So metal...

1. Catching up to and passing a runner who's been lapping you for months.

2. Making your own granola. While wearing you ex's favorite concert t-shirt. As Iggy Pop blares on your phonograph.

3. Getting to see reggae legends and your fave local reggae band, in the same evening. With good, chill friends.

4. Counting down the days and hours until the big meeting is over and you can have a good stretch and cry during Bikram yoga. The heat instantly dries the tears, so nobody's the wiser.

5. Making out. In your ex's favorite concert t-shirt. While listening to The Velvet Underground on the phonograph. And then snacking on your uber-tasty homemade granola.

6. Fantastically long showers. The ones where you sit down partway through and pretend you're in a rainforest. You know what I'm talking about.

7. Possessing the ability to pick up random small, light household objects with your toes.

8. Taking your dog on two walks after work. Because he deserves it. Every day.

9. Liking your job, even on the most hectic, mind-splitting days.

10. The mountains of Colorado. Yeah, you know the ones...the Rockies. Heaven.

Metal.