List #100: 100 Things to be Happy About

100 things to be happy about (only 13,900 to go!)

1. Banjos
2. Fruit Soups
3. Carleton College
4. Lake Superior
5. Glow-in-the-Dark
6. Green Lantern Comics
7. Comfortable pants
8. Family (even dysfunctional ones)
9. Good Neigbors
10. Stolen Bases
11. Friends that aren't boring
12. Joss Whedon
13. The first 110 Summers of YMCA Camp Miller (1898-2008)
14. The patio at the Hacienda del Sol
15. Heroclix
16. Neil Gaiman
17. Alphabet Books
18. Suzzallo Library, UW (Seattle)
19. Tuna
20. Pond Hockey
21. Night Games
22. Strongbad Emails
23. Brunettes
24. Rerun van Pelt
25. Heroic Couplets
26. un-heroic Couplets
28. Google Earth
29. The Music of Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius and John McGlaughlin
30. Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches
31. Pontoon Boats
32. Blankets (especially as gifts)
33. Cinnamon Ice Cream (and Cinnamon in general)
34. Centerfielders
35. Reading a good book on the back porch
36. Good Students
37. Kevin Smith Movies
38. Cool breezes, shady trees
39. Crocs
40. The Girls in their Summer Dresses
41. Eybrows! (I wish mine worked better)
42. Sesame Street
43. The Fleaflicker
44. Mojitos, Margharitas and Summer Beers
43. Mbaqanga, Kwela, and Marabi
44. Neil Patrick Harris
45. Great luck when it comes to finding places to live
46. Public Libraries
47. Starman (Jack Knight)
48. Boy-Girl harmony
49. Iceland
50. Memorizing international capital cities
51. Lake swimming
52. Otters
53. Little Baby Ducks
54. Old Pick-up Trucks
55. Having a Job you don't hate
56. High School Band
57. Amazing Grace Bakery
58. The name Emily
59. Anne Hathaway
60. Good Comic Shops
61. Baths
62. Shoulder-rubs and head-massages
63. Live Music
64. Freshly-mowed lawn
65. Brainteasers, riddles and puzzles
66. Hockey Tournaments
67. Debate teams
68. slightly-absurd humor
69. Pinstripes (except on the yankees)
70. Nicknames
71. Hand-made books
72. The sewing room at grandpa's house
73. Des Moines
74. Fighter Jets made of Biceps
75. Duluth Packs
76. Walking lunges
77. Creative people
78. Quality TV shows
79. Being Born (thanks Mom!) (Thanks Dad!)
80. Grandparents and Great Grandparents
81. Bass solos
82. "Peanuts"
83. Bone folders
84. Legal pads
85. Rosy cheeks, Runny noses, fogged lenses and beard-icicles coming in after xc-skiing
86. Peepers
87. The Aerial Lift Bridge
88. One-way screws
89. Remote islands
90. Choco-tacos
91. The smell of lemons, peaches, lilacs or bleach
92. Open-source software
93. YouTube
94. Afternoon naps
95. Saturday Night Live
96. Anything and any one within 2 degrees of Judd Apatow
97. Old friends
98. Mix-tapes
99. Wayne Gretzky
100. Lists