* Spotting Christmas cards in a pile of junk mail ( Read more... )

* taking the day off for my birthday -- and getting paid for it.
* taking a roadtrip up and down the california coast -- and talking, singing and laughing the whole time.
* cookbooks, a subscription to martha stewart living and a beautiful, brand new sewing machine, gifts i might not have enjoyed a year ago, much less 10 years ago ( Read more... )

* clients who care ( Read more... )

* leftover Halloween candy ( Read more... )

* 69 love songs ( Read more... )

* angie, my new office homegirl
* jesus, the friendly bus boy at polly's
* rama's baby pictures
* tuna salad with egg on whole wheat bread
* i love lucy re-runs ( Read more... )

* the most eclectic sleepover, ever.
* sauteed spinach with lots of garlic.
* the mesmerizing la-la-la's on track 5 of The Shins's new album, Chutes Too Narrow (officially released on oct. 21).
* the newly framed lady faces hanging above my bed.
* finaly seeing The City of Lost Children and Delicatessen--and enjoying them both ( Read more... )

* my dad's smile ( Read more... )

* dippy ( Read more... )

* my big-big brother tom and maira kalman in the same issue of PRINT magazine(!).
* downloading the decemberists mp3's, listening to them on repeat, then deleting them at the end of the day ( Read more... )