Joie de vivre

1. Chocolate covered pretzels
2. Chocolate covered raisins
3. Chocolate covered espresso beans
4. Not drinking beer
5. "Speed Limit 75" signs
6. Sir Galahad the Brave
7. Mail
8. Air conditioning
9. TRAVELING

What about you?

1. Listening to my younger brother ... sing bass.
2. I have a new culinary specialty: Ginger Pear Jam. (Simmer equal amounts of grated pear and sugar with a bit of grated fresh ginger and a hint of allspice until translucent golden brown and somewhat reduced. Dynamite, as Ms. Kasper would say.)
3. aftondays is hosting another photography contest. The theme this time is "Orange" - Unless I change my mind, I already have my picture. :)
4. Some prayers were answered this weekend, and it leaves me hopeful that the rest may be soon.
5. I have a new hat:

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1. One (1) penny

2. One (1) pewter button

3. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter (not a library book)

4. Arby's coupons, outdated by several months

5. Two (2) notes to self, reminding me to pay my gym membership (check) and buy ten (10) 2 cent stamps (check)

6. One (1) note from mom, reminding me to pick up grandpa's medication (check)

7. Bank deposit slip from previous owners of car

8. Two (2) cans of de-icer

* equuschick and elanortheeldest are awesome, as is the rest of their family. < -- I shall expand on this later, when I can be coherient and expand my vocabulary.

* krikketgirl is awesome for giving up part of her morning and braving the traffic to have coffee with us. (She's fun!)

* Remington Steele is awesome, which means that fogwood214 and hddnis are awesome for loaning them to us to Further The Cause.

* Detroit is awesome, although I didn't exactly intend to go there today.

* The underground tunnel at the Detroit airport is awesome because the walls glow pink and blue and green and yellow.

* I am awesome because I am going to bed early.

I do this every year, half my flist does a form of this, and yet -- much as I like to be different, I keep on. It's important. Someday I want to look back and see how my lists change year after year.

There never stop being things to be thankful for.

Fresh mozzarella really does squeak between your teeth when you eat it.

I found my gradient tool! It was hidden with the paintbucket, for some reason. I'm so happy. PS7 is my friend again.

Last night owls were hooting outside my bedroom window. Doesn't that portend something? As Gaspod the Talking Wonder Dog would say, it bodes. It definitely bodes. It's a boding kind of thing.

Stash's Vanilla Nut Cream is my new favorite tea.

I loved the chapter I read last night in The Godfather about how Vito Corleone transformed from a small boy into Don Corleone. Like most great criminals, he didn't really mean to. It was an exceptionally beautiful chapter. The rest of the book is Michael doing pretty much the same thing. It's all very sad and beautiful.

Things To Be Done Before Leaving For Vacation (17 days!):

-Buy Mother's Day gift and plan Mother's Day events.
-Buy Father's Day gift.
-Attend city council meeting on the 16th
-Design and get online history pages for the library website. Working on this today
-Get a package ready for Sarah's birthday.
-Find a gift for Sandra's birthday.
-Find time to go to the only store in town that sells the face lotion I use and restock; also key makeup items. It wouldn't do to run out while away. =)
-Dog-and-House-sit over the weekend of the 13th (this means another trip to the antiques store, I think.)
-Attend another IPL meeting all day on the 10th. I'm a little upset that because of the time and location of the meeting, I won't be able to make it to church that night. =\
-Help organize and pull off a farewell party/secret sister activity for Linda, who's leaving the library at the end of the month. Fie! I'll miss her.