1. I woke up early early and went to Whole Foods right when it opened. Alone. I leisurely strolled the aisles, sipping a mocha and munching on a chocolate croissant while enjoying the emptiness and silence in the most magical store.

2. Needing supplies for dessert, I bought this sunflower oil. You can use it for everything. How great is the packaging? And the container feels so good in my hand because of the weight and the texture of the paper. I just keep looking at it.

3. The cake I made. It's called Hummingbird Cake and it basically rules. It's kind of like a carrot cake/banana bread hybrid with fabulous homemade cream cheese frosting. Deelish.

4. The whole family came over yesterday afternoon for togetherness and dinner. It's such a comfortable chaos and I just love seeing all of the kids together. Mom put together this FAB dinner and everyone chowed and chatted happily. Each kid is so fascinating to watch and listen to. They were all sucked in the by the new game we bought, SPORE. I have to say, it is REALLY cool. H&F love it. They drag anyone and everyone over to watch it. It's basically a game about evolution. Peter and I giggled to ourselves when H invited the neighbor kids over to check it out. I don't know how their creationist parents would react. Which is what brought us great delight.

5. We toasted last night to the sale of our Seattle house and some good news regarding my recent mammogram and ultrasound. My doc found a lump and while this is normal in a lot of women, I am not a lot of women. I am the medical enigma. The 1% girl who gets everything. The daughter of two parents with breast cancer. I think I actually held my breath for 2 weeks waiting. All is well though. They want to do an MRI, just to have a baseline for the future but are not currently worried. It's just normal breast tissue.

My next step is to have the BRACA testing done to see if I have the breast cancer gene. If I do, I'm getting rid of these suckers. No sense in constantly worrying. Plus, then I get new boobs! Gotta look at the silver lining, right?

Thought for the day: The glass is always half full. It has to be.