- Driving South on Kipling on a sunny afternoon, looking to the right at the glorious expanse of mountains.
- Singing harmony on the last chorus of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" when it comes on the radio.
- The smell and feel of my husband's neck.
- Messages from two different nephews at about the same age, saved on my answering machine. Both consist of the nephew's voice saying something confused like, "oh, she's not there", and my sister's voice saying, "is it Aunt Margie's machine?" and then their little voices answering affirmatively, followed by being prompted to say "call me back". If they get erased, I'll be so sad.
- When my husband says, "Hey, Cutie!"
- Being in a "husband" discussion with friends or acquaintances, and seeing the shocked looks on their faces when I tell them he cleans our bathrooms :)
- Puerco Pibil
- Using my laptop anywhere in the house. I *LOVE* wireless!
- Curling up with a good book in the front room in the sun.
- Typing "front room", and thinking of my friend Sherri, who says good Chicagoans say "fronchroom", which over time sounds like "frenchroom". . .
- The little girls in my neighborhood who ring my doorbell and ask me to come out to play
- Knowing some HTML
- Watching the Denver Broncos on a Sunday afternoon with my husband (preferably on FOX; *not* CBS)
- Hearing a baby (usually around 1 year-ish) give a huge belly laugh
- Making a snow angel in fresh powder
- Special K Bars (peanut butter in the cereal, chocolate on top. . .what more could you ask?)
- The funny ski hat I got in Prague with my friend Kristi
- Stumbling into a good Dutch bakery in the US (can you say "almond pastry"?)
- Making marzipan eggs at Easter (The Hubs helps!)
- Being a girl who understands (American) football
- The *total* movie theater experience, which includes buying exorbitantly-priced concessions
- Being able to spell "fuchsia" without looking it up
- My chili recipe with my cornbread recipe
- Finding a "state quarter" I don't have in my collection yet
- Finding pants that are long enough
- Finishing a book
- A cold Diet Pepsi with an Einstein's sun-dried tomato bagel (and a little bit of cream cheese)
- Singing harmony with Uncle Cracker's Follow Me when it's on the radio
- Calling my former chiropractor (in Chicago) "Uncle Cracker" (he's a back-cracker, and the uncle of a friend)
- Making The Hubs laugh
- When The Hubs makes me laugh (this is the majority of my life)
- New calendars
- Hearing my brother say, "I love you, Mowgli"
- When I call my other brother and one of his daughters answers and says to him, "it's your sissy."
- Watching Steel Magnolias with some really good girlfriends
- Our house
- Driving West on I-70, going over *that one pass* where the mountain vista is just breathtaking
- Hearing the US National Anthem sung really, really well
- New underwear
- Stumbling across a really good salsa recipe
- Sunshine
- a Raspberry latte coffee
- Getting compliments on my German accent. . . by Germans
- Being told by Spanish-speakers that I roll my rrrrs well
- A clean kitchen
- A refrigerator full of "winter" groceries (stuff for the crock pot, etc.)
- Seeing "Annie Get Your Gun" three times on Broadway with DMA7
- Avocado Maki at Minami
- Serving food HOT!
- The smell of a campfire
- Having Amaretto (watered down with ice and club soda) and a cigar on the deck on a nice summer night
- The view from our deck, kitchen, guest room, my office, and our bedroom
- Sleeping in with almost nothing on the agenda
- Strawberry crepes (no orange sauce) and bacon at Richard Walker's in Schaumburg, Illinois
- Pigtails
- Taking a bath with my bath tray and pillow
- Reading in bed
- Kathleen Battle's Christmas album (with acoustic guitar)
- Riding around in the yellow jeep with the top down on a beautiful day
- Howard Keel in "Kiss Me Kate"
- The fact that I got the lead in "The Taming of the Shrew" in high school because I was the only girl who actually slapped the guy in my audition
- Taking warm, dry towels out of the dryer when my hands are cold
- Clean sheets
- Re-reading the Little House on the Prairie series (stopping before The First Four Years)
- Singing something in my range
- The Pampered Chef timer
- Having a lot of blankets piled on top of me on a cold winter night
- Looking at pictures of my dad's smile and twinkling blue eyes
- Playing Gladys in "The Pajama Game"
- Superbowl soup, better known as Tomato and Potato Cheddar Soup with Beer (recipe in journal entry 2)
- getting carded on my 40th birthday
- Talking to my sister about nothing and everything
- Finding out my sister says I'm her best friend
- The smell of freshly-cut grass
- The Hubs in a baseball hat and glasses
- The look on people's faces when they taste cinnamon in my chili
- Going fishing at Echo Lake (see the pic in journal entry 3). Well, not going fishing; going *reading* while The Hubs fishes
- Remembering my mom making crabapple sauce when I was little (and the SMELL!)
- Watching my brothers and sisters picking up random children when the whole family is together
- The in-laws' reaction to the Thanksgiving pies I baked (picture in journal entry 2)
- Holding a sleeping baby, preferably in a rocker and I'm the one who got him/her to sleep
- Decking w/ Jen
jun 2 2010 ∞
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