list 100 memories that make me happy

on a rooftop in Jaisalmer, India… Refreshing wind after a hot day, the sound of tinkeling bells, surrounded by the temples’rooftops, so beautifully carved and magic. Pure romance.

91) Going to see the Ring in Cedar City the same night as Jackass came out—nothing can describe the importance of a movie like Jackass in a small rural town
92) Paintballing
93) Getting a phone call informing me I was pregnant because the doctor’s office forgot to confirm my last name and apparently got the wrong Michelle
94) The timid roommate who stole socks and tuna fish and hid them under her bed
95) The roommate who reprimanded me in baby talk for not being excited enough to eat her eclairs
96) Singing karaoke
97) Telling ghost stories and rigging the vacant apartment so people thought it was haunted
98) Being given a flower by a date who had obviously picked it from the front yard
99) Dancing to MTV videos
100)Playing the “Dear Delilah” Game

81)My roommate calling to inform us that the phone was bugged
82)The roommate who would sometimes lie in the fetal position under the kitchen table
83)Jumping off the top of the lifeguard tower on the pier
84)Watching the 1984 Olympic torch run
85)The bizarre work experience where I was unable to keep a straight face
86)Having someone chase me down the hallway with chips trying to force feed me because they thought I was too skinny
87)The old man who used to cuss and flip me off
88)Breaking up the fight between two five foot men
89)Straightening my hair with home perm solution and wearing it in a pony tail for two years with curly on top and frizz on bottom
90)The old lady who asked me if I liked my hair “like that”—what can I say…it was a bad day and I knew it

71)Swimming from Alctraz
72)Visiting Alcatraz with my family
73)Playing “Olympics” in the swimming pool
74)A roommate coming out of the house ready to attack a group of our friends with a bat because they were watching a movie outside
75)Doing my impersonation of that roommate repeatedly
76)Trying a tip in a magazine putting peanut butter in my hair to make it shiny—I shouldn’t have used chunky
77)Miniature golfing with friends
78)The roommate who would daily act surprised and screamed when I would walk in my bedroom and she was naked
79)Playing in our log playhouse
80)Sitting on the school roof and reading soap opera magazines

61) My first ocean swim competition when I was nine
62) My grandfather telling me he would teach me to use his engineering equipment when I was older
63) Staying up all night reading when I was supposed to be asleep
64) Sleep walking while holding the television and telling my dad I was going to the bathroom when he saw me
65) Volunteering at the Special Olympics
66) Swimming in the Special Olympics when one of the teams was short a swimmer (one of my very favorite memories)
67) Celebrating Christmas day at my grandma’s
68) Shopping for and wearing those silly plaid skirts with big pins in them after begging my mom and grandma
69) Spending time with my great-grandpa
70) Being in the school play

about ten years ago already… This picture was made in Kenia in december 2007.

51)Taking PCH to school and watching whales, dolphins, and cranes
52)Going to Wild Rivers
53)Going to Catalina with my family
54)Seeing a baby seal in Catalina while swimming
55)Riding a speed boat to Catalina
56)Going to Catalina with my high school friends
57)Going to Disneyland on Saturdays with my friends
58)Wearing my Alice in Wonderland outfit to Disneyland when I was little
59)Going to Disneyland with my grandma
60)Memorizing my King and I script at my grandma’s house in 8th grade

41-Swimming in the rough water swim
42-Going to the Junior Olympics
43-Going to the 1984 Olympics
44-Doing a shark feeding dive
45-Going skydiving
46-Doing a triathalon
47-Swimming Alcatraz
48-Cutting my own hair in the school bathrooms with friends (who would have thought that would have gone wrong?)
49-Going miniature golfing in high school
50-Getting the history award in 5th grade

31-Playing Abacadra Bedsheet with Grandma
32-Taping toys to the ceiling at work so that we had stalagtites
33-Rollerskating
34-Iceskating
35-Getting the car stuck on the railroad arm during my driver’s test
36-Watching the Sunday School teacher handcuff the Caleb to the chair and watching Caleb run with the chair
37-Getting baptized
38-Stealing my roommate’s stuffed dog in college and making a ransom note
39-Apologizing to the store manager when I was four for stealing a single walnut
40-Getting headaches in kindegarten because my pig tails were so tight

21-Doing a church Christmas video in the boys bathroom with the star being a flying piece of toilet paper
22-Chasing after butterflies with Keisha
23-Christmas Eve celebrations with my grandmother
24-Sunday dinners with my other grandmother
25-Getting lost in the elevator after Sunday brunch
26-Singing “You’re in the Army Mr. Jones”
27-Watching the pigeons on phone lines have “assemblies”
28-Singing “Yellow Rose of Texas”
29-Choreographing silly dances to songs like “I Think We’re Alonge Now”
30-Pretending to be a GLOW girl