Meme of happiness
Sep. 16th, 2004 01:50 pmA list of 100 things that make me happy (gacked from
wisdomeagle). Not exclusive, exhaustive, or guaranteed to make any sense, especially towards the end.
1Especially poncy and/or amusing ones
- Books on shelves
- Wireless internet
- (Re)loading my friendspage
- Rereading an old book for the 20th time
- Swinging
- The way rabbits skip when they're happy, practically spastic with glee
- Writing something totally off the wall that I love and having other people love it, too
- Sour, sour, sour dill pickles
- My iPod
- The NYC subway
- Backscratches
- TV shows on DVD
- Heaven Coming Down on repeat
- Watching What the Rain Blows In on repeat
- Psychopomp on repeat
- Cathartik on repeat
- Seven Circles on repeat
- Wishing You Would Stay on repeat
- Stargazer on repeat
- Err ... The Tea Party, generally?
- Footnotes1
- Finding a band or author or something that you like, and devouring everything they've ever done
- Socks
- When other people are so cute and happy that you can't help feeling happy too
- Rereading things that I wrote long enough ago that I don't remember how they go
- Wool
- Eating sour candy until my tongue hurts
- Giving someone something that I know they really, really, really want
- Meeting someone else's pet and having them accept me
- Fresh ripe tomatoes
- Raspberries--both ripe ones, and slightly unripe ones
- When someone else writes something that is basically exactly what I would have written so I don't have to do the work
- Researching something that I actually want to know all about
- 70º weather
- Lots and lots of snow
- The elk next door
- Miniature things
- A really good cup of tea
- Playing cribbage
- Walking barefoot outside
- Recommending books and having people enjoy them
- Douglas Adams
- Bach
- Not being able to solve the mystery until the end
- Candid pictures
- Buzzing in really early on an academic bowl question (sadly haven't had the opportunity to do this in a long time)
- Spontaneous hugs
- Bonfires
- Quotations
- Playing with candles
- Making people laugh
- Big stompy boots
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Reading about what other people are really, really excited about
- Watching TV with my dad
- Going to museums with people who talk about stuff
- Actually laughing so hard that everyone else wants to know what I'm laughing about
- Things I can actually remember how to play on the piano
- Actually looking forward to a TV show
- Making coronets out of clover
- Reading out loud
- Other people who remember that one thing that you thought no one remembered but you
- Knowing people well enough to tease them relentlesly
- Copy and paste
- Keyboard commands
- Retellings of fairy tales
- Ordering stuff online instead of actually shopping
- Forcing other people to listen to my music, possibly at gunpoint
- Injokes
- Moonflowers
- Singing along really loudly
- Putting every damn thing on an icon
- Cropping perfect squares freehand
- Rechargeable batteries
- HTML
- Pie crust
- Vanilla spice rum
- Window seats on planes
- LucasArts adventure games
- Declaring all kinds of people my such-and-such boyfriend/girlfriend
- Semicolons
- Reading fic in fandoms I know next to nothing about because someone cool wrote it
- Smart playlists in iTunes
- The YA section
- Abusing other people's Barnes and Noble discounts
- Dave Barry
- The Daily Show
- The phrases "fairy lights", "fairy cake" and "ice lolly"
- Coining words
- Actually getting to use my French
- Warm sun on my skin when it's not hot out
- Nice pens
- Office supplies
- Recognizing New York in movies and TV
- Not listening to the radio
- Google
- Adium
- SubEthaEdit
- Being almost done with this list, because it was getting old
- Comfy couches
1Especially poncy and/or amusing ones
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Date: 2004-09-16 09:16 pm (UTC)And people who like stuff are the coolest, obviously. ^_^