1. Short work weeks.
2. The promise of dinner & a movie with my favorite "dinner & a movie crew" this coming weekend.
3. No outdoor photo assignments from work on this bitterly cold week.
4. Back to school.
5. Knowing I'll have the house to myself tomorrow for the first time in nearly a month.

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1. Done at work until after Christmas.
2. A full day of baking & candy making awaits.
3. Plugging my iPod into the van and cranking up the volume.
4. Egg nog.
5. One random no-alarm-clock day in the midst of lots of waking up early chaos.

1. Short work weeks.
2. Gift wrap.
3. Netflix.
4. Adam Sandler.
5. Saturday Night Live.
6. The fact that modern technology lets me enjoy #3, #4, and #5 at the touch of a button while handling #2 for an hour.

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1. Nintendo DS game systems.
2. Nathan's hot dogs.
3. Cox cable.
4. Freshly shampooed dogs.
5. The fact that technological advances make electronics cheaper and cheaper as time goes by.
6. DVD players for vehicles as an early family Christmas present. (See #5)
7. Dancing children.
8. Football.

1. Instant messaging.
2. Sisters.
3. Santa.
4. Caroling at retirement homes.
5. Little old ladies & how they react to tiny little girls.
6. Sons who politely tolerate going on Girl Scout outings.
7. Fridays.
8. Sleeping in.
9. Playing hooky from school.
10. Book stores.
11. Scarves.
12. Ice cream in wintertime.
13. 13-0.

1. Friends becoming mothers for the first time.
2. Facebook - which allows me to see play-by-play reports of #1.
3. Kitchen-Aid mixers.
4. Fake Fridays.
5. Mistletoe.

1. Reconnecting with people I should have reconnected with long ago.
2. Friends giving me a little piece of their heart. Their mind. Their really most personal thoughts.
3. 12-year-olds at their first piano recital.
4. My camera.
5. Stumbling across awesomeness when you least expect it.
6. Watching Mom's delight at a musical, Christmas-lit house.