Happy Thoughts.

When I was in high school, my mom and I shared the master bathroom. I'm not exactly sure why, except that neither of us wanted to share with someone who unloaded his electric razor in the sink and didn't fully rinse out the basin. Yuck. Oh, that and the fact that master bathroom was twice as big. :)

We had a little daily calendar that sat in the WC on a shelf along with some other books and magazines. (Come on, everyone has bathroom reading material. Don't deny it.) The daily calendar was called "10,000 Things to Be Happy About." It was originally a book (now called 14,000 Things...), but adapated into a daily calendar. I looked forward to reading it every morning.

With that in mind, here is my list for today:

1. fresh flowers
2. carrot cake (with a really good cream cheese frosting)
3. alliteration
4. rainy weekend mornings
5. beluga whales
6. spontaneous hugs and kisses
7. smiles from strangers
8. cheese
9. family
10. relaxing vacations
11. looking at the stamps in my passport and reminiscing
12. picnics
13. thunderstorms
14. a good book
15. the first whiff after it starts to rain
16. new babies
17. wood floors
18. spontaneous road trips
19. a clean house, including windows and baseboards
20. Jelly Bellys
21. farmers markets - oh the vegetables!
22. the last few minutes of an auction on eBay when your item quadruples in price
23. the smell of jasmine
24. San Francisco fog
25. beautiful stationery
26. English cucumbers
27. proper table settings
28. smells of spring
29. playing cribbage
30. the internet
31. cold, soft (read: ridiculously high thread count) sheets