100 joys

settle in, friends. these next few days are going to be full of 100 joys posts. i hope you're feeling joy yourself. in fact, if you have been feeling joyful over anything i would really enjoy hearing about it! feel free to comment or shoot me an email!

(43) i've mentioned running in the snow (#27). running in the rain does NOT make the top 100 joys, but running in a "jingle all the way 10k" does. there were crazy people dressed up as everything from santa to milk and cookies, and everyone ran with jungle bells on their shoes. i did not get jingle bells at first (who runs out of jingle bells for a jingle bell run?!) but i found some at the very beginning of the race. plus i finished fast. so those things negated the rain and made the morning pretty joyous.

(44) luke might make up about half of my joys. but it's well deserved. this wonderful man got up with me and made it to the bus with me by 6:00 am in order to ride down and stand in the rain for an hour in order to cheer me on. he's wonderful (have i mentioned? i'm sure i have...and i will again...)

(45) snowflake lights and blue sky in the windows of a local shopping center. they looked so festive. and i just watched them the whole way down the escalator.

(46) baking christmas cookies. and eating them, of course.

(47) merry christmas, charlie brown! and these two little dancing characters, whose dancing looks eerily akin to luke and my dancing.

(48) a clean kitchen. especially when luke cleans it because i have fallen asleep. (wonderful husband, again).
(49) when the sky looks like a tomie depaola painting. (the legend of the indian paintbrush, anyone?).

(50) friendly people. like the guy in the redskins jacket, who told me that the sky was really pretty when he saw me taking a picture, and then talked to more people on the way down the lane. (halfway there!)

(51) division avenue is usually not my favorite first helping stop. but it is in the snow, when one of the regulars stands by the table the entire time we're there and serenades us with "white christmas". (you can't really see the snow outside the window, but it's there, with a picture of the street sign).

(52) Christmas decorations in pg plaza. and the fact that they have an african american santa claus.

(53) holly and ivy in the snow.

(54) the stillness of snow. not quite captured in this picture, but i tried.

(55) little messages written on car windows.

(56) dads walking with little girls through the snow. espcially when the little girls are dressed alike and remind me of my sisters.

(57) walks in the snow and conversations with my husband. i like it when he tells me things that he's thinking about. i thought about apologizing for being so cheesy in this blog about him. but, honestly, there is nothing to apologize for. he IS wonderful. and i like to tell people that...

(58) evidence of a good time. when we left our apartment there were little kids frolicking in the snow. when we got back there were sledding marks and snowballs stuck to doors and windows. it was cute.

so that's all for now. i thought about continuing, but maybe later.