105 Things That Make Me Smile
(Just to mention a few)
1. Smiles
2. Friends
3. When I'm in a movie and I find a piece of caramel popcorn in the middle of my butter popcorn
4. Sneezing when I really need to sneeze
5. Making someone else smile/laugh
6. Bubble wrap
7. Kiddie furniture catalogues
8. Flea markets
9. Reminiscing
8. Tree houses that people actually live in (I call them tree homes)
9. Old jeans
10. When someone remembers small details about me
11. Handmade gifts
12. Or just really meaningful ones
13. Comfortable silences
14. The smell of home cooked food
15. The sky
16. Old couples holding hands
17. Midnight phone calls that last for hours about the stupidest things
18. Sarcasm
19. Quotes (good ones)
20. Light
21. Tulips
22. Catching the perfect moment with my camera
23. Singing Barney songs or oldies that annoy people
24. Making a baby giggle
25. Realizing how much I love someone
26. Comments on the stupidest of my posts
27. Cheeky comments on Youtube
28. Receiving "just because" e-mails
29. Hearing a song I used to love when I was a kid on the radio
30. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer
31. Goggles (the word, the person, and the actual things)
32. Inside jokes that never die
33. Running through sprinklers
34. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about me
35. When a random person in the mall smiles at me
36. Cupcakes
37. Old Disney movies
38. Colored chalk
39. Sofana's dip
40. Lemony Snicket
41. Snow
42. Cheesecake
43. When something finally makes sense
44. Banksy
45. Open-minded people
46. When a baby wraps his hand around my finger
47. This:
When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too..." F*** off. What good is a goddamn cake you can't eat? What should I eat, someone else's cake instead?
~ George Carlin
48. The Simpsons
49. Family Guy
50. This:
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
~ Alexander Jodorowsky
51. Learning something new
52. Walking to no where in particular
53. Campfires
54. Sleeping in
55. The smell of a new book
56. Sunlight
57. Baby shoes
58. Take-out
59. Kids that say the darndest things:
Dana, Fati's sister:
(Their housekeeper was making us chicken burgers, when suddenly Dana walked in and said...)
"Danya, your buns are toasted."
(Their housekeeper was making us chicken burgers, when suddenly Dana walked in and said...)
"Danya, your buns are toasted."
Jennah, my cousin:
(First day I met her)
"Danya, your feet are pretty."
"I'm wearing shoes…"
"I know. They're still pretty :)"
"Thanks?"
(whispers in my ear):
"Just so you know, I'm not intimate with your foot."
"Just so you know, I'm not intimate with your foot."
Zeina, my sister:
(On the phone talking to her friend)
"But biology is geometry and geometry is psychology, you see."
60. Fighting with my brother and sister about the stupidest things in the car just because we're bored witless and making my dad say:
"My next car will have two stories……"
61. Baby giraffes
62. Baby zebras
63. Baby monkeys
64. Baby elephants
65. Oh I'll go ahead and say it: Babies. When they're not crying
66. Lunchboxes
67. Ladybugs
68. Typewriters
69. Blowing bubbles
70. Creative advertisements
71. Drawing on walls
72. People who wear the weirdest clothes in public. Cheers, I secretly want to be like you
73. Photographs
74. Happy endings. I don't care if they're cheesy or impossible. I don't see a movie because I want to see an adaptation of real life; I see a movie because I want to get away from it. So bring on the sappy lameness, I really don't mind.
75. Old sitcoms I used to watch when I was a kid. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saved by the Bell, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Clueless....
76. Seinfeld
78. Scrubs
79. Being spoiled when I have stomach cramps
80. Being right
81. Remembering who a certain person looks like after racking my brain for ages
82. Dr. Suess
83. Dr. Pepper
84. Post-its
(a 100m wide photo)
86. Sour mangoes
87. Hand-written letters
88. Floating on my back in the swimming pool
89. Grilled sandwiches
90. The way a paper feels after it's been almost completely covered with writing from a ballpoint pen
91. Listening to my mom tell a bedtime story she made up on the spot
92. Not having to set an alarm
93. Going to bed with my sheets fresh from the laundry
94. Playing Slapjack with Alia
95. Photobooths (P.S. Fati you still didn't give me that Photobooth picture from Berlin)
96. Little kids with non-American accents
97. Chips (French fries) that are crunchy from the outside and soft on the inside
98. Adventures in Ikea
99. Vacuum lines in the carpet
100. Pretending to have a British accent
101. Writing things on foggy mirrors and watching them appear again the next time I take a bath
102. Large sweatshirts
103. These:
104. This:
105.This:
When Love Story (Taylor Swift) meets Viva La Vida (Coldplay). Alone: two overrated songs. Combined: Something close to magical.
And I just love watching their faces. They look so happy it's kind of cute. Music at its rawest.
So that's it. 105 things that make me smile.
I now demand that you tell me (at least) 5 things that make you smile.
:)
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