amphibians

3 things that make you happy:

• salamanders
• "being serious = goofy + sincere"
• my girls

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• driving by the water
• singing

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• wading
• goofy friends & family

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Lisbeth Salander - happy birthday!

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3 things that make you happy:

• bcw - 4/28/1917-11/19/2007 - love you, dad
• our backyard cherry & apple trees in bloom
• our backyard
  

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• sitting on the bench
• singing

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• sitting on the bench
• singing

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• my father

3 things that make you happy:

• Good friends
• Eddie Brickel's music
• Apple Cinnamon bread

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Dinner with Lisa
• Getting Frankie, now neutered, home

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Feeling safe in the woods around here again
• Hiking rattlesnake ledge and having that be a manageable hike

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Lisa

3 things that make you happy:

• Camas
• Trillium- currently flowering in my yard
• Pink flowering current (I know the name is "Red" flowering current but the flowers are PINK

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Frogs croaking
• Birds singing

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• The transition from spring to summer
•  More springs to come

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Nature

wet & dry

3 things that make you happy:

• the area where i live
• mellow rain
• views on the way home with the groceries

2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:

• libraries
• reading by railroad tracks, water view

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• returning to crab creek
• returning to frenchman coulee 

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• milo

3 things that make you happy:

• new paint colors
• Jess
• open window at night

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• finishing regional plan
• making it to the bouldering gym

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Saturday's volunteer training successful & done
• hikes

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Jess

loopy

3 things that make you happy:

• a walk on the dryside
• birds & ice age flood artifacts & gorgeous scenery
• having a great daytrip yesterday

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2 things you are looking forward to today:

• therp
• library

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• more great outings
• more birds

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• k-dub

3 things that make you happy:

• falling down stairs
• sun in our back yard
• our dumb cats

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• crab creek
• an outing  :)  :)  :)

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• good therapy session
  
• an outing  :)  :)  :) 

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2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• my wife with her grandchild(ren)
• falling down stairs

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• wunda wunda

3 things that make you happy:

• strawberries in my cereal
• sunlit dinner with hubby on new patio set
• friends' photos of the tulip festival

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• mountain bike toodle at St. Ed's
• completing more pages of our wedding book

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• sawdust free home
• glass of wine on sunny evenings

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• the U.S. nuns standing up to the Vatican & continuing their focus of all-inclusive social justice. As Sister Simone Campbell said to NPR (& Pastor Rich said on Easter Sunday): "The other thing that we know as women is, the women were the first ones at the tomb on Sunday morning. Women get it first and then try to explain it to the guys who - I mean, as the women did to the Apostles. So, we will try to explain it to the guys. We'll keep up our roles from the Scriptures."

3 things that make you happy:

• Snoqualmie River high and cool
• Frogs croaking
• Floyd excited over a squirrel
• Frankie hanging out relaxed by the window instead of hiding under things (yep, that was 4 things)

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Happy visitors
• Floyd happy and tired when I get off work

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• My tattoo complete
• Wearing a tank top and shorts and soaking up vitamin D

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Anna

3 things that make you happy:

• "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"
• cats
• cherry tree in bloom & apple tree coming along

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• sunshine & warmth on backyard benches
• short strange outing with my most special sweetie

2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:

• outing with my sister
• channeled scablands

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• figlet getting a real name
• figlet becoming a person

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• my sister

3 things that make you happy:

• Floyd cuddling me
• Fezz joining in
• Frankie in a box

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• More cuddles from the Fs
• Silliness from the Fs

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Fostering again
• time in a hot tub

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Denise 

short goofy

3 things that make you happy:

• short goofy friend
• ginger cookies
• playing with fantasy road trip

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2 things you are looking forward to today:

• rainy day wander
• picking up library books

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• asparagus
• real road trip

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• tex ritter

taking the waters

3 things that make you happy:

• eliza posting on 3t2t
• having seen both my grown-up girls less than a day apart
• faux-this-and-that foolishness

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• visit with 'herman'
• thinking about nice times around sumner, meeker & puyallup

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• more nice times around sumner, meeker & puyallup
• revisiting the columbia gorge

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• timothy o'sullivan

Fiber Butter

3 things that make you happy:

• Butter (the ever-needy, long-legged Calvin the cat)
• my baby belly showing more
• putting together our wedding book -- 8 years later

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• fiber demonstrations at the Puyallup Fair (hopefully)
• carpet picnic with yummy cheese & bread for dinner

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• finishing our remodel!
• painting the nursery

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• my Alan

3 things that make you happy:

• 'there's a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know'
• 'eschew moderation'
• vietnamese sammichs

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• stay-at-home day
• eliza bringing lunch

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• crab creek road
• vietnamese sammichs again & again

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• tex ritter

3 things that make you happy- revised:

• Arriving to work without drama and on time, dropping off the girls without tears or hardship. Yaaaayyyyyyy! Major happiness!
• sleeping children,especially if they got that way peacefully
• waking up in a tent
• a clean kitchen with cleared counters

2 things you are looking forward to today (tomorrow, since it's late):

• not having to do a school program; being with all my work teammates
• easy chx nuggets for dinner that may be in the shape of dinosaurs.

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• eating my sandwich, complete with onions and lettuce, tomorrow
• Ruby and Rachel both being in school; no more two drop offs before work.

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Ruby

music

3 things that make you happy:

• Barcarolle - Tales of Hoffmann 
• Habanera - Carmen
• Brüderlein - Fledermaus

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• rain
• singing cowboys

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• working more music back into my life
• hiking

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• sons of the pioneers

3 things that make you happy:

• these Cadbury chocolate mini eggs that someone left on my desk. Damn them!
• The UW student on my tour from Saudi Arabia with lovely dimples and a big smile. He really liked the tour!
• Playing (learning) guitar

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• seeing Chris
• seeing Suzy
• seeing my girls

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Contra dancing on Friday
• Compassion for myself (exists to some degree now; hopefully won't be too long term to become moreso!)

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Two people-- my girls when I see them tonight.

figgy pudding

3 things that make you happy:

• daytrip yesterday
• bald eagle swooping very close to car
• snow geese

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• rest & recovery
• uploading yesterday's pictures - mebbe blogging

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• figlet
• bridges

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• archie

3 things that make you happy:

• bats


• happy coworkers


• warmth

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• fun visitors
  
• animal observations

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• new animal observations
  
• springs to come

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Ed Center Visitors (yeah, I know that's not 1)

3 things that make you happy:

• fantasy nevada road trip
• blogging
• woods-walk hillclimb

2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:

• day trip to la conner & padilla bay
• outing with my sweetie

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• day trip to scanneled chablands
• heather lake outing

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• jo

3 things that make you happy:

• dippers


• the farm where michelle lives


• the end of the work week

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Getting off work at 4:30 instead of 5:15
  
• some alone time on the farm


• spending my evening chilling out know I don't have to work tomorrow

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• frankie, fezz and floyd all settled in with each other
  
• camping... yeah, I know I pick that a lot but I love camping and this mornings walk made me think of it.

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Lisa

3 things that make you happy:

• lunch today with my sister & my mom 
•  sun in the back yard
• The Judgment of Paris

2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:

• therapy session
• library visit

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• outing to skagit delta
• outing to eastern washington

1 person you are going to appreciate:

•  my mom

3 things that make you happy:

• Quiet Mornings


• Turn the Page by Bob Seeger


• The moods of Rattlesnake Lake

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Sunshine
  
• Music

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Thanksgiving with Nae
  
• Northern Lights

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Steve

3 things that make you happy:

• repeating words words words
• colored eggs eggs eggs
• singing songs* songs** songs***

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• hot cross buns buns buns
• sunday sun sun sun

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• skipping rocks rocks rocks
• mountain streams streams streams streams 

1 personlike being you are going to appreciate:

• webster 

*roll roll roller coaster
put your hamster in the toaster
carefully carefully
please don't roast her
this is just a game

**up up up the hill
up the hill I motor
merrily merrily
merrily merrily
i'm a registered voter

***sing sing sing a song
make it up yourself
merrily merrily
merrily merrily
try to make it rhyme

Spring is here

3 things that make you happy:

• The snoqualmie river
  
• swallows- they are back!
  
• progress with floyd
  

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• walk with floyd
  
• nice weather
  

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Being back in choir
  
• More seders with friends. It's a tradition now :)
  

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Anna
  

bodily fluids

3 things that make you happy:

• good numbers on daily early morning bodily fluid samples for blood glucose
• good numbers on periodic bodily fluid samples for leukemia
• restoring bodily fluid levels

2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:

• 28th anniversary of getting married in the next room
• quality time with my sweetie

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• however many more years i get with my sweetie
• sunny days, rainy days, sunny places, rainy places

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• jo

outings & road trips

3 things that make you happy:

• short walk, long pier (Kenmore's Log Boom Park)
• mergansers, pied grebe, western grebe, coots, et al
• getting there okay, and home again

2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:

• hill climb
• reading more about Lincoln Highway (fantasy road trip)

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• warmer outings
• wading 

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• chris

3 things that make you happy:

• laughter


• cat purrs


• friendship

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• floyd and molly play time
  
• seeing rosemary

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• frankie getting in my lap
  
• swimming in a lake

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• rosemary

3 things that make you happy:

• reading about Umtanum Creek
• reading about road trips
• Dick's cheeseburgers

2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:

• senior discount day at Goodwill
• not having to reset the furnace to make it come on in the morning

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Umtanum Creek outing
• Crab Creek outing

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Mineko

3 things that make you happy:

• watching Ruby pushing Rach on the swing
• chocolate
• big hugs if I'm in the right mood

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• my sister coming over
• show time for the girls (now!)

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• being habitually compassionate with myself
• figuring out where to go for my roadtrip

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Kristen

3 things that make you happy:

• a spring day that actually feels like spring!
• a new pile of books from the library
• walking in the woods - 'hillclimb'

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• sitting on the bench out back & reading
• dinner with my sweetie

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• more sunny days
• more outings

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• jo

3 things that make you happy:

• sunshine!!!!!
• free or really cheap clothes
• when my kids say "okay"
• watching the kids play outside without actually having to be supervising them

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• seeing old friends
• finally cleaning out my car

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• acknowledging that everything is going to be just fine
• getting back into my illustrating

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Jaden next door, back home at his grandparents' for spring break.

3 things that make you happy:

• having been on an outing
• Katie posting on 3t2t
• blogging

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• building
• nature's spring changes

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Crab Creek outing
• nature's summer changes

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Katie

3 things that make you happy:

• Bluegrass
• getting real mail
• following through and doing my PT exercises

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• seeing m'girls
• going to bed on time

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• the thought of getting a dog at some point
• running comfortably for 30 minutes

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Chris, of course! ;)

3 things that make you happy:

• Accoustic Music


• Morning Walk


• Silliness with Floyd

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Sunday Mountain Music
  
• Sunday morning quietness at work

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Summer
  
• Healing
  

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Katie