Things I am grateful for

1. Graham here. I woke this morning and said, "I don't want us ever to be apart." and he said, "That's because you hate me." Yesterday morning we drank coffee in bed and I got play him all my favorite Bruce Springsteen songs, and watcg the sunlight cover the rose bush. It wasn't even my birthday, but it felt like the best day ever.

2. It's friday. Tomorrow, plans with friends I don't see often enough. Sunday, plans to see my friend run 26 miles with 2 of her 5 sisters. Later, I will have dinner with my dad and family. I'll get to crack up with my little brother, who said, "The sun is going down because it was tired from sparkling all day."

3. I didn't get hit by a bus this morning. I dropped Graham off downtown, and was so happy, dopey, distracted, that I turned left in front of an oncoming bus and missed it by a thread. Normally I am a really good driver, so it terrified me that I had been so unconscious for a moment. As I drov on I had a mini meltdown that I had almost seriously ruined a day of an entire busload of people and almost killed myself. It still freaks me out.