identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)

41. getting something accomplished
42. art/books/music/films that induce that lack-of-bones feeling
43. smoked salmon
44. pulling exceptional espresso shots (and drinking them)
45. bust magazine
46. matches flaring up
47. watching ice melt/water freeze
48. being remembered (especially in song/art/words)
49. working on my car/scooter and getting covered in grease and dirt
50. fresh coffee and refilling the storage bins at work

31. getting ice cream/seeing movies/shopping by myself
32. lemony snicket
33. the wild critters in our backyard
34. mcsweeney’s internet tendency
35. having become the person i wanted to be 5 years ago and picturing how i want to be five years from now
36. reading anything and everything i can get my hands on
37. when my computer tells me it loves me
38. trees overhanging the street and forming a canopy
39. knowing what i’m going to do
40. eating really really fresh raspberries

21. seeing natural gas wells getting burnt off in the middle of the night
22. being an integral part of the small business i work at
23. acting and being treated like an adult with my parents
24. dog hugs where they lay on your chest
25. going to the fabric/yarn store
26. the fucking moon
27. dancing like an idiot in the car
28. public displays of affection with john
29. dreaming
30. making things

11. waking up next to john in the morning
12. watching my friends do the things they’re passionate about
13. feeling included in the burner community
14. that “good flow” orange juice in austin
15. surprising my parents by doing the dishes
16. knowing that if i need something, it’s probably in the car somewhere
17. walking places instead of driving
18. seeing first dates go well at the coffeehaus
19. jumpstarting soupped-up cars with my falling apart one
20. being in denton, but not living in denton

1. grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup in the fall
2. when my friends completely dumbfound me by doing something i never expected
3. my scars and chipped tooth and the stories that come with them
4. food that opens chakras
5. birds hopping along the sidewalk
6. more books!
7. window seats in airplanes, telling where the water lines are by tree growth, land divisions, trying to figure out where i am from thousands of miles up
8. two lane highways next to railroads in the middle of the night with no other traffic
9. surprising people with politeness
10. staring at cloud formations