two lists

Ten things I find outrageously irritating:
1. the people at Grand Central who INSIST on coming down the fully loaded staircase when there's a perfectly good empty one right behind them.
2. when the lobby of my building smells like chicken. It's on an erratic schedule so I can't even be prepared for it.
3. my office computer, which is refusing to behave
4. the new shampoo I bought that smells great but makes my hair look like deflated spaghetti
5. just enough post-nasal drip to make my tummy feel funny
6. the fact that I don't know what to be when I grow up
7. did I mention the people at Grand Central?
8. constantly increasing postage prices
9. people who make out in public places as if they don't know that it hurts my feelings
10. whistling.

Ten blissful, non-stressful things:
1. four day weekends (thanks, Judiasm!)
2. warm coffee that's not too sweet or too bitter
3. festive, new, purple running sneakers
4. yoga in the morning
5. upcoming vacations to Greece (see one of our hotels here)
6. the qi-gong tui na ladies who operate a cash-only business in my neighborhood
7. a bathtub full of warm pudding (I imagine)
8. breezy sunsets
9. being 95% of the way through the most recent New Yorker magazine (before week's end!)
10. my couch