Here And There

1. *My boyfriend and family*
2. *That everyone above is safe, alive, has their house/belongings.*
3. A little neice that watches me getting ready in the bathroom mirror, sighs, then says "Aunt Lisa, you're pretty"
4. A little neice that randomly pauses from chatting or playing, says "love you" and gives me a hug multiple times in a weekend.
5. Books on tape
6. Dancing
7. Rain
8. A steady job
9. Down comforters
10. Dungeness crab**
11. The piggy that is now in my freezer
12. Sheep, wool, yarn
13. Oakland
14. That my brother has found what he was looking for
15. That my dad accidently called my long-time boyfriend his "son-in-law" while we were at a restaurant
16. Sweet potatoes, swiss chard, and squash
17. My green wool peacoat
18. Camille
19. Olive
20. That I have a job where I can come and go as I please as long as I get my work done AND wear whatever I want.


*Everyone says this, I always do, but I haven't been so aware of what that means until this year.

**I got one from the store on the way home yesterday. I was up to my elbows in juice and butter and halfway done before I realized that Cyrus was still on his first leg, gingerly snipping at the shell with scissors. "A lot of work for little reward", he says. Apparently, if you grow up in Alaska you become very spoiled. Yeah, it's not King Crab, but you know, that was 14.99 a pound, this was 3.99. Well, I'm not complaining. More for me.