Grace in Small Things: Part 56 of 365

1. A text message that read: I think I love the hot Indians as much as the hefty redhead.

2. Less than 24 hours until I get to hug my twin friend

3. Date night

4. A great hair cut and color

5. Accutane

Grace in Small Things: Part 55 of 365

1. Not hearing from him

2. Toaster waffles

3. My new car

4. "Oh, but they don't know you!"

5. The Real Housewives reunion show

Grace in Small Things: Part 54 of 365

1. Vulnerability in others, especially those who don't often show it

2. Working late in a silent office

3. Being someone's person

4. Barry's address

5. Getting to the end of my rope

Grace in Small Things: Part 53 of 365

1. A spoonful of peanut butter

2. The patience to teach Joyce how to use a new computer program without getting frustrated at all

3. Funny professors

4. Being ahead in school

5. My twin friend's birthday

Grace in Small Things: Part 52 of 365

1. Sean Penn's Academy Award acceptance speech

2. Sofia asking me, "Miss Lisa, did you bemember us since you haven't seen us in two weeks?"

3. Being just about done with a paper that isn't due for over a week

4. A long lunch with Kris

5. Being productive all day long

Grace in Small Things: Part 51 of 365

1. Finding the exact car that I wanted for less than I was planning to spend

2. Text messages that make me laugh out loud

3. An impromptu dinner with Andy at El Zarape

4. Being halfway done with a paper that isn't due for 10 days

5. Less than a week until my twin friend reunion

Grace in Small Things: Part 50 of 365

1. Standing my ground and not losing my cool at the car dealership

2. The very hot and very sweet server hitting on me at CPK

3. Feeling connected to Kevin

4. A text message that said: "So sweet Lisa. Always full of praise for others, except when they suck. I admire that."

5. Having the opportunity to support someone through something heinous

Grace in Small Things: Part 49 of 365

1. An episode of Grey's so good that it made my heart pound

2. Rediscovering Patty Griffin's Living with Ghosts

3. Being diagnosed correctly for once in my life

4. Negotiating for my new car

5. Twitter

Grace in Small Things: Part 48 of 365

1. American Idol

2. A great meeting with my sponsor

3. Relief from the wretched sinus pressure

4. That look he gave me

5. Coffee with Jason

Grace in Small Things: Part 47 of 365

1. Late afternoon naps

2. Free coffee

3. Good self care by coming home from work early

4. The relief that comes just after sneezing

5. Doing something that annoys me because it helps someone else

Grace in Small Things: Part 46 of 365

1. Compassion from an unlikely source

2. A phone call from Sofia

3. Finally getting some answers following the accident debacle

4. Offers to let me move in and to buy me a new car from people who love me

5. The Millionaire Matchmaker

Grace in Small Things: Part 45 of 365

1. Playing the who would you rather sleep with game for hours on the plane

2. A free ride to the airport

3. Coming home to a clean house

4. The role reversal of Philly picking me up from the airport

5. Living in San Diego

Grace in Small Things: Part 44 of 365

1. Carin running on the treadmill in the hotel gym in her bra and underwear

2. Speaking without words across the dinner table

3. Good pizza at Zeek's in Seattle

4. Laughing until my stomach hurts all day long

5. Hearing the solution in a weekend of madness

Grace in Small Things: Part 43 of 365

1. Waking up in one state and going to sleep in another

2. Being hit on by a very hot and very tall 21 year old man

3. Doubled over laughing until I cry in the middle of a Seattle street

4. Being in a room with 150 recovering addicts

5. Missing someone and doing nothing about it

Grace in Small Things: Part 43 of 365

1. Clearing the air

2. Grey's/Private Practice Crossover Event!

3. Coming home to find a valentine on my front door

4. The excitement that comes before a trip away for the weekend

5. Being told that not only will I be a mother but will be a good one by someone I trust

Grace in Small Things: Part 42 of 365

1. Being understood

2. My sweet and funny dentist

3. Bon Iver's re:stacks

4. Letting myself cry

5. Unexpected hanging out

Grace in Small Things: Part 41 of 365

1. Breaking up while snuggling in my bed

2. Water

3. My heated mattress pad

4. Fast rental cars

5. Compassion

Grace in Small Things: Part 40 of 365

1. Being in graduate school and loving it

2. Surrender

3. Toast made from homemade bread

4. Standing up for myself

5. The fact that he always knows exactly what to say and do

Grace in Small Things: Part 39 of 365

1. Having my barista boyfriend make and give me a scone just because

2. Laying in bed all day reading a book for pleasure

3. Being snuggled and tickled by a very handsome man

4. Having a tribe of people who want to help me

5. Being able to walk

Grace in Small Things: Part 38 of 365

1. Walking away from a terrifying car accident without a scratch

2. Having insurance and money to pay the deductible to pay for the repairs

3. Feeling loved from 500 miles away

4. Being told: "I am so glad you are alive and sitting here next to me."

5. Making a new friend

Grace in Small Things: Part 37 of 365

1. A three hour dinner with an old friend

2. Clarity from someone who remembers better than I do

3. Having patience

4. Mutual apologies

5. Bad TV

Grace in Small Things: Part 36 of 365

1. Rain

2. Being almost totally caught up at work

3. Sweet text messages that make me smile

4. Lunch with a friend

5. Thursday date night

Grace in Small Things: Part 35 of 365

1. Trying a new meeting so good that I felt compelled to write things people said down on scraps of paper in my purse

2. Realizing that I want what I have even if it looks different than what I imagined

3. Working my ass off all day at work

4. This sentence: "My pulse is forever closer to the surface of my neck because of you, because of my responsibility toward you, and I can't thank you enough for the dimension that this has added to what it means to be alive."

5. Running into someone I hadn't seen in two years and having her gush telling me how great I look

Grace in Small Things: Part 34 of 365

1. Triple Chocolate Orgasm Cake

2. The boy in my bed holding me close

3. Mutual confession of fears

4. Trusting the process

5. An immaculate house

Grace in Small Things: Part 33 of 365

1. Baking a birthday cake for someone I just adore

2. Making marinara sauce from scratch for a different someone that I just adore

3. Cleaning up my surroundings which cleans up my insides

4. Letting myself off the hook

5. Ties on hot men

Grace in Small Things: Part 32 of 365

1. An hour long episode of The Office

2. New shoes

3. Washing dishes

4. Planning to cook dinner for the first time for the boy

5. Laughing until red faced and teary eyed

Grace in Small Things: Part 31 of 365

1. The music and charm of honeyhoney

2. Salted Cashews

3. A naked man bringing me breakfast in bed

4. Being brave without even thinking about it

5. Not making a list