...Oh So Happy

The past ten days or so have felt like one big blur in the best and most fantastic way possible. With the exception of coming down with strep throat in the earlier part of this week, everything else just feels like it's falling into place. These moments seem few and far in between; when I really feel like I'm living at the speed of life and not, say, at the speed of wishing that something would like, happen already because I'm just so bored. In lieu of giving you every detail and because I can't honestly sit here and type out all of the amazing moments, I revert to my handy list:

• Seeing Moby spin an hour long set Friday night at a bar on Avenue C...for $10. Only. In. New York. (file under reasons I can't leave and move to Chicago)
• Spending the best five or so hours of the past, oh I don't know year, talking to a perfect stranger on a padded cushion on the floor of a new Hookah bar in the east village, who after all that time, turned out not to be so much a stranger but just well...almost perfect.
• Season 6 of Scrubs now on my iPod. Enough said.
• Sleeping for almost a full 24 hours
• Finishing and mailing the best friend's wedding invitations
  
• A few great sidewalk café dinners with some friends
• Children of Men, You Me & Dupree, Million Dollar Baby all in the same day (for the record, I was out sick for two whole days)
• Knocked Up, perhaps the funniest movie I've seen in the last five years
  
• Frozen yogurt for breakfast
• Finally letting go...in oh so many ways
  
• Leftover artichoke pizza and wine
• Strawberries and plums in the park
• A really great 6 mile run
• 7 a.m phone calls from somewhere in Europe, Russia or London
  
• Singing karaoke for the first time. Ever. (Noted that Man on the Moon, not exactly the best song to sing along to)
• Taking shots, plural, on a Tuesday night
• A few more e-mails and a few more phone calls
• The thought of switching careers
  
• Staying out way past my usual bedtime and [not] regretting it at work the next morning
• Sending all my donation letters out and already (!) getting a few responses
  
• Signing that confirmation letter that said, "Yes, I will run 26.2 miles on November 4." I'm IN IT NOW and there's no turning back....and I'm loving every minute of it