26/339, 27/238

1) Hotels

2) Really excellent french baguette

3) Riding a cable car

4) Getting a cab when you want one, which hardly ever happens

5) Cracking up with my man

6) Kind sized beds

7) Not having to go to a job

8) Croissant

9) Leila saying she's an expert at cutting the cheese

10) Champagne flutes from Tiffany and Co.

24/341 and 25/340

I thought I'd only missed one day, but I missed two! OK here goes 10:

1) Fridays, can't live without 'em

2) After a really hot day when my back deck is actually comfortable and beautiful

3) These little ham and cheese appetizer things from Trader Joes

4) When people compliment me on my writing and I lap it up like a dog

5) Finding out that the other people in my party are ready to leave the bar like I am, and I don't have to politely stay and dance

6) Finding parking at Crissy Field

7) Watching L play in the sand

8) Watching the dog run on the beach, so happy and smiling

9) Finding the exact thing I'm looking for at Toys R Us

10) Having my questions about Woodstock answered in the most serendipitous way

23/342

1) When a nap does what its supposed to do, and makes you feel better and more awake than you were before

2) Costco

3) When my dad pays for my Costco purchases

4) Perry's bunny

5) The kitten up the street.

22/343

1) Herring. I have no right to like it, but I do

2) Being done with meetings for the week

3) Beatles music

4) Day old pasta sauce

5) America's Test Kitchen

20/345, 21/344

Haven't done this is two days. Let's see if I can come up with 10:

1) First day of school!

2) Seeing all the kids and moms we haven't seen all summer

3) Blueberry coffee cake

4) The new school Tshirts and sweatshirts

5) Walking the dog to school

6) The way the radio station has changed its schedule to perfectly match my getting-up-in-the-morning needs

7) Day 6 without soda!

8) Having all the laundry done

9) Cheese enchiladas from Trader Joes

10) Fall-like mornings with summer-like afternoons

I did it!

19/346

1) My mom's herring salad

2) My cousin's son, Tommy, and how he always looks so serious

3) Solving a computer problem on my own

4) iCal

5) 72 degrees with a light breeze

18/347

1) Going to bed early on a Saturday night

2) In n Out Burger, animal style

3) Munchies Candy shop in Sausalito

4) Clean sheets

5) New nail polish

17/348

1) my candied walnuts

2) Pineapple

3) The fact that I planned to tidy my house today, but instead took a nap and my husband didn't care

4) When it cools down at night

5) Meeting L's second grade teacher for the first time

16/349

1) Watching my dog swim for the first time

2) Canoeing on a quiet river

3) The hot buttery little rolls that they hand out at the Tavern

4) The Story, by Brandi Carlisle

5) Finding out who Leila's teacher is going to be (Ms. Hancock)

15/350

1) How many different ways are there to say naps? Mid day repose.

2) When I've gotten to dinner time an realize I haven't pigged out all day, but rather had a reasonable or below average amount of food.

3) Finding out that there will be a blog by the Andy Warhol Museum called An Object a Day, chronicling all the crap he kept in a storage locker in New Jersey. Starts in September sometime.

4) When I've completed all my phone calls

5) That there's a Trader Joes much closer to my house now.

14/351

I didn't do this again yesterday. Sorry, I was tired.

1) Scallops

2) Darkly lit restaurant/bars with dark wood panelling and leather banquettes.

3) Friends who have birthdays so I have an excuse to go out fancy and eat scallops

4) Carpooling

5) Deciding early on to pay the money for a parking garage rather than circling forever and having to walk several blocks in foot-abusing heels.

13/352

1) Irish butter from Trader Joes

2) The dog sleeping in when I get to sleep in

3) The fact that the best anagram of my husbands name is Able Moron

4) Today's headline on the Onion.com

5) Watching my dog, Perry, play with my brother's dog, Molly

12/353

I forgot to do this yesterday!

1) Base boards, even if they're not perfect

2) Gouda cheese

3) Monster, a mut I met at the Mill Valley Dog Park

4) Finishing a book, especially one I've been chewing on for a while

5) Playing solitaire on my iPod

11/354

1) Using english muffins instead of hamburger buns

2) Lipton onion soup mix

3) The way two year-old Magnus pouts, on the ground, with his head in his hands

4) Eating down on the lawn with candles

5) Taking every due book back to the library, and getting an armload more

10/355

1) Angela Chase

2) Warm rolls

3) The park across the street from the hospital

4) Health insurance

5) A working pancreas

9/356

1) Actual crab instead of crabmeat.

2) Letting someone else drive.

3) Swoonderfull

4) Jens Lekman

5) Out of town visitors

8/357

1) That my husband found My So Called Life episodes on Hulu.

2) Cold margaritas

3) Having all the dishes done

4) Leftover Pizza, room temperature

5) Someone else entertaining my daughter for the day

You know, this is harder than it looks...

7/358

1) Taking a long shower in an empty house

2) Man Men reruns

3) Free haircuts that are also good haircuts

4) A&W Rootbeer

5) Dinner al fresco

6/359

1) Leeks

2) cool breezes on a hot day

3) When the temperature is cooler in real life than my computer tells me it is

4) Strawberry poison dart frogs

5) clean dog

5/360

1) Prosecco

2) Duck

3) My BFF

4) Limeaid instead of margarita mix

5) My daughter's peignoire, so silly, but so cute

4/361

1) Peanut Butter 'n' chocolate ice cream from Baskin Robbins

2) Watching my dog curl up in a sunbeam

3) A plan

4) Water pressure!

5) Jasmine smell

3/362

1) Meryl Streep

2) My dog being somewhere else for a while

3) "I love you, Goodbye" by Thomas Dolby

4) 1" copper pipes that come with a lifetime guarantee

5) Fountain cokes

2/363

1) Mayonnaise mixed with curry powder

2) Sex and the City reruns

3) Clean sheets

4) Being done blowdrying

5) The fact that I'm not married to someone else's husband

1/364

1) Oreos

2) Running hot water

3) Quiet

4) Sarah and Vinnie Podcasts

5) Going to movies in the afternoon by myself