Five Things that Don't Suck, Pi Day Leftovers Edition

1. leftover pizza (theoretical)
2. leftover chicken pot pie
3. leftover apple pie
4. leftover lemon meringue pie
5. eating more vegetables

Five Things that Don't Suck, Finally Saw American Hustle Edition

1. Jeremy Renner's gravity-defying hair
2. Amy Adams' boob-defying necklines
3. The hip-swinging sex machine that is Bradley Cooper in the disco
4. Christian Bale's beer gut
5. all things Jennifer Lawrence, but really, she and Renner could have a cage match-style battle of the up-dos, and I'm not sure who'd win

Five Things that Don't Suck, Damn the Torpedoes Edition

1. lunch with two friends I don't get to see anywhere near often enough
2. maybe not sliding around on the roads because there's been plenty of time to treat them (?)
3. warm coats
4. boots
5. laughing and laughing and laughing

Five Things that Don't Suck, Glass Half Full Edition

1. still having half of spring break left
2. being half--just half!--in the bag
3. announcing, "No half measures!" and seeing who around you even knows what the hell that means
4. half and half*
5. the fact that "half" is one of those words that just looks weirder and weirder the more you type it.

*the dairy product or the iced tea/lemonade combination a.k.a. the Arnold Palmer. Either one works for me, just please don't ask me to try a half and half and half and half because: ew.

Five Things that Don't Suck, It Might as Well Be Spring Edition

1. being as restless as a willow in a windstorm
2. being as jumpy as a puppet on a string
3. hearing words I've never heard from a man I've yet to meet*
4. being as busy as a spider spinning daydreams
5. seeing a crocus or a rosebud or a robin on the wing

*also may be a sign of mental illness, so if this is happening to you, please consult your physician

Five Things that Don't Suck, Snowy Monday Edition

1. knowing it won't stick
2. temporarily covering the really ugly leftover snow still on the ground
3. being at the point in the winter where you can talk yourself into this being just a temporary setback
4. two-digit temperatures that begin with, say, 6. Or 7. Or 8.
5. wallabies

Five Things that Don't Suck, Lazy Sunday Edition

1. Calvin and Hobbes
2. Bloom County
3. reading the old-fashioned comics that showed up in the Sunday paper at the beach house*
4. blueberry bread**
5. Funky Winkerbean***

*Beetle Bailey, anyone? The Wizard of Id? The Amazing Spider-Man? (Why did we even read that one? It's not like anything even happened in it, not if you could only read a couple of them and then not see the strip again for months at a time.)
**I'd say "freshly baked blueberry bread" here, but I made it yesterday, and I'd argue that the advantage to day-old blueberry bread is that you don't have to wait for it to bake.
***would normally be included under #3 above, but come on. "Funky Winkerbean?" Sign me up.