you know what's great?

1. The glorious luxury of sleeping in just the right amount - not so much that you're groggy and guilty, but enough so every molecule of your body feels full and warm.

2. Prairie sunshine.

3. Sitting in the backyard, in the glorious prairie sunshine, reading.

4. Driving with the windows down, the breeze caressing the back of your neck, the sun on your bare arms, hair in your face, bnl on the stereo at full blast and singing at the top of your lungs.

5. Dancing barefoot in the kitchen.

6. BBQs.

7. Really old friends, the kind who know everything about you all the way back to [ugh] junior high, the kind you don't necessarily even like that much any more, but who still love you, and who always will love and be loved by you, no matter who else may come and go in your lives.

8. New friends, who, unlike the above mentioned really old friends, have not heard all your stories ninety bazillion times. (you heard me, I said ninety bazillion times, and I meant it!)

9. Watching the sun set from a backyard hot tub.

10. How having all these things in one day makes you really believe that there is happiness and joy to be had in this world.