find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year

• Cole Porter
• planning the garden
• hot spiced cider on a cold day
• having more energy after being sick and feeling very tired
• singing my lungs out
• bread pudding
• my very friendly stylist: I’ve found someone I really like and who does a great job
• getting my hair did

• International Talk Like a Pirate Day and Pirate’s Booty!
• Ultrasound therapy on my hip at Physical Therapy. It really helped the pain.
• Lunch with two awesome co-workers at an excellent bistro that makes some amazingly tasty food.
• Getting an email from one of my vendors saying that Fed-Ex won’t deliver to his home after his pet pig attacked the delivery person. It made me laugh so hard.

• Lil Wayne
• carpooling with Chipita
• spaghetti a la grecque from the health food store hot bar
• date night with the hub
• season tickets to the arts center
• a great work meeting
• a lunch meeting with a colleague about a new project/board of directors position that I am undertaking

• Lunch in my office with my sister
• the way Japanese gum is wrapped. All the packaging and design from Japan is outstanding.
• My Physical Therapist saying I was an athlete. After I laughed my ass off, this was one of the most exciting things I’d ever heard. Dang sports injury, though.
• Getting new strength training exercises right the first time.
• Walking in the park at the end of the day.
• Zazen, though I was antsy because of my hip and quite uncomfortable.
• Being invited to a Zen priest ordination

• coffee run with Chipita
• the hub’s spread sheet that he made for the dog sitting schedule for my sister. Hilarious.
• “I’d rather be jigging”
• a friend’s book release party planned-I am very excited for him
• dance class

• Planning a lunch date with some friends
• Friendly email messages
• Watching True Blood at Chipita’s house
• Anticipating my upcoming workshop
• Hot tea
• Snapping myself out of my funk
• Amy’s organic pizza. That is some fine, fine pizza.
• Haagen Daz Fleur de Sel Caramel ice cream. MOG, the salt and the sweet and the heavenly all in one little carton.
• My good friend Chipita.

• not doing stuff I don’t feel like doing, if just for a day
• reading for most of the day
• napping
• dinner with the hub
• having a confidant and partner in life who helps me through the difficult parts
• our pets
• good friends
• sweet dreams

• reading with the dogs
• Szechuan broccoli
• finding a perfect component to a Halloween prop that I have been planning for years
• not letting some things effect me: a work in progress
• hot tea
• finding some great used books including one on English gardens and the fantabulous Rodale Herb Book, which is all about the history, organic gardening and use of herbs. Yay for witchy-wannabe-me!

• Boba run with my sister
• Going to World Market
• Dinner with the hub sitting on the patio at Chipotle during a sun shower
• Maggie Moo’s
• Buttered Popcorn ice cream-who knew it would be so delicious?

• A coworker who was going through a very traumatic and serious and rare cancer procedure (surgery + a bunch of stuff for about 12 hours today) was doing well when we were last updated. And she was able to keep more of her organs than originally expected. I don’t really know her at all, but I hope the best for her.
• One of her close friends/coworkers was so happy about the news that she was dancing at the elevators when we were leaving for the day. That made my soul smile.
• Hilarious phone calls and emails throughout the work day with my sister
• Promoting National Adoption Day in periodicals and on the web through work – a great cause!
• Moving from just healing stretches to stretches + strengthening exercises in physical therapy. I’m getting better!
• My dogs – being greeted by them when I get home.

You know, no one can make you feel more special and welcome than a dog. When it’s a pack, like we have, then they work like a whole welcoming committee. (Now if I could only get them to learn how to mix a decent cocktail …)