking around first thursday with a good friend.
Free wine.

Working in my apartment building today... yeah, baby!

The way my baby smiles at me when i sing to her. She's the only one that likes my singing Or maybe she smiles just to be nice and not hurt my feelings

payday.

paying the bills and still having money left over.

Pregnancy in the family. Yay!

Congrats!!

Guy Fawkes' Day/Bonfire Night.

The chestnut train is back!
And my supervisor at my night job stuck a paper beverage umbrella into the wall of my cubicle to make me smile!

saturday mornings with nothing to do.

Favorite thing: d.'s rant -- because it was short, sweet, to the point AND included the word "feck"!!!

: )

Wearing my bell bracelet while listening to a Madison Greene CD and using it to make (unnecessary) contributions to their percussion section.

having a little too much port while smoking tobaco on a hooka with several friends, and talking about incredible things.
My cat's insistence for sitting on my lap.

I HAVE NEW BOOTS!!!! I'm still in that funny stage where I don't recognize my own shoes when I see them, and it feels strange to sport footwear without holes, but I am so freaking happy to have shoes with nonporous soles. Whee!

you're right Lynne. even i find it funny, now!
and hello! btw.
hugs
d

My dad just bought me a T-shirt from ThinkGeek.com for Christmas. It reads "Obey Gravity -- it's the law!" Sweeeeet. *designs own binary 'you are dumb' shirt*

intense conversations with church people in bars about Over the Rhine.
Finding a wonderful pub a meer ten blocks away from my house.
My kitty snugling up to my leg

Becky got me that shirt for my birthday!! We could be twins!

Having my dad sleep over.
Good days.
New shoes.
A new shirt (even if I can't wear it until after December 25th).
Having a family which accomodates all sorts of weird tendencies and impulses (e.g. pulling over to the side of the highway so I can hop out of the car, wade through the ditch, pull some sample leaves from the intriguing trees on the other side, and hop back into the car, where I spent the next fifteen minutes picking miniscule spring-green bugs from my person).
Having glue sticks again.
Making people happy.
My brother's comment that chocolate is more precious than gold. (Well, certain kinds of chocolate, namely Glossette raisins.)
My brother's perfect happiness with popped balloons and a foam Dollarama sword.
Plotting to buy him a real sword for Christmas. (Christmas 2005, but still... it'll happen!)
My other brother's general wonderfulness.
My family's general wonderfulness.
Mom being so happy with the punch and bowl and all.
Birthday parties.
This apartment being six times the size of my last one. (Creepy interim roomie situations don't count.)
My yellow-and-orange Rothko poster, and the way it perfectly suits its present wall.
Not having been fired yet.
My computer's wondrous acknowledgement of having a sound card.
Listening to melancholy MP3s (Carissa's Wierd! I so want their music!) and random stuff Becky, Brandon, and Steve have sent me.
My printer works! Kinda. But the software is still half-English, half-Portuguese.
Mason jars. FREE mason jars.
Leftover refrigerated pizza.
Mittens.
Nice church people.
Putting stuff I love (Russian dolls! I want some!) in a shoebox for a child I'll never meet.
The Incredibles.
Adding to my ticket stub collection.
Memories of classical concerts gone by.
Rocking chairs. At last, we have seating for three.

Becky's return....yea!!!!!

Thanks, Michelle!

I was just thinkin' the same exact thing.

: )

The live version of Cast Me Away from MP3 of the month... it's heaven.

Lemonade.

Rosewater for cheap.

Having a capo again.

Having my mom's birthday present in advance.

my fingers being on fire from playin'.

listening to Air America while browsing through books at Powell's.

Being able to sproing out of bed as if from a toaster after about four hours of sleep. Well, a toaster that bends your bread in half as part of the launcy process, anyway....

My cat snuggling with my leg.

everyone being so nice to me when I'm disapointed.
a melancholy day picking up when my American Lit midterm comes back with an A on it.

Way to kick ace, Bethany!

way to go!

chai tea.

I'll second this.

Green tea.
Receiving my thinkgeek.com order in the mail. (Wow! Speed!)
Clean laundry.
Running into a good friend at the gym.
Book exchanges.
Michelle Shocked MP3s.
Having a day when EVERY FREAKING THING went wrong, and STILL skipping happily through the world. (Late to work, made big booboo, juust missed bus, late to class, juuust missed bus again, late to therapy, juuust missed metro, late to QPIRG meeting... and then some.)
Free food!
Rediscovering favorite books.
Being greeted "hey, Stargirl" at the QPIRG meeting.
Seeing more people I like.
Singing.
Very cheap groceries.
There's a gravity cop on my floor! Yay!

Plane tickets! Online! In my email inbox!

Aie. I owe Dad soooo much money.... Ooh.

Late bedtimes.

Early deadlines.

Reveling in the stress, huh?


Bruce!
Taft!
Being awake and not sleepy!


Should sleep... should do homework... hmm. Dilemma of the shoulds. Should NOT be online. Shall try do something right. G'night!

the soup i'm having.

"spicy sweet potato bisque". mmmm.

getting new CDs in the mail.

knowing that there is a package with OTR stuff somewhere in the mail, on it's way to me right now.

This note at my work desk on a particularly stressful day:

Feel better, Beck!
We all love you
- Abby

I have great friends.

Edna St Vincent Millay.
Sitting with a friend in my office reading that poem together and sighing.

She had another one I loved...I think it was called "The Murder of Lidice." It's a tear-jerker.

Oh, and I'm sure there will be more loves in another season to come your way.

The guitarist called me. They have a show in Orlando Friday, so it is only two days until he "gets to see me." They will be on campus doing an interview with the campus radio station Friday afternoon.

What a nice ending to a hectic day.