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[serene]

Too many people have cancer. Too many people live in war zones. Too many people don't know where the rent is coming from. It can get oppressive, even to a naturally cheerful person such as yours truly.

So tell me your joy, please! Big joys, little joys -- got any to share?

(If you haven't any, please share mine -- lamb stew on the stove; family around me; no cancer; and just a few weeks away from my first two-paycheck month in a long time. Oh, and one of my favorite unknown musicians just had one of her songs selected as the NPR song of the day. Pretty cool.)

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[dr-brat.livejournal.com]

a roof over my head, a warm bed to crawl into and my boyz to cuddle with on this cold and rainy night

[kake]

My vegetable box arrived two days early, and included a small bag of fresh peas. I shelled them and we ate them. Best food ever.

[eeyorerin]

I have tomatoes!

(The too many people that have cancer could include Allan's dad for a third time, but we are not focusing on that right now. Tomatoes!)

[redbird]

My partners working together to take care of me (often this involves one in person and another on IM, email, or phone).

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

my mom's hemoglobin was 10.1 today!

i am making shit up left and right in the essay questions for the adoption agency. i am all creative and stuff. i mean, in that whole writing a term paper where it's all true but you've just pulled it all out of your ass sort of way.

[gramina.livejournal.com]

People love me enough to do things that aren't natural to them because those things make me feel loved. :)

And, I'm learning how to tell them those things. (yay twice!)

[kake]

And, I'm learning how to tell them those things. (yay twice!)

Yay indeed; this is bloody difficult!

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I had a great time at International last week. Um, week before last.

Essentially new mattress and box springs are contributing to much better sleep.

Got forms from the state of Arizona that there may be some unclaimed property belonging to my Dad's estate.

[zeldajean.livejournal.com]

Deciding I am ready to move to FL, coming home, and, without my having said anything about it, the roommate++ saying "How do you feel about moving to FL?"

>:-D

[odosonata.livejournal.com]

I got to watch my son being a really good teacher at the fencing club.

[loracs.livejournal.com]

Got a check in the mail from the Great State of California representing a refund for taxes I overpaid. I didn't know I had to file as married because dbubley and I are domestic partners. Yay unexpected $$!

joys

[ucancallmeal.livejournal.com]

hulu.com at work :)
singing dr horrible music with my husband while we put up laundry.
penny arcade convention in a few weeks.
getting enough sleep.
my husband telling me that my cat whines for me after I leave for work every night.
having a new user pic.


:)

[firecat]

If all goes well, Apple will start building my replacement computer tomorrow.

For some reason I am finding this free evolution game widget fascinating:
http://www.reflectivelayer.com/index.asp?screen=free&product=chrysalis

[boxofdelights]

My daughter turned sixteen today. And we still like each other! As joys go, she's my biggest.

[kake]

That is a very lovely thing.

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I can has a house to rent. And although it does mean moving, which is not a joy, it's a house! And it's all mine! I can shut the doors and be totally antisociable if I want.

Yeah, okay. It's a weird joy.

How about this one: I just shaved my legs, and I love the feel of my own legs when they're all naked and silky with lemon/olive oil. And I smell good!

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

Do you make your own lemon/olive oil?

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

No, although I'd like to learn how at some point. I buy from Burt's Bees.

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

Pics from the live Rocky Horror show I attended Friday..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hnybny/sets/72157606642489057/

[amphipodgirl.livejournal.com]

My baby girls are learning to talk, and it's very cute. And it's entirely possible that a black man will be the first president they can remember. As far as they know, it will always have been possible for the US to be led by a person of color.

[loracs.livejournal.com]

Reading this gave me a joyful look into the future. And I don't have near enough of that now-a-days. Thank you.

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

God. I never thought of that. Thank you, that is.. that is lovely.

[pipyn.livejournal.com]

My sister's girlfriend is pregnant!

And I have a fan, and the electricity to run it. And I live in my favorite place in the world, but can visit other places almost anytime I want. Like going up to Seattle to help my sister's girlfriend pick out furniture for their new home. On the train, which I love.

[j00j.livejournal.com]

I have wonderful friends, and one of them is visiting me and we are on vacation!

[raynaarwyn.livejournal.com]

My three sons.... :)

[snippy]

Good first date last Saturday with someone I met on OKCupid. Lots of good talks with Twoson while he's living with us. Sudden realization that the strawberries I planted this spring are the kind that bear fruit again in August when I see fresh flowers and fruit on them while watering!

[vasilatos]

My housemate's computer broke, and HP fixed it completely, fast, and for free. Ha.

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

I'm healing faster when I hurt my knee.. even though I was knocked back to crutches again for a day, I'm making it.

My husband and I have mostly finished cleaning our room.. getting rid of piles and piles of stuff, having a bedroom I actually want to be in.

I have found a hobby that centers and quiets me. Something that I look forward to all week long, with a person I never thought would be my friend.. and I am discovering that I like her quite a bit. I've also gained courage to buy my own supplies, to do it when I'm not at her house (That part is still under construction).

I am proud of myself, and I love my body again. I'm feeling sexy, and not seeing -fat- when I look in the mirror, I'm seeing -sexy lady-. Becoming proud of my curves, and not feeling kind of traitorous when I work out or decide not to eat something I don't need to is a hard balance, but I think I'm getting there.

We're going on vacation! VACATION. Needed. Scraped, saved, wished, hoped for... now coming to fruition.

I have a husband and an S.O., and it's going very very well.

My son is changing for the better, and starting to communicate.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

The cat who wouldn't give me the time of day five years ago now greets me affectionately when I come home.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

For breakfast this morning, I had homemade yogurt with just-picked blackberries and a frittata made with duck eggs, chevre, red bell pepper and smoked salmon from the farmer's market and fresh herbs and shallots from darthsunshine's garden.

(also, this (http://tenacious-snail.livejournal.com/534503.html))

[nitoda]

My two lovely partners. Going to a wedding with them both today, midweek, so we've had to take a day off work to go. The wedding is of two young friends who so thoroughly deserve their joy and it will be our immense joy to share it with them today!

[charlottezweb.livejournal.com]

Joys:
Fighting with my partner last night while knowing that I could say what needed to be said and he would listen.

My son perfomance arting itsy bitsy spider like William Shatner singing Rocket Man.

Picking out silly baby things.

Yes!

[betonica.livejournal.com]

Just had a marvelous, splendiferous long weekend with 11 other snigglers and four or five local cool people.

We ate tons of delicious food.

We bought loads of recycled silk sari yarn in *glorious* colors at Frabjous/The Wool Peddler (http://www.recycledsilk.com/patterns.html), where Patchworkkitten works (made her day; made our day).

We knitted. I'm knitting a scarf using a complex chaotic many-many colored silk yarn combined with two strands of black. We were accused of turning BoNBoink into KnittingBoink. This is a good thing.

Larger scale, my life is fantastic. I'm having a summer "off" before school starts, and spending my time fixing up the house & yard, catching up on a gazillion things, and volunteering for six or so boards and whatevers having to do with fire & rescue.

I have marvelous friends. Patchworkkitten and another friend are moving in in September. We plan to have long 'girltalks,' accompanied by our knitting and a lazy cat, in front of the wood stove during the winter months.

Oh, and the ducks are very cute, even if they crap on the front doorstep while waiting for me to come out and spoil them with extra food each morning. They waddle, quack, fly, and run to greet me whenever I go outside.

There are probably a lot of other wonderful things I could mention. Life is pretty amazing. I am so very fortunate.

[quietshell.livejournal.com]

I'm getting married in 4 days and my son is here from Oregon until Sunday. My daughter will be here tomorrow. His daughters will arrive Thursday as well as my family from up north. We'll all be together until Sunday, and then my fiance' (he'll be my husband at that point!! :) ) and I will go off on a honeymoon that he has been secretly cooking up for the last few weeks.

We still have a roof over our heads and each other. I am completely broke over all this but am so looking forward to being surrounded by friends and family that I absolutely love and adore :)

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Alone time with you or loracs doing just about anything. Two whole days without a panic attack.

joys

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

my two partners. never a fight, lots of laughter. i feel SO lucky, and not a day passes that i am not grateful for them and to them.

looking again at yesterday's dragonfly picture and thinking how much this project has done for making me feel small bits of joy every day, no matter how much other things might suck. i felt those before starting to post a picture every day, but now i am more conscious of it, and actively seek it out.

[darklily1.livejournal.com]

My 2 boys playing together as best friends...the older one pushing the younger one on the swings and giving him piggy back rides around the back yard.

My younger son (3yo) saying "You're the best mommy I ever had."

My older son (7yo, recently diagnosed ADD, ODD, SID) coming home happy on his first and second days of second grade and telling me he didn't get in trouble at all in school. Last year was a nightmare.

[veryfineredwine.livejournal.com]

My last project at work today was quite successful and fast too. I'm home safe, tired, and satisfied.