Five Reasons to be Cheerful

1. The Buckeyes won. Now we find out December 7th who we play  in a bowl game (repeat after me: "not Florida, not Florida, not Florida")

2. Our friend Char, who moved to California, called to say she passed the bar exam. This is fabulous news

3. I just saw diesel for $2.99/gallon

4. Our new gas log fire is fabulous in this biting cold weather. I thought our log-burning fireplace was cute until I realized you had to clean the bloody thing and scrape out all the ash and be smoked out like a badger every time it got lit. And you have to buy stupid logs and lug them home from the supermarket. Did I mention our gas fire was remote control? Ahhhhh

 5. We have a 3-day work week coming up as it's Thanksgiving