Blessings

Leftover pizza in the fridge.

Clean linen.

A job where you take a teddy bear to work.

Enough $$ in checking to buy the good champagne without balancing.

Nine hours sleep.

Opening your eyes after nine hours sleep thinking you're dead. Good news: there appears to be an afterlife.

You're not dead.

You're not fat.

You're not still sleeping.

You know how to send a text message.

Your Free Cell stats are 98% with 59 straight wins.

Your all-time Free Cell straight-wins record is 406. Without cheating.

You don't cheat at Free Cell. Any more.

You only played 27 games of Free Cell. This hour.

Admitting you played 27 games of Free Cell this hour.

Admitting you responded to comments on your blog that were left by a computer.

Admitting you didn't know the comments on your blog were left by a computer.

Having a cat.

Not getting killed in a car accident three weeks ago.

Not being in therapy.

You haven't left your glasses in the freezer. Today.

You haven't had a panic attack. Since the last one.

You still have three friends. Make that two.

You still have a husband. You think.

You still think.

Christmas decorations are finally down.

Four deer in the yard.

Five cardinals in the mugo pines.

Your Free Cell stats are 99% with 72 straight wins.

Your daughter is at the Mega Mall until Tuesday.

Having a dog.

Having a dog.

(Daisy Astrila Valentine, February 14, 2010)

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