grace in small things, day 9

1. NPH on NPR
2. Poop Ball
3. reading on my lunchbreak
4. utilizing all of my anal-retentive, list-making, and planning abilities to get ready to travel to a wedding tomorrow (With your powers combined, I am Captain Plan-It!)
5. Um, Captain Plan-It? I am proud of COMING UP WITH THAT RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE.

grace in small things, day 8

1. We had no hot water this morning but, um, I guess the water could have been colder?
2. FarmVille
3. The Office starts tonight!
4. Also, 30 Rock!
5. Tracy Jordan/Morgan!

grace in small things, day 7

1. I was so busy this morning and it went by SO FAST.
2. I bought new crayons for volunteering tonight. New crayons are the greatest thing ever.
3. Ruffles potato chips.
4. Ice cold water.
5. Today is my busiest day this week so once it's over, things should be totally easy (fingers crossed).

grace in small things, day 6

1. finishing a good book
2. Veronica Mars
3. having time to stop at Starbucks this morning
4. noisy coworker is off interviewing for a different job
5. Cousin Vinny's pizza and breadsticks

grace in small things, day 5

I forgot to be grateful for small things all weekend, on account of I spend my entire three day weekend either A) napping, B) watching movies/Dexter, and C) expelling everything I've ever eaten in my entire life from my body (there's a pleasant image). So OBVIOUSLY that left little time to be grateful. Anyway. I'm back, mostly.

1. Joe made me soup and toast all weekend
2. Four day work week!
3. I can't work out when I'm sick (hooray!)
4. Book reviews on The Collective
5. Speaking of book reviews: Goodreads

grace in small things: day 4

1. it's Thursday, which means it's almost Friday
2. Abigail met Chuck! (and Sarah Walker)
3. Natalie Dee
4. the three day weekend is so close I can taste it (weird)
5. peanut butter

grace in small things: day 3

1. volunteering was really, really good last night
2. pineapple on pizza
3. Diet Dr. Pepper
4. sleeping with the windows open
5. Gmail is working again (I mean, thank GOD)

grace in small things: day 2 (again)

1. hot coffee on a chilly(ish) morning
2. volunteering tonight
3. Blistex Silk & Shine chapstick (seriously, I am addicted)
4. quiet coworkers
5. perfectly ripe bananas

grace in small things: PART DEUX

I was doing so, so well at this Grace in Small Things thing for, um, a couple days and then I stopped doing it because OMG it takes SO LONG to come up with five bullet points every day. Goodness gracious me! Anyway, I'm going to start doing it again so I don't become more bitter and jaded than I already am.

1. wine and pizza with Nancy and Heidi tonight
2. fall weather is coming
3. cheese (today: pepperjack on my turkey sandwich)
4. my Google Reader overfloweth
5. rereading books

grace in small things

1. responsibility-free Saturdays
2. Raising Arizona
   
3. bouts of productivity
4. February is almost over, which means it's almost March, which means it's almost SPRING
5. penguin finger puppets! (!!!!!) (thanks, kat!)
   

grace in small things

1. I got my tax refund today
2. and even though I'm not going to spend it, it's nice to know it's there
3. Thin Mints
4. FRIDAY
5. Dude. Andy Runton commented on The Collective.

grace in small things: day whatever

1. Catchphrase (jeepers creepers!)
2. WALL-E cupcakes (plus WALL-E ring!)
3. The Biggest Loser is on tonight (now with smaller Losers!)
4. Finding old CD mixes (memories!)
5. Superhero cocktails (heh, cocktails)

Don't say "bucks." It's not lady-like.

Thanks for the well-wishes, Internets. I'm feeling much better and PUKING NO MORE. Which = awesome. I hate puking. So very much. I mean, I guess no one really likes puking, but I like to think I hate it more than other people. I don't know why.

I was still feeling shitty this morning and I think it was because A) I hadn't eaten anything, B) I knew I had to go back to work and C) I sort of inadvertently gave up caffeine. Oops. See, this is what I ate on Sunday: a piece of toast, 3 Ritz crackers, a bowl of chicken noodle soup. And this is what I threw up on Sunday: a piece of toast, 3 Ritz crackers. I'm not sure why I'm still talking about puking. I know everyone already knows what it's like to throw up and that my vomit is nothing special, but I like to think that it is. (It's not.)

Anyway, so I didn't have any caffeine on Sunday or yesterday or today, unless you count the tiny bit that's in green tea which I don't think really matters that much when I normally drink a bajillion cups of coffee a day. It works out well, though, because I've been wanting to give up caffeine or at least cut down on the amount of coffee I drink, so this getting sick thing was sort of good. Also, I might pretend that I gave up caffeine for Lent, even though that hasn't started yet, because I've never given up anything for Lent before. Probably not, though, because I just remembered I bought like three 12-packs of Coke zero. I can't just NOT drink it. It might go bad.

I wish I had more exciting stories to share with you, but this morning was the first time I'd left the apartment since Sunday. Unless you count when I took the trash out yesterday WHICH I DON'T even though it left me feeling like I'd just run a marathon. What a loser. I did manage to do my taxes. Federal taxes, anyway. And everyone knows that federal taxes are the important ones. Suck it, Ohio. I also watched like five hours of The Biggest Loser and YEP cried every episode. Again, I say, what a loser.

Also, I haven't done this in 69 days, so I think now is the perfect time:

Grace in small things --

1. reconciling with a friend
2. TV marathons when I'm sick
3. endless Internet when I'm sick
4. 7-UP when I'm sick (I can't drink it any other time, because it reminds me of being sick)
5. um, staying in my pajamas all day and not feeling bad about it because I'm siiiiiiiick.

Hee.

grace in small things (day 10)

1. super spicy chili
2. The Puppy Bowl
3. Schroder (he fell asleep on the field!)
4. Lysol disinfectant spray (long story)
5. lazy Sundays
   

grace in small things (day 9)

1. Sleepless in Seattle
2. sheets straight out of the dryer
3. Guitar Hero: World Tour
4. minty gum
5. slipper socks
   

grace in small things (day 7)

1. chips and salsa
2. the Coen brothers
3. cheese
4. to do lists
5. whistling

grace in small things (day 6)

• hot showers
• Papa Murphy's
  
• mittens
• SNOW DAY!
• Heidi remembered to bring her camera while we cleaned our cars off:

grace in small things (day 5)

1. The bright side of all this snow is . . . um, it gives me an excuse to be late for work
2. Bloggers blogging about how awesome blogging is
3. Chocolate pudding snack packs
4. The Daily Puppy
5. The space heater under my desk at work

grace in small things (day 4)

1. warm clothes right out of the dryer
2. tomato soup
3. grilled cheese sandwiches
4. finishing a book and getting started on another one immediately
5. zip-up hoodies
   

grace in small things (day 3)

1. Craigslist ads (thanks, Ashley)
2. ruby slippers
3. The Walkmen
4. Mike Rowe
5. dinner with my parents