(OK, so that title annoys even me, but it’s the Tuesday after a long weekend. So it’s really Monday. Deal with it.)

And today, after last week’s complaining and the fact that I may have just gotten cream cheese in my hair (!), I thought I’d give you a simple little list of things that make me happy:
• that Gustav wasn’t as bad as he could have been
• that I got some good work done on the magazine yesterday at home. With coffee in the  middle of the day and Elizabethtown on the TV.
• I go to Orlando on Thursday. Granted, it’s not the best timing since so much needs to get done here at work, but it’s time not in the office. And it’s Universal. And it’s paid for.
• Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
• Mizzou-Rah! I kind of really miss Columbia right this minute. Even though I know that it wouldn’t be the same to go back because I mostly miss are the people, many of whom aren’t there right now.
• Multigrain Tostitos and homemade salsa (I’m not bragging, just stating truth: my salsa rocks my face off.)
• that we don’t “grieve like the rest, who have no hope.”
• friendships that last over years, stretch across states, and people who are always there for you, even though they’re not necessarily right next to you.
• A “happy Labor Dabor” call from my brother. And the fact that only the two of us know why we call it Labor Dabor and still think it’s funny.
• Awkward moments that make me laugh later the more I think about them.
• when Muffin is sweet to me. Which is few and far between, but precious when it actually happens.
• Andrew Peterson’s music
• coffee
• comments on my blog
• the fact that I forgot to put on a slip today and that I’m oversharing it on my blog and that this will make someone laugh somewhere.
• My dad’s “I’m so going to beat you at this game” laugh
• My mom’s smile
• Sitting on the patio just talking and not feeling rushed and that I’m wasting time
• less than a month until my birthday.
• a good attitude and an eagerness to get something actually accomplished.
• writing random weird quotes on the chalkboard in my kitchen to create conversation starters.
• coffee, again.
• blog posts from my friend Brandy that make me laugh out loud.
• comments on my blog.

Have a good day, all! (Hugs and Kisses. . . . OK, maybe not really, but you could pretend)