The Good List

1. Getting the internship I really wanted.
2. With the Youth Services Librarian.
   
3. Discovering I can wear jeans and sneekers to my internship.
   
4. not caring if I spell sneakers wrong
5. Fire-colored Sunflowers
6. A big healthy medicinal Aloe plant for $3.95.
7. Lighting a fresh candle.
8. Hiking up and down a small mountain in the rain.
9. Seeing all the places fairies could hide from the rain in the mountain.
10. Having two friends crazy enough to hike with me.
11. Reaching the top alive.
12. Getting complimented on not complaining about the UP part of the hike (this time).
13. Letting the dog pull me up the last few yards.
14. French fries and hot chocolate after a long hike in the rain.
15. Having three different people tell me I give good advice (in the space of three days), and meaning it.
16. Finding a thank you card I can send to men and women in a professional setting, and still look interesting. In a pack of 20.
    
17. Popcorn with butter and yeast.
18. Tea. Hot tea. With Elderberries in it.
    
19. Peanut Sauce.
20. A fluffy warm (DRY) new sweatshirt that was on sale and still looks and feels good.
    
21. Planning to go back tomorrow and by a second one in a different color.
22. A purring cat in my lap, batting at my fingers on the keyboard.
23. Birthdays. Other people's birthdays. And having people to celebrate mine with.
    
24. Finding out that turning 30 isn't nearly as scary as turning 29. Really. Three people have told me so.
    
25. Having lots of people help you move your boxes and stuff from one house to another. Enough people that no one gets too tired, and it only takes one afternoon.
    
26. Waterfalls. Especially on rainy days when there aren't too many other people using the trail you've taken.
    
27. TigerBars.
28. A well-fitted understory.
29. Actually looking forward to what my 29th year will bring.