Hello friends! This week has been all kinds of incredible — incredibly fun, incredibly stressful, incredibly rewarding. Here’s why!

THINGS THAT MADE ME SMILE THIS WEEK:

• Dinner for Laura’s birthday!
• She-crab soup. Nom!
• New hair!
• I PLAYED IN A JOURNEY COVER BAND, YOU GUYS. (See photo.)
• The Roland.
• Not getting enough sleep for all the right reasons.
• Helping Zack and Sarah move.
• Drive-thru Panera.
• Capitol Speedway’s reunion!
• Seeing “You Are Beautiful” written on a bathroom stall.
• Seeing one of my J-Hi kids get baptized!
• Walking into E3Kids and seeing Kylin — SHE POINTED AT ME AND SAID MY NAME AND I OVULATED LIKE A THOUSAND TIMES.
• Tweets about said ovulation.
• A Halloween potluck at work.
• “Dead Snow.”
• Justin’s party.
• NANOWRIMO!
• Free stuff at RedEye, thanks to Karen and Zack.
• Meetings over wine.
• “Turkey did you know…”
• My husband rules.
• My cats are cute.
• New glasses! With rhinestones!
• Chocolate.

Okay, people! That’s all. What do you love this week? Let me know!