here are 5 things i love right now..............fill it out and pass it on.spread the love



1.taoipca pudding and tea.so yummy.and also pomegranates......fun.

2.my nephew jackson.hes 6 months and the sweetest thing in the world.

3.karaoke.

4silly poetry about green stars and talking animals.

5.snowglobes.

1. Ottos, the local brewery and apricot wheat ale

2. comfy jammies

3. a warm cat

4. bright orange afghans

5. being almost done with grading these #%$#ing exams

1. 'Yote
2. Kitminx
3. eggnog is in season
4. the specialty creamers like peppermint and gingerbread are in season
5. Life (and considering where I was LAST year right before my birthday, that's saying something)

1. LOST (returns January 31)
2. Thoughtful friends
3. Portable heater
4. Chocolate
5. Ditto on the pomegranates

1- A long weekend in Cincinnati with my 2 favorite girls, my favorite band and a bunch of wonderful Apples
2- Graeters (especially the Bruce Lachey upside down cone on the floor)
3- A warm fireplace on a cold night
4- Christmas food treats
5- Creamed honey on toast

Clancy (my daughter)
Barleywine
RCLTD
Married Life
Navel gazing (even more so with barleywine)

TODAY:
1. the mug full of coffee on my office desk right now this early in the morning
2. the anticipation of seeing the expressions on my nephew Griffin's face as he rips thru xmas paper to reach gifts on his first christmas
3. that it is almost friday
4. finding out that I am going to Indian Buffet tomorrow for lunch with a co-worker
5. the love of my family and friends

1.Euphrates
2.Kitminx
3.Hagbard
4.My Grandmothers
5. 3 days off work, busy life.

I can't believe you got to say that before I did.

props, ninja.



D.M.

1. the red mug of holiday blend coffee in front of me now

2. rain. how it looks, how it smells, how it feels.

3. my comfy, warm, beat-up, dirty, off-brand uggs.

4. Christmas.

5. the weight of my warm, milk-scented 10-week-old asleep on my chest with occasional shuddering sighs. and toothless smiles, learning how to laugh.

The upside down ice cream was not all that great!

a) Christmas time is around the corner
Our president is commiserating with a coworkers 6 year old about their recent brain surgeries (both went well!)
c) My Christmas mix CD
d) Nearly all my shopping is complete
e) the iPhone

Not in that order.

But they gave you a brand new one! And it made several of us laugh.

The holiday gifts from my staff scattered all over my office.

The afterglow of Teddy Thompson's Christmas concert last night.

The raise and the verbal appreciation I received from our CEO this morning.

The succulent lunch at the fancy Asian restaurant my boss treated me and the rest of his staff to a few hours ago. Susan Lucci was handing out Tiffany gift bags to her friends a few tables away!

Finding the perfect gift for our son Chris (the complete Twin Peaks series on DVD) just in time for Christmas.

Keithy-baby! Congratulations!!!

Way to go, Pop!

woop, woop!

1) Good movies.

2) Rain, no matter how strong or weak, in this nasty, persistent drought.

3) My sudden front-runner status for a director-level position at my company.

4) 11 days off. In a row. Starting today.

5) A week of solid solitude.

*holiday parties

*having monies to buy good gifts this year

*the xmas lites around my big window

*josephine

*when someone notices something you never thought they would

+1
* community

tonight

1. Holding my little girl
2. Staring at my little girl
3. Seeing her smile
4. Hearing her soft breaths
and
5. coming home to my family.

1. Ditto Barry

2. My wonderful husband

3. Our beautiful sweet wonderful outgoing daughter

4. Getting ready for Christmas

5. Anticipating how excited Mackenzie will be on Christmas morning when she gets her play kitchen and tears into her toys

Family
Friends
My dogs
The iPod
Surprising people with unexpected Christmas gifts

1. Company of Heroes (yes, it is a computer game)

2. Moleskine journal book. I'm on my 6th one in 3 years.

3. Champagne

4. Irish Folk Music (I took some pictures even - Mad for the Road at the Auld Shebeen in Fairfax Virginia)

5. Quietness

cold night air
my daughter
the clear moon filled sky
black night/white stars
half off retail.

house of cards - the radiohead song - had it in my head for 2 days now
the awesome reaction to my awesome "i will always love you" karaoke last night
slowdown at work finally, getting some long term stuff done
friends in from out of town still for the holiday season
my work christmas decoration: a fresh 100 strand of lights balled up on my desk, lit bright.

* reading the otr snow angels review in the l.a. times
* eating mint chip ice cream with sick kids
* guilty pleasure reading: echo park by connelly
* playing video games with my brother and my son (Assassin's Creed and Super Mario DS respectively)
* homemade broccoli and chicken soup. mmmmmmm good.

Wheat Thins- Sun dried Tomato! YUMMY!!!!!!

1. apple peeps in chat
2. apple peeps in chat
3. apple peeps in chat
4. apple peeps in chat
5. apple peeps in chat

it was so, so good to spend some time in real time with some the peeps here.
thanks for being the incredible people that you are.
love
d

Can we maybe, like, make a chat appointment or something Deb? I was an apple peep not in chat, can't believe I missed you last night!

neither can i, keith....
i almost posted "keith, where are you". i shoulda done it. i was thinking of you though. : )
yeah. we need to set up tsomething. this week is bad while my mom is away.
email me!
(bill i. has my new email)

squared.

1. countdown to the super bowl. it will be pats vs whomever. hoping its the packers...and they win!
2. my daddio who turns 60 this weekend. a surprise party is in order.
3. my bed which i have not seen enough off LOL
4. my buddies at Toots. oh how long have i missed thee.
5. sun and warmth...i hate ohio weather

-my sweet eric
-hot chocolate
-making valentines
-seeing (not just feeling) zöe kicking in my belly
-reading these days

peace out,
jaem

My new gaming computer
The Real Housewives of Orange county
Netflix Browse Instant
Friends that offer to help me when I have to work on MLK day and don't have daycare for the kids
Home made Indian food

1.) My French press, and its contents.
2.) My new book.
3.) My soft arm-chair.
4.) The warm sunlight I'm reading by.
5.) The nap that will inevitably follow all of this.

1.pilates

2.the anonymous postcard book.people sent in secrets on postcards and it was made into a book.its reallly great.

3.soy and veggie chips.

4.replicas of modern art tattoos.

5.goddess parties

oh and i forgot..........

6.my new keybord.im so excited to learn

Nice!I personally enjoy the spacebar.Particularly after periods!And other punctuation.

-velveeta shells and cheese
-swimming laps (even as a poor swimmer)
-mixing teavana's jasmine green and rooibos tropica teas and adding german cane sugar
-consignment shopping
-running into old friends

- reading "The Book Thief"
- playing keyboard or piano when i can get my hands on one
- roast in the crock pot
- the prospect of up coming fly fishing
- listening to The National with the significant

ha.................i guess i deserve that.i just realized i spelled keyboard wrong.oh well.dont be mad

1. cake .... free homemade cake with some kind of strawberry or raspberry spread in the center of the layers

2. My OtR tickets to the C'ville show in April

3. the new Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings album

4. my new jeans (turns out my size DOES exist)

5. cuddled up with a good movie and my "other half"

1. Onetime NY Islander enforcer (now a recruiter) Steve Webb showing up to visit Karen's school yesterday!


(sorry I wasn't there to meet him and his companion the NYI Ice Girl)

2. My niece and nephew's tandem birthday parties today (22 and 10, respectively) with the family.

3. Perfecting my recipe for Cajun pickles. I'm eating one right now, yum!

4. Finally meeting Neko Case last night! Here's a really awful phone pic I made the guy behind me in line at Tarrytown Music Hall take of us:


(hey, it's all I've got -- and that light isn't actually coming out of my hat, btw)

You can bet I'll never wash that jacket again! Neko was so nice, I told her she was the funniest most unpretentious superstar ever and she just pshaw-ed me. She was impressed I brought a red sharpie for her to sign The Tigers Have Spoken with.



5. Five new, never-before-played Neko songs! For a limited time, you can download mp3s of her show last night from here.
(Kent, you have my address)

Playing with my dogs with wild dog fury!

• snapping a bunch of good photos today (it's been a long time since I've been able to shoot)
• working on home-made valentines for my staff (cell phones with candy dot key pads!)
• the Chobb salad that's soon to be dinner
• getting my taxes done
• listening to the Juno soundtrack

Cher

1. enjoying the lil read of The Tender Bar - a memoir
2. super bowl sunday is soonly upon us...please let the giants win!
3. it was 50 odd some degrees today
4. my lil sis came home (surprise!) on leave for Daddios 60th and stayed 10 days. alas she went back to ramadi today
5. my friends are finally having wonderful things happen to them for a change

1. Having the weekend off from work
2. Living close to a wildlife refuge so that I can escape from the rest of the world and walk around there quietly sometimes
3. Pioneer Women of the West (a very, very old book - from mid 1800's - that I found in a thrift shop that I'm reading right now and carefully handling)
4. Hot tea(s) with slices of fresh lemon
5. my wool Indian Pendleton blanket

1. My morning routine
2. Friday's leftover, unread newspaper, masquerading as Sunday's
3. A stack of neglected magazines
4. My puppies and their breakfast
5. The quiet before the world wakes up

EDIT: future in-laws here. Disregard 1, 2, 3 & 5. At least the dogs ate.

1. Cuddle time with my Maxwell House
2. The loving wheez from Rum Tum Tugger sniffing my eyeball
3. A complete feeling of relaxation and contentment
4. A surprise wake-up call from Mexico City
5. Knowing that i'll be home in less than 2 weeks