I just love Meg Fowler’s idea of a Friday love list, but on Fridays, I seem to be too busy feeling like I’ve just been run over by a truck to put one together. I have a feeling that a Friday love list for me might look like this: “Still alive! Made it to Friday! Still alive! Made it to Friday!”

Here are some things I love:

Early morning summer smell (you have to be outside before about 7.30 a.m. to get the true, cucumber-crisp freshness, before it turns into a warm, wilty smell)

Swimming in a lake

This blog. I hope she publishes a book soon!

Chicken fingers, plum sauce.

Two more days, it’ll all be over! (And I’ll tell you what I’m talking about when it’s all over! Because it’s too scary to say out loud!)

My sister and brother-in-law are moving to my town soon! Although it’s a temporary situation, before they move ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!!

My new Dove “Go Fresh” soap. It makes the whole house smell good when you use it, no joke!

President’s Choice/No Name Green Apple Dishsoap - this is another soap that smells RIDICULOUSLY good. And costs RIDICULOUSLY little!

Forgiveness (I needed it this week).

Rereading library books I used to love as a kid. Especially Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain.

Shortening words into one syllable. “Hey, sib. Want to watch a moov?”

People who don’t indulge my self-pitying. Like Steve!

Running on the treadmill at the gym at work.

Babies at weddings, all dressed up (although babies tend to start screaming during the most important parts of the vows, etc. And I could see mine maybe screaming when the minister asks if anyone has a reason why the two should not be married, and creating a bit of a tricky legal situation: “Does the baby wish to speak? Is she trying to communicate something? Do we have to take this seriously?”) Which baby in the picture is mine, you ask? Why, the cutest one, of course.