things that comfort me and bring me joy (a comfortable sort of joyousness) (sparked by the fish):
lists husbands husbands feeding (other people's) babies 
other people’s babies the smell of burts bee's sensitive skin baby toiletries on grown-ups, especially me pumpkin baking baking at 11pm baking at 11pm while husbands clean the dishes as you dirty them baking at 11pm while husbands clean the dishes as you dirty them and elliott smith sings on the stereo… "never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow" november lucas from empire records suddenly realizing (while baking at 11pm) that i mentally process simple fractions (i.e. single number denominators... a quarter of a teaspoon) using musical meters and eighth notes and sixteenth notes and 3:4 time and 6:8 time etc., etc... learning to read music before learning fractions or simple division a $5 piece of vanilla bean the majestic yellow kitchenaid that will be delivered tomorrow 
days off wedding pictures lattes ginger, either pickled with cucumber rolls or baked into cookies song #9 on basically every CD we own tuesdays that feel like fridays (just don’t mention wednesday) sentimental drunk people (“i love you guys!”) not being taken for granted whole foods market the sunday before thanksgiving (no, seriously. it's beautiful) saying grace together on the couch with our dinner on tv trays and the smallville theme music playing in the background the pregnant barista at the coffee shop with the scottish husband clean, new, fluffy, dryer-sheet scented towels you
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