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