Happy Thoughts Bullet Points

Little.. and big things that make me happy:

• A new president
• My weight loss; I've lost 97lbs from my lifetime high of 307.
• Renewed romance with my Cowboy
• Energy for fun activities with my Cowboy
• My kids
• My dogs
• Sushi
• New Year's Day sales
• Lego Batman
• Buying something 5 sizes smaller than last year
• Friends. Plural.
• A social life!
• Used CDs and paperback books on Half.Com
• Flannel sheets and a super fuzzy warm blanket
• Smudge Pots by Stila: eyeliner that stays put. Forever
• Flannel Jammies (though I've almost caused an electrical storm simply rolling over under the sheets)
• Cherry Pomegranate Crystal Light
• New surround sound/dvd/stereo system with an iPod dock
• A totally cool Mini to carpool in
• A totally awesome carpool buddy (owner of the Mini)
• Coworkers I actually like
• My job (most of the time)
• Sexy underwear (leading to)
• Really great sex
• Pink nail polish
• Freshly brewed coffee
• Sleeping in
• Staying up late
• Facebook
• Firefly on DVD

Happiness is..

see Obama pictures

Things making me happy today.

• Grocery shopping without needing to use an electric cart or oxygen
• Guiltless Pasta-Free Lasagna recipe I created for dinner that turned out totally YUM!
• Looking at 1/2 cup of said Lasagna, thinking it won't be enough. Twenty minutes (and 20 bites later) being completely satisfied with just that much
• Seasons 1 - 6 of X Files on DVD
• Seasons 1 - 3 of Angel on DVD
• Peanut butter toast (and being satisfied with only half a slice)
• More energy, wait, I mentioned that, sort of, but it gets another mention
• Teen aged children who talk to me and who sometimes listen when I talk to them
• A happy healthy hubby
• Great naps
• Great sex
• My new Sprint Wireless Internet card that came the day after I ordered it and is almost as fast as cable or a corporate LAN
• The kind of relationship with my mom where we can really REALLY talk
• A visit from Cara last week that's still making me feel good this week
• Really great emails and phone calls from friends and coworkers
• Meeting a 'old friend' face to face for the first time and finding that we click just as well in person as we did in cyberland
• Being who I am today.
• Being where I am today.

Inspiration from the Radio

Fridays I don't have to be at work until 10:30AM so I generally run a few errands before toddling off. It's been a gloomy couple of weeks but finally the sun is out. I left off my sunglasses and let it shine through eyelashes; a cheap and most effective cure for wintertime blues.

Big Yellow Taxi: it's really hard to screw up this song, no matter who sings it. Joni knows how to spin her words and chords. Shelley and I sang out loud together as we came home from the store.

Fire and Rain: JT never fails to cheer me up but especially those super hits. Did you know that his Greatest Hits album is one of the most continuously well sold of all time? More singing out loud as I drove to work.

If You Leave: I'm a product of the 80s. I can't hear OMD without bopping, singing and thinking of Molly Ringwald.

Combine sunshine, first thing in the morning productivity, these great songs and the newest from Starbucks: Skinny Mocha Lattes and my morning started off great!