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This is unedited from it's original version though I was tempted to change some minor things (ie. red instead of maroon). I tag...um...whoever needs cheering up. Doing this will cheer you up. I promise.

I give credit to Torri for this idea…

101 things that make me happy:

(in no particular order)

1. Tea in unreasonably large mugs


2. Thunderstorms


3. Chilling with
   
   gnavitas
    and
   
   torrileah67
    at Williams


4. Making a mess at Williams using straws, dirty dishes and paper cranes


5. Karate. In any sense.


6. Piano. Likewise. (except maybe scales and hanon…but that doesn’t count)


7. Feeling warm and cozy on cold winter nights


8. Letting hair dry in the sun on midsummer mornings


9. Having an afternoon to be completely unproductive


10. Sitting down with a good book


11. Finishing a good book in one sitting


12. Dreaming, pondering, writing


13. Going somewhere new


14. My grandmother’s hand-knit socks


15. French toast


16. Thai food


17. Getting a ridiculously good mark on a test that you didn’t study for


18. Getting a good mark on something you worked really hard for


19. Snuggling with my dog


20. Listening to really good music really loud


21. Laughing so hard you start to cry


22. Getting random emails


23. Finding the most amazing gift for someone and totally shocking them


24. Really juicy drip-all-over-the-place fruit


25. Chocolate


26. Having a really good conversation


27. Feeling like you’ve made someone’s day a little brighter


28. Baking dessert and licking the bowls afterwards


29. Feeling like a kid again (a la ‘FUN CLUB’!! lmao...Torri, if you're reading this, do you remember this? It was a good idea, I swear! We could be millionaires!)


30. Speaking French, even though I’m not very good anymore


31. Saying you’re going to do something and knowing you mean it


32. Watching ‘House’ with Tina


33. Watching ‘CSI’ with my parents


34. Doing kata outside in the rain


35. Having a really good karate fight


36. Karate Camp!!!


37. Getting on a plane in the middle of winter and ending up somewhere warm


38. Having a really good night’s sleep


39. Seeing the sun rise


40. Hearing my grandparents tell stories about when they were little


41. Making a witty comment


42. Meeting someone you genuinely admire


43. Discovering that you admire your closest friends just about as much anyways


44. Learning something completely trivial but fascinating


45. The sound of ocean waves, and sand between my toes


46. Stopping to smell the roses


47. Realizing just how much there is to life that you usually take for granted


48. Hugs


49. Making memories


50. Doing something you know you were meant to do


51. Capturing something special in a photo


52. Reminiscing


53. Jokes so old that they don’t even need to be repeated in full to be shared


54. Getting random phone calls


55. Seeing someone you love succeed


56. Massages


57. Making no sense and knowing that your friends still know what you mean


58. Really comfy blue jeans


59. Harry Potter


60. A cloudless brilliant starry night sky


61. Really good quotations


62. Body Shop’s Cocoa Butter stuff


63. Saesan and Pinan Yondan


64. Fionavar Tapestries and/or Lions of Al-Rassan


65. Realizing you’re not alone


66. Reading my friends’ writings


67. Knowing I’ve said what I intended to say


68. Being stubborn


69. The number three


70. Wacky emoticons


71. Watching trees sway in the wind


72. Really fluffy clouds


73. Mango smoothies


74. Making a really yummy dinner and feeling independent because it tastes good


75. Meaningless little traditions


76. Splurging on something because you know you deserve it


77. The colour maroon


78. Palm trees


79. The feeling you get right before the first drop on a roller coaster


80. Cheesecake for breakfast


81. Taking pride in your eccentricities


82. Really embarrassing videos of yourself


83. Seeing something steeped in history beyond your comprehension


84. Being in the moment


85. Knowing someone values your opinion


86. Moments you wish could last forever


87. Moonlight reflecting off of water


88. Fresh-squeezed orange juice


89. Doing something for the sake of doing it, rather than for what it achieves


90. Having a good hair day


91. Loving, even when its hard not to hate


92. Dewdrops on flowerpetals


93. Finding things you’d thought you’d lost


94. Feeling comfortable with pushing your limits


95. Finding really cool words like ‘conflagrate’ and ‘incongruous’


96. ‘Lucky’ charms that aren’t really all that lucky, but you keep anyway


97. Random ironies of life


98. Hoodies


99. Butter tarts


100. Children’s laughter


101. Feeling inspired