This Week's Top Ten...So Far

10. Paging through my Writer's Digest and finding them talking about YA!!!

9. The "college of Oz" that my girls built out of building blocks, complete with pillars, blonde Glinda doll, dark haired Elphaba doll, and Prince Eric standing in for Fiyero

8. Making it through three whole workouts without cardiac assistance

7. Listening to Jim Dale read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (for the seventy third time)

6. Having another "AHA!" moment for my work-in-progress

5. Realizing that I'm ahead of schedule for my Hamline homework packet

4. Scoring airline tickets to Florida in October for $200 each

3. Reading "Linger"

2. Reading "Linger" author's blog and realizing just how normal Maggie Stiefvater is. Well, perhaps a little superhuman, and beastly talented, but normal in the wife-mom-has a dream sort of way

1. Dancing at my baby sister's wedding in a flapper dress and 1920's hair while my gramma drank beer out of a teacup.