practice 'Happiness Manifesto' periodically

1. Living through 06/06/06.
2. Finally cracking down on learning German.
3. Passing JUNIOR ENGLISH.
4. One more week of school.
5. Having my senior year schedule prepared.

It’s been a while since I’ve been on here.

1. Having the time to get online.
2. Not having time to be online all of the time.
3. Having a job and a way of making my own money.
4. Not having to ask my Father for money.
5. Knowing that I’ve fallen in love with someone who has all of the power to tear me apart, and having him admit to the vice versa.

1. Laptops.
2. Brothers who own laptops.
3. Brothers coming home for the summer from college.
4. Soda fountains.
5. Getting hired on the spot.
6. Having a JOB.
7. Road trips with friends.
8. Having the courage to tell off teachers who mean no good.
9. Remember Patrick MacDonald’s life wiht only good memories.
10. visiting my Mother on Mother’s Day.
11. Ribbon bracelets accompanied with promises.
12. Hearing from people I’ve bene worrying about and being reassured that they’re alive.

1. Not completely freaking out on someone.
2. Remembering to write five things I’m greatful for.
3. Back-up computers.
4. Hair elastics, and always having extras.
5. Shampoo for dry and damaged hair.
6. WARM DAYS.
7. SUNNY DAYS.
8. Cute gardeners.
9. Pencil drawings.
10. Having friends in my classes to pass notes with.

Yeah, so I wrote ten.

I’ve got somewhat of a list built up:

1. The month of May and being one month closer to June (ultimately aiming for the end of my junior year).
2. Having friends who can fix computers.
3. Knowing that bad things only come in threes.
4. Best friends birthdays.
5. Being able to plan parties.
6. Being able to laugh with best friends.
7. Stupidstupidstupid moments.
8. Camera phones.
9. Bumping into strangers over and over and over and…
10. Customized sweatshirts and cafepress.com.
11. Having a drawing of mine correctly identified.
12. Being able to get a stupid boy off of my mind.
13. Not being able to get a stupid boy off of my mind.
14. Seeing a pretty boy smile for the first time in a month.
15. Strawberry milk.
16. Iced coffee in the mornings.
17. New CDs and being able to trade with Sarra everyday.
18. Being computer literate.
19. Not knowing what to say in awkward situations, rather than simply saying the wrong thing.
20. Teachers who take the time to catch you up when you’ve been out for a few days.

1. Headphones that work.
2. Speakers that are loud.
3. Sunshine and warm weather.
4. Laundry detergent and water.
5. The Postal Service (the governmental one, not the band.)

1. Being able to call today the best day of my life in the past three years.
2. Inside jokes.
3. Loving an ANGEL.
4. Having best friends to laugh with when the world is against us.
5. Hearing my Mother tells me she loves me and accepting it for what it is. &not wondering if it will be the last time we speak.

1. Half days!
2. (Warning: this may sound conceited.) Having the prettiest boy I know stare at me, smiling, while I was being embarrassed during English.
3. Being seventeen years old. FINALLY.
4. Having at least three friends left to party with. (The others are either going out of town, are going to the dance, or aren’t allowed to hang out.)
5. Having people come up to me and ask, “You’re only 17?! I thought you were older!”

1, being able to see the most beautiful sight in the world twice a day, every day and still having to hold my breath.
2, being a day away from seventeen.
3, always having best friends to laugh about over the silliest things such as nicknames.
4, my little sister’s friends. They are some of the coolest 14 year olds I know.
5, being forced up on stage today during the AIDS presentation, the lights shined in my eyes and I felt pretty and liked for the rest of the day.

1. Not dying from taking the Nyquil and Dayquil, which only made my problems multiply.
2. Prescription drugs.
3. The Fray.
4. Crazy nurses in the ER who made me laugh with their disbelief at my age.
5. Strep throat, tonsilitis, and laryngitis: an excuse not to talk for three days.
6 (because we all need an extra one, sometimes). Sugarfree Popsicles.