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"I feel like I&amp;#x27;ve been doing a lot of complaining lately (isn&amp;#x27;t that what blogs are for?!), so I figured today, in honor of the official first day of spring, TGIF and Easter, we&amp;#x27;d shift gears a little. Lest you think I&amp;#x27;m a Debbie Downer, here&amp;#x27;s a quick list of good news, cheerful thoughts and positive vibes. 1. I&amp;#x27;m in second place in my March Madness bracket (Tennessee all the way, baby!). 2. This weekend I will be hanging with two of my best friends from college. Things have changed considerably from our days of dancing to the Spice Girls (um, I know) and shooting lemon drops, but I&amp;#x27;m still totally pumped to see them. 3. Do you remember a young woman named Lindsay, an AML patient who I profiled when I first started the blog? She was in need of a stem cell transplant and couldn&amp;#x27;t find a donor. Well, she had a cord blood transplant (cool!), which I mentioned, and guess what? I saw her at the Leukemia &amp;amp;amp; Lymphoma Society&amp;#x27;s casino night last weekend and she was happy and healthy and looked amazing (we ran into each other at the bar!).&amp;amp;nbsp; 4. I worked out this morning (30 minutes on the treadmill followed by situps and leg lifts!). P.S., I never did get Turbo Jam...yet. 5. Top chef is back on the air. Amazing! 6. Along those same lines, The Real Housewives of New York City is train-wreck genuisness and I&amp;#x27;m unapologetically obsessed.&amp;amp;nbsp; 7. I have just enough left of my book (The Patron Saint of Liars) to finish it on the plane tonight. Oh wait, maybe that&amp;#x27;s not such a good thing...I kind of hate finishing books I love. Crap, I need another one! Ideas...? 8. I&amp;#x27;m taking a vacation! I haven&amp;#x27;t told Nick this yet (or my bosses), and I don&amp;#x27;t know where I&amp;#x27;m going, but the plans are in the works...in my head, at least. Stay tuned. 9. Saving the best for last: Alex--finally!--puts his head on my shoulder (when he&amp;#x27;s really, really, really sleepy).&amp;amp;nbsp; He&amp;#x27;s the squishiest lovebug but he&amp;#x27;s just never been a cuddler--since day one he&amp;#x27;s been picking up his head and trying to see the world. Now when he rests his chubby cheek on my shoulder it&amp;#x27;s all I can do not to cry. It&amp;#x27;s the best feeling in the entire world. OK, that&amp;#x27;s all I&amp;#x27;ve got for now. Please share some of your own happy thoughts--what&amp;#x27;s making you smile right now? Have a great weekend, Happy Easter, enjoy! --Erin"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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