Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Baseball, especially a match up between the Cardinals and Cubs
• Tennessee Titan's undefeated season...
• A four day weekend
• Starting a new tube of toothpaste
• Poinsettias
• Snow plows
• Thumb drives
• Finishing a good book
• Going to the dentist, being told I don't have any cavities
• Bluegrass
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Making deadlines
• Squirrel feeders
• Children's imaginations
• Lemonade stands at garage sales
• Good deals in stores but when there aren't a lot of people out and about.
• Kennedy half dollars
• 2 dollar bills
• Comic books
• That my husband can tell me his size, I can buy him a pair of pants, and they fit. Why can't it be that simple for women?
• The softness of a new sweat shirt.
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Leftover turkey
• Coupons
• Exercising
• New furniture
• Pie
• Peanuts
• Making my word count for NaNoWriMo. I have to get another 12,000 words in by the end of November.
• Trees when the change. The one by our house is 4 different colors right now.
• Constellations
• Gel Pens
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Cranberries
• Not having to work on Thanksgiving
• Spending time with family and friends
• Furniture shopping
• Meat and Three
• Turkey, gravy, and mashed potatoes
• November sunshine
• Safety -- The Mumbai terrorist attacks have me a little freaked out right now
• My husband's laugh
• When someone else washes the dishes
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Seeing the curiosity of a child
• Putting sea shells up to my ears to listen for the ocean
• El Camino de Santiago
• Frozen grapes
• Printing out the final draft of a story
• Mashed potatoes and gravy
• My wedding ring
• Mistaking the little bottle of blue alcohol that I received from a vendor at work for breathe spray. It was really antiseptic spray. Being glad I didn't actually spray any in my mouth before finding out.
• Paper towels with patterns
• Elves

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Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Eating leftovers from the restaurant I went to last night.
• Warm weather in November. It's going to be in the fifties all this week!
• Christmas music in appropriate doses
• The Christmas lights at Gaylord Opryland. If you're ever in Nashville near Christmas, it's beautiful!
• The feeling of lotion as I rub it into my dry skin
• Good service when going out to eat or shopping
• Musicals
• The scent of apple pie
• Chocolate chip cookies when they're still warm from the oven
• The rumble of an organ when it plays deep notes in church
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Warming my fingers around a hot mug of coffee
• Getting off of work early
• A sincere compliment
• The sweater I'm wearing (There is one design on the front and a different design on the back)
• Grasshoppers (the kind with ice cream)
• Spider solitaire
• Pumpkin bars
• Hot tubs built for 2
• Sledding
• Knowing where my husband is ticklish
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Remember when I was a child, eating all the samples from the sample lady at the grocery store without the pressure to buy the item.
• Holiday music
• A deep sleep
• Candid conversations
• Finding change on the ground
• New clothes
• Pop or beer/cider from a glass bottle
• Coloring with a child
• Bubble bath
• Elves

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• The prospect of having a job interview
• Being employed in general
• The hum of the furnace when it's cold outside
• The squirrel who will contort himself in any position to eat the birdseed in the feeder outside
• Salvation Army bell ringers
• The hope that the Big 3 will get a government loan-- my hubby works for a supplier to the auto industry
• Laptop bags that have wheels
• The Thanksgiving card we received yesterday
• The prospect of turkey next week
• Envelopes with the adhesive stripe so that I don't have to lick them closed

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Hamburgers
• Being able to forgo my coat in November
• A roof over my head
• Fuzzy slippers
• Clean windows
• Animal crackers
• Alphabet soup
• Being tired at the end of the day
• Chocolate silk pie
• Leopard print (fake) sheets
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Balancing my checking, finding a large error in my favor. I forgot to add in a paycheck I received from awhile back.
• Grasshoppers
• The feeling of grass under my bare feet
• The sound that fallen leaves make when I walk through a raked pile.
• Kites
• When the cramps from my period end
• Managing to get a stain out of an article of clothing
• Leap year babies
• Velvet
• Jelly fish
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Firefox. Explorer has not been my friend lately
• Misunderstanding. A friend said she knew someone who had been reading my blog who wanted to try my idea. She was referring to making lists of things that bring joy to her list. I thought that she meant the friend has been reading my erotica blog!
• Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
• Our fireplace
• The sound of a distant train whistle
• Finding one of my boxes of sweaters that I've been storing in the attic. I've been fearing everyone at work has been tiring of seeing my beige sweater every day.
• That I can tease my hubby because I'm almost 10 years younger than he.
• Saturday morning cartoons
• That when I took the sweater that I wanted to wear out of the box, it was presentable. I was worried they would all be far to wrinkled and smell like the plastic container in which they had been stored.
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Spicy chili
• Diet Coke
• Having a windshield wiper on my hatchback
• Shiny shoes
• Bird's nests
• Snails
• Caterpillars and cocoons
• The Bat-Mobile
• My optical mouse
• Fried chicken

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• A good night's sleep
• Chocolate muffins
• Rechargeable batteries
• Nearing time off for a holiday
• Watching someone play upright bass
• The aroma of bread baking
• Ultimate frisbee
• Frisbee football
• Amber fields in Iowa during harvest
• Jazz

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Waffles
• The smell of my shampoo
• Free samples at the grocery store or in the mail
• The sound of the coffee pot perking
• Nature trails
• PBS
• Short stories
• Finding interesting blogs to read
• The smell of babies, right in the crook of their necks
• Silly putty

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• That it was fifty in TN, where I live. It was below freezing yesterday in IA, where my family lives.
• That the trees in Nashville are still spectacular.
• To be in good health.
• Garlic
• The wonderful smell in the Indian restaurant to which I went on Friday. The spices were yummy!
• Finding enough change to buy something from the vending machine at work
• Owning a hatchback
• Remembering a time when luggage didn't automatically come with wheels; Being grateful for the addition of them today.
• Doves
• The cool breeze

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Comic books
• The thought of someone else cooking Thanksgiving dinner
• Shoes that fit
• My wedding photo album
• Forgetting how much we paid the photographer for our wedding album
• Anniversaries
• Sending funny cards to people I love
• Power tools
• Spaghetti
• Pop in glass bottles

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Gourmet chocolate
• A lazy day
• Getting connected to the Internet after a period with no connection
• Shrimp at Red Lobster
• Blowing bubbles
• Receiving a back rub
• My dishwasher
• Forever stamps
• Easter eggs
• Penguins

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Celebrating a landmark in my marriage
• The sound of car horns from little cars
• The smell of a pile of fallen, raked leaves
• Not wearing a jacket yet in the first week of November
• Whistling when my team scores a goal/makes a basket/scores a run
• The climax of a good story/book
• Wiping the water from my face with a towel after a shower
• Writing "Paid" on my paper bills after paying them online
• Snicker doodles
• Cranberries

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Thinking I'm late to work. Then realizing I just forgot to turn the clock in my car back an hour for the end of daylight savings time
• The feeling of clean teeth after visiting the dentist
• Water balloon fights
• Snow forts
• The carrot nose on a snowman
• Reading someone's bluff in poker
• Metallic looking fingernail polish
• French fries
• The lines on the floor after vacuuming. The proof that I did some work!
• Birds' nests

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• The speech in Arizona last night
• The speech in Chicago last night
• Buttered toast
• Inhaling to sneeze while chewing toast, the ability to cough enough that I didn't choke
• Cheaper gas
• Attractive covers on books
• Looking forward to time off
• Roses as they open
• Air in a can
• Skittles

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Productive writing time
• Productive revision time
• Poker
• Oil pastels
• The pizza delivery guy
• Spoon rings
• Hippos
• Along Came Polly
• The election process
• Creative commercials on TV

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Getting an hour of extra sleep when we turned back the clock this weekend
• The hot water in my shower
• Finding clothes in my "winter clothes" bin that I forgot I had
• Rechargeable batteries
• 20 oz bottles of pop
• No longer being sore after exercising
• The excitement of election night tomorrow
• Alphabet soup
• Brownies
• Hot fudge sundaes

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Plungers being used as mutes by trombone players
• Comfortable furniture
• Possums
• Watching a good movie from start to finish
• The ring on my cell phone that tells me that my mom is calling
• The public library
• Classical guitar
• Finding cans on the ground for deposit (when I lived in Iowa)
• Finding funny cards to send to people
• Holding hands

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• NaNoWriMo
• My recliner
• Juicy pears
• A clean bathroom
• Mongolian stir fry
• Warm socks
• Blue lipstick
• Blue corn chips
• Waffles
• Leftover Halloween candy