Herrroooo friends! Hope your past two weeks have been splendid. Not being able to post a TILT list last week was weird! I really missed it. I look forward to Thursdays every week now because of TILT, but last week I was off the Internet, doing wonderfully awesome things with some of my favorite people. The past two weeks have definitely been full of blessings for me, despite a torn ACL. (Did I not tell you that? I forget. The MRI results came back. I tore my ACL. Anyway…) Let’s get to it!

THINGS THAT MADE ME SMILE THIS WEEK:

• Working a half day.
• Silly signs on the interstate in the south.
• Making fun of the south.
• Road trip food.
• Getting lunch with Tallahassee friends in Williamsburg, Kentucky.
• Weird hotel rooms.
• Smaller hotel beds (to maximize cuddling.)
• Naps in the car.
• iPod challenge.
• The Midwest.
• Ohio accents.
• Being surrounded by all my favorite people from my town IN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT TOWN AND STATE.
• Free drinks and food!
• 800mg Motrin.
• Taza coffee shop in downtown Cincinnati.
• The Creative Writing Box.
• Soy lattes.
• Midwestern homes.
• 17 years of marriage.
• New little black dresses.
• EVAN AND SUZANNE ARE MARRIED!
• Realizing how important they are to me when I saw her walking down the aisle and I immediately started to sob.
• “Dancing” (that is, moving in such a way that won’t hurt my knee) with my friends at the reception.
• Driving from Cincinnati to Tallahassee in one day.
• Long sleep.
• Getting an outrageously cute “GET WELL!” card from my mom.
• Margaritas with Lori and Angie.
• No cavities at the dentist!
• Having ministry meetings… over margaritas. (Seriously? These must make up like 60% of my liquid intake.)
• It’s my best friend’s birthday!
• Bringing a rose and a cupcake (with a MAN jumping out of it!) to said best friend at work.
• The orthopedic surgeon’s assistant. He was hilarious.
• Finding out I don’t have to wear my stupid knee brace from now until when I have surgery!
• Finding out I can use an elliptical machine with a torn ACL! YAY! Exercise!
• Uplifting emails/Facebook messages. I am truly blessed.
• Friends opening up to and trusting me with their struggles.
• The fact that like five people have told me this week that I should write a book. Wow. Should I? Would you buy my book? I’m pretty poor, so that would be nice…
• Encouraging and supportive coworkers.
• Last, but certainly not least, my wonderful, adorable, sweet husband, who cooks dinner for me every night and takes care of me and always puts me before everything else. I can’t believe that on Monday we’ll be celebrating two years of marriage. It gets better every single day, and I mean that.

Ahhh. What a great week. What do you love this week? Comment and let me know. Nothing makes me smile bigger than seeing joy come from my readers!