I appreciate:

1. Longer days. Helloooooo daylight after 4pm! 🙂
2. Wallace Shaun in The Princess Bride. Inconceivable!
3. Steve Seskin. I love that I work for people with such big hearts, and who are doing such good work. Just uploaded a new batch of songs he wrote with school kids.

I appreciate: contrast.

1. Leaving my cozy house to go outside where it’s coldcoldcold helps me fully appreciate how cozy and comfy my house is.
2. Being sick for a week makes it easy to appreciate being well!
3. Not doing or seeing improv for a week makes it easy to love improv. Oh, wait. That was already easy…. 😛

I appreciate: Green.

1. Our living room walls are green — and this color is not only soothing, but represents a truly miraculous convergence of 4 people’s individual aesthetics.
2. Lots of really beautiful rocks are green. I especially like malachite and all the different kinds of jasper.
3. Kermit is green. 🙂 I know It’s not that easy being green, but what a good attitude.

I appreciate:

1. (and am fixated on) sleep. Didn’t get much last night and WOW does that make me appreciate the times when I do get enough sleep! 🙂   [okay, seriously? Here are the next appreciations flitting through my mind: pillows, blankets, quilt, nighttime, naptime, rest time….] Give me a minute. I’ll figure out something new – and not sleep-related – that I appreciate…
2. Peppermint. Delicious tea (and good for tummy aches) and such a bright, wakeful scent/flavor.
3. YouTube. I was looking for a song to post and stumbled upon this cat, caught in the act. 😛

I appreciate:

1. Grumpy CimmyCat who yowls for attention, then purrs so loudly you can hear it across the room, and then, while purring, yowls again. My little paradox of fur and whiskers!
2. My dishwasher. While there is something meditative and relaxing about hand-washing dishes, today it is lovely to only have to stand long enough to put them in the dishwasher and to be able to sit here and listen to dishes getting clean. A different kind of meditation. 😛
3. Surrender. I’d planned to go back to the office today, back to “normal” life, but woke up much more tired and shaky than expected (no fever, though!!) and have decided to surrender to that tiredness. More napping and working from home today. Surrender.

I appreciate:

1. How quickly the worst of this cough passed. Hooray! That magical combination of vitamins, homeopathy, acupressure, and rest worked wonders. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
2. Working from home. With a little Dayquil, I think I can even work for an hour or two today. How great that I can stay in my pjs and take a nap afterward. 🙂
3. Coconut oil. I haven’t tried it for many things yet, but it’s been great for my chapped lips and sore nose. Plus it smells good!

I appreciate:

1. The fact that I rarely get this sick! Thank goodness for all those days of good health. 🙂
2. Sunlight filtering through the windows. Pretty.
3. Humidifiers keeping the air nice and moist. I appreciate all the comforts I have access to during this illness.

I appreciate:

• My own sense of optimism which makes it possible for me to believe that even though I woke up with a fever over 100 and cough, I could still be completely recovered by tomorrow. 🙂
• My warm, comfortable bed, warm socks, ricola cough drops, and tea.
• My family, whom I know will take care of me (well, those who aren’t also sick, that is!). I’m lucky to have so much comfort around me when I don’t feel well.
• Oh, I’m also grateful for FB’s reminder that it’s my mom’s birthday. I normally remember these things, but might have missed it today. 😛

I appreciate:

1. All the people from Samantha’s Off Book for bravely knowing and not-knowing their lines. 🙂
2. Jill for infusing her brilliantly funny set with moments of incredible beauty and truth, like the lullaby “You don’t have to be a god, you are enough.”
3. The spectacular circle of comedic comrades in my life. Sensational!

I appreciate:

1. Gluten-free battered fish. Yummy.
2. Newly-swept floor. No dog hair!
3. Being healthy. Thank you, immune system. 🙂