77 Things To be Happy About

Because my wonderful Dad actually reads my blog, he sent me my essay that I sent to all my colleges, it's fun to read now and remember all the things that made me happy back then. They still make me happy!

1. Opening flower store refrigerators
2. Freshly changed sheets
3. Reading a meaningful quote
4. Fresh block of cheddar cheese
5. Running in the snow/rain
6. Cracking your back
7. Opening a book that has never been opened
8. First day of school
9. Last day of school
10. Closing a book with emphasis after you finish
11. Using the same book mark for the whole book
12. Finding something you lost
13. Nicknames
14. Girls’ nights
15. Chilled Fruit
16. 10^th grade English class- 3^rd period days 2 and 4
17. New outfits
18. Quoting movie lines
19. Eating in the bathroom *
20. Sticking out your tongue and ruining your “pretty smile”
21. Hotels
22. Wisconsin/Cheese curds
23. Counting down for New Years
24. Mud
25. Warm paper, fresh out of the printer
26. Watching mud get washed down the shower drain
27. New hair cuts
28. Smell of money
29. Eating cookie dough
30. GLITTER!
31. Sushi
32. Getting Mail
33. Facebook notifications
34. Horoscopes that fit your life, or that you make fit your life
35. Pealing plastic off of new items
36. Watching old nickelodeon shows/Disney movies
37. The Spartan Express
38. Amelia’s boring articles in the Spartan Express
39. New car smell
40. Turtlenecks
41. Taking trips down “memory lane”
42. Hearing the dirt go up the tube when vacuuming
43. The feeling right before you go up a chairlift
44. Clean shaven legs
45. Shower steam that smells like your body wash
46. Christmas cards with pictures on them
47. Manicured nails
48. Making fun of your own friends, while other people think you are huge jerks
49. Knowing you have wonderful friends
50. Late night snacks
51. Jamming to techno in the car
52. Suntan lotion
53. Salad bars
54. Wearing clothes just out of the dryer
55. Loose sentences
56. Going out to dinner
57. Finding out who your Secret Santa was
58. Being “rebellious” but knowing that you really aren’t rebellious at all
59. The smell before rain
60. Colorful socks
61.  “1-2-3 HOORAH”
62.  Middle names
63.  Moments that weren’t awkward until someone says, “this is awkward”
64.  Colorful make-up displays
65.  Smell of bread aisles
66. Sound a skate board makes
67.  Turning on your windshield wipers after a lot of rain has collected
68. Being on the same brain wave
69. Large groups of people clapping
70. Going out to coffee, but not drinking coffee. Oh the irony.
71. Streets lined by trees
72. On the line before a race
73. Driving under a bridge, and the rain temporarily stops
74. Raining in one spot, and not another close by
75. Last 100 meters of a race
76. Washing a tie-dye shirt for the first time
77.  Nights with no homework

* we would eat our after school snacks in a bathroom in our HS while changing for track practice - not just for fun in any 'ole bathroom haha