Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-A slow day at work
-That I don't have any pistachio nuts at home w/ the current recall
-Going to bed early
-Berkley Pear Trees
-Austin Powers
-The smell inside bakeries
-Sweet corn
-Pea pods
-Leftovers that reheat well
-Dried apples

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Being invited to the Predators game
-Berkley pear trees
-Raining petals on my driveway
-Seeing country singers perform for free in Nashville
-Having a T-shirt day before the end of March
-Whistling
-Holding hands
-Zamboni
-Almost being done with the 2008 taxes
-Cupcakes

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Slow phone days
-A charged cell phone battery
-Cold Diet Dr. Pepper
-Tissues with lotion in them
-Clowns
-The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
-St. Louis Cardinals baseball
-Vanilla bean ice cream with chocolate pudding cake
-Spring days
-Dried fruit

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-That someone waved me down at a stop sign today to tell me that I have a flat tire
-That I'm working right now
-Monday's advance check
-The tire shop couldn't find the leak in my tire and didn't charge me
-My husband did the dishes :)
-Acceptance into an anthology
-All the flowering trees... that the little petals (as my husband pointed out) that are on our driveway look like God took a paper puncher to a giant sheet of white paper and dumped them all in front of our house
-The neighbors a block over who painted a toilet black, laid roses on it, and place a sign next to it saying how happy their lives are since the invention of the toilet
-That said sign is not next to my house!
-Krispy Creme doughnuts

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Sleeping through the night. (This cold has me all stuffed up).
-Cough drops
-Indian food. It opened my sinuses up for some temporary relief.
-Mini doughnuts
-Advance checks
-Vitamin C
-Any respite from the coughing spells, albeit brief
-Renaissance fairs
-Spring is finally here!
-That the rumbling I'm hearing is only in my ears and not thunder.

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Hoping that I'm somewhat over my cold
-Nice people on the phone
-Buying a vendor table to a large event
-Cough dropos
-Bagels
-Nectarines
-Mixing up the words actuary, actuator, and alternator
-Peanut butter cookies
-Moose tracks ice cream
-Musicals

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Almost being finished with having our taxes prepared
-The sound of a trombone as a note has a glissando
-Waffles
-Daisies
-Honeycombs
-The first watermelon of summer
-Have rain checks fulfilled
-Nectarines
-The Easter basket my parents used to hide when I was a child
-Clipping my fingernails after breaking a nail-the relief that the uneven surface won't catch on my sweater/pantyhose/etc. anymore

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Being offered a job in this economy
-Getting feedback from readers
-The dogwood tree that is blooming in my front yard. Talk about pretty!
-Special K bars that I'm about to make
-Knowing that people care about me and aren't afraid to show it
-Snuggling
-The holes in Swiss cheese
-Birthdays
-Not having a migraine today. I ran out of medication that I take as a preventative and couldn't take it last night. Picked up the new pills today. I thought for sure I'd wake up with one, but I didn't.
-Goals

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Choices, sometimes even difficult ones
-New dollar bills and new pennies
-When I have a chocolate craving, insert the single into the vending machine, have it spit back out at me numerous times, and then finally accept my money.
-When my headaches go away
-The weatherman on the local news. He's funny. Today when he described the weather he said it would be, "crashin' and flashin'" to describe thunderstorms.
-Trees that blossom
-Learning the names of birds, trees, and other plants after moving to a new place
-Forever stamps
-The new portrait of Shakespeare that was released that is supposedly authentic
-Moon Pie

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Looking forward to going to a movie
-Toaster waffles
-Drooling over my friend's Iphone
-Saturday Night Live last night. It seems the sketches are getting a little funnier lately.
-More hours of daylight
-Carmel apples
-Looking forward to jelly beans at Easter
-Finishing a first draft and knowing more or less what needs to be fixed for the second draft
-Weddings, especially when they take place during nice weather
-Poppy seed muffins

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-McFlurries
-Wild mushroom soup
-IHop chocolate chip pancakes
-Looking forward to the weekend
-Nearing completion of draft one on a novella
-Avoiding a cold... hopefully for awhile. Everyone at work is sick right now
-The three bears
-That the tree in my front yard has buds on it
-Laurel and Hardy
-Fireplaces

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-A light call volume day
-Being in the high 50s (weather)
-Good management
-Togas
-The way rabbits wiggle their noses
-When cut roses open
-People who are willing to help, especially when they lend an ear when I want to vent
-Watching gymnasts
-That baseball season is almost here
-Hearing a familiar song that I haven't listened to in a long time

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Remembering when chocolate bunnies for Easter weren't hollow
-That with as many people who don't like Rod Blago from Ill, he still got a six figure book deal. Figures.
-Betting that Nadia Suleman will get a book deal too if she ever hires a ghost writer. I don't imagine she'll have enough time herself to write a book any time soon.
-Hazelnut coffee
-Aspertame in my hot tea
-Finding clothes in my closest that are new but that I forgot I had (and still fit me)
-Horses
-Pandas
-Stone Cathedrals
-Fairy Dust

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Nearing page fifty of my novella
-Nearing page 180 on my novel
-The realization a moment ago that I actually have fans. I have shivers when I think about that :)
-Getting an advance check in the mail today
-Greatful that tax time doesn't last all year. I'm currently working in a very limited tax role in a call center at the moment.
-Caffeine. I was having withdrawal symptoms, but now I'm fine again
-Manilla (the color. I've never been to the place). I can't seem to separate manilla from any object other than an envelope
-Yogurt
-The Beanie Baby Craze of the 90s
-Fondue

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Infomercials and the bad acting on them
-Pinatas
-Chocolate silk pie
-The Lord of the Rings
-Public Libraries
-Used book stores
-Wallace and Gromit
-1 and 2 year old birthday parties, when the kid can't wait to put his/her hands into the cake
-Cupcakes
-Vanilla bean ice cream

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the grey squirrel, his
little mouth as he
chews a heel
the loaf of bread.

rain.

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Glad that the rain has let up
-That my husband did the dishes this morning. He's such a sweetie :)
-Jeans Fridays
-Chubby legs on toddlers
-Laptops and charged batteries
-That gas is still under 2.00 where I am.
-Our power went out last night from the storm. My husband was smart enough to set the alarm on our cell phones, so we actually woke up at the right time. I was really confused at first to the different sound that woke me up, but it worked.
-Beaded jewelry
-Blue Jays. They're so pretty!
-Sea horses

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-Moderate call volumes in the call center. Too slow or too heavy make for a long day.
-Fried shrimp
-Hoping for a tax refund
-Short lines for the cash register or cafeteria
-Walking into a public restroom that is clean and well stocked
-Ghengis Grill
-Toy stores
-Thrift shops. At the Goodwill where I live, they sort clothes both by size and type, but also color. It's SO much easier to find what I want!
-Sweaters
-Being able to fix the broken cord on my bird feeder

Ten Things That Make Me Smile

-The message of hope
-Having work to do
-Trying new types of chips. Today I had rice chips.
-Marti gras
-Weddings
-Flower girls/ring bearers
-Potlucks
-Finishing reading a non-fiction book
-Being told by a co-worker that when she lived in Wisconsin, that the mayor of her town plowed out her driveway in the winter when she was stuck.
-The scent of freshly laundered clothing

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?