Happy Things

• Making pea soup for the first time in forever
• A new ring--a memento of my time in this country, purchased for about $5 in a souk
• Good air conditioning (kinda necessary in this part of the world)
• Sunglasses (also important)
• Reconnecting with people I haven't seen in 20 years
• E-mails from people who care
• Decisions made
• Fun language teachers
• Skyping family
• Sprite to doctor off-kilter stomachs (no, probably not healthy, but psychologically effective)
• Being invited over to family homes for real meals
• Salad
• Brownie mixes
• Crystal, the best Verizon rep ever (she's helped me suspend my phone service, re-suspend it, reduce it, and now reactivate it)
• New people joining my e-mail list (if you want to join, e-mail me at ksandfrog[at]gmail.c*m, but tell me why you want to join, or I might dismiss you as a common stalker)
• Um, procrastinating on doing my homework . . . ?