So a few of you may remember this. In late high school - early college
I would keep a list of things to be happy about, occasionally,
these lists would make their way to other people's doors, but usually was found on the outside of my dorm room door. I feel this was the idea of my friend, Rachel (she was always the idea girl, I believe she is the one who came up with eating granola bars in the park after dark too) after the book 14,000 Things to be Happy About. Usually, the list would be elaborate and decorated (I remember some especially nicely colored butterflies) and added to on occasion.
Yes, I do know I was super cool and you all missed out by not being my friend then and just thinking I was the crazy-shorts girl.
So,I decided today may be a good day to revive the list (the original is
long gone). Here is my list for today (in no particular order):
1. Shampoo foam
2. The smell of chlorine coming off your skin after swimming
3. Beta fish
4. Maple sugar candy in the shape of moose
5. New catalogs
6. Heirloom jewelry
7. Sippy caps for my Nalgene bottles
8. Abe Lincoln bobble heads that are missing one hand
9. Peanut-butter chocolate bars
10. Scoring only a 50 while bowling but still having fun
11. New wellies
12. Blue highlighters
13. Strawberry lip balm
14. Peppermint Hot chocolate
15. Easy to fix hair
16. Spider earrings
17. Flying, stuffed, screaming monkeys
18. New calendars
19. Flickr
20. Seeing your friends get married to the perfect mates
21. New blog posts from your favorite bloggers (hint hint)
22. Playing Cubis and getting a "Perfect" level
23. Finishing a crossword puzzle by yourself
24. Sleeping
25. Goofing off at work
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2 comments:
Thank you.
I needed that optimism. Now all I can think about is my own list. Thanks for the pick me up!
This one time, close to college graduation around April 2001, I was feeling really quite depressed about life (hate change!!) and Nora Meenaghan sent me the nicest e-mail with a list of things to look forward to and that included:
-new Martha Stewart Living magazines!!
Thank God, what would we do without new MSLs?? It still makes me so v. happy!
Also, your new outlet blazer makes me happy. And pleasant smelling things like lemon and sage soap.
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