vince: 23/1000

new tattoos with old friends

neola:23/1000

finding out about Abenezer Scrooge Rooney.

Mazel Tov, Mama & Papa Rooney! :)

vince: 22/1000

overlapping circles of friends.

vince: 21/1000

a new season of the janice dickinson modeling agency.

neola: 22/1000

norah vincent's mouth

Jerry: 22/1000

Having a wonderful friend who goes out of her way to tell me how proud she is of me and that I inspire her every day.

neola: 21/1000

the look on everyone's faces Saturday night when they realized that Beyonda was playing Journey over a really hot bass beat.

Jerry: 21/1000

The Judds and 80s Country Music

Jerry: 20/1000

Finally getting time to once more appreciate beautiful things like curling up on the couch.

vince: 20/1000

"You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight and you'll shag and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it." - Spike, "Lovers' Walk" (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)

neola: 20/1000

Masi Oka.

Jerry: 19/1000

Fruit salad

vince: 19/1000

spending saturday dancing and hanging out into the wee hours of the morning

neola: 19/1000

SCRAP! on a rainy sunday afternoon.

vince: 18/1000

double plus good fridays: beginning of the weekend & payday

Jerry: 18/1000

Getting an E-mail that confirms that I'm not the only person interested in Charlotte's history.

neola: 18/1000

staying out late on a school night and hearing a bit of mississippi when david banner plays over the speakers.

Jerry: 17/1000

The combination of sugar and caffeine, particularly in the morning.

neola: 17/1000

"symphonic" as sung by marlene dietrich.

karen: 4/1000

A "Mental Health" Day.

vince: 17/1000

new piercings

vince: 16/1000

clarity attained in such quiet, you have no idea when or how it happened.

Jerry: 16/1000

Mental margaritas when craziness starts before 9 in the morning and coffee just isn't working.

Jerry: 15/1000

Red Dwarf

neola: 16/1000

discovering new breakfast places with an old friend.

casey: 10/1000

Boyz II Men on the radio and a good friend to sing along with:

casey: 9/1000

tiny dogs sleeping in their food dishes:

vince: 15/1000

knowing my friends have my back, and then seeing them do it.

karen: 3/1000

An acoustic cover of Squeeze's "Tempted", outdoors on a 70-degree night, while eating Chinese food.

neola: 15/1000

Google Sightseeing Safari!

casey: 8/1000

playing Blokus with Kate BEFORE WORK

neola: 14/1000

the Tenth Doctor.

Jerry: 14/1000

Awareness of the history that surrounds me in my everyday life, even when it goes unappreciated by most others, and the connection it allows me to feel with the generations that have trod the same ground I walk on now.

Jerry: 13/1000

Finally being able to curl up in someone's arms and go to sleep, something I've never been capable of doing before in my life.

Jerry: 12/1000

Diana Ross and the Supremes. There is nothing better in the world on a crazy work day.

neola: 13/1000

jan pehechan-ho

vince: 14/1000

getting up close and personal with a 16 billion pixel jesus christ.

Jerry: 11/1000

Having a friend at work to rant and rave with over coffee.

casey: 7/1000

being in love on a sunny day in fall:

neola: 12/1000

going to see local animation for free with good friends on a sunday afternoon.

Jerry: 10/1000

Curling up with Alex on the couch on a chilly Sunday morning.

karen: 2/1000

Cresting a hill and seeing the lights of downtown Austin on my way to work in the mornings.

karen: 1/1000

Being told that I am a good teacher by my new principal.

vince: 13/1000

chilling the hell out while stuck in traffic

neola: 11/1000

my officemate and i convinced all of our coworkers to make hand turkeys.

Jerry: 9/1000

Having a friend whose first response to his partner suggesting a move is, "But what about Jerry & Alex?"

Jerry: 8/1000

That first taste of coffee (two sugars and creme, as always) as it hits the tip of the tongue in the morning.

vince: 12/1000

smiling in the dark

Jerry: 7/1000

BGL with the "girls" every Tuesday

casey: 6/1000

seeing my best friend on a nice day

neola: 10/1000

having a tangled heart.

Jerry: 6/1000

Thinking of my Lolo every time I wear my new Doctor Who T-shirt.

vince: 11/1000

wanda sykes' applebee's commercial.

neola: 9/1000

getting one of those clear days when i get to see mount st helens from my office window (9 floors up).

Jerry: 5/1000

Having a kitty to wake us up in the morning, even if she's a bad, bad girl.

Jerry: 4/1000

Feeling the little pitter-patter of raindrops on my skin and realizing that, like the plants, I needed the rain to come again as well.

Jerry: 3/1000

Having people that I can tell anything to, no matter how ridiculous or dorky, and have them be genuinely interested in what I have to say.

neola: 8/1000

this morning, while walking to get coffee in my school marm outfit with PSP, a bent over elderly man sneaking a harmless "heeey sexy!" to us from behind his sunglasses.

vince: 10/1000

lou reed's "walk on the wildside" on a cold & rainy day.

Jerry: 2/1000

Coming back from lunch to find a little love note from the man of my dreams waiting for me in my inbox.

neola: 7/1000

the last time i felt tears was when i was departing jackson. i was sitting at the intersection of jefferson and fortification facing fenian's, listening to the grateful dead's "box of rain," waiting for the light to change. it all hit me, what i was leaving behind and what i was facing. this was the first time i'd ever truly felt frightened, but encouraged by the road ahead.

this morning on my bus ride into work, i felt those joyful and frightened tears hit my cheeks again. the hot, salty tears fell as i was reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

so, in short, getting to feel it again.

vince: 9/1000

getting to the point where one person can pick the other person's nose. without prior warning.

casey: 5/1000

Marjane Satrapi

Jerry: 1/1000

Feeling the waters of the Atlantic rushing around my feet for the first time.

vince: 8/1000

front porch dance parties

casey: 4/1000

stumptown coffee

casey: 3/1000

getting to the point in a friendship where you talk about poop

neola: 6/1000

when you live with kitties that have a drinking problem.

neola: 5/1000

even when you get stuck on the 2nd row watching The Darjeeling Limited, having a friend that will turn around with you to watch people make awesome faces at the screen.

casey: 2/1000

Hearing Timbaland's The Way I Are in a club NOT filled with white people

neola: 4/1000

remembering the only things you liked about high school when best friends come to visit from all corners.

vince: 7/1000

falling asleep at 7pm on a friday, waking up feeling great at 8am on saturday.

casey: 1/1000

A Mexican grandmother calling journalism a "bonita cosa."

neola: 3/1000

sharing a pumpkin milkshake with friends and Tila Tequila on yet another rainy portland night.

neola: 2/1000

cupcakes (vanilla cake with pumpkin pie-filled centers and topped with cardamom-vanilla buttercream)

and the friends who gladly eat them!

vince: 5/1000

knowing that "i have to go home" was not what he wanted to hear.

neola: 1/1000

a man whispered thank you to me in an otherwise empty elevator.

vince: 4/1000

late night phone calls from best friends

vince: 3/1000

turquoise shirts

vince: 2/1000

being called a health food "nut" or whatever because i drink green tea and i like to eat edamame (soy beans).

vince: 1/1000

teaching my 3-year-old cousin Parker how to break tortilla chips into "parker-sized" pieces.

an introduction to what we're doing, where the idea came from...

my good friend patrick started a blogging project this past march. i have been meaning to follow suit since day one, and, well, now i am.

unabashedly copying my creative, talented, brilliant long-distance-partner-in-crime.

and you know what, i also encourage errybody to do it too. for good reason:

i've been waxing poetic for the last few months about not being negative. amy got me hooked on this whole positive thinking, Law of Attraction thing. i just feel that keeping a record of sorts of all the good stuff, big or small, will help keep your mind(set) right.

so. if you're down. do it.