1-Skyping with my parents
2-When the pedestrian light turns green
3-Reading friends' blogs that deal with food
4-Opening up the packages that contain airplane dinners
5-A wrinkle-free bed
6-La Roux's "In for the Kill"
7-The movie Beaches
8-The movie Precious
9-Being sleepy and having time for a nap
10-When the professor wants to know how the weekend was
11-Extremely chubby toddlers
12-When parents get really into their kids' science projects
13-Symphony orchestras
14-The (1) next to my Inbox and I see that a dear friend wrote
15-Jamón serrano
16-People who do not lose their cool
17-The sound of typing on a desktop computer
18-White dinnerware
19-People knitting scarves
20-How my dad insists that I say hello to my namesake dog whenever I Skype with him
21-Thrift shops
22-Listening to my friends play guitar and sing
23-Facebook
24-Good Internet connection
25-Spontaneous trips to the grocery store
26-Hanes t-shirts
27-Tacos norteños
28-Six word stories
29-Plath
30-The idea of high school and college reunions
31-Taking level-headed risks
32-Not being afraid to express sadness
33-Crunchy peanut butter sandwiches
34-Optimism, but not the thoughtless, "let's sing a Disney song about it" kind
35-The sound of the oboe
36-When someone says or writes something profound without meaning to
37-The combination of eating a banana and an orange at the same time
38-Knowing what people ate for breakfast
39-Postcards that don´t have landmarks on them
40-Salads with fruit and nuts and grains and cheese
and
Cheap prepared salads at the grocery store
41-The Amelie soundtrack; it never gets old
42-Jack Black´s character in the movie School of Rock
43-Energy conservation without the talk, just the walk
44-Christian apologetics
45-The sound of a crumpling paper bag
46-When they have really tasty bread for communion
47-Frozen yogurt with strawberries, papaya, and pineapple
48-Not having a cell phone right now
49-The dreams where someone you love dies, then you realize it´s not true, so you appreciate them extra-much the rest of the day.
50-Different kinds of type fonts other than the ones traditionally found on Microsoft Word
51-Cloth tableclothes
52-The smell of Barnes and Nobles (different from Border´s)
53-Grammarians who aren´t grammar police
54-The idea of paying for all my necessities with coins
55-Time
56-My host family and the long talks we have around the dinner table
57- Lace
58-The fight for human rights and against child sex slavery
59-Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
60-How cute of an idea a cupcake is. A cup of cake. A cakecup. Would you like a cup of cake?
61- Good intellectual discussions about ethics
62- Documentaries about people who were sad/lived triste lives. When Michael Jackson died last summer, I saw two and a half documentaries about his life.
63-Documentaries about food
64-Youtube videos on how to cook Korean food; They're hilarious unintentionally.
65-Baskets with flowers in them
66-Churros
67-Epistolary relationships
68-Avant garde photography
69-Sweatpants
70-Sufjan Stevens and his goal of writing music for every state. It sounds so cheesy right? But then the music is beautiful so it really doesn't matter.
71-How easily I fall asleep when I leave one foot out of the covers. Do you know what I mean?
72-The way Turkish Delight looks in the old version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe movie. It looks like powdered dduk.
73-How Pastor IJ always uses the word "winsome"
74-Chopin and Debussy
75-Communitychannel
76-The way jam, toast, & tea are described in Roald Dahl's Matilda
77-Blog posts that are written in a completely different style than the way I write
78-Warm sunny light and big windows
79-Museums that are not glossy and perfect
80-People who don't care what others think. But this one is tricky and rare because I frequently come across people who claim to have this trait, yet they go on and on explaining themselves, justifying why they are who they are. It gets kind of confusing. You would think people with this trait would talk less because there is nothing to explain really.
81-Postmodern literature
82-My grandmother's hand-written cards in Korean that I can barely even read, but she still writes anyway
83-Lazy, eating potato chips, and drinking a caffeine-free Coke kind of evenings.
84-Bread, pasta, and other carbs
85-The candy apple scent at Bath and Body Works
86-When there's plenty of time to get lost in a city that's full of windy streets
87-This random Xanga post that I came across. I like the way he thinks.
88-This is the year that many of my good friends were born. Birthday cake. Wedding cake, too.
89-When people don't have time for Facebook because they're too busy seeing real faces.
90-How God uses secular writers to reveal truth
91-Whenever guys wear white t-shirts under their collared or polo shirts; I think it looks handsome.
92-Charlie bit my finger
93-When you don't think less of yourself
94-When you think of yourself less
95-Library cards
96-Hymns
97-It took me around four days to come up with this list. I guess I thought it might be handy to keep such an inventory because what if I get amnesia? doopdeedoo.
98-theenglishdept.com [it's not nerdy, I promise]
99-I appreciate the fact that I know people that I can't simply put on a a list by name because they're worth far more than just appreciation.
100-Minty toothpaste
