For high school graduation, Miss Audrey Marie Coots gave me a book (which I specifically asked for...) called "14,000 Things to Be Happy About" or "The Happy Book" by Barbra Kipfer. The book is basically a list of random things that make her happy. For forty years this woman kept a list of all the things that put a smile on her face. FORTY YEARS!
Now, I'm a bit of a pessimist, mostly in my head. I don't like the title "cynic", "pessimist" or "Debbie downer" so I try to stick to "realist" but, let's face it, I'm kind of annoyingly "realistic". I never think my team will win, never think my plans will work out, blah blah blah. It's annoying to listen to!
So I tried Ms. Barbra's trick for a
121 Things to be Happy About
(katharine's happy list)
- Getting on the scale and seeing that you've lost weight
- Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” with Seth Meyers
- Parents handing you money
- Adults struggling over the children’s bulletin at church
- Graduation Sunday
- Getting top picks in the Church Draft (congrats, Dr. Cyndi!)
- Wendy’s salads
- Braves games and Turner Field
- Dancing children
- The Home Depot Tool Race
- Will Manning and his sense of humor
- Molly Henderson and her hilarious honesty
- Michael Pfeiffer and his sense of direction
- Greasy Varsity food and cheating on diets
- Harper Lee and her impatience with tennis balls
- Saying something at the same time as someone else
- Short car rides
- The Social Network
- Koalas
- Stomach Butterflies
- Honesty
- Falling asleep as soon as you lay down
- Diet Mountain Dew
- Cute workout clothes
- All of my desktop pictures
- LuLu at the AT&T store who let me have a new iPhone on July 1st for $50
- OPI Strawberry Margarita nail polish
- Treadmills
- Watching the rain
- Strawberries
- Quick Trip 52 oz. drinks
- 3rd grade homework breakthroughs
- Sidewalk chalk
- Training wheels
- Thespian Inductions and Roasts (we’ll miss you, Mrs. McCook!)
- Gossip Girl with Audrey Coots and Kaley Tolar
- Snickerdoodles
- Aiming to be Charlotte York
- Say Yes to the Dress
- Facebook notifications
- Surprises
- Wedding magazines
- Espadrilles and skinny jeans
- Chicken Caesar salads
- Playing with shelter puppies
- Alvin the Labrador
- Hidden kittens
- Singing loudly in the car (with hand-motions)
- Nerds Rope
- Gnomeo and Juliet and Shakespeare humor
- Yogurt Bars with sample cups
- Yankee Candle’s Pink Sand car gels
- Royal Wedding references
- Pretending
- Hiding in the bushes
- Katy Perry
- Heated blankets and heated car seats
- MHS Chorus Concerts
- Ukuleles
- Acapella singing
- Being an alumni
- Old friends
- My large DDD sweatshirt
- Having softer skin after crying
- Being in bed at 9:30 pm
- Patience and understanding
- Hulu
- Extra hours
- Organizing closets (seriously, I love it)
- Sitting on the porch
- The Nikon
- My tennis shoes and Old Navy leggings
- Feeling full
- Clear Sterilite boxes
- Working out while watching The Biggest Loser
- Sauteed mushrooms
- Rachel McAdams
- Stomach butterflies
- Modern Family
- Made Beds
- Bear
- Design on a Dime
- Target
- Label Makers
- Scrapbook paper
- Sprinkles
- My giftwrap holder
- Coupons
- New creative storage ideas
- Pants that used to be too tight that are now too big
- My white and gold Easter earrings (one of my favorite purchases)
- Putting on full makeup
- Barnes & Noble
- Sitting in the wedding section in B&N and not having anything to read because I’ve already read it all
- Jihan’s NYC stories
- Chile’s appetizer tray
- Cake batter yogurt
- Finding phones
- Coming in the door with full arms from a day full of errands
- Bear
- Nice nurses
- Good drugs
- Wheelchairs after wisdom teeth
- Audrey Coots and her sweet cards and delicious gelato
- Chocolate mousse sugar free pudding
- Precious Facebook messages from favorites
- Taking 9 naps in a day
- Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy sweeps
- Belgian Chocolate Gelato
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- Chicken ‘n Stars
- Sugar Free Cool Whip
- Michael Pfeiffer’s phone calls
- My pillow
- Harry Potter marathons
- My Hello Kitty blanket from 8th grade? 7thgrade? Help me out here, Anna and Lauren…
- Fuzzy socks
- No sugar added orange sherbet (it’s like my personal 1 quart Frosted Orange!)
- Funny puffy check pictures
- 2-year-old Darvocet
- My parents and their willingness to do everything and let me be lazy
- My little blue Walmart Fan
- Cleaning
(i tried to add pictures to this but the formatting was all funky so you'll just have to use your imagination! xoxo)
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