Sunday, November 18

The Happy List - Things to Be Happy About

1. I'm alive.
2. My mother
3. My father
4. My sister
5. God's love
6. That I live in a free land
7. I have a house
8. Said house has heating
9. I have enough food
10. I get to learn about a lot of stuff
11. I have the means to communicate with my friends.
12. I have friends.
13. I have amazing friends.
14. I have clothes
15. Music
16. Encores
17. Great books
18. Fuzzy socks
19. When an audience starts clapping on the beat
20. The circular sound of Manneheim Steamroller
21. When your sister writes stories and puts you in them
22. Musicals
23. The Hallelujah chorus
24. Whistling
25. Colorful sharpies
26. Finding programs from last year's musical in old journals
27. Christmas
28. Babies
29. Talking to walls
30. Having Olivia make your hair crazy
31. Thanksgiving
32. Ms. Quinlan's speeches about adopting turkeys
33. Ms. Quinlan's walrus imitations
34. Completely mental Beatles songs
35. Muffins
36. 6/8 time signature
37. Curly hair
38. Little girls with really poofy dresses
39. Little boys with huge cumberbuns
40. Boys wearing suits
41. Screaming for your teammates at a speech meet
42. Orange peelers
43. Clementines at Thanksgiving
44. The shuffle button on music players
45. Old people pretending to be Jamaican
46. Bean bags
47. Socks that say "no nonsense" on them
48. When an old guy calls boys tanks and girls beautiful airplanes
49. No school
50. Snow

Please add - let's see how long we can make this!

3 comments:

Unnatural Child #1 said...

51. Singing
52. Pianos that aren't out of tune
53. Really cool harmonies
54. Rooms with really good acoustics
55. Gigantic choirs with 300+ people
56. Getting a callback from an audition
57. Getting the results of said callback and finding out you got a really good part
58. My cats
59. Being a complete geek
60. And loving it
61. Arguing politics with your friends
62. And still being able to laugh with them
63. Books
64. Libraries
65. Finishing your final exam and knowing you aced it
67. Not having to take a final to begin with
68. Sunshine
69. The mountains
70. Beautiful sunsets
71. Laughter
72. The 1812 overture
73. Stealing Bach's cello suites and playing them on the viola instead
74. Picking raspberries and eating more off the bush than you actually keep
75. Digital cameras
76. Waking up really early before anyone else has
77. Popsicles in the summer
78. Fields of wildflowers
79. Hot chocolate with marshmallows in the winter
80. Fireplaces

That's all for now...although I could go on.

Roo said...

81. Early morning Home Depot runs with Dad
82. Playing with shopping carts
83. Sunrises
84. Bus rides
85. Teachers who think they're ninjas
86. Acting out Bible stories
87. Acting out Bible stories as if the characters used modern language ("Aaron you retard! What the heck did you do?")
88. Traveling somewhere foreign and finding a place that looks exactly like Teletubbie land
89. Humidifiers that look like frogs
90. The Christmas displays in Home Depot

Apples said...

91. Running around with your friends screaming because of a tick
92. Your teachers treating you like an equal
93. Pumpkin cake
94. Waterfalls in the mountains
95. Having straight A's (that be something to be happy about!)
96. Getting published (in my dreams)
97. Looking out the window of a plane and seeing both the ocean and the mountains
98. Cream pan and orange juice for breakfast
99. Sudoku books
100. Driving in a car at night in Wyoming
101. Being able to see so many more stars than normal while driving because of little light pollution in Wyoming
102. That we're done with inequalities in math (they suck, especially absoulute value inequalitites)
103. Being able to make french silk pie