Better than they have any right to be

  • Hot dogs with pickles and ketchup (a high school lunch staple)

  • Frozen burritos (bean and cheese)

  • Hot tea on a chilly morning

  • A second cup of tea on a chilly morning

  • Unexpected deep conversations with friends

  • The smell of spring rain

  • A new mechanical pencil

  • Clean sheets

  • A new Lego set

  • Filling the last page of a favorite sketchbook

  • Listening to a favorite album for the first time

  • Putting on a warm sweatshirt straight from the dryer

  • Midwest thunderstorms with the windows open in the Spring

  • Finding that rockstar parking spot

  • Devices charged to 100%

Worse than they have any right to be

  • Printers

  • Inadvertently hitting reply all

  • Biting into undercooked chicken at a restaurant

  • A missing Lego piece in a new set

  • Jigsaw puzzles

  • Filling the last page of a favorite sketchbook

  • Unexpected meetings with HR

  • Meetings that could have been an email

  • Emails that needed to be a meeting

  • Beer labels that won’t peel off

  • Beer labels that peel off too easily

  • Stubbing your toe

  • The last 10% of charge remaining
    #publish/page/things