unhappy list 12/15/2013

I was bored the other night when I was supposed to be writing. This happened. It will keep happening.

12/15/2013

• Being 15 minutes late to yoga despite leaving the office with plenty of time, because of unexpected traffic with no discernible cause
• Drinking coffee through a straw
• Laptop batteries
• Mockingjay (book, Suzanne Collins)
• When your favorite pen runs dry
• When the person ahead of you in line gets the last of whatever you wanted
• Bad manicures
• Forgetting your password after being on vacation from work
• People who think eggs are dairy
• Christmas shopping
• Women's clothing sizes
• Cafes with free wifi but no electrical outlets
• Coffee grinds in your coffee
• Spotty internet
• "Updates available" pop-ups that keep coming back
• Trigger foods
• TSA lines at the airport
• Broken shoelaces
• txtspk
• Shoes that only come in whole sizes
• Shoes a size too small
• Dead toenails
• Final exams that won't ultimately affect whether or not you pass the class

happy list 12/10/2013

happy list 12/10/2013

• Sleeting trees
• The old Vera Bradley "Frill" collection
• Sally Hansen "Diamond Shine" base & top coat
• Cherry tomatoes
• Murad skincare products
• Mini pumpkin cupcakes
• Criminal Minds (tv show)
• Portable bluetooth speakers
• We Were Promised Jetpacks (band)
• Owning your own domain or two (or twenty)
• The Eight Limbs of Yoga: yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, samadhi
• Alex + Ani bracelets
• Jordan Castillo Price (author)
• Jordan Castillo Price's "PsyCop" series
• Eggnog chai lattes
• Wicked (book, Gregory Maguire)
• Wicked (musical) 
• The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• Festive winter drinks
• Goldendoodles
• Goldendoodles named Lewis
• The Vera Bradley pattern "Canterberry Magenta"

Canterberry Magenta iPhone background
courtesy of verabradley.com

happy list 12/07/2013

12/07/2013

• Finding a new way to get from A to B
• Peapod grocery delivery service
• Jimmy Page's guitar solo near the end of "Stairway to Heaven"
• Aerial yoga
• Panera
• Fleece jackets
• Long-sleeved shirts with thumb holes
• Soundhound (app)
• Post-apocalyptic stories
• Rush (movie, 2013)
• Animated gifs
• Dropbox
• AppleTV
• Livejournal.com
• Little mugs
• Lucky Charms marshmallows
• Bacon + ranch + buffalo + chicken

happy list 12/06/2013

My first happy list post in ages!

12/06/2013

• Rubik's cubes
• Working the polls on election day
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Pandora jewelry
• Nissan Xterra rental cars
• Wall stickers
• Crossing items of your bucket list
• The Cloud
• Kickstarter.com
• Charcoal gray (the color)
• Art markers
• Santa Monica
• Yoga on the beach
• Severus Snape
• Bath & Body Works Twisted Peppermint scent
• Corn muffins
• All eight of the Harry Potter movies
• Comic-Con International San Diego
• Putting matching skins on all of your devices
• Dame Maggie Smith and everything she's in
• Words with Friends (game)
• Dunkin' Donuts' pumpkin pie donut

I'm not sure it's been quite long enough...

But I think I'll start posting again soon, anyway :)

It'll mostly be happy list posts (at least for now). Before I get those started again, I'll apologize in advance for what will likely be duplicates and repeats, lots of related things all listed in a row, and other shenanigans like that. It's been almost five years since I regularly kept any sort of happy list, so every time I think of something new these days, a bunch of related things cascade out with it. I suppose that's to be expected.

Happy weekend!

happy list 01/03/2009

01/03/2009

• Ann McFarren paintings
• Brand new Raspberry Fizz Satchels to match already owned luggage
• New Raspberry Fizz Weekenders
• Death Cab for Cutie (band)
• Random postcards
• Second chances
• Jake cologne from Hollister
• Keanu Reeves in Speed
• Being home with my family and doing normal family stuff
• Fresh ink
• Shopping in Georgetown
• The sound of the word "contagion"
  
• The nickname "E" for anyone, not just Eric from Entourage
• Cupcake t-shirts
• Random text messages
• The "ding" at the end of Say Anything (movie)
• Kevin Bacon trying to teach Chris Penn how to dance in Footloose (movie, 1984)
• Massive sales at Pilgrim jewelry stores
• RuffleDays
  

happy list 12/25/2008

12/25/2008

• The guilty pleasure that is Katy Perry's music
• Charlie Sheen's brilliant performance in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• A ringing bell signifying when an angel gets its wings
• My new "Milk / Cookies" t-shirt ala Robert Mitchum's "Love / Hate" tattoos in Night of the Hunter
• The dog who is licking my hands while I type this
• Twenty-four hours of A Christmas Story
• Fresh snow on Christmas
  

happy list 12/24/2008

12/24/2008

• Christian Kane (actor)
  
• A surprise box filled with various types of chocolate and marshmallow Santas, waiting on the doorstep
  
• Gingerbread house fiascos
• Donating blood
• Donating blood in a record breaking blood drive
• Hair that looks better the second day
• Awesome playlists to go with stories from people you don't even know
• Fudge for breakfast
• Laughing to the point of tears ("pulling a Debbie Beckman")
  
• Laughing harder than you've laughed in months and months
• White Christmases
• Using reusable shopping bags as gift bags
• Napoleon Dynamite (movie)
  

happy list 12/19/2008 (posting a few days late :)

12/19/2008

• Having all Ruffles on the same coast for the first time in six months
  
• Warmed raspberry scones
• Wordles from wordle.net
  
• Pilgrim jewelry, particularly their rings
• Rice krispie treats from Noodles & Company
• Making a Starbucks run for 24 people at once
• "Dear Santa, Define Naughty."
• Panera Pumpkin Muffes
• The Office theme song (TV show, USA)
• 7-Eleven's Obama coffee cups (during the election)
• Being a Subject Matter Expert
• Natural lighting light bulbs
• Google SMS
• TV Season premieres
• Pandora beads
• Birthday cupcakes
• m&ms Premiums (like Triple Chocolate)
• Cold beer in a frosty glass
• Lebanon bologna
• Receiving something in the mail that you pre-ordered six months ago and had completely forgotten about.
• iTunes/iPod Genius playlists
• Postings of new chapters of your favorite fanfic stories
• "I have flying monkeys... and I'm not afraid to use them!"
• Taking down the walls in an office filled with cubes so that everyone can see everyone else
• "Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." ~ Albert Einstein
  
• Quotable Cards calendars (see them here)
  

Courtesy of Wordle.net.

happy list 12/18/2008

12/18/2008

• Other people's happy lists
• Eric Northman (character from Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mysteries series)
• Completing your first novel
• Soup from Panera
• Starbucks' Signature Hot Chocolate (particularly with Raspberry goop)
• LG enV2 cell phones - they're made for texting!
• Finding random things in your jacket pockets when you leave work
• Troy Bolton (character, High School Musical movies)
• Vampire fiction
• The Twilight Saga novels by Stephenie Meyer
• The House of Night series by PC Cast and Kristin Cast
• The Sookie Stackhouse books (Southern Vampire Mysteries series by Charlaine Harris)
  
• Well-written "FanFic"
• "Let It Rock" (song, Kevin Rudolf)
• Just about anything by Death Cab for Cutie
• Seeing the same movie four times in two weeks just because you want to
• Oatmeal for breakfast
• Waffle-knit hoodies
• Buying a dozen long-sleeved t-shirts so that you can wear your million short-sleeved t-shirts during the winter
• Getting to enjoy an office with a window, if only for a month
• Having excellent officemates, if only for a month
  
• Having underlings and being called "Overlord" - all in good fun, of course :)
• Texted haikus

Bad quotes and haiku
Distant memories to me
Tyrannosaurus [SJS]

Haha, no laughter
on Mondays. We save it for
Fridays. Try again. [MPB]

Alabaster...? Frick.
Not long enough. Ha ha ha.
Is that what she said? [MPB]

Is that what she said?
But I don't even know her!
Glib glib glib glib glib! [SJS]

• Making a new group of friends who share an interest with you
  
• Writing 177,771 words in one month
• Hollister, even if it's scary and for anorexic teenagers
  
• Reading your own written work aloud to people and not puking or hyperventilating
  
• Filigree designs
• Being accepted immediately
• Being able to babble without caring if anyone is listening
• Turtle pillows
  
• iTunes iTunes iTunes
• When the people at Starbucks know your favorite drink AND your name
  
• People who don't get pissed at you when you're a little bit bitchy for no good reason
  
• CO Bigelow Mentha Lip Tint
• Kellen Lutz as Emmett in the movie Twilight (and Kellen Lutz in general)
  
• The unwritten rule that almost all fictional characters named Eric or Erik must be ridiculously hot
• Accomplishing something
• Old Norse
• Being earnest and frank
• Reading four average-length novels in less than 48 hours
• Having people read your blog and enjoy it
• MPix Boutique packaging
• "If I Fall" (song, The White Tie Affair)
• Rough Clay hair stuff by Redken
• Awesome-looking movie trailers
• Discovering that a book you liked has a sequel you never knew about
• Working on your happy list and discovering that four dozen things easily come to mind
• Enjoying a book as much the fourth time as you did the first time
  
• Birthday lunches with friends
• Russell Stover Chocolate-covered caramel and marshmallow pumpkins