I realized yesterday that I usually update my blog when I am grumpy. I'm not really an unhappy person, I just like to vent. I'm sorry if my blog is depressing.
In the spirit of posting happy blogs, here is a list of things that make me smile:
- My great nephew Philip. Especially when he climbs up into my arms and puts his head on my shoulder. It will be sad when he's too big for this.
- The way Lindsay Bennet and anyone from Eastern PA/New Jersey say my name. I can't even try to replicate it for you.
- Back yard parties, especially those with fires
- Color-coding excel spreadsheets
- Personalized poetry rejections
- Acceptance letters
- Flavored creamer
- When my brother-in-law gets embarrassed because my sister and I are talking about sex
- Colored pens
- Reading a book and wanting to high-light every other sentence because it's just that good
- Making my students laugh
- Cute shoes
- When Banjo (the horse) does what I want him to, the first time I tell him.
- When Banjo rubs his head against me to scratch his face, but pushes too hard and I fall over
- Puppies
- Good fall weather
- Cooking
- Finding foreign countries on my sitemeter
- Unexpected emails/phone calls from people I don't talk to often enough
- My mother
- Binder clips
- Good hair days
- When my friends and I are burnt out on workshopping and start drawing pictures to illustrate each other's poems
- When a poem comes out all at once, and doesn't need major revisions
- Car dancing
