12.24.09

1. Deciding to ask my neighbor's teenager to shovel. Only $10 for an hour.
2. My new clients gave me a $40 bonus (as well they should have! Last minute job on Xmas Eve!).
3. Jessica was really happy when I stopped by the acupuncture clinic by with her gift of pink raspberry jam. I helped her hang a bird feeder to look at through the front window.
4. Need I say it again? All wheel drive!
5. Amusing mail-order hors d'oeuvres that Morgan brought over--a gift from his parents.
6. Nice conversation and an impromptu dinner with him, Stewart , Joann and Alex. A lovely Christmas Eve.
7. This was only possible because I was wise enough to see that I couldn't handle flying to DC before dawn in a blizzard with a non-working laptop.
8. The kind Delta employee who helped me change my flight at no charge. I think it was the perfect moment because no one knew what was going to happen with the storm.
9. Gabbing with Alex before bed about people with, as he put it, "rich emotional tapestries."
10. Sleeping a good long time, even though I needed medicine to do it.