Comments on: Oh Joy

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:07:21 +0000

Great list! I especially like the first one – my pug’s face always makes me smile.

By: gorillabuns

gorillabuns — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:07:20 +0000

you should call me. we can talk while smoking cigarettes and drinking wine on the back porch. You know, like every night.

love you!

By: kitkat

kitkat — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:49:23 +0000

Kris, I’m glad I’m reading this list today because it’s Thankful Thursday on my blog. I’m totally linking it. I was thinking I didn’t know what to be thankful for, but I was thinking too big. Small joys are just as good. Thanks :)

By: Alice in Blunderland

Alice in Blunderland — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:30:51 +0000

OMG MILLE BOURNES. LOVE!

By: John

John — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:00:37 +0000

Good list. : ) Lots of sexy stuff in there.

By: Anybeth

Anybeth — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:30:27 +0000

I think you could have just said ” A pugs face” and then repeated that 100 times.

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By: foundinidaho

foundinidaho — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:35:40 +0000

One of mine is reading your blog. Seriously.

Oh, and I love Bell Biv DeVoe’s “Poison”. I have never gotten sick of that song. Must go buy it for my IPod.

By: Lemmonex

Lemmonex — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:10:28 +0000

“Friends knowing I’m more than whatever behavior I’m questioning” -ah yes, a perfect one.

And you mean some bloggers are lacking in self awareness? Shocking.

By: Whiskeymarie

Whiskeymarie — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:33:34 +0000

This will sound gross, but it brought joy to me to see a little (1) by your blog in my reader.
I’m also totally on board with “eggs over medium”, “clutch purses” and about 99% of the rest of this list.

By: Rach

Rach — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:06:51 +0000

Just came from my 15 year reunion and boy was that a collaboration of the mix tape! Thanks for sharing your joys, makes me need to actually write mine down…

By: 180|360

180|360 — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:57:09 +0000

i love it! Each joy creates such a vivid image.

By: Ryane

Ryane — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:14:51 +0000

I would like to just add one small line to your fantastic list: That quite moment when you realize a person you know has become a friend you adore. =-)

By: m

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:19:05 +0000

just reading that list made me happy.

i’m going to second that back porch smoke & dive bars. and the soft pretzels.

By: greyfavorite

greyfavorite — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:51:11 +0000

Headache free Rioja? Please share the details!

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:38:45 +0000

i love the name jack. even better was the mischief in his eyes and the soft hum of his purrs…

By: KB

KB — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:19:23 +0000

“Well-organized volunteering” OMG totally!!!

By: auntie

auntie — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:48:40 +0000

wow, loved this list! i’ve always wanted to be julia sugarbaker when she’s giving one of her lectures.

By: Finn

Finn — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:31:15 +0000

Um, yes. Exactly.

What I wouldn’t give for a glass of wine, a back porch, a smoke and an episode of “Designing Women” right now. Join me?

By: jordanbaker

jordanbaker — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:17:41 +0000

I can’t decide whether to reply to this with “Never trust a big butt and a smile” or “you are not my mother! You are a SNORT!”

Because both are so, so wise in their own ways.

By: mysterygirl!

mysterygirl! — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:19:31 +0000

My three are, “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” Are they yours, too?

And yes yes yes to a Sugarbaker lecture. Those left many an idiot quaking in their boots.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:01:37 +0000

check out the book 10,000 things to be happy about (Actually, apparently it is now 14,000 things). http://www.amazon.com/14-000-Things-Happy-About/dp/0761147217

It is basically a list like yours above – I always flip through it when I need a reminder of the good in a day.

By: shadow

shadow — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:15:47 +0000

P.S. You *are* a writer. Right down to the aching heartcore of it all.

By: shadow

shadow — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:07:03 +0000

I hear ya on the mixed tapes. It’s a lost art that these dang kids these days will never get to appreciate fully. I miss the days when sending one of these to someone was an articulate gesture that no card (or emo letter) could match.

By: sizzle

sizzle — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:03:32 +0000

I love this list of joys. I think, given my current headspace, it would do me good to revisit my joy list or expand on it.

You’re a joy to me. :-)