Things I Love… Friday

First of all: Does anybody have any experience with using PayPal to sell a file for download? I finished up the PDF for three awesome houses (sneak peek), so now I just need to figure out how to get it to you. Er, for money. I’ve already got the PayPal account, but I’d like to do something a bit slicker than manually e-mailing the PDF once people have paid. Any ideas, clever friends?
And now, some things I love. I should have done this for ‘Things I Love Thursday’, but I’d JUST done ‘What’s Hot’ on Wednesday, and I can’t be expected to have endless appreciation on tap.
– The perfect fried egg. I made this heart-shaped one by putting a metal cookie cutter (lightly oiled inside) in the pan and then cracking the egg into it. The key was placing a saucepan lid on top of the cutter, which helped cook the top of the egg without my needing to flip it. The yolk was still runny, but just starting to get chalky at the edges. Perrrrfect.
– Running. Considering I’ve been running off and on for a few years now, this shouldn’t come as a surprise, but that’s what it is. I’m a slow runner, but I’m trying to embrace that. Last year, I never was able to build up much distance at my training pace, but I backed off this year and I’m making much better progress. And today, I went to the gym planning to do some incline walking (since I’d had a good, longer run yesterday), but then an exciting song came on my iPod, so I had to throw in a mile of running. It’s as though I enjoy it.
– Crossing things off my to-do list. What’s better than a sense of accomplishment, right? Although it often happens, I don’t really like putting things off; they sit at the edges of my mind and bother me. When I was a senior in college (yes, it only took fifteen years of school before I realized this), I decided it was SO much better to write all my papers Thursday night (I didn’t have Friday classes my last couple of years, because English professors don’t want to teach Friday classes — hooray!) so I could enjoy my weekends with no responsibilities weighing on me.
– Free pancakes. That’s what I’ll be getting tomorrow! The question: HOW much more delicious does a pancake taste when it’s free? Can’t wait to find out.
– Playing ‘chase’ with Beany. This is her new big thing. She decides it’s time to play chasing, so she’ll sprong up in the air several times until she’s got my attention. Then I’m obligated (by her cuteness) to chase her back and forth across the house, play hide-and-sneak, and do big arms to ‘scare’ her. Young cats are a lot of work.