Pork

3 things that make you happy:

• sausage
• bacon
• banjo pigs

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• recovery day
• pozole

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• dancing pigs
• pigs flying

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• St. Anthony the Abbot
  His relationship with pigs and patronage of swineherds is a little complicated. Skin diseases were sometimes treated with applications of pork fat, which reduced inflammation and itching. As Anthony’s intervention aided in the same conditions, he was shown in art accompanied by a pig. People who saw the art work, but did not have it explained, thought there was a direct connection between Anthony and pigs – and people who worked with swine took him as their patron.

Memorial Day

3 things that make you thoughtful:

• memorial day
  
• flying our flag
• Lilli Marlene

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• watching the flag in the breeze
• listening to more versions of Lili Marleen

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• music
• memories

persons you are going to appreciate:

• "absent friends"

plants & fish

3 things that make you happy:

• violas (a childhood favorite in both grandmothers' gardens)
  
• lichen
• sedums

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• flowers in bloom
• trees in leaf

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• cherries on our cherry tree
• apples on our apple tree
• hazelnuts on our filbert tree  ;)

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• country joe mcdonald (+ maria)

3 things that make you happy:

• Old Dogs
• Swallowtail butterflies - Isn't it early?
• Cuddles with Fezz the escape artist

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• more cuddles with Fezz
• Getting some writing done

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• More writing
• Pop-up Museum success

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Fezz

3 things that make you happy:

• Om Oy 
•  osprey fetching seaweed & flying low overhead
•  katja ebstein

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• figlet
• katja ebstein

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• rocky horror picture show
• tannhäuser

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• katja ebstein

3 things that make you happy:

• Osprey carrying seaweed
• Beach
• Great Blue heron flying low

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• getting my house tidied
• reading

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• getting rid of this sinus infection
• taking cinnamon and floyd for a walk

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• cinnamon (floyd's girlfriend)

3 things that make you happy:

• Calvin galloping across our new hardwood floors
• maternity jeans that fit
• new plants to plant

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• telling our family Figlet's gender
• ocean!!

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• beach cabin May weekends with multiple little cousins running around
• morning jogs & chatter with Jess

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Jess

eleusis

3 things that make you happy:

• galvanic response
• empirical estimates
• infinite improbability

2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:

• christine ann holland
• libraries

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• rivers & streams
• trees & underbrush

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• edgar 

ginger

3 things that make you happy:

• bookstores
• thinking about little girls, then & now
• ginger cereal, ginger cookies

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• bookstores
• chinese lunch?

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• continuing the years of happiness with my wife
• more mooshiness

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• maurice sendak

3 things that make you happy:

• Swallows
• Writing
• Quiet mornings

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Finishing my article
• Starting my other article

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• Appreciating nature
• Good interactions with people

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Julie

3 things that make you happy:

• 'i wasn't ready yet'
• rhubarb
• pickles

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• therp
• dick's cheeseburger

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• more therp
• more dick's cheeseburgers

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• katniss everdeen - happy birthday!

3 things that make you happy:

• broadview library, spl
• richmond beach library, kcls
• llandover woods park

2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:

• therp
• beets

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• making some sense of all this, or
• accepting that it will never make sense

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• linda ronstadt

3 things that make you happy:

• Floyd crawling into my lap every morning for cuddles
• Sunny morning
• Goldfinches

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• Morning walk with Floyd
• Friendly visitors

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• My deck being restained
• Sleeping in my hammock

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Michelle

3 things that make you happy:

• "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me"
• My rhododendron starting to flower. 
• floyd's wiggles

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• getting out with floyd
• talking with roxi

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• a clean car
• taxes done

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• roxi

eight or nine or ten in all

3 things that make you happy:

• a modern U.S. president
• watching  The Pirates of Penzance with my sweetie
• laughing about lines from old favorite movies afterward

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• quality time with my sweetie
• birds in the backyard

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• watching movies more often with my sweetie
• watching The Pirates of Penzance with our girls

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• my sweetie

3 things that make you happy:

• Figlet being the size of an heirloom tomato
• new closet organizers
• bright tulips in the rain

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• successfully putting up my first wallpaper
• yoga

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• posting photos of my new kitchen & nook on Pinterest
• camping trip to Mazama

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• Betson

3 things that make you happy:

•   a day off work
• being with pets
• cats being sweet to each other

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• doing almost nothing
• exercising floyd

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• finding new nature places
• getting a new front door

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• hmm....rosemary

cautionary quadratures

3 things that make you happy:

• mellow rain
• mock raisins
• morbid rationales

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• wet wander
• warm wonder

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• quirky curiosity
• querulous conundrums 

1 person/cat you are going to appreciate:

• webster, who upchucked in the bedroom about 2am

eschew pomposity

3 things that make you happy:

• friends & family to sing with
• friends & family to dance with
• ending sentences with prepositions*

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• lunch with sister [& mom?]
• raising my hand & waiting for the cats to call on me

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• more singing & dancing
• more goofiness

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• chris

* Prepositions ending sentences are common and comfortable in English, and come from its Germanic/Anglo-Saxon roots.  When the English aristocracy was almost entirely of non-Germanic Norman-invasion descent, and also studied Latin grammar, avoiding prepositions at the end of sentences made sense to them, as did a grammar rule to help keep the lower classes in their linguistic places. "Do not end a sentence with a preparation" is a legacy of class snobbery. Eschew it.

apple of my eye

3 things that make you happy:

• cool displays at Anthropologie
• fruit smoothies
• feeling what i'm pretty sure are teeny tiny punches & kicks from Figlet

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• making progress on work projects (what? it's afternoon already!?!!)
• making progress on remodel (tonight -- sand the countertop & paint the living room!)

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• not going to IKEA for a very, very long time
• not mentioing the remodel here because it will be over

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• my hubby, for many things, but today for moving the very last load of items (G-peoples' patio furniture) from my former brother-in-law's house, making it easier on him.

abduction

3 things that make you happy:

• being abducted by space aliens
• discussing whether intergalactic space travel is carcinogenic
• singing 'yippee yay!'

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• therp
• libraries

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• singing 'i've got spurs that jingle jangle jingle' to my grandchild[ren]
• dancing with my my grandchild[ren]

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• mineko

[question of the day: can intergalactic space travel cause autism?]

 

3 things that make you happy:

• milo
• franklin
• flowering plants in my yard including trillium

2 things you are looking forward to today:

• the hamsters' antics
• walking with floyd and listening to nature

2 long term things you are looking forward to:

• that sounds that comes on summer nights when you're out in the woods and frogs croaking and trees creaking and everything seems so big and alive
• having a dishwasher installed

1 person you are going to appreciate:

• fezz