Happy things on a happy Friday

It's been a great week. I thought it would drag after the three-day week I had last week, but it's actually gone by remarkably fast, and I'm feeling great. A few things that have helped out with that:

1. I figured out (after two and a half wasted months) that we don't have to wait until we file our 2009 taxes to claim our first-time homebuyer tax credit. It is very simple to file an amendment to your 2008 return to get the tax credit this year. I did so on Wednesday and now we have only to wait a couple months until we get it, then use it to pay off the surgery completely, saving ourselves a chunk of credit card interest. Then we can put the money we were going to use to pay off the surgery into a high-interest savings account, where we will actually EARN money on it instead of PAYING interest on it, until we have enough to pay for new windows.
2. Yesterday at the dog park, Montana spontaneously started fetching. She had sort of fetched a couple times in the past, in that she would run after the ball if you managed to get her attention, and bring it back once or twice before losing interest--and even that has only happened a couple times--but yesterday? She just suddenly pounced on a ball that she found at the dog park, so I threw it for her, and she sprinted after it full speed. And did it again, 15 or 20 more times, until we had to leave. A random spectator would have thought she was just ONE OF THOSE DOGS WHO FETCHES. I recognize that this sounds mundane to most people, but you guys, we have been trying to get her to do this for FOUR MONTHS. And then, out of nowhere, she just... DID.
3. A website that I worked really hard on for a year and a half (the huge deliverable that I had to get done right before my wedding) has FINALLY gone live. It took forever because of various holdups not related to our work, but the client has now put it on the internet for all to see. And it looks very similar to the version we submitted, which I'm proud of. And no, I'm sorry, I'm not going to link it here because it's work-related, but I still had to mention it because I'm so excited about it. (But don't be sad that it's not linked, because most of you would probably find it really boring.)
4. I am really loving this regular gym thing. I love swimming and I love that I feel fitter and more energetic already. I love that with the gym you see results SO FAST. Seriously, whereas normally right before my period I gain a couple pounds and get touchy and hormonal? This time I was totally normal, mood-wise (Torsten corroborates this) and I actually LOST a couple pounds during the days when I normally GAIN them. I am totally chalking this up to the exercise thing.
5. I'm starting to feel really settled in Denver. I have a few friends--one of whom is about to move back to the East Coast, which I'm sad about, but she is coming over for dinner this weekend. I have Jeni, and Rosie, and Kath, and two really cool girls I met at the dog park, and our very nice neighbors. I feel like I'm starting to build a social network, and that makes me happy.

What's making you happy these days?