identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)

My bed. My bed is really comfy. mmmm

Ugh. I will ignore the last entry I made under this goal and consider that a happy memory

53. frozen dinners
54. the ice cream that’s on the counter…melting…crap, i forgot I took it out
55.”Contagious” by the Isley Brothers. I don’t know why
56. Album: Till the Sun Turns Black by Ray LaMontagne
57. comfortable jeans
58. jeans that fit me properly

52. Watching the X-files with my best friend!

I’ve been a fan since… ‘96? ‘97? I have to admit I stopped watching when Duchovny left, but cna you really blame me? Anyhow, I came upon this little store in Pasadena that sells used DVDs and I found the collectors editions of the X-Files seasons (which were about 80 bucks a pop – and up- when they came out) for $20 a season. I bought Seasons 1 – 6, and season 8. Apprently someone had sold the store the whole series, and then someone came in and bought just seasons 7 and 9. So I am on a mission to get those two seaons in the collectors editions.

About two or 3 weeks ago at most, my friend, who has only seen a handful of episodes, and the movie, said he’d be interested in watching with me. So we started on season one and as of last night, we are more than halfway through season 4. That’s a lot of X-files! But man, this is probably one of my favorite TV shows ever, if not my all-time fave, so it’s been great sharing it with my best friend

44. My new job that compensates me well
45. The place I’m renting that’s really spacious and came with built-in bookshelves
46. That I didn’t die or get injured in my car accident last Friday
47. Eating donuts for breakfast
48. Having an amazing boyfriend
49. Drinking Sprite out of a can, through a straw
50. Zero 7’s new CD “The Garden”
51. Building a friendship with Jonathan

Ok, so I am officially more than halfway done…its taken me over a year to get this far!

29. Working at a bookstore
30. Getting free books
31. Eating macaroni and cheese on my lunch breaks from work
33. Going to disneyland with my best friend
34. Reading ‘Angry Little Girls’
35. Getting a phone call from someone special when your phone hasn’t rung all day
36. New features on 43things (Everytime I have an unintentional abscence, I come back to new things)
37. Having my apartment to myself for the holidays
38. Being told today that I looked good in my salmon jacket
39. When a customer is nice and really appreciates my help
40. The card with the girl and the cookie jar my friend gave me
41. Wearing bras that do nice things for the intended region (it can use the help)
42. Long hot showers
43. Candy canes and other pepperminty things (I have yet to consume a candy cane this holiday season, oddly enough)

This is probably the most I’ve done on this list at one time…haha, by the time I finished, I will have had this goal longer than anyone

i guess this sounds kinda weird…but its kind of makes me happy/inspired to think of what one woman did that greatly impacted american history.

Rosa Parks dead at 92

Looking at my photos from the summer really makes me happy.

My recent blog post about summer memories has the commentary of what all the photos are.

Good times, good times.

Knowing that I have two best friends who love me makes me very very happy.

There’s nothing like getting mail. I think it’s safe to call me a mail whore. I love logging in and finding new emails just waiting for me. Sigh.

And, in this day and age, snail mail is even BETTER because it takes an actual effort! Whoa, what a concept!

Groups of friends and random road trips!

Yesterday, G! and a couple of other people came back from a weekend trip to NYC that I decided to sit out on. What a mistake! And I’ll tell you, I regretted that decision right smack in the middle of the weekend.

Anyway, it was a pretty boring weekend without them around (and even more quiet!), but they came back full of stories and telling me they missed me and that I should have gone (I know, I know!)

C came back with a car (thank god) and she’s just this girl full of life and energy and spontenaity that I admire to no end. She got the itch to just go somewhere (which is an itch I often find myself wanting to have scratched), so we gathered N and G! and started driving. G! and I talked about exchanging email addresses and writing to each other (the internship ends in 6 days!).

We ended up in Philly. We parked around 10th and South Street and walked all the way down to the Delaware River and back (at least I think it’s the Delaware). Then we were talking so much that we missed our turn and ended up in Delaware. Woohoo, so now I’ve officially been to Delaware ;-)

I think it was really what I needed. I regret not going with them to NYC, but thats in the past now. I needed to just get out and do something fun with people. I dont have friends that go “lets take a road trip!” and on top of that, I dont have a group of friends – none of my friends are friends with each other! So I dont have those moments in the car where theres 2 conversations going on and you cant hear anything, you’re arguing over what music to play on the radio, and you cant walk down the sidewalk shoulder to shoulder because you dont fit.