Good.

[mrissa]

Things that put me in a good mood (in no particular order, because we all know how Mrissas feel about total orderings by now, don't we? Or do I have to do that speech again?):
--baking bread
--fried sage leaves in squash soup and chasing down the swirls of sage butter as I snarf the soup
--knowing that there's almost an entire series left now that I've finished The Game of Kings, and I get to read it all
--plenty of other books in the meantime
--obtaining more of same at Uncle Hugo's
--time with dd_b yesterday at Uncle Hugo's and Blaisdell Poly and some other place whose name I don't remember, but it's just about midway between here and there and had tasty barbecued things
--time with markgritter and timprov and C.J. around the house last night
--time alone and quiet this morning before the day had really started
--revisions! going well! rivers of blood! (and flipping chapters around, yarg, but they are better flipped than not or I wouldn't do it)
--sitting with tea or coffee or cider or other hot beverage and said revisions
--only a week and a half left until the damn election (properly speaking, "the damn election" should probably go in the "things that put me in a bad mood" column, but we're not doing that today; we are maintaining good mood no matter what we read online or in the paper)
--making weekend plans and plans for next week with coffee and walks and all manner of good things
--leaves! chilly mornings! rain! FALL!
--the prospect of oatmeal pancakes and, if I am a good Mrissa, an apple fritter (the former from my own hands and the latter from Byerly's)
--getting "Missa P'etty Beeeeeads" from porphyrin (and also likely Sarah Pretty Beads, but Roo has not met seagrit to admire her jewelry)
--a book new enough that I can run off somewhere strange with it and not break it
--having a social circle where my stories are not unacceptably eccentric
--people telling me what's making them happy today here in the comments and otherwise e-mailing me or posting stuff in their own journals to entertain me

Comments

[fiddledragon]

getting together with good friends for breakfast :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm a big breakfast fan, but I almost never get to go out for breakfast or even brunch. Hmm. Maybe I should ask people more often.

[fiddledragon]

going out for breakfast with friends is a fun way to start the day :)

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

See, we could do this.

We often go out for brunch in the morning when I'm home on the weekend...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would happily brunch with you (singular or plural).

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Things that are making me happy today

Vacation starts as soon as careswen gets home. The front yard is covered in blankets of red and orange maple leaves. It's cool and overcast outside. I just managed to play 24 bars of blues in E minor on my Bass Guitar with nary a fumbled. My LJ friends have offered all kinds neat ideas for the vacation. Warm and fluffy towels, straight from the dryer. A furry, purry cat on the lap and hot chocolate at hand. It's Fall.

Yeah, life is pretty good right now.

M

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Towwwwwwels.

I guess there's an advantage to having laundry to do, after all.

p'etty beeeads

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

I did get my earrings in the mail yesterday! Very pretty. More things that make me happy in my LJ later...

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Chips Ahoy! cookies with chocolate and peanut butter chips. (Don't knock 'em till you try 'em--they're way better than the regular kind).

Swimming.

The fact that you asked for just this list. I've wanted to ask this very same question in my lj for a few days now, but (1) I haven't gotten around to it yet, and (2) I was afraid that not enough people read it for me to get a good list. So, yay.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Boughten cookies are on my other list.

I mean, honestly: I could make chocolate-chip/peanut-butter-chip cookies and have the dough to eat and get cookies that lack a bazillion and one preservatives and come out to my desired level of chewy/crunchiness, pb-per-chocolate, chip-per-cookie, etc. etc. etc. And I would get to bake them. Or I could put my real clothes on, go to CubFoods, and get some Chips Ahoy! cookies with none of these features.

I knock them! I knock them without trying them!

I just don't see where the boughten cookies come out ahead here.

Where the boughten cookies come out ahead

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

I don't have to make them. It's just that simple.

Re: Where the boughten cookies come out ahead

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Nor do you have to trust to the USPS to get my cookies to you in a reasonable time frame, I suppose.

Still. There are bakeries in Chicago, surely.

Re: Where the boughten cookies come out ahead

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

No, your cookies might possibly go the way of the last two CD's and last book that I expected, and not arrive.

Not that I wouldn't appreciate the effort, were you to make it.

I could find a better bakery, I'm sure. But there always seems to be something more important.

[roane.livejournal.com]

I posted this in my journal already, but mobility! Mobility puts me in a good mood today. And being able to shower all by myself! And I'm actually looking forward to going back to work on Monday. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I remember this feeling from when I broke my ribs, and before that from when my back was messed up. The relief of cleanness is indeed something to cherish.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

The fact that you use the word "boughten."

My husband having taken a day off work and thus being around.

The red Chinese dragon puppet and plush Cthulhu watching over me from atop the monitor.

My online circle of writer-friends.

The fact that I have eight houseplants (2 philodendrons, a jasmine, an aloe vera, basil, sage, oregano, rosemary) and haven't killed any of them yet.

My ginormous desk.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"Purchaseden" just doesn't have the same ring to it, I'm afraid.

The dragon on my monitor is royal blue. He has a penguin, a feeeesh, and a little brown sad-looking puppy for company. The sad puppy is very, very soft. I also have a bubble duck for when I'm taking myself or my work too seriously.

Hey, I haven't killed my houseplants, either! We have Porthos (the pothos) and Anansi (the spider plant, whose name should have been Aramis, but timprov would have none of it). And they are undead. Errr, not dead. And markgritter is experimenting with repotting marigold volunteers inside.

And my desk, while not ginormous, is cherry and was my grandfather's until he got one he liked better.

So that's more good stuff.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

That's a nice mix of houseplants. (*Contemplates expanding her own collection, which right now consists of a philodendron and a Christmas cactus.*)

[jenett]

I got handed a bar of chococolate with hazelnuts (from Whole Foods).

My boss helped someone with a favor, she asked what he'd like as a bribe, he said chocolate, she paid up, and he handed half to me. Good deal, for not doing anything.

I am also happy about the amounts of library geekery I can do far more efficiently than I could have 5 or 10 years ago. (see my journal for the details)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, chocolate. I don't know how I could have made that list without chocolate. I will have to remedy the situation by eating some chocolate with my lunch. (I have become very careful about phrasing things as "with lunch" rather than "for lunch," lest certain family members assume I had nothing else for lunch.)

I agree that the library geekery possible at the U is quite lovely. I have a membership there, so I can check books out when I need to. I'm not sure when I'll next have an excuse. Maybe I should make one up.

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

Hi!

Thanks for friending me back, and for starting *my* day with such a wonderful list of happy things!

What's making me happy today? A crisp chill in the air, a day spent with an old friend yesterday and great lj comments from friends this morning, time cleared this weekend to turn out another chapter (or maybe even two...)...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Wooo, chapters!

Guess I know what I should be doing right now....

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

heh, nothing like writer guilt!

Hey, fun's important too...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can see why it would be good to have someone keeping an eye on him.

[pameladean]

Amusingly enough, Eric has also just finished The Game of Kings. I find a lot of Dunnett fans somewhat daunting, so it's very pleasing to me that people I already know are reading her so I can talk about her work with people whose notions are more like mine and who have not yet memorized everything.

Having happy sweeties makes me happy too.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I find the same thing about Dorothy Sayers fans. I've only gone through the Lord Peter books once, and I loved them, but then I found that there were people going, "But actually on page 207 you'll find that Bunter is wearing brown shoes...." Meep.

I told timprov, "Would you maybe read something Tudor-era if it wasn't in England? Maybe?" Because I think he would like these. He said he'd see.

I plan to fetch the next book, whichever is next, from the library when I go. I'm not sure if I should deliberately attend or deliberately avoid the place while they're having their book sale....

[pameladean]

Just in case nobody has warnt you, I feel compelled to say (thus perhaps indicating that I am not so different really from those alarming Dunnett fans) that while you can read the second one and stop happily, after that it is a terrific non-stop ride with mere pauses between books, and you may be less than pleased if you haven't got them all to hand even if you personally choose to pause.

I am afraid that I am that kind of Sayers fan. It's not really that about the Dunnett fans that bothers me. It's an atmosphere.

Pamela

[pameladean]

Also, we have so many sets of Dunnett that I could supply you and Eric simultaneously. Just saying.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And would you?

[pameladean]

I would, too. With or without a goat.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Err...well...good, then. As we have no goat at present.

Well, except the Christmas goats, which I suppose you could take as collateral.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I posted in my LJ, but here is, an amuzing typo (or ignrance) I read today

She" was Margaret Hughes, and "he" was Edward Kynaston, two 17th-century actors famous for performing Desdemona in Shakespeareв's Hamlet, among others.

So, the whole day I am happily trying to imagine a story that would bring Desdemona to Denmark

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And for which Desdemona would require two actors at once, if you wanted to get really wacky.

[velleity-d.livejournal.com]

Blackberry jasmine tea. A break in the rain, so that the world outside is bright and sunny and freshly scrubbed clean. The promise of getting together with friends and going to see Flogging Molly in concert later this evening. Especially the getting together with friends part.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Tasty barbecued things were at Capp's Grill, which is at 50th Street and Highway 55. They are not open on Monday. (Hmmm; not sure about the double "p" there, now that I look at it.

Other happy things are that it's fall, that the rain falling is still quite liquid, and that kittens have come and purred at me. And that I've gotten stuff done on the current photo job, and that there are tortillas in the house again, and that there are another, what, 6 1/2 Brother Cadfael books (I'm not sure I've ever read them all in order and all at once before).

I'm a big fan of the Dorothy Sayers books, but can be pretty much counted not to bring up either specific page numbers or the color Bunters shoes (though I *may* cite him for throwing a boot out his window at a cat).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Whereas there are N Brother Cadfael books for me, or 1, depending.

Happy Things

[(Anonymous)]

The beautiful display of colors outside
The anticipation in the air for first snow
Getting pumpkins for carving
Mulled apple cider
Spending time with my family
Dark, dark, dark, dark, dark chocolate
Quiet
A warm fireplace
Spending time with friends

Heathah

[carbonel]

--Having jogged and walked around Lake Nokomis twice today

--Scharffen-Berger dark chocolate with nibbly bits of cacao bean in it

--Having my floor sanding finally in progress, even though the actual process is very loud and dusty

--Knowing that I have someplace to go this afternoon where there will be pleasant and interesting people to talk with

--Fall and leaves and color and not!hot

--Eating meals with good friends, whether restaurant or home-cooked

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Are you still quite so enthusiastic about the not!hot?

I didn't notice my hands had gotten cold until they weren't any more.