Too cold, too early

Since before Thanksgiving I've been suffering from what is definitely a minor cold but that has been a somewhat major bummer. In an effort to dredge up some positivity from what seems like an awfully bleak (colder than usual, darker than usual) end of fall, here's a list of things that have made me happy in the last few weeks - in no particular order:

• ordering pizza from Apart (the Apart pizza is especially delicious), employer of the nicest delivery person EVER
• blue eye make-up
• spending quality time with Christianna in DC
• Season 2 of The Wire, which I skipped for reasons that now escape me
• Lauren's seafood stew, even though it didn't turn out like she'd hoped
• the fact that my neighbor did something incredibly neighborly by covering the A/C unit (trashily left, by me, on our shared deck) with plastic so that it wouldn't get snow in it
• this past Sunday, one of the busiest travel days of the year, I touched down at Midway,virtually on time at 5:50pm and managed to walk in my door at 7:00pm.
• the flowers Sarah brought me that sit by my bed
• seeing Slumdog Millionaire and being completely immersed in a fairytale for a few hours
• getting so many "Happy Thanksgiving" texts that I wasn't expecting but made me feel very loved
• spending most of a perfectly good day in bed