on a day as full as today, there is much to be grateful for.
- safe, easy trip to Arlington
- sweet hotel room
- Ethiopian restaurant walking distance from hotel
- dinner paid for by work
- seeing the faces of hundreds of other grant writers
- making plans for a morning run on The Mall (if i can figure out how to cross the Potomac)
- new business pants
- cute shoes
- my give-away Wisconsin accent
- all well-planned for my Saturday presentation
- cell phones, the internet, wi-fi, and every other technological convenience of today
- comfortable walking shoes
- the view of autumn leaves from the airplane into DC
- sewing kit in the hotel room
- a huge king bed all to myself
- going to bed before 10 and lovin’ it
- airplanes
- being from the midwest
- finally being confident enough to dine as a Party of 1