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1. Lunch with a friend on the sunny and warm outdoor patio
2. Brunch with the girls
3. Cajun-themed Super Bowl parties
4. Puppy Bowl V
5. 70-degree days in February

1. Spending the evening with Don Draper himself (Jon Hamm) at Cobb’s Comedy Club. OH EM EFF GEE!
2. Deliciously sweet strawberries.
3. Having a co-worker I don’t even know ask how I am losing weight. I think I may have recruited a new Weight Watchers member.
4. My lavender-scented spa blanket that I heat in the microwave every night. It makes the bed so toasty and the lavender lulls me to sleep.
5. It’s Friday!

1. Lucky Easy Rider jeans
2. Adobe Lightroom for $190
3. Clementines
4. Finishing Pimsleur French 1 during my commute this morning
5. Signing up for a marketing webinar featuring a keynote by David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s campaign manager. Now that’s a man who knows marketing.

1. Taking a new route on my lunchtime walk, putting it into Google Maps when I return, and realizing I just walked three miles.
2. Receiving thanks and kudos from the boss for my ideas for alternatives to layoffs.
3. Working with some awesome co-workers who commiserate with me about the ones who can please go have intercourse with themselves.
4. La Vache Qui Rit Cheese (English translation: Laughing Cow Cheese)
5. The Wednesday night mind@$#% that is ABC’s “Lost.”

1. Having a job that I like and that pays me enough that I can live comfortably (but mostly, just having a job)
2. Our house – I love our house.
3. Dr. Gregory House, MD
4. Being awakened by my cats just one minute before the alarm goes off
5. Portabello mushrooms – healthy, delicious, and excellent photography subjects.

1. Shredded Wheat with organic blueberries and vanilla soy milk for breakfast.
2. The WordPress app for the iPhone so I can blog from anywhere.
3. Getting to the office before my boss does.
4. President Obama CTRL+Z’ing his predecessor’s policies.
5. My new KitchenAid stand mixer that makes me want to metamorphose into Betty Draper.

My Google Reader has become populated with posts called Grace in Small Things. Each time I read someone’s list, I think, “I should sign up to do that.” But I never do. Until now.

Lately my blogging has gotten incredibly lazy, so I have decided to join in the Grace. I’m hoping that I can stick with it for an entire year so every day, for the next 364, I am going to post a list of five things that have graced my life, either on the day I write the list, or in my life in general. To read more about why Schmutzie began this endeavor to make us all appreciate the good stuff in our lives , go here. If you’d like to sign up and join me, go here.

1. Being married to someone who says sweet things that no one has ever said to me before
2. Getting on the scale and seeing realizing I am back on the weight loss track.
3. Being able to use our grill year-round, despite the season.
4. Rainy Sundays with hours of shows on the DVR
5. My Photoshop class. It’s renewing my passion for photography and I’m learning some nifty new tricks.