I Remember What Happiness Is
I wrote this list up a couple months back and it's still an ongoing thing, but I wanted to share it with y'all.


1 Kitties!
2 My mom and dad
3 My brothers
4 Getting to meet Chad and his family
5 Tina
6 Stephanie
7 Heather
8 Annette
9 June & Adam
10 Mike & his family
11 All of my extended family
12 Olympia & the whole Pacific NW
13 coffee & tea (Earl Grey! Hot!)
14 music
15 Shari's
15 pies and all forms of baked goods
16 all manner of creative pursuits
17 writing code and debugging it
18 my online friends
19 libraries, reading, bookstores
20 chocolate
21 Emily Dickinson
22 the bay
23 crabfishing & eating crab
24 the quilt my Grandma made for me
25 Yarn!
26 civil liberties - voting
27 cozy sweaters
28 big boots
29 hats
30 intellectual and creative company
31 video games, teh Interwebz, P2P
32 wildlife
33 Planned Parenthood
34 notebooks with kitties on the cover
35 photography and artwork
36 storms, especially when the power goes out
37 winks
38 comfortable silence
39 baking banana bread
40 cooking a meal for someone
41 clothes warm from the dryer
42 driving in summertime
43 traveling
44 coming home from a trip
45 Essie
46 when cashiers, bank tellers & other workers remember me
47 live music
48 pens that write nicely
49 warm colors
50 sunflowers
51 pretty or witty coffee cups
52 bonus games
53 having nice neighbors
54 clouds
55 making LJ icons
56 the sound of trains in the night
57 pumpkin carving
58 hope for the future
59 a quiet place
60 goats
61 charm bracelets
62 art supplies
63 reading a book in one sitting
64 being nursed back to health
65 finding things I'd forgotten I had
66 reading horoscopes
67 Lao Tzu
68 Christmas carols
69 dying my hair
70 deja vu
71 enlightening dreams
72 telling stories
73 feeling proud of myself
74 getting all dolled up
75 mix cds
76 when a movie is so good i see it multiple times in the theater
77 soup
78 marathon sessions of gaming or watching a movie series/tv season
79 Samurai Champloo
80 fan art & fiction
in no particular order. If you aren't specifically named herein, consider yourself encompassed by #18.