On fifty things that make me happy

Fifty things that make me happy:

1. Accapella music
2. Pasta e Fagiole made by my Father
3. A completed to-do list
4. Arriving home after a long trip
5. Sleeping in without an alarm set
6. Starting my day at 6am
7.  A good cup of coffee
8.  Slow mornings spent on the couch
9.  An accepted manuscript
10. A good homily at mass
11. Holding babies
12. Watching toddlers play
13. Learning something new
14. Intellectual conversation
15. Reading a whole book in one day
16. Fanfiction...lots of fanfiction
17. Juicy gossip
18. Clients making progress
19. Christmas Eve dinner (feast of the seven fishes)
20. Christmas day with my family
21. Family reunions
22. Traveling with friends
23. Professional conferences
24. Spending a night alone in a hotel room
25. Cooking for myself
26. Cooking for friends
27. A glass of pinot grigio
28. Grocery shopping
29. Shopping in open-air markets
30. Broadway shows that make me cry from start to finish
31. A good depressing movie cry
32. Telling people the thing they want to hear when it's truthful
33. Spending quality time with friends
34. My friend's successes
35.  Teen dramas on TV
36. Baking cookies
37. Seeing Girl Scouts selling cookies
38. A good sale
39. Petting soft animals
40. Florence Italy
41. Dancing like a fool
42. Karaoke
43. Singing a solo on stage
44. A perfect hair day
45. Gelato from GROM
46. Times Square at 6am
47. Spending long weekends with my family in my Brother's Brooklyn apartment
48. Pay day
49. My Teddy Bear
50. Christmas lights on my house

It's good to think about the good things sometimes...

Keep on thinking,
Josie