Here I am again at Monday, hardly knowing where the week went. A busy life is one very important thing to be thankful for. Let’s see… What else? Off the top of my head in no particular order:
♥ Below Zero days: Fahrenheit, for the benefit of my non-USA readers. Brrr… my jeans are stiff and the flesh in my nostrils stick together. Below Zero days make sunshine and a just-freezing temperature seem like a balmy spring day.
♥ Cats paws. Shasha and Misha each have a tender way of touching my face or arm with their soft front foot-pads that seem like an infant’s ‘I love you.’ Followed by a friendly nip to remind me that domesticated as they are, they still remember their deep down ferocity.
♥ February. Cold, bleak, damp and most important and short. Already 1/3 of the way through, crocuses will soon be peeking out of your frozen ground.
♥ Movies I never wanted to see. This weekend I watched two. Paddington with CoCo, and Non-Stop with Loved-One. One delightfully entertaining and the other a nail-biter. I preferred an award nominee. (Still trying to see them all, but woefully behind the mark.) What a nice surprise with each of these flicks.
♥ Cheerleading Grand-daughter. Miss K is in 5th grade. She smiled like crazy, focused on keeping her core strong, and cheered like a semi-pro. I haven’t smiled so much through a basketball game, since, well since I was a cheerleader.
♥ #MakeItHappy. An initiative by Coca-Cola to move internet comments and posts from snark and negativity to well, to make it happy. From a spokesperson: “Internet is what we make it, and we hoped to inspire people to make it a more positive place.” (Boo, the campaign got pulled because Gawker built a bot that turned the campaign into hate-messages. Boo again.)
♥ Writers. Last week Kristen Harnisch, author of The Vintner’s Daughter, talked to me about her journey to getting her book published. 
A gratitude list is a great way to start the week. Reading other’s is an added bonus. Please hop on over to Laurel at Alphabet Salad, if you want to join the fun.
