Smile List - Thursday Afternoon Edition

Been needing this all day, but only now finding the time to sit down and write one.

These are the things that I love, that I'm thankful for, that are making me smile right now:

• soft, brown suede boots
• a multicolored tweed skirt, that incorporates several of my favorite colors including orange, brown, and turquoise
• my "bohemian" purse from the Tibetan shop
• a note from a dear friend last night, reminding me that she loves me
• the rosary I brought home from Rome
• that there are just under two hours left in this workday
• that tomorrow is casual Friday and I can wear jeans to the office
• Karla Adolphe's song "Hold Me Near"
• The Garden State movie soundtrack
• being back in the habit of writing in my paper journal daily
• plans for a quiet morning mostly alone in the house on Sunday
• five reminder stones sitting on my desk
• taco wraps with my roommates and a houseguest for dinner tonight
• plans for a quiet evening, holed up in my bedroom with lit candles, reading, writing, making a couple phone calls, and hopefully getting to bed early
• a truly tasteless (but quite funny) joke that a friend told me this morning
• remembering the great evening one of my roommates and I spent on my birthday about a month ago, watching the movie "Mamma Mia"
• 2 dozen red roses in a vase on my dressing table at home
• lovely smells emanating from an oil burner in my bedroom
• mango exfoliant scrub from The Body Shop
• roiibos tea
• sheepskin lined slippers with a kiwi fruit print (a gift from my roommate - sort of a joke since both of my roommates are from New Zealand)