Things I Love Thursday

Aren’t Thursdays the BEST?! If you aren’t taking part in Things I Love Thursdays, it’s time to start. You don’t even need to be a blogger, or know how to use the internet for that matter. All you have to do is just make a quick list of things you love and are thankful for. It can be in a journal, a post-it, a tweet, a status update, even just a declaration to the person sitting next to you. You’d be surprised how positive-thinking can alter your mood for the better.

Here’s a list of things that are doing it for me this week. BTW – this is my 18th TiLT, which is amazing because 18 is my all-time favorite number. Hip Hip, Hooray!

Amusement park engagement shoot photos from 100 Layer Cake

The fruit leather fairy that visits the SocialVibe snack cabinets every night (aka Tam) ; my brother and his fiance Nadja visiting us in LA ; apple dumpling therapy (make these, and you will have a small glimpse of heaven) ; being a tourist in my own city – the planetarium at the griffith park observatory is awesome! ; board games like balderdash, which i need much more of in my life ; starting new books (On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition, by William Zissler) ; starting new chapters ; new beds that make my life approximately 143x better than it was before ; waking up sandwiched between two cats, everyday ; a rocking social calendar that includes dinner with Tracy and Matt tonight, lunch with Jacqueline on Saturday and Kara’s birthday party on Sunday ; oh and Clay and Molly hang-time somewhere in between all that ; putting all seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm on Netflix because Julian’s never seen a SINGLE episode!

the weather turning cold again so i can use my fireplace – DELICIOUS ; organizing my mini-office area ; free gift certificates in the mail ; errand-running boyfriends/fiances ; lunch with Micah who was in town from boulder ; extra-long naps on Sunday afternoons ; taunting Scout with the laser pointer ; bare fruits cinnamon apple chips – tasty AND the only ingredients are “organic apples, organic cinnamon.” Yes! ; wearing Julian’s clothes ; dental offices (esp. ones with 20 yr old wooden TV sets) ; watching Bula and Benny play-dogfight ; switching back to TweetDeck so I can actually SEE everyone’s tweets ; finishing a work project that has been plaguing me for months – FEELS SO GOOD ; holding hands ; buying little dresses for Julian’s CUTE new niece Eden ; gummy cola bottles ; Vampire Weekend’s new album, Contra ;