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Here’s mine for today:</p> <ol> <li> I am so glad that it’s almost Shabbat. This week has sucked, and now it’s almost over.</li> <li>The pinched nerve in my shoulder has resolved itself, sparing me more sleepless nights, expensive copays and stressful doctor visits.</li> <li>It’s fall! Really and truly fall - The trees are golden and red and orange and I’m so happy to be in the northeast right now.</li> <li>The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081023232757/http://www.smallfarmexpo.org/">Small Farm & Rural Living Expo</a> is this weekend and I have someone to go with.</li> <li>I don’t have to go into town to the post office and deal with all the fall tourist traffic, because there’s now a tiny little rural post office just a few miles down the road in the other direction. I don’t have to go through town traffic to buy last-minute Shabbat groceries either, because there’s a farmers’ market on my way to aforementioned post office.</li> <li>My trip to CA was hard, but it was also really good. I have wonderful, wonderful friends.</li> <li>I passed my first Biology exam.</li> <li>I ate my first balance meal in days today. Collard greens make me feel like I’m going to be okay.</li> <li>I am a lucky fool.</li> <li>I think I’m joining a book club.</li> <li>I adore Grace Jones. Especially the song “Breakdown.”</li> <li>My garden is still producing like crazy. I grew this beet and it’s really pretty:</li> <p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20081023232757im_/http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/daggerdesigns/IMG_1272.jpg"/></p> <li>Thirteen is my lucky number.</li> </ol> </div> </div> <p class="tagged"><strong>Categories:</strong> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081023232757/http://wordpress.com/tag/friends/" title="View all posts in Friends" rel="category tag">Friends</a> · <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081023232757/http://wordpress.com/tag/about-me/" title="View all posts in about me" rel="category tag">about me</a> · <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081023232757/http://wordpress.com/tag/country-living/" title="View all posts in country living" rel="category tag">country living</a> · <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081023232757/http://wordpress.com/tag/gratitude/" title="View all posts in gratitude" rel="category tag">gratitude</a> · <a 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Day Job</a> </strong> <span class="comment_time">// <a href="#comment-56" title="Permalink to this comment">October 17, 2007 at 4:28 pm</a> </span> </p> <div class="entry"> <p>man, that is a pretty beet.</p> </div> </li> </ul>  <a name="respond"></a> <h3 class="comments_headers">Leave a Comment</h3> <form action="http://web.archive.org/web/20081023232757/http://hineini.wordpress.com/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="comment_form"> <p><input class="text_input" type="text" name="author" id="author" value="" tabindex="1"/><label for="author"><strong>Name</strong></label></p> <p><input class="text_input" type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" tabindex="2"/><label for="email"><strong>Mail</strong></label></p> <p><input class="text_input" type="text" name="url" id="url" value="" tabindex="3"/><label for="url"><strong>Website</strong></label></p>  <p><textarea class="text_input text_area" name="comment" id="comment" rows="7" tabindex="4"></textarea></p> <p> <input name="submit" 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