It’s that time again!

Here is the total compilation of my 2023 #happythings lists!

JANUARY

1. Tijuana Brass, blown transformer, and an outdoor Christmas on a beautiful day. 🎄
2. B&N date and nesting. 📚
3. Pre-steak snoozing with Sally. 💤
4. Massages and mashed potatoes.
5. Slim Chicken’s and shining LaFawnduh. 🚗
6. Pet documentaries confirm we are nothing but minions.
7. An excellent Panera date with Kathy & Tina, Riviera Maya with Kelli, and a chat with Jewels and Lulu. I am a social butterfly. 🦋
8. Carol’s birthday! Jamming Elvis and Bowie. 🕺
9. Zooming with my CNRW pals. 💻
10. A punch in the arm from Dr. Wayne. 🩺
11. Hacks!
12. David’s burgers and cozy clothes. 🍔
13. Elvis date with my king.
14. Cinnamon Creme Bakery madness!
15. Mediterranean dinner and dreams.
16. Burgers, beans, and my baby!
17. Stitches out. 🥼
18. Arron’s first annual 29th birthday! 🎂
19. Bill is bichipsual. #regularorwavy
20. Mediocre Chinese food, but a superior post-dinner snoozle with Sally. 🥟
21. Running with Reep & RSG holiday party. I wore a sparkly sweater!
22. I sat am forever am at work here.👺
23. Look,ma, no cavities! 🪥
24. After dinner wind-down with our fur babies.
25. Vegging out with Jewels and Emily In Paris. 👛
26. Scored a foot-long churro for $1. #winning
27. Schnitzel nacht! 🥘
28. Words! I made words! 📝
29. The Nurserie field trip.
30. Mickey Ds with my man because I deserved a break today!
31. Jewels is 40! 🍾🥳🎊🎉🥂

FEBRUARY

1. Campbell’s Chicken Noodle soup and oatmeal cookies. #healthfood 🍜
2. Prescribed methylprednisolone. Did not see my shadow.🦫
3. Feeling slightly human. #gome
4. YouTube food experiments are a success! #omelettoast #grilledcheese 🍳
5. Scoring in the clearance aisle!
6. Caught Fodder hiding in the bedroom with a bowl of ice cream 🍨. He didn’t want to have to share with the dogs. 😂🤣
7. A good chat and a few atta girls from my coach. 🙌
8. Not a heart attack. #positivity🏥
9. A busy day, which kept me from dwelling on a sad day 25 years ago.
10. I made some manicotti and it made me nap.
11. Playtime and pastries with my guys!🧁 Thinking of my Mommy.
12. Sunshine day. 🌞
13. Back to Margaret Monday.
14. A “Be Mine” cake made by my Valentine. 💗
15. Massage day! And I slept through the night like a big girl!
16. Nothing like a good pencil whipping’!✏️
17. Trawling the Lowe’s for tile ideas.
18. Panera with Tina, Parker & Mandy! This time, we actually made words!💻
19. Puff pastry experimental kitchen and weenie roast.🌭
20. The Bueno birds are stool pigeons!!🪶
21. Book mail from Lucy Gilmore! 📚
22. Fun with closed-circuit cameras.🎥
23. A perfect pink hyacinth. 🌸
24. Discovered that Eugene Levy and are totally MFEO. ❤️
25. Nesting day – stocking the freezer.
26. Pasta fagooooool made us drool!
27. Sunny and 74!
28. Making plans for a foyer renovation while Fodder makes the mess.

MARCH

1. Tazz’s burgers and hunkering down. ⛈
2. Even old girls get the zoomies. #pupperplay 🐾
3. Day 1 of BeccaCon. The fire hose of information is open. 🌊
4. More Input overload, but the sun shone and my guy and I had an exciting evening of burgers and tile shopping. 🌞
5. Savoring the joys of dandelion fluff with Sawyer.
6. A haircut and a box o’ books! 📚
7. Brought my baby a delicious square fish sandwich.
8. The rain held off a bit. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good evening to puppy nap. 😴
9. Chattering away with Jewels.💻
10. Neck deep in FI: Drive to Survive and speckled with chocolate.🏎
11. Banana muffins! 🍌
12. Get things done day. ✅
13. Kayson is 10! 🎂
14. Tiles and paint procured. Bill covered in confetti.
15. The Ides of Ted Lasso!
16. Taco soup, puppy snoozing, and F1.
17. Texas Roadhouse 🥩 and TraderJoe’s.
18. Shrinking and Lasso rewatch.
19. Kroger grocery pickup.
20. Mainlining Daisy Jones and the Six. 💻
21. 8 week program complete!
22. More Lasso. Can there ever be enough? ⚽️
23. Popeyes and puppy snoozing.
24. Brinda and Mags weekend!🧳
25. Making words, Mexican brownies, a walk in the sun, and the devil’s donuts. 🍩
26. Home with man and beasts. ❤️
27. Going wild-ing with Kelli Reep.
28. Manwich night!
29. Massage day, taco truck🌮, and Ted Lasso. 💗
30. Tag team Walmart shopping and beautiful new tile!
31. Safe and sound. 🌪

APRIL

1. A lie-in, surveying the local nurseries, and a lovely day for yard work.
2. Hanging with the Ottawa Romance Writers and the fab Sara Megibow.💻
3. Fresh purple hull peas.
4. Rebellion night. 🌮
5. In-depth Lasso play-by-play and analysis with Jewels.
6. A Thursday-Friday!
7. Spent the day in my pajamas writing.
8. More writing then yard work and sunshine ☀️
9. Easter with Arron, Kendall, Sawyer & Rylee. 🌟
10. Flower inspection/anticipation season! 🌸🌺🌼🌹🌷
11. Leadership conference for RSG.
12. Post office ninja!💌
13. Taco truck tastiness on Friday Eve.🌮
14. Mrs. Maisel returns! 👛
15. Tile triumph!
16. Writing a few words. 🙂
17. Singing the painting song. 🎨
18. Singing Danny’s Song in our Bueno bubble.
19. Ted’s Triangles.
20. An offer!
21. Legally Blonde: The Musical with Kelli Reep! 💃🏻
22. Luigi’s and Fernando. Vroom vroom! 🏎
23. Wordsmithing and interior decor.
24. A Happy Go Lucky Carnival of Snackery with David Sedaris and Kelli Reep! 📚
25. OZARKS MISSING PERSON release day!
26. Chat with the ISU OGs. 😃
27. Breakfast for dinner and a great coaching call. 🥓
28. Nothing like a little fricassee with Big Dan when you’re feeling a mite peckish. 🍕
29. Today is the day we celebrate all things Renee. 🦩
30. Wordsmithing and marketing for fleas.

MAY

1. A pretty pale pink peony.🌸
2. Doing the DocuSign dance! 🕺
3. AYTG?IM,M with Kelli Reep. Judy Blume is a goddess.
4. A Sonic date with our puppies. 🍔
5. #22 on PW bestseller list!
6. Would you like a cinnamon brown sugar cat milk espresso? 🐈
7. ORW Superman workshop. I don’t think anyone went sleep. 😴
8. Schnitzel in honor of Queen Charlotte. 👑
9. Timber the play puppy pinup girl. Every inch the lady.
10. Roy Kent! Roy Kent!
11. Flowers and cuddles.
12. Off to Dallas to meet Chants! ✈️
13. Sightseeing and singing Pictures of You! #thecure #rocknrollsummerkickoff 🎶
14. Plane nap, puppies, pizza, and patio snoozing. 💤
15. Puppy cuddles = Monday cure all.
16. 33 1/3 written.
17. Review day in the Room of Wonders!
18. We know the way to Santa Fe Cafe…maybe too well. 😉
19. Splurging on the froyo with our hit dog combos. 🌭
20. A kegger with Dogtown Ukulele Band. 🍻
21. Mags + Bill + Kelli + Higgins + Pickering + Eliza = a loverly day.
22. Vegging out on Selling Sunset.
23. Release day OZARKS DOUBLE HOMICIDE.
24. Television night! 📺
25. Mrs. Maisel provides a glimpse into my future.
26. Family fun around the fire. 🔥
27. Farmers Market, splash pad, and county fair with Axel & Co.
28. A bouquet of empty recycling bottles from my baby beaux. ♻️❤️👶
29. Writing, reading, sunning, writing, reading, shopping….
30. Chicken McNuggets and cruising with my guy.
31. Oh, Ted, how we’ll miss you. #barbequesauce

JUNE

1. Marvelous manicotti. 😋
2. Haircut date. ✂️
3. Doing whatever I feel like…gosh!
4. Sunday prep day. ✅
5. Snoopy drawings and words of encouragement. 💕
6. My guy makes me laugh. 😂
7. An official announcement. 📜
8. Rocking some synth in honor of Nick Rhodes’ birthday. 🎹
9. Lemon cheesecake cookie! 🍋
10. Rainy day snoozles with Sally & Timber.
11. Netflix and chilling with Kelli & Jewels.
12. Adventuring with my guy. Dumplings and honky tonks.🥟
13. Ryman Auditorium and Bridgestone Arena – Duran Duran!
14. Home with our beasties.🐕‍🦺🦮
15. Catching up on ALL THE WORK. ✅
16. Indian Matchmaking with Jewels and Billiam. 📺
17. Sawyer time then Riviera Maya time! 🌮
18. Daddies are the best.
19. Big wording tonight! 🖥
20. Revelations of the fictional variety.
21. Dairy Queen for dinner. 🍦
22. A Hollywood High . 🎶
23. Loading up Caddy Canoe! 🛶
24. Paddling about and snoozing it out.
25. Sweltering Sundays mean banana pudding.
26. Steak and cuddles. 🥩
27. A new book 📖for me and a new house 🏡for our Little Squirrel 🐿 .
28. Dollar store key lime pie on massage day.
29. Appraisal assistant extraordinaire. 🎖
30. 22 years, 2 kids, 4 grandsons, 8 dogs, and 1 rabbit in…so far, so good. 👰🏻‍♀️🤵🏻

JULY

1. Croissant breakfast sandwiches 🥐, Grandma Caleta’s chocolate oatmeal cookies🍪, and tacos🌮 = a good Saturday.
2. Our first batch of purple hull peas.
3. Indiana Jones 🤠and a massive bucket of popcorn. 🍿
4. Eulalie Mackeknie Shinn Day! Happy birthday, ‘Merica! 🧨
5. Checking things off the list. ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
6. Preparing for the sojourn 🧳and celebrating Sawyer’s birthday a bit early. 🎂
7. Lucca Grill with Bill and Renee. 🍕🍺
8. Christmas in July 🎄🌴🎁 with the Kidwell clan.
9. A smooth trip home and puppies to greet us!
10. Frito pies and an easy night.
11. Sawyer Day! 🎂
12. MasterChef and Smartless. 📺
13. Thursday night snoozles.
14. Chimichanga and discount roses. 🌹
15. Homebodying.🏠
16. Words, glorious (?) words!
17. Welcome to Wrexham!
18. Executive dinner decision: Pizza pizza!
19. Hot guy in a Razorback shirt and cutoff shorts.
20. A fresh bedspread.
21. I lived in the same world as Tony Bennett. 🎤💔
22. Revisions, Mexican food, and Shine-Ola.
23. Falling I love with my book. ❤️❤️❤️
24. The boys are back! New house, new room!
25. Moogie didn’t miss the boat the day she bought Boz tickets…. 🎶
26. A good check up at the dentist. 🪥
27. Cool banana pudding on an oppressively hot day.
28. Monster pencil bags. 👾
29. Being Barbie girls with Brinda and Kelli – pink margaritas for everyone! 🍹
30. A quiet Sunday, just drifting along.
31. A festival of meat and The Great. 👑👸

AUGUST

1. Writing my love of cheese into a book. 🧀 Because I can. #MoogiesWorld
2. Pizza date with my guy. 🍕
3. Off to Michigan! ✈️ An evening with Kat, Jeff & Carol. Two Tonys for pasta and Tony Bennett, then the Front Porch 🍦 for dessert.
4. The perfect day! A walk with Kat, beautiful beach 🏖️ time, scaling the dune with Carol, and Renee made it in time for happy hour 🍹. Capped it all with good music, good conversation, and…blue ice cream? 🤷‍♀️ My heart is as full as my belly.
5. Pub grub, Barbie, and Flamingos in the can! 🦩
6. Hugs, kisses, a few tears, and a happy homecoming. ✈️
7. 8 minutes in an exam room. Healthcare by the Flash! ⚡️
8. Bagging up some goodies and solving the world’s problems with Kelli Reep.
9. Carne asada nachos. Yum!
10. Keep the Beat testing ❤️ my heart is practically perfect in every way!!!
11. New 🍎 watch.
12. A puppy snoozle and a dipped cone. 🍦
13. Arkansas Special Agents featured in review by the Arkansas Times! 📰
14. Monday nap day.
15. Putzing about getting a little done here, a little done there. ☑️
16. Massage day – rubarub-rub!
17. Thumping speaker dance party with the puppies.
18. Riviera Maya for Friday refreshment!🍻
19. Joey & Ben’s mojo dojo casa house 🏡 and three sweet boys! 😍😍😍
20. Soft clothes Sunday.
21. Sometimes, I just open a can of Hormel chili and a bag of Fritos. #notevenmasterchefnight
22. A visit from Arron and Sawyer. 😀
23. A new chair for my command module. 🖥️
24. Flying Fish 🐠 and Kilwins with my guy. 🍨
25. Party prep and pizza with Kelli.
26. Pool party at Brinda’s! Drumsticks 🪘 in the shallow end and rom com afternoon! 🥰
27. Closing in on an ending!
28. Made it through Monday. Chicken, bacon, provolone sandwiches as a restorative.
29. A warm welcome and delicious dinner at the Santa Fe Mexican Grill. 🌮
30. Eliminating that’s, reallys, justs, and verys.
31. A big, beautiful moon followed me to work this morning. 🌝

SEPTEMBER

1. The Pantry and a fresh new Apple 🍎.
2. Date night – pizza 🍕, beer 🍺, and new Razorback gear.
3. Typed “The End” at last! 🖥️
4. Miller time on a Monday. Sent my manuscript off!
5. Time dinner with our boy before he hits the road again. 🚛
6. Puppy snuggles and tacos.
7. Nurse Sally helped with my upset tummy.
8. A bountiful bouquet of beautiful basil.🌿
9. Three boys filled with boundless energy. #wrecked 🥱
10. I did a whole lot of nothing today, and I was damn good at it.
11. Positive feedback!
12. A great chat with Sara. Excited about this book! 🖥️
13. Pasta e fagioli and MasterChef.📺
14. Home alone. 😀😱🤣
15. A hot date to Sam’s Club.🛒
16. A little adventure on an ordinary day with you. 👩‍❤️‍👨
17. Turned my Restorative skills loose on my manuscript. ⚒️
18. Downloading WatchOS for Snoopy’s sake.
19. Warm chocolate chip cookies 🍪 at work!
20. A nap and the Masterchef finale.
21. Ricotta stuffed shells. 😋
22. Called it Easy Friday, and we took it easy.
23. Hatching 🐣 plans with Kelli and Brinda.
24. A field trip plus croissants!
25. Lounging in bed long before bedtime. 🛌
26. Crinkle cut French fries.
27. Catching up with the Wrexham guys.
28. A nice guy who pumps my gas.
29. A big, beautiful morning moonset. 🌕
30. Caulk talk and taco truck.

OCTOBER

1. Fun, food and fellowship at the RSG family picnic! 🧺🏐🎈
2. Mmm. A particularly tasty Homer’s burger. 🍔
3. Bill Ethridge: Man on a Mission
4. Massage day! I am the rubber band wo-man.
5. Dictation, Schmicago with Jewels, and a little Superstar. 🌟
6. Shots 💉and sopapillas.
7. Meandering words and lazing with dogs.
8. A beautiful day to pull some weeds. 🌱
9. Snuggle pups and stroganoff.
10. Watching Jewels shoe shop – a spectator sport. 👟
11. Everything can be fixed with a truckload of fries. 🍔🍟
12. Ringo!!! ✌️❤️⭐️🎤🥁
13. Road tripping. Glad we don’t drive a grassfed Telluride. 🤣
14. Fire in the hole!!! SDC with my big boys. ❤️
15. Home to our canine overlords. 🐶
16. Street tacos 🌮 to the rescue!
17. A proposal proposed. ⌨️
18. Talking things out. Making a plan. 🗒️
19. Italian pastry cookies and a fabulous plot bunny! 🐰
20. Baking with my guy, our pups and Elizabeth Zott. 📺
21. Plants, puppy naps, and pizza. 🍕
22. A shrubbery!
23. Tub jamming Taylor Swift, much to Fodder’s chagrin. 🎤🎶
24. Sunshine and a festival of meat! 🌭
25. Dipped into The Gilded Age.
26. Making words while the guitar man plays. 🎸
27. A B&N date. 📚
28. Rainy day puppies don’t mind days spent in jammies, they just keep snoozin’ on. 🎶
29. SIX with my partner in crime, Kelli Reep. 👑
30. FRIENDS reunion rewatch. Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. 😂
31. Passing out the Halloween goodies to all the kiddos at Joe & Deb’s.🎃 Have trick or treaters, will travel!

NOVEMBER

1. Kicked off NaNoWriMo strong. 💪
2. Taco 🌮 truck fueled typing.
3. Holding hands on Friday night errands. 🤝
4. A pursuit of, uh, for the ages.
5. A sunny Sunday. Off to the races with Sawyer and Rylee! ⏱️
6. Billy cracks pecans and roasts them in butter! 😋
7. Mainlining Selling Sunset for a brain break. 📺
8. Massage day!
9. Girls night with Timber and Sally.💤
10. A brewski and a Big Dan pizza. 🍺🍕
11. Rizatriptan to the rescue. 💊
12. Belting out some classics with Tony Bennett on the way home from Kroger. 🎤
13. A snoozle and some schnitzel.
14. Whipping up words before marinating in Julia. 👩‍🍳
15. Hanging out in my nest watching trash TV.
16. Double nickel birthday! Surprise donuts and flowers, a good meeting, and Santa Fe Cafe. 🎂
17. Massages and madcap Christmas light shopping.🎄
18. Fu fu fu Fu-Lin for dinner. 🥠
19. On top of mount Chex Mix…
20. Rainy day soup and snuggles. 🥫🍲
21. Cranking out the goodies!
22. A birthday stampede through the Texas Roadhouse for Billiam.
23. Thanksgiving 🦃 with the Prewitt clan!
24. Hugs and little chatter boxes. 🥰
25. Working on old habits and making new plans.
26. Landed on Planet Fitness again. 🏋️‍♀️
27. A big, bright Beaver Moon! giggles🌕
28. Busy day, tasty dinner, and a few words.
29. Mr. Chip Hauler III 😂🤣😂
30. Rainy day puppies always seem to know when you’re eating nachos. 🎶

DECEMBER

1. Jamming my 🍎 Music 2023 playlist. Eclectic doesn’t seem strong enough… 🎶
2. Hanging with Sawyer and Rylee.
3. The Starship Enterprise tree topper never fails to delight us. 🤓
4. You gave me a mission this week…what was it? 🤔
5. A good visit with the railroad, but the pot roast was even better.
6. A successful state of the union talk. 👩‍❤️‍👨
7. Home alone for a few hours. 😱
8. A slow walk and fast food. 🍟
9. Christmas shopping! 🛍️
10. RSG Christmas party and my 5-year workiversary.
11. Lazy Monday night.
12. Big words! 💻
13. A lucky miss.
14. Words and Julia. 📺
15. Knocking the last of the shopping out and scoring 4x fuel points! 💰
16. Hitting the old Sizzlin’ and gawking at the Christmas lights. 🎄
17. Super Sunday productivity extravaganza!
18. Fudge and roasted pecans. 😋
19. Shopping out of spite due to a sleepless night. 😴
20. Cereal killer… qu’est-ce que c’est.
21. All. The. Prep. Hurry, Santa! 🎅🏻
22. Invasion of silly boys.
23. Christmas with our kiddos. 🎄🎁🎅🏻
24. Brunch with my guy on Christmas Eve.
25. Christmas Day in our pajamas. Headlamps and Doritos make the best stocking stuffers! ❤️
26. Puppy cuddles while feeling cruddy. 😷 And a great big beautiful moon 🌕 !
27. Up and about. Hopefully on the mend.
28. Homemade chicken soup. 🍜
29. Mainlining a good book. 📕
30. Big Dan, Trader Joe’s, Somebody Feed Phil with my guy.
31. Christmas with Sawyer and company. ❤️

I hope you found plenty of little things to make you happy this year.

Wishing you a happy 2024!

xoxo

Mags