Reasons to be...

...miserable

• Rain is supposed to take the pollen out of the air and reduce hayfever symptoms. So how come I'm still sniffling and suffering itchy eyes?
• The bit of TV I saw this morning featured Elaine Paige singing a bit of "I know you so well". Unfortunately, I know this song quite well (my mum likes it), and have only just chased the damn' thing out of my head with judicious application of ipod.
• Admiring the contents of my package of new books apparently counts as "reading" for car-sickness-causing purposes. I should know better.

...cheerful

• The rain will continue the work smiorgan's been doing to turn the big space behind our house into a garden.
• iPod with the wedding playlist :-)
• New books! (The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco, Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, Saturday by Ian McEwan, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix. Although I'm not happy about TTTW's embossed "Richard and Judy's book club" sign on the front. Why can't they use a removable sticker like normal people?)

But you know what? Two of the reasons to be miserable have vanished while I've been writing, and the other is diminishing, but the reasons to be cheerful are ongoing. Aren't I a little ray of sunshine?