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
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)
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)
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
