The Happy List Challenge ‘08
Summer Olympics ‘08 are no more. I know for those of you who have been watching, this is a hard, sad time of goodbye. As mentioned, I didn’t watch them, so I’m perfectly fine. However, I did watch some Gossip Girl reruns this summer, and I think my brain is scarred.
National Geographic reports that scientists in South Korea are now genetically creating glow-in-the-dark cats. You can see the video HERE. I personally think they are hideous. How could you sleep with some little day-glo orange thing running around all night? Thanks to my friend Kari for pointing out this weird phenomena to me. Her facebook status said, “I want a glow in the dark cat.” And since my friend Kari HATES cats and pets in general, I had to investigate. (This was after asking her if she got one, would she eat it.) How about something more useful? Like glow-in-the dark car keys?
Did you know Danielle Radcliffe (Harry Potter) was diagnosed with Dyspraxia? I totally knew what that was. (Okay, no I had to Google it.) It’s a neurological disorder that makes you clumsy. So dibs on Dyspraxia! Who’s with me? If clumsy is a disease, I think I have a terminal case. Harry Potter and I are alike in so many ways.
It has been an insane month of funerals for me. I’ve lost two former co-workers just in the last week. At one of the funerals Saturday, they read from my friend’s journal. She was religious about journaling. This is an amazing blessing and gift to the two-year old daughter she leaves behind. But at the service they read a page. It was so simple, but yet really revealed her heart and personality. It was just a fun list of things that made her happy at that given time. So here’s my list for today. . .
Things That Make Me Happy Right Now
1. The Olympics are over. (Sorry! I don’t like baseball either, but I promise you, my U.S. citizenship is confirmed.)
2. Tea. I have a strange diet, and this is forever not on it. But I sneak it in anyway. Tea = Euphoria.
3. The smell of citrus–in oranges, in my perfume, orange rolls, in nasty toilet bowl cleaner. Whatever.
4. Saturdays. Enough said.
5. My niece’s curly ringlets.
6. My nephew still holding my hand, even though he’s a total tough dude.
7. Magazines. Not that I read all of them I buy. I’d be much smarter if I did. Or at least dress better.
8. Sixty five degrees and breezy. Can’t wait for fall.
9. Finding a pair of shoes you KNOW you won’t be taking back.
10. Sitting with my mom in church.
11. Randomly catching the last twenty minutes of While You Were Sleeping.
12. Burt’s Bees lip balm.
13. Song number 8 on the Jekyll and Hyde Broadway soundtrack.
Okay, so that’s my list. Now it’s YOUR turn. If you would like to be entered into a drawing for the new Chris Tomlin CD (due Sept 2!!!), then leave a comment with your own list of at least 7 things that make you happy right now. Not as in happy for all time like oxygen, your family, God. But SPECIFIC like your daughter’s giggle, or a specific verse God showed you, or the perfect steak you had for dinner. You have until Wednesday, September 3rd to post your list!!! If you post more than once (different list, of course), then I’ll enter your name each time! (As long as it stays original and sincere. None of this: I am happy for feet, arms, elbows, blood vessels, and corneas.)
I DARE you to take the happy list challenge!!!
Have a great week!
JEN
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Oh yeah! What fun! So glow in the dark cats, eh? Someone’s got too much time on their hands…
So anyways, my list is here:
1 Reading a wonderful mary stewert novel
2 Listening to soothing music when I’m tired (like steve camp)
3 Having my sunday school students run up and ask me if they can go upstairs yet
4 Changing my status on facebook (horirble, i know! lol)
5 My dog curling up on my lap when he’s sleepy
6 Playing Dutch Blitz with my best friends while blasting Cadia & BarlowGirl
7 Driving at night, listening to music
8 Taking pictures of flowers and gardens
9 Eating Resee’s (sp??)
10 Cool weather and a breeze (like you said… i love autumn)
11 My cat stretched out in the sunshine
12 Pride and Prejudice (in movie or book form)
13 Watching any girl movie
14 Buying (and wearing) skirts!
15 Mary Jane shoes
16 Watching favorite shows on TV with my family (Psych. Monk. Burn Notice. Law & Order: CI)
Ok, I’ll stop there.. but the list goes on!
Hope you have a..um…happy Monday. If there is such a thing! (There is for me, because I’m off on Mondays!)
BTW - I didn’t hardly watch the olympics either.
1. Grad school starts in 2 days! (well it’ll make me happy until the homework starts)
2. The insanely huge stack of books that I have piling up in my room
3. I just discovered we have Starz on Demand for free!
4. We finally were able to find a photographer for the wedding
5. My birthday is Sept 3..the big ol 25!
6. It’s a cool day outside, not too humid or sticky
7. Finding out that Michael Phelps’ hometown is only about 1 hour away from me…
I really think you should just give away the CD with a drawing, but I will go ahead and participate just to be a good sport!!! =)
7 things that make me happy:
1) Feeling my unborn baby kick inside me (such an incredibly undescribable feeling)
2) DVR (makes my stay at home days at lunch so nice)
3) Getting back rubs from my husband
4) My 2 dogs that have life so easy (but don’t realize how their lives will change with a baby)
5) Being fat and it is okay!!!
6) Having an incredible preacher that inspires you to be better & follow after Christ every Sunday!
7) Great friends in Arkansas that still stay in touch with me!
Yay! I made it in your blog! Haha! When you want to give Miller a new friend you totally need to get a glow in the dark cat. Miller would think it was cool.
My Happy List:
1. Rainy days when I don’t have to go anywhere. I light my favorite candle (which is orange ginger from B&B Works!) and write or read and listen to the rain.
2. Knee boots. In the fall, I wear them with every outfit: jeans, skirts, dresses. If I could figure out a way to wear them with the yoga pants I’ve never done yoga in, I would do it. And probably end up on What Not to Wear.
3. The quilt my great grandmother made. None of the fabric matches and some of the threads are coming undone. It is funky and gorgeous and feels like a hug.
4. Bright paintings.
5. The sound of pages turning in a book.
6. The song “Sound of Silence” remade on the live Brooke Fraser album.
7. This song lyric: “And what was said to the rose to make it unfold, was said to me here in my chest. So be quiet now. And rest.”
8. My nephew’s laugh - so unrestrained and out of control. I wish I could record it and listen to it over and over.
9. Guy’s cologne. Sometimes. Gosh, that’s an iffy one to put down. But usually, I think it’s a great smell.
10. Records. I love the grainy pop/scratch sound they make when they play.
1. My granddaughter Emma saying, “I wuve ou, Gammy.”
2. Granddaughter Hannah’s chubby legs…so Gammy’s girl.
3. Watching my five “children” talk, joke, laugh, and generally mess with one another.
4. My husband bringing me a cup of coffee while I’m still all morning mouth and not yet vertical.
5. Cool pens.
6. New journal notebooks.
7. Blue Bell
8. Knowing Jesus loves me anyway
These lists are SO fun to read.
Bethany, I will have to check out Mary Stewert. And I get a thrill from changing my Facebook status too. : )
Deborah, 25 is a great year! Glad you found a photog.
Jessica, I hear you do have some fabulous friends in AR.
; )
Natalie, I LOVE non-yoga yoga pants!!! That should totally be on my list. And I’m going to check into this Brooke Fraser person.
Christa, I am obsessed with good pens, too. What kind do you use? My fave for years has been the Pilot Precise V6 in any color but std blue, black, and red. But I think I’m going to have to move on. I’m gonna pick up some of the new Sharpie pens that have potential. I’m wanting good pens for ACFW! (I should probably be thinking of other things.)
Things that make me happy right now:
1. A quiet house while the rain falls
2. My cat’s purr as I’m trying to fall asleep
3. Time to read my TBR pile
4. A cup of hot mint tea with splenda while curled up in my comfy chair
5. Evenings and weekends– no students of course!
6. Getting mail-excluding the bills of course
7. Students reading “just because” in the library
Things that make me happy right now
1. my PREP period (I LOVE not having to figure out the next day’s lesson plan at 10:30 pm!)
2. pants with lycra
3. reading my friend jenny’s blog
4. when my husband refers to me as his “wife”
5. the scent of my gardenia or jasmine plant blooming
6. holding babies
7. crocs. they’re ugly, but they make my feet happy
8. my three cats all on the bed at once
9. making my mom laugh
10.a hot bath with lavender salts
11. the look of eureka on student’s face
12. people with manners
Well, things that make me happy… You said no feet, but I am extremely grateful for my feet. I think I will include them anyway, so HA! (Even though my feet cause me to sprain my poor right ankle monthly if not weekly.) Here we go (p.s. SO not in order!)(p.p.s. Don’t enter me in the contest. I can get it on Rhapsody, so I’d rather it went to someone who can’t get it =) ):
1. Books
2. Very funny TV shows
3. My grandma
4. My aunt
5. When a baby stops crying when I hold them
6. Jenny B Jones
7. My best friend, who will never stab me in the back
8. Not having BO at gym
9. When my hair is shiny
10. Australian accents
11. DEFINITELY Pride and Prejudice (Seen the movie 20 times, and finally decided to read the book)
12. My teddy bear
13. BROWNIES!!!
Shall I proceed? I think I shall…
14. The best SNL episodes
15. Making lists
16. Bugging my vice principal
17. Babysitting
18. Bubble Wrap
19. James 4:8
20. My feet
=)
Toodles
Awww, I forgot to say some things! The best pens EVER are the Bic Atlantis ones. They rock!
If you like Facebook (which we ALL know you do… very much even though this is no use to you because it’s for teens) check out http://www.teengrace.net. It’s like Facebook, ‘cept for Christian teens. It totally rocks!
I’m loving reading these! Such a great idea. (don’t enter me in the contest, just want to play along).
1. My family–husband and son (son just moved out and it’s killing me)
2. A pair of earrings my paternal grandmother gave me many years ago at Christmas. Whenever I’m feeling like I’m going to have a pity-party, I wear them and think of what a strong woman she was. It puts things in perspective.
3. Buttons from my maternal grandmother’s collection.
4. Pictures! Love them all. My favorite is one of me holding my son when he was about 2 1/2.
5. I’ll have to agree with the brownie.
6. A new Stephen King book.
7. An e-mail to inform me there is a new post on Jenny B. Jones.
8. My two sweet puppies.
9. Good health.
10. Morning air.
l. Having lunch with my best friend
2. Teaching a Sunday School class
3. Going shopping with my girls
4. Having dinner or cookouts with my grown girls
5. Not having surgery - have had two in past two years and may be facing another
6. My husband doing the cooking
7. If someone else would do the dishes
8. Someone cleaning my house - besides me
9. Chatting with authors on the computer
10. Winning gift certificates (especially at Chili’s)
I too am not fond of watching the Olympics or baseball and especially not political conventions.
I felt like making another list
More things that make me happy:
1 Finding all the books I want at the bookstore!
2 My dog sleeping through the night (it hasn’t happened much lately)
3 Eating chocolate chip cookies (I had one yesterday from Lenny’s - it was divine)
4 Chatting with my friends on IM
5 Hoop & dangly earrings
6 A cute hair cut! (I just got one!!)
7 Peppermint hot chocolate from Starbucks
8 The Swift (music group)
9 Having my own computer
10 Being homeschooled (sorry, Ms. Jones..I do know you’re a teacher ;))
BTW; Mary Stewart books are great. My favorite is Nine Coaches Waiting.
Mystery, suspense, and romance, all in one.
1. Water droplets clinging to my bangs
2. The adrenaline rush when I enter a Barnes and Noble
3. Sharon Hinck’s Sword of Lyric series
4. Babies
5. Psalm 103
6. Starbucks’ Mint Mocha Chip frappachinos
7. Seeing my characters smile
8. G2 Pilot Pens
9. Notebooks
10. Watching Lord of the Rings with everyone I love
11. Finding a good book that makes me sigh
12. Book scenes that don’t have to be pulled out of me word by painful word
13. Wavorly song “Tale of the Dragon’s Defeat” from their Conquering the Fear of Flight album
I already preordered the CD but I wanted to make a list, Kari told me she made the blog and I hadnt read it, oh for the love of cats!
Things that make me happy:
1) My crazy co-worker girls!
2) driving around aimlessly with my best friend
3) coffee and chocolate chip cookies
4) little kids singing praise songs at church, with the wrong words, such a blessing
5) fresh cut hay
6) football weather…football is a plus but the weather is straight from God!
GREAT LISTS!!! They make my day!
Erin B, I’ve been thinking about hometown football all week. I just love that weather.
Gracie, frapps are amazing. I need to try the mint one. I always stick with faithful mocha.
Heather, isn’t a cat’s purr the most soothing thing? Puts me to sleep.
Sheila, prep period is the best time of the day. And I love the smell of lavendar salt. But I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the look of “eureka!” on a kid’s face.
; )
Julia, I made the same list as feet. I’m so honored.
Rhonda, I have my grandma’s buttons too. (which were her mother’s)
Jane, I LOVE a good girls’ night out!
Bethany, so glad you love your haircut! I adore a new haircut. Especially when they don’t make me cry.
okay, I have too have attended too many funerals this month. I will give it a good ole’ try:
Happies:
1. My baby who is becoming a little big man.
2. My wonderful husband…he does all of the Wal-Mart shopping and is such a wonderful daddy and husband.
3. Any family gathering.
4. A smile on a childs face…it’s tough being a kid.
5. Helping someone—anyone, helping people makes me happy.
6.”Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” Joshua 1:9
7. My darling niece’s they are such sweethearts. Madie is 5 and she told me that I was the most beautiful woman she knew. (That is AWESOME)
8. My nephew–he is 10 and is still my cutie bug.
9. When my little boy saids anything with mama “Please, mama, I sorry mama…anything.HE makes me smile.
10. Sunday morning breakfast…that my husband cooks
11. Chocolate gravy that my daddy makes.
12. My wedding ring-it was my grandmothers and everytime I look at it I miss her, she was my #1 fan.
13. Daisys and pink roses.
14. The beach…
15. Friday afternoon
16. The Big Chill
17. Childhood memories of me and my brother…I just knew that we were the next Donnie and Marie…
18. Being in LOVE
19. My friends
20. Wacky cake
Things that make me happy:
1. Every food that is rich in cholesterol/saturated fats/processed sugars/preservatives eg. chocolate, cookies, almost all carbonated drinks, chocolate, Chinese, chocolate. I don’t love what it does to my body but it makes me happy.
2. The Hills. I know it’s poor television and probably scripted but I like it and I’m not ashamed to say it. Plus it makes me particularly grateful for a lot of things, like that I don’t know a couple by the name of Speidi. So essentially, it [the Hills] is like Thanksgiving.
3. When I’ve been hitting ‘refresh’ after 30 second intervals (on Facebook) and on the 47th try, it says Inbox (1)
4. Fridays
5. My sisters. They’ve turned out pretty okay - for being related to me.
6. Coming to this site and finding a new post. It sounds kisser-uppery but (apart from the fact that I’m soo above that), it’s really the truth!
7. Sunshine. Summer. And all associated nouns.
8. Michael Phelps.
9. Jeans that fit perfectly. Ooh, and sweats.
10. The moment before the start of a concert where it hits you - Omigosh! I’m about to see [insert cool band] live.
11. Good fiction.
12. Reading the “Stars - they’re just like us!” section in magazines. Who isn’t happy to see Mariah pumping gas or Madonna shopping at Walmart?
13. Good music - Chris Tomlin, Leeland, Casting Crowns Brooke Fraser, Hillsong United!
14. Getting and/or shopping for cute and funky jewelry
15. Pictures you take and totally expect to suck that…don’t. Also pictures where I don’t blink. I’m a chronic blinker so this is a big deal, a real hardship I’ve had to overcome in life.
16. Friends that don’t love you less with time and tell you as much…
17. Romantic comedies that don’t suck.
18. The concept of not being able to escape God’s love. Ever.
19. Youtube, People.com, IMDB, Google, Wikipedia (especially Wikipedia. Ooh and especially Google!)I’m smiling just thinking about it.
20. When I walk into my room after a long day to find that I actually made my bed this morning. And it’s all inviting and comfy-looking.
Sarah, we were obviously separated at birth. I love poor television with no redeeming quality. I too hit refresh on email and Facebook like a million times a day. Repeatedly. Every millisecond. Finding jeans that fit if total nirvana and a bit of an issue for me now. Why can’t I just find the perfect freakin’ jeans already? Other people apparently do! Also love the stars are just like us sections in mags. Though I always wonder if it’s just a weird “my valet and personal assistant has the flu” sort of moment. Love a good romantic comedy and there hasn’t been one in years. And coming home to find my bed made is…wait no. That never happens.
so i have not been on here in a long while..
thanks to lovely school. (no actually it hasnt been to bad just time consuming)
anyway i have been trying to read all that i missed. and i totally think i have that whole dyspraxia thing. like harry potter (one time in the 8th grade they called me harry potter for like a month because i got a scratch on my forehead haha so i didnt find it that amusing but they sure got a laugh out of it) anway but the other day at SPIRIT CLUB! we were making posters and i totally knocked over the glitter and it went everywhere. i feel sorry for whatever custodian had to clean it up!.
hey ok so things that make me happy today
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm………
1. i am stayin with my gramma this weekend! WOOP WOOP
2. it’s Fulton County Fair time! (the awesomest fair around!)
3. i just got done readin THE BIG PICTURE! (super duper great job writtin that btw!)
4. Scotty is not moving away!!!!!
5. I found another person on this planet who also thinks that Michael Phelps is totally hot!
6.I SAW THE BEACH BOYS LAST NIGHT!!!!
7.Tessa and i are actually getting along!
8. my volleyball team is 3-0!! UNDEFFETED BABY!!
9.my Gramma is makin an awesome peach pie rite now!
10. I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO PROUD of myself! i can eat a whole vanilla Fair milkshake all by myself!!!
11.i hav the coolest Cow display Pic for MSN!!
12.i got to name my Gramma’s fish (Cheech and Chong!)
13.aspiring thesbians ate too many barney purple colored cupcakes and got and anurism in there bladder that is filled with popcorn and so they went to the photographer to get them cut out and the photographer said no cause he was eating a bolagna sandwhich! (i should at least get a A+ for creativity)
14. CAUSE JENNY B JONES IS COMMIN OUT WITH A NEW SERIS SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN I GET A WOOP WOOP!!!!!
i like this idea!
OK, one of the many responses!
1. My sister’s antics (she is six and finds me “hideous”)
2. The Jon and Kate Plus 8 show. I know that’s lame, but it’s so funny!!
3. Reading hilarious and clean books
4 Actually finding a horror movie without swear words and “bedroom scenes”. (aka “the eye” minus one easily fastforwarded part)
5.getting emails
6. Not school
7. When certain obnoxious people in my class are home sick
8. Being home from school
9. Lucille Ball
10. Little Ricky
11. The Phantom of the opera soundtrack “why have you brought me here?” song
12. Melody Carlson!!!! (Sorry jenny)
13. My Dad’s amazing homeade pizza
14. The first day of school. I love the first and last day. That’s it.
here is my things-i-dont-like list ( sorry im not in a good mood right now)
1. when my crush wasnt at church or school. ( the only day of the week i dont see him is monday, as i call it, The ‘mourning monday’)
2 when my mom is in a bad mood ( it affects me too)
3 when there is nothing on the telivision
4 no emails
5 bored out of my mind!
6 mp3 player out of juice.
7 when my bball coach makes me run suicides ( augh! imagine the pain of not being able to breathe and the odd taste of puke) ( sorry if i grossed u out)
8 spanish class augh!
9 porta potties
10 substitute math teacher (british lady, no smile, depression)
11 early mornings
12 sad movies ( yes im the sucker who cried during ‘castaway’)
13 CHOCKROACHES! ( augh i hate them!!!)i am also the sucker who doesnt have the guts to squash them!)
14…. no zzzz’s