Clap your hands

I've been thinking a lot lately about what makes me happy. It seems like a simple enough question, and this week when someone asked me, I gave a simple answer: Spending time doing things I love to do with people I care about. Figuring out exactly how to live that is, of course, somewhat more difficult. So, in the interest of research, here are a few things that made me happy on this lovely 3-day weekend.

• The fact that I had a 3-day weekend
• New clothes!
• Milkshakes at Amy's
• Independent movies
• Beer
• Six Feet Under Season 3
• The indescribable cuteness of my kitten
• My birthday party
• Frozen mojitos
• The hooks I put up in my bathroom to hang my necklaces
• Yummy birthday cake
• Brunch
• The awesome setting I discovered on my camera today that picks up one color in a picture and makes the rest black and white. It's very Schindler's List.
• Flamingos
• The baby elephant at the zoo
• Margaritas and a movie with CameraMan and The New Oregonian
• A clean apartment
• Cheese. This is pretty much always on my list.

Pictures of flamingos, etc. coming soon to a Flickr page near you.

My birthday's in 3 days!