I appreciate:

• Getting to play crazy-fun improv week after week Thanks, Danny, Nick, Michael, Sarah. I feel SO lucky! 
• Green onions. Mmmm they smell good. 
• Pamelolita for her amazing smile, beautiful attitude, and the brilliant bright light she brings to the world.

• The deeply luxurious feeling of sleeping in past 9 am. Amazing. 
• FB message stickers. They are so dumb and yet make me so happy. I want to stick them everywhere! 
• Regular stickers. I DO stick them everywhere. Yes, that includes invoices and bills. I wonder what it’s like for the office people opening my payment and finding a big smiley face on the payment stub.

I appreciate:

• Only having to go a few hours without hot water on Friday. Phew! 
• Rehearsing with the amazingly funny, beautiful and brilliant Sarah. I am SO excited to keep developing this show with my awesome prov-mate!
• Delicious late-night grilled dinner with the kids. Fun!

I appreciate:

• Being able to recognize when I’m in a really negative mental space, understanding how that affects everything else, knowing how to change it, even a little bit. Take that, crabbiness! Knowledge is power, baby! 
• Being called both “young lady” (Bwa hahahahaha!) and “pretty lady” yesterday. Sweetness. 
• Driving along Minnehaha Creek in impossibly slow traffic and seeing a guy riding along on a unicycle!!! Almost as good as seeing a unicorn. Well, sort of.

I appreciate:

• That moment reading a book when you go from wondering if you’re going to bother finishing it to knowing you now have a couple hundred pages of fun ahead of you. 
• Feeling hopeful. 
• Sunshine, coffee, music and looking forward to a nice, productive day of work.

• Tasty espresso from my $1-from-a-yard-sale Mr. Coffee espresso machine. It may not be the Cadillac of espresso makers, but works just fine. 
• The incongruity of my lunch today: fresh spinach salad (an old standby) and then part of an Amy’s candy bar (which I’ve just discovered). All delicious! 

• Taste buds, which were, apparently, in charge of appreciations today.

• The amazing array of excellent coffee shops nearby — and a morning full of meetings that means I get to sample the offerings at several such places. 
• My excellent little car for managing to get me to Rochester and back, all over town to all those meetings today, to Minnetonka for work and back…all without me needing to even check the gas gauge. SO nice not to have to add in another errand today!! 
• Phones. They’re just really handy.

• My super amazing duo partner and friend, Sarah. I can’t even believe how much fun last night’s show was!! 
• My awesome family and friends — thank you for coming to the show. That was so sweet! 
• Monday morning coffee coffee. Some days I love you even more than usual….

I appreciate:

• A life rich with family and friends. I am often amazed at my great good fortune. 
• The way it smells outside after rain. I know I look like a wackadoodle walking around sniff-sniff-sniffing the air, but it is just so good! 
•  Getting to play pretend with Sarah again tonight! It’s our last show this run. 

• Red car with flower. 
• Sheets of rain pouring down and then stopping and then pouring down again. 
• Long talks and thunderstorms.