Things that have been making me smile lately

• My mother. The thought of seeing her. The thought of spending entire mornings with her talking about "ideas", just like in the old days. Watching her cook. The meals that she will cook for me. Oh, the heavens.

• My brother. The thought of the jokes and wisecracks that we'll be throwing back and forth at each other.

• Sevada! I'll be seeing Sevada - the scruffy blue-eyed architect and one of the greatest people in the world.
  

• Blueberries! I bought a big thing of blueberries and for the past two days I have been eating them by handfuls.
  

• Garnier Nutritioniste daily regenerating serum - it does miracles to my skin...

• Running into a woman on my way home as she is walking out of the hair salon from across the street. As she sees me looking at her she breaks into a big smile. "Ah, doesn't it always feel nice to get a new haircut?"

• Watching a couple in the coffee shop. It's late in the morning yet they look like they just got out of bed. Their happy and content faces tell me that not that long ago they were having sex. The peek into their most private life, this air of contentedness around them - for some reason or another it is making me very very happy.

• This song. I don't know what it is about Russian pop music that makes me so happy, but it does. It does...

• The boy. He makes me smile. He makes me smile every day! I am, indeed, a very lucky girl. The luckiest...