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It's impossible to be unhappy in a poncho
Time for something happy around here! Therefore I present to you this lovely lolpanda picture (the only useful thing about pandas).
And also, a meme! Thanks to inspiration from Elisabeth, I have finally gotten around to finishing my list of:
50 Things That Make Me Happy
- The Pont du Gard
- frothed milk
- fondue
- dangling earlobes
- visiting my family
- petting kitties, then leaving them with their owners when I'm done
- playing with children, then leaving them with their owners when I'm done
- making forts
- baking
- old people in love
- dressing up in costumes or strange outfits
- Ann Arbor
- The Treachery of Images
- Mika
- huggy-hugs
- Mr Rogers
- maraschino cherries
- sushi, especially if someone else is paying
- Vince Noir
- the Amaretto Biscotti Torte from Conor O'Neills
- pierogi
- hearing people properly pluralize things like "attorneys general" and "courts martial"
- blog comments
- being around people who I'm comfortable enough with to be my real, nerdy self
- attractive men in well-fitting pants (not tight, but not the horrible baggy nonsense that is so popular, either)
- clothing that comes in petite sizes
- dill pickle soup
- introducing other people to dill pickle soup
- students who want to go to Africa
- things that glow in the dark
- jalebi
- Belgium
- singing in the car
- making waffles
- steampunk/neo-Victorian fashion
- Rupert Grint
- In the Good Old Summertime
- Death By Chocolate
- meeting new people in Srahtown
- Christopher Brookmyre
- my comforter, and especially burrowing under my comforter when it's very cold
- clothing with cherries on it (pictures of cherries or cherry prints, that is, not the actual fruit)
- new car smell
- new baby smell
- accents
- when I know something about sports that I was not expected to know, thereby impressing my family or other listeners
- donkeys
- The 20¢ metal rings that hold our Study Abroad Contact List together and which are pretty much my favorite thing I've ever proposed that my office buy
- Buster Keaton
- dancing my own spastic, 60s-throwback way
srah - Thursday, 24 January 2008 - 9:58 PM
Tags: happy, lists
Comments (13)
Aunt Pam - January 25, 2008 - 12:41 AM - ℓ
Cheers to all things happy! I'm so glad you shared your list of happy things. I really liked #25. This makes me happy too. I must say, I am surprised that Bubble Tea didn't make your list. It must have been an oversight. You simply forgot about the happiness Bubble Tea gives you. But it's okay. Bubble Tea doesn't mind. It understands the importance of having a #25.
srah - January 25, 2008 - 6:44 AM - ℓ
The problem with bubble tea is that I can't get it down here. I don't know if it really makes me happy, either. I like it, but it doesn't necessarily have an influence on mood.
Gretchen, if you're ever in Ann Arbor, Michigan, you should go here. I guess it's a Polish thing. You could try making it on your own, but I don't have a tried and true recipe. Here's one to try, though.
Cheryl - January 25, 2008 - 8:27 AM - ℓ
I really like that you put "making forts" on your list. I think the last fort I made was with you. When we were 18.
Also, did I tell you I found that tea restaurant we were looking for when you were here over the summer? I did.
srah - January 25, 2008 - 2:34 PM - ℓ
Dinky denky donkles are the best. I always feel like they're looking at me like, "I know I'm not a horse, but do you think that maybe you could find it in your heart to love me anyway? Just a little bit? Even though I'm not quite a horse?"
And I would say to them, "Of course, donkey! I love you in all your donklitude! I care nothing for horses, and I love you for the donkey that you are!"
And then they would say, "Aw shucks" and their ears would twitch a bit.
Aunt Pat - January 25, 2008 - 8:36 PM - ℓ
I love the word "donklitude"!
Cheers to all things happy! I'm so glad you shared your list of happy things. I really liked #25. This makes me happy too. I must say, I am surprised that Bubble Tea didn't make your list. It must have been an oversight. You simply forgot about the happiness Bubble Tea gives you. But it's okay. Bubble Tea doesn't mind. It understands the importance of having a #25.