find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year

my parents new year’s party, drinking really good coffee (and three cups of it, too), talking to a girl who i’ve kind of grown apart from but then restoring our friendship with my craziness, sitting up in my room with my two best friends from the high school and talking about basically everything, making a plan with emily to move to sweden and live in a house with huge glass windows to watch the fog and have soren live in denmark two hours away, deciding that i need to get my town to stop expanding roads and have hundreds of public bicycles lying around, making an epic music mix for emily, planning to go to yoga with emily and watch ‘howl’s moving castle’ later this week, wearing my new hat that’s not too new anymore, annotating about 20 pages of ‘night’, sketching with red pens and figuring out that i can’t try to make my art look like someone else’s but just do it in my style, eating fudge with walnuts, wearing a red shirt that fits me, talking to my parents for a long while about my brother, having emily say that she agrees with me when i said that if i ever publish a book i don’t want it to be a bestseller, having someone say that i’m a fantastic writer and have a lot of talent for my age, finally feeling that my room is getting closer to perfect for me, talking to paul (my childhood art teacher), figuring out who took that picture of me when i was 5 and moody, finding out that the woman who took the picture lives in denmark and is my grandmother’s oldest friend, crying while reading ‘night’, making a cd case for my epic music mix out of a piece of paper, deciding that emily and soren and i should become the three musketeers like robert and jack and eric from last year, and listening to a lot of the beatles.

it was a fantastic day. really.

getting up relatively early for me, remembering bali, looking through pictures of italy, listening to the beatles and pink floyd, eating a muffin, wearing pajama pants all day, getting a christmas letter from my aunt once removed (or something to that effect), getting pictures of me and my friends at the art gallery from my art program teacher (we covered ourselves in primary colored paint and ran around half-naked taking pictures), finally installing my white floating shelves and lamp, and posting a new entry on my blog.

although today was a lazy day, it was really nice. :)

posting a new entry on my blog, working out to the beatles and getting through the second set of a awful core exercise, writing a short story that i actually like, wearing pajamas all day, sleeping late, drinking green tea, finally having my friend come back from prague, and sketching a bit more.

talking to my brother on the phone, going to utrects and getting new markers and pastels (YAY!), beginning to write my new year’s resolutions, deciding that i’m going to bake my own bread, drawing another monster-y picture with my new pastels, adding another post on my blog (pomegranatesandpoetry.blogspot.com), and trying on some amazing thick-rimmed glasses at the eye doctor.

pretty good day, overall.

watching ‘howl’s moving castle’, getting a book of 55-word short stories from my grandmother, wearing red and white striped fuzzy socks, getting used to the lightbulbs in my room (they’re the really cool sunlight ones) and loving them, not tripping over the cordless drill that i have in my room because i shoved it on a shelf in my closet, having my parents and brother having a ‘talk’ without yelling or my brother saying ‘fuck you’ and walking off.

and i listened to david bowie. everything’s better with david bowie.

going to ikea before the swarms of people, finding two beautiful white floating shelves for $15 a piece, a white lamp, and wall stickers of poppies to put on my walls, eating mac and cheese and a salad with my dad, blasting ‘bohemian rhapsody’ by queen on the car ride home, and frozen yogurt.

going on a long walk through the snow with my dog and my dad, talking to my dad for a long while about my brother, getting over my ‘scrubs’ (the tv show) addiction, eating grapefruit, and wearing my new hat.

but mostly eating grapefruit.

getting my new shoes (if i could find my camera, i would post a picture), drawing a shitload including this random half-finished drawing (above), and making cookies with my brother.

and i found out that i really enjoy drawing with ballpoint pens.

redoing my room without the scolding of my parents, wearing plaid pajama pants all day, 99% cacao chocolate (holy SHIT, that stuff’s intense), finding a new artist that i really enjoy on deviantart, getting back to regularly posting on my writing forums, and hot chocolate with marshmallows.

wearing my new hat (pictured above), finding the sim card for my camera, practicing music on my djembes (hand drums), getting a call from the nicest man in the world who just called to say “merry christmas”, drinking hot chocolate, sitting by the fire with my cat and watching “austin powers”, and calling my best friend in the world and having her support me through this really tough time in my life.

but the best thing is my hat.