Things That Are Good

- Arctic Monkeys
- Cleaning off your desk, finally
- Finding a reason and time to write
- Chinese New Year
- Freshly swept floors
- Starting over
- Keeping up your own traditions, however untraditional they may be
- Filing a tax return, free of charge [where applicable]
- Paying off a big chunk of your credit card debt all at once
- Hearing from old friends
- Spending time with your family, even if the circumstances are distressing
- The del.icio.us extension for Firefox
- New York cabbies, waiters and bouncers who blog
- Listening to Arctic Monkeys
- Musical siblings

- Podcasts about Meditation and Buddhism
- Waking up to someone
- Going to bed after a long day when you've finished a lot of things you've been leaving half-done for entirely too long