- fire on flat out couch readings
- under doona past one thirty a.m. but keep on anyway readings
- sunny sunday seat by the window tram ride readings
- coffee shop banana bread readings
- secondhand brown paged paperback price marked in pencil readings

for being alive

for being aware of being alive

eta: it doesn't hurt to be aware of being dead, either

- Saturday morning
- reasonable people
- is- ness
- Niman Ranch
- my dear one

- M&M's
- living in interesting times
- the opportunity of limitation

the limits of opportunity

- I'm not allergic to peanuts.
- chopsticks
- almost on the other side of allll this stuff...
- bbq!
- big bottles of orange flavor sparkling Crystal Geyser

- my brilliant guy and his cute toes
- the softest bunnycat in the world
- coupons for things I actually need
- steel wool
- the thought that the current project has surmountable problems and soon we'll just be in maintenance mode... *whew*

I am grateful for my boyfriend.
My mother.
My brother.
My home.
My Sunbeam egg timer.

- it's FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- it's a three day weekend :D
- Nijiya market
- my dear, kind, sweet, generous, good bf
- a 13.5" pre-seasoned cast iron skillet. Wow.

my boyfriend
my computer
other people
life
sunshine
a dryer that works
windows movie maker

hells yesses. :)

- Good-quality, honest coffee
- cinnamon sticky buns
- sweet fuzzy kitties
- 3-day weekends
- middle-eastern food

mind numbing repetitive music to drown my noisy office neighbors and keep me focused

I'm grateful for Dan.

just thought you should all know that he's a good friend.

for music that has always managed to uplift me in troubled moments

this beautiful crisp fall day where the brilliant orange and red leaves are blazing against a bright blue sky, I see V's of birds heading south, and my mood is sweet with knowing that at least I get to live here.

my son was finally convinced to get his hair cut. he looks beautiful!! :)

- approximately 4 thank you's/compliments... better late than never.
- possible light at the end of the tunnel
- it's time to go home
- maybe get to see Laura tomorrow..?
- a weirdly warm evening... top down drive home :D

- It's Monday! (yeah, I'm just kidding.)
- I have a job to go to. (not kidding about that.)
- we haven't wiped out frogs and bees yet.
- the kitties are getting along better.
- I still have almost an hour before I have to leave :D

Being bedridden (not so grateful for that) for two weeks and having access to all of the following:

1. The most amazingly delicious vegan cake I have ever tasted...(who knew?) - I'm not vegan, but everyone around me is trying to make me be-
2. Black Liquorice Altiods
3. Headphones
4. MMORPGs
5. Virginian fall breezes through an open window
4. My dog, Bea & her cat, Julie.

- pocky
- KCRW online
- Rob
- Arthur
- Beulah

- small soft chocolate dipped macaroons
- Rob
- Megan
- Laura
- Monica
- Jane
- Bret
- Ofa
- good memories
- I have a pretty good job
- I don't have to run from sabertooth tigers, or dodge bombs, or ration rice or water.
- I don't appear to have any terminal illnesses to combat
and
- today is Friday. :)

chocolate
sambal
mist
sigarets
weddingring

VOTERS

coffee
wodka
cake with clotted cream
friends
real friends
role models

i am glad you guys are all here just one click away from me, wherever i go :)

I'm grateful Frieda's occasional pictorial bridge updates

my family
my friends
random hawk sightings
when I get a text message
music

resurrecting old threads
being a zemonkey
being able to vote
I saw Henry Rollins last week
glad to be able to vent

Re-connecting!
Many years later.....