Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
-Online learning
-Being in the home stretch of finishing one of the books I'm reading
-Pea Pods
-Forrest Gump
-Microwaving something without a lid and not having it boil over
-Pop Rocks
-Remembering what it was like to grade papers and remembering that I don't have to do that anymore.
-Vanilla yogurt
-Wondering what the plural of abacus is. I'm looking at two of them at the moment that my husband has on his desk. Abaci? Abacuses?

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-That the geek squad was able to recover my files and also scrub the virus off of my laptop
-That the ibook I found at home has a wireless card (though certain features in Safari show up differently. I have no bullet button within blogger using Safari).
-Lazy Sunday afternoons.
-That I have enough gas in my tank to get to work tomorrow before I have to fill up again. Gas in my town is more expensive than the town where I work.
-Decaf
-The water bottle that I bought. It doesn't make the water taste or smell like plastic. I've been searching for such a thing for years.
-Figuring out different features of this ibook. I'm now addicted to Bejeweled. It was already downloaded onto the ibook.
-Animal Planet
-The fan that is now on my lap between my legs and the laptop. My legs are no longer on fire after using the computer for any length of time.
-New toothbrushes.

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• That the Geek Squad says my computer is finished. I've felt like a caged animal without it all week. Now I'm just hoping that they were able to recover all of my files... If not, I've lost around 30,000 words worth of work spread out on various projects that I was just about the back up from two weeks worth of work when it became possessed.
• The above counts for # 1-8 if they were able to get all my files back.
• Internet access on other computers beside the one that went bye bye.
• The Idaho Candy Company. My in-laws sent us come candy in the mail recently. Mmm

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• The candy jar
• Umbrellas when it's raining
• Altoids and other breath mints
• Working at a place that gives me use of a fridge and microwave.
• And a cafeteria!
• That my hubby scraped my windows for me yesterday. He's a sweetie :)
• A good reception at my new job
• Wiggling toes
• My in-laws sent us a blanket with Obama's picture on it. They're not democrats, so I got a kick out of it.
• Telling my husband that if we put the blanket on top of the comforter that I could sleep with Obama. He smiled, but didn't like that.

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Starting a new contract job today! :)
• That the traffic jam from the car that's flipped over isn't going to impede my route to work
• Raspberry jelly
• Looking forward to getting my laptop back. (Virus possessed it... the Geek Squad have it now-- we have other computers at home, which is how I'm online).
• Peanut butter pie (with non-tainted pb)
• Getting a good night's sleep
• Getting mail. It seems like yesterday wasn't REALLY a holiday
• Warm hugs in winter
• Not having to get gas quite yet
• Penguins

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• That I have the day off today to call the interstate unemployment because everything's goofed up.
• That I will also have the time to take my laptop to the Geek Squad at Best Buy. It's currently possessed. (I'm on my husband's machine now).
• Onion rings
• Starting a temp job tomorrow :)
• The vibrations cats make when they purr
• Progresso soup
• Comfy pants
• Breakfast potatoes
• My ipod
• Chocolate with almonds inside or carmel inside

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• Valentine's day cards
• BBQ pork
• The sayings on the inside of Dove chocolate
• Fortune cookies
• New clothes
• Hugs and kisses being abbreviated by xoxo
• Tic Tac Toe
• Mouthwash and breath mints
• Wite Out
• Forever stamps

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• Getting good reports back on blood work
• Seeing brain waves on an EEG
• Validated parking
• Finally being home after a long, tiring day
• Light traffic downtown at 5:00 pm
• No copay for my physical
• Large coffee mugs (larger than the normal size)
• Chaos (the game)
• Double ply toilet paper
• Waffles
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Watercolors
• Baby powder
• Mulberries
• Gorillas
• WD40 and duct tape
• Venture capitalism
• Scavenger hunts
• Vanilla extract
• Climbing the stairs and not getting winded
• Turtle cheesecake
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• 1-800-GOOG-411 Do a google search on this and you'll see why it makes me smile :)
• Tap dancers
• The Biggest Loser
• Hour long lunches
• New pennies
• Hash browns
• Robins
• Seeing parents who act appropriately when their children have temper tantrums in public
• Candle lit dinners
• On the Today show, the segment on people who are over 100 years old
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• The Gingerbread Man
• Homemade chicken noodle soup
• Shopping for groceries during business hours... so much more pleasant than on Saturdays or Sundays
• Ham and cheese omelets
• The combination of coffee and aspirin when I have a headache
• Easy online forms to apply for jobs. Some companies make more hoops through which to jump in the application process than others.
• Songbirds outside my window when I'm sad
• Correct grammar
• Soft tissues
• Possums
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• The moment my allergy meds kick in (for the record, TN is much worse than IA for allergies. It's February and I feel like it's May right now.)
• Vanilla bean ice cream with chocolate pudding cake
• That I have short stories that release this week
• The Red Cross
• The Geneva Convention
• The right to vote
• That I know I'm going to be starting another temporary job in a little over a week
• Runts (The candy)
• Charlotte's web
• That my imaginary friend as a child had the first name Charlotte
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Knowing I helped someone out
• Fixing typos and realizing how unreadable my first drafts are
• Oatmeal raisin cookies
• Cowboys (not the team)
• Qwerkle
• The smell of hamburger, onions, and potatoes as they fry
• The texture of angel food cake
• Remembering difficult times, looking forward
• Used book stores
• How much cheaper roses are when the date isn't near Valentine's day
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• When somebody offers to do something nice for me like open a door or make toast for me(usually my hubby) :)
• That I've never been in a car accident
• Cashing in pop cans for the deposit when I have a lot of them and will get a good chunk of money
• Hot, steamy showers
• Cupcakes
• The moment when I realize that I'm waking up from a dream in which I had to grade a lot of papers. (I used to be a teacher).
• Learning new grammar rules
• Nearing the end of a project
• Seeing old pictures in which everybody was wearing huge eye glasses
• Magnolia trees

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• Getting my first advance check in the mail
• Dove chocolate
• The Office tv show
• Superbowl commercials
• Mannequins with no hands
• The fridge guy fixed my fridge in under 20 minutes. Simple fix. Yay!
• Being in my 20s
• Being worn out enough to fall asleep right away when I hit the sheets
• Filling my bird feeders
• Cutting up old tee shirts for rags
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• A new set of ear buds. I lost my last pair.
• That the water in Nashville isn't as hard as Waterloo, Iowa. Even after running vinegar through the machine, we went through coffee pots every 6 months in Waterloo. (We didn't have room for a water softener in that condo).
• Women who are brave enough to wear next to little makeup. Yes, we are beautiful without adding artificial stuff to our faces!
• That it's going to be in the sixties all weekend.
• That I signed on for another contract position to start in two weeks.
• Cadbury eggs
• Fresh juice, not from concentrate.
• Spicy food, always good to open my sinuses.
• When paper cuts heal.
• Honey roasted peanuts.
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Whenever the price of food or gas goes down
• Opening the mailbox and not having any bills inside
• Puppies
• When ibuprophen takes my headache go away
• Blueberries in my cereal
• Looking forward to spring
• Milkshakes
• lulu.com
• pandora.com
• auctions
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• That my husband figured out one of the reasons our fridge was making noise
• Opening the package to a new toothbrush
• Heated seats in my car
• Heated outside mirrors on my car
• The rumble of the furnace when I'm chilly
• Going to Walmart, only buying what's on my list
• The end to my belly ache
• Diet pop and glass bottles
• The great plays during this year's Superbowl
• Superbowl commercials
  

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• The thought of someday, maybe getting unemployment benefits
• The repair guy is going to fix my fridge
• I walked around yesterday with a sweater and no coat on the first day of February!
• Shiny objects that catch my eye such as finding a quarter on the ground while I'm walking
• Honest people. Someone once found my wallet and personally returned it to my apartment with everything still intact.
• The cookies my mother-in-law sent in the mail that we received yesterday
• Air freshener
• A good, sharp set of fingernail clippers
• Pencil sharpeners that work correctly
• Hamster wheels
  

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

• Curly hair
• Laurel and Hardy movies
• Lucky Charms
• Endless shrimp at Red Lobster, though it's not offered this time of year
• Mac & Cheese
• Grasshoppers (both the bug and the drink)
• I have socks with a ladybug pattern on them. I told my husband this morning that we need to call the exterminator. Hehehe. The look on his face was funny.
• Armadillos
• Pop Rocks
• Cutting off a hangnail that has been bothering me for hours