Slice of Pink

Grace in Small Things: 42/365

Every Friday, my dad sends me a text that says "TGIF!" It makes me laugh because the guy is retired and everyday is a Friday (or a Saturday, actually) for him. But, I like that he reminds me to be thankful for Fridays!

Other things I like this Friday:

1. Parks and Recreation
2. Plans to visit Lauren (it's been forever)
3. Raisin Rosemary Crisps from Trader Joe's
4. Rose Salve
5. Ordering stamps online

Grace in Small Things 41/365

1. Vanilla Cinnamon Orange Greek Yogurt
2. A Fleur de Sel Caramels recipe
3. "Watching" my favorite robotics team via Twitter updates as they compete in Arizona
4. Saving $2 a day by waking up early enough to brew my own pot of coffee
5. Absinthe Gumballs

Grace in Small Things 40/365

1. Dinner night with the girls
2. 100 Best Blogs for the Literati
3. Having lip glosses in every jacket pocket
4. Healthy breakfast muffins {recipe coming soon}
5. This gorgeous print from Sycamore Street Press {on my birthday list!}

Grace in Small Things: 39/365

1. The Accidental Wine Company

A bottle breaks and stains its neighbors, a new label design replaces an old established one, or a winery just closes its doors. A soiled, retired, or discontinued label is suddenly and simply less valuable. Ah, but the contents remain perfect. Whether it is ruby or straw colored, it still has its legs, and its fruit and perfume. The character and charm remain in tact and by golly, it still commands passion and presence. And, wow, what wonderful taste.

2. The Sharpie Pen
3. Archie Grand Notebooks
4. Perfect fall weather
5. Getting the answer right on a radio quiz (even if I didn't win the prize)

Grace in Small Things: 38/365

1. Reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog before bed
2. Homemade strawberry jam
3. Notes on a Party
4. The tightrope walker who lives in my apartment complex (and who practices on a tightrope stretched between two trees!)
5. Ending class on Thursday (Thursday in the new Friday!)

Grace in Small Things: 37/365

1. The smell of clean laundry
2. Peaches at the Farmers' Market
3. 101 Summer Salads
4. People for a library-themed Ben & Jerry's flavor! 5. Vanity Fair's Ain't We Got Style?

Grace in Small Things: 36/365

1. Cold beer on a hot day
2. The Uniform Project
3. A new pair of shorts
4. New flip flops
5. The New Antiquarians

Grace in Small Things: 35/365

1. Our town was voted one of the Top 25 places to Live Well by Forbes!
2. Having a summer chock full of fun plans
3. Sparkling water with orange
4. Minty lip gloss
5. A crisp apple

Grace in Small Things: 34/365

1. Truly Short Shortcake: a recipe for real strawberry shortcake, not that bakery-counter version, which "is children's food, more akin to a Twinkie than to the real thing."
2. Or, maybe even better: Fresh Strawberries With Almond Sauce. Yum!
3. The rain waiting until the Farmers' Market ended last night, so that I could enjoy some wine and music with friends
4. My blog friend Hope's recent release of her new CD, Beer and Pie
5. Frothy, frizzante Lambrusco

Grace in Small Things: 33/365

1. Homemade Rice Krispy Treats
2. Summer mornings
3. Sunday Suppers
4. Pancake breakfasts
5. The White House has a Flickr account!

Grace in Small Things: 32/365

1. Free breakfast treats for bicyclists (even those that didn't bike today)
2. Bees can count to four!
3. Tulips
4. Seeing Maria Shriver at the Capitol
5. The Eight Principles of Fun {wonderful, wonderful; turn up the volume and let it play through}

Grace in Small Things: 31/365

1. Lunch breaks at the Farmers' Market
2. Skinny belts with sweaters
3. French verbena hand cream
4. Raw cookie dough
5. Strawberry and goat cheese sandwiches

Grace in Small Things: 30/365

1. Smarthistory
2. Chocolate chip strawberry scones
3. Good public transportation
4. An office with a window (even if it does look out at a wall)
5. The lovely weather

Grace in Small Things: 28/365

1. Riding the It Factor
2. Strawberries with honey
3. The Shiny Squirrel
4. Baby ducks in the arboretum
5. Friday!

Grace in Small Things: 27/365

1. Playing cards with Will
2. A basket from the bunny (with a DS game!)
3. Loads of candy
4. Making progress on research papers
5. Artichokes

Grace in Small Things: 26/365

1. Warm chocolate chip cookies
2. Hanging with Anthony and Amanda
3. Visiting the State Capitol
4. Good Girl Gone Blog's Classic with a Twiz project
5. This Flickr photo set, particularly this one:

Grace in Small Things: 25/365

1. Lucky Charms cereal
2. A Rainbow Cake!
3. Getting ready to cross something off the 30 Before 30 List
4. Pistachio pudding
5. The Kissing Checklist

Grace in Small Things: 24/365

1. Spring break
2. Making plans to see my college roommates
3. Barely pink nail polish
4. Having the window seat at the coffee shop
5. Reading about the Obama's Garden:

Lettuces will include red romaine, green oak leaf, butterhead, red leaf and galactic. There will be spinach, chard, collards and black kale. For desserts, there will be a patch of berries. And herbs will include some more unusual varieties, like anise hyssop and Thai basil. A White House carpenter, Charlie Brandts, who is a beekeeper, will tend two hives for honey.

Grace in Small Things: 23/365

1. The Tide Loads of Hope T-shirts benefitting families affected by disaster
2. Peach margaritas
3. Slumber Partying
4. Funny flight attendants
5. Frozen Spicy Maya Chocolate

Grace in Small Things: 22/365

1. Celtic sea salt caramels
2. One day 'til Spring Break
3. Homemade banana bread
4. Guest speakers
5. Bake It Pretty

Grace in Small Things: 21/365

1. Pink Lady apples
2. New tights
3. Mrs.O
4. The man who shared his table with me at busy, busy Peet's
5. I LEGO N.Y.

Grace in Small Things: 20/365

1. Honey Almond Granola with strawberries, eaten in the sunshine
2. Shopping with my sister in San Francisco
3. Hotel lobbies
4. A husband who does all the grocery shopping
5. Spinach salad

Grace in Small Things: 19/365

1. Twidget
2. A warm shower after a bike ride in the rain
3. Clean kitchen counters
4. Girl's night out on the horizon
5. A real-life pink dolphin! {Thanks Lidija!}

Grace in Small Things: 18/365

1. A lovely experience at the DMV {I didn't even know it was possible!}
2. Cherry Clafoutis
3. Chewable vitamins
4. Sleeping in
5. Aimée Wilder Wallpaper

Grace in Small Things: 17/365

1. The Everything's Amazing, Nobody's Happy clip {thanks Michelle!}
2. Party planning
3. Cutting Will's hair
4. Burt's Bees Honey Lip Balm
5. Dagoba dark chocolate bars with lavender and blueberries

Grace in Small Things: 16/365

1. Getting a mostly-yellow mini bag of Sweetheart candies
2. My valentine
3. Seeing two girly movies on Friday, Confessions of a Shopaholic and He's Just Not that Into You
4. Potluck dinners
5. A long, hot shower after a bike ride in the rain

Grace in Small Things: 15/365

1. Meeting up with BlogHer friends in San Francisco
2. Close proximity to a fabulous metropolitan city
3. Free champagne!
4. Sipping coffee while looking at photos from Iran
5. A friend finding that a fabulous dress she's been eyeing is now more than half off

Grace in Small Things: 14/365

1. Professors in tweed jackets riding bicycles
2. A big heart box of See's candy
3. Reading in the Art Lounge
4. Jalapeño bagels
5. Ava Jump by Ryan Schude {via Tralalère!}

Grace in Small Things: 13/365

1. Homemade pesto pizza with pine nuts and artichoke hearts
2. Snow globes
3. Her Morning Elegance {via Swissmiss}
4. Shortish reading assignments
5. Maira Kalman's The Inauguration at Last post at the N.Y. Times

Grace in Small Things: 12/365

1. Meeting up with Anthony and Amanda
2. A new pink headband
3. Superbowl food: nachos, fries, beer
4. Chocolate-dipped apple fritters
5. Bay Area Rapid Transit

Grace in Small Things: 11/365

1. Receiving a birthday card and coupon from Anthropologie
2. Grilled cheese, French fries, frozen yogurt
3. Three Potato Four
4. Booking a flight to visit Jenny (Gavin and Claire, too!)
5. A husband who actually likes doing our taxes

Grace in Small Things: 10/365

1. A lawyer-turned-Rice-Krispies-chef at Milk and Krunchies {thanks Sara!}
2. The bowl of heart-shaped lollipops in the Career Services Office
3. Finishing my week on-call in Evidence
4. Weather that is just warm enough to enjoy a coffee out in the sunshine
5. Friday night margaritas

Grace in Small Things: 9/365

1. More favorite friends joining the Grace movement
2. Coffee with a new friend, the lovely Justine
3. Banana Republic's sweater tights
4. Dryer sheets
5. Sharing a churro from the Costco food court

Grace in Small Things: 8/365

1. Finally talking to Lauren on the telephone, after playing two solid weeks of phone tag
2. Chocolate with pecans and raisins
3. Mittens
4. UC Davis to host Special Olympics Summer Games
5. Miss Capucine’s new bedroom

Grace in Small Things: 7/365

1. Chocolate covered gingersnaps
2. Old episodes of Friends
3. The Inaugural Poem, Praise Song for the Day
4. Cozy blankets
5. Miniature photos in fun places by Color Me Kate {via Black*Eiffel}

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Grace in Small Things: 6/365

1. Men in sweater vests
2. papernstitch
3. Talking art law on Monday evenings
4. Tomato gorgonzola soup
5. Planning day trips to San Francisco

Grace in Small Things: 5/365

1. The classical music at Peet's
2. Sleeping in
3. Kelly Rae's Blog
4. The Dog, Cat, Rat, and Greg (who I saw on State Street in Santa Barbara last summer!)
5. Productivity

Grace in Small Things: 4/365

1. Ikea straws
2. A husband who is agreeable, even when he is sick
3. Waffles with strawberries
4. Son of Rambow
5. Lemon tea with honey

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Grace in Small Things: 3/365

1. An afternoon with friends
2. Good people who give me rides when it rains
3. The local newsstand that ordered lots of extra copies of the New York Times Inauguration edition.
4. Carrot ginger soup
5. Mustache pencils

Grace in Small Things: 2/365

1. Bright yellow rain boots
2. The first family in J. Crew
3. Having a window seat in Thursday's Crim Pro class
4. Hope for Women in Science
5. Black cats

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Grace in Small Things: 1/365

1. Light rain on the bike ride home
2. Michelle Obama's Inaugural Gown
3. Balloons!
4. Peanut butter
5. Polka-dots

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