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