Monday, November 19, 2007

The Optimism List

Things I'm Happy About or Thankful For

1. I'm alive.

2. My mother

3. My father

4. My sister

5. God's love

6. That I live in a free land

7. I have a house

8. Said house has heating

9. I have enough food

10. I get to learn about a lot of stuff

11. I have the means to communicate with my friends.

12. I have friends.

13. I have amazing friends.

14. I have clothes

15. Music

16. Encores

17. Great books

18. Fuzzy socks

19. When an audience starts clapping on the beat

20. Michael Buble

21. When your sister writes stories and puts you in them

22. Musicals

23. The Hallelujah chorus

24. Humming

25. Colorful sharpies

26. Finding old journals from third grade

27. Christmas

28. Babies

29. Talking to computers

30. Having Taz make your make-up crazy

31. Thanksgiving

32. Finding Ms. Bunting's break-up notes in your desk

33. Discussing these notes for fifteen minutes in class

34. Completely mental Beatles songs

35. Muffins

36. 3/4 time signature

37. Hair Curlers

38. Little girls with really poofy dresses

39. Little boys with huge cumberbuns

40. Boys wearing suits

41. Shouting out an answer at Brain Bowl

42. Orange peelers

43. Clementines at Thanksgiving

44. The shuffle button on music players

45. Old people pretending to be Jamaican

46. Bean bags

47. Socks that say "no nonsense" on them

48. No school

49. Snow

50. Autumn leaves not getting raked

51. Running around with your friends screaming because of a tick

52. Your teachers treating you like an equal

53. Pumpkin cake

54. Waterfalls in the mountains

55. Having straight A's (that'd be something to be happy about!)

56. Getting published (in my dreams)

57. Looking out the window of a plane and seeing both the ocean

and the mountains

58. Cream pan and orange juice for breakfast

59. Sudoku books

60. Driving in a car at night in Wyoming

61. Being able to see so many more stars than normal while driving because of little light pollution in Wyoming

62. That we're done with inequalities in math (they suck, especially absoulute value inequalitites)

63. Being able to make french silk pie.

64. Playing duck-duck-goose with cousins

65. Aspen trees

66. The Flatirons

67. Playing silent ball and *accidentally* hitting Johnathan's head in Science class

68. That I don't have cancer or other deadly diseases.

69. Mangoes

70. Mondays off (no early forensics!)

71. Borrowing Mo's shirts

72. 50 cent mashed potatoes at the cafeteria

73. Shakespeare

74. Lying in a beam of sunlight on a saturday morning

75.Tire swings

76. Zoos

77. Pillow Fights

78. Cats sitting in my lap

79. Singing in the shower

80. Playing stalker/secret agent/spy

81. Running around in the rain and getting soaked

82. Pajama pants

83. Pie day in math class

84. Frost on pine trees

85. Finished kitchens

86. Ice cream for $.50 at Little America

87. "We built this city" by Starship

88. Indian curry

89. Japanese curry

90. Little Japanese kids coming up to you and saying "He-ro. War ar yo furom?"

91. No family members are convicted felons.

92. Simon and Garfunkel

93. Trampolines

94. Designing cruise ships with Erin in Access.

95. Foam pits.

96. Chocolate

97. President Bush's regime is nearly over

98. Discussing Etymology with your sister during church

99. Writing stories

100. Cucumber sandwiches

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