Music and Cats

1. Sliding on the snow only a little while backing our car down the driveway this morning, and clear, navigable streets the rest of the way to work.

2. Leftover chili for dinner tonight. And still enough for another couple of lunches or dinners.

3. Five days into my 365 photo project (one photo a day for a year). So far, this is fun.

4. Being held by my sweetheart while having a good, long, overdue cry. I’m feeling better, but fairly sure there are more tears where those came from. And he’ll be here for them.

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1. Singing along with and dancing to favorite songs on my iPod while cooking dinner.

2. Discovering that our treadmill still works, and walking the first mile of 2009 on it.

3. Watching the snow fall, and the world turn white. I don’t think I’ll ever tire of the watching, though I hope tonight’s snow is gone by tomorrow morning.

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1. First farmers market of the year, and the first time I’ve been in two weeks (a long time between markets for me). Despite December’s record-breaking cold and snow, farmers had vegetables!

2. Phone call from a dear friend who lives on the east coast, whom we don’t see or talk with nearly often enough.

3. GoldRush apples. Though golden and delicious, definitely not golden delicious. Much more flavorful and crisp.

4. Playing with Christmas presents: a new macro lens and photographic lighting system. (Click on “GoldRush apples” above to see one of my first shots.)

5. The smile on Paul’s face when Sergei jumps up onto his lap and settles down to be snuggled (which he did several times today).

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1. After the early afternoon’s mix of rain, hail, and snow that didn’t stick, vividly blue skies in the late afternoon. In Seattle. In January.

2. Shopping for and installing shelves and a work surface in the closet of our third bedroom, aka the home office. One giant step for our plans to decrease the disorder in our house.

3. The video of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performing the theme from Shaft at the Cambridge Folk Festival. Really, this is a big, laugh-out-loud joy, not just because Shaft played on ukuleles and sung by middle-aged white Brits is ridiculous on the face of it; they throw in obscure folk music jokes, too! Seriously, these folks are talented. If Shaft isn’t your cup of tea, they also play (around with) Handel, and David Bowie:

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1. Soft, warm flannel sheets, freshly washed for the first night of the year.

2. Homemade sourdough English muffins, fork-split and toasted, topped with creamy scrambled eggs.

3. A length of wide Christmas ribbon, knotted at one end, that continues to enchant three cats already somewhat bored with their new toys.

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