SIMPLE QUIET PLEASURES

- Discovering something on an mp3 CD you made a long time ago that you'd basically forgotten existed

- Getting a pretzel rod out of the bag that has exactly the right amount of salt on it

- Tearing open a new box of tissues*

- Cutting up the absolute most correct amount of strawberries to make the breakfast-creation process effortless for the rest of the week

- Banking a wadded-up paper towel into the work bathroom trashcan off not one but two walls

* I still do some sneezing at work; not as much as I used to before the days of Constant Alavert, but some