Gratitude

 
1. I won a raffle! Doris and I went to this thing Friday evening, they raffled off a gift basket full of wine. I bought just 1 ticket - and found out yesterday that I'd won!

2. My boss and I had a great mid year review, and then we went out to lunch with our teammate Erin. It was a farewell before sabbatical lunch for me, which was super-nice. Erin gave me a book

3. There's not much good news in Washington but I heard that the Senate Republicans are indicating a willingness to compromise with Dems. I guess we have to take every grain of good news we can get.