As a kid I would get really excited about a new toy, but it would lose its luster after owning it for a short while. Sometimes I think we do this with our lives. We often don't do for our spouses, kids, parents, friends what we could, as we grow accustomed to all of them just "being there". Perhaps today is the day to go home and do something unexpected or fun. Alternately, maybe it's the right time to remind someone of how important they are to you.

Something about being in the kitchen, casually cooking something that can be savored by guests seems incredibly therapeutic to me. It's created, consumed and then gone. It can't be documented, saved, stored or managed. Just a fleeting experience shared by friends.

I find the simple act of doing different things now and again and breaking out of my everyday shell has made life more enjoyable and exciting.

I don't do it as much as I should, but when I get out for a run I feel alive. Perhaps it's an endorphin thing, or maybe it's the fresh air and music on the iPod. Whatever it is, I wish I did it more often!

Two doesn't work nearly as well, but on a hot sunny day, after a little work or exercise, nothing tastes quite as good that first swig of beer. I think this is made doubly good after a sauna with the sun setting.

This may be the most difficult thing to really do often, but if you can somehow harness your own well being and think how lucky you are to even read this message vs being blind for example, that has to make you feel fortunate and thusly happy.