Things That Make Me Happy 

(List began in 1997 – Senior year in high school. I’ve been adding to it since then. I think of it as a personal timeline. Things with asterisked have appeared on the list more than once.)

 

 ****Last updated January 30, 2009 (I apologize for the wonky formatting)


·         Singing in the shower 

·         Banana shakes 

·         Fish (as in the shape and aesthetic of Fish)

·         Pesto 

·         Ice Cream 

·         Peeling oranges 

·         Ink pens 

·         Fashion 

·         Fabulous movies 

·         Lists 

·         Fresh air as I fall asleep 

·         Sleeping in cars 

·         Long drives 

·         Volvos 

·         Kisses 

·         Ankhs 

·         Silver 

·         Hemp 

·         Socks 

·         Feet 

·         *Painted toenails 

·         Sharing 

·         *Eyebrows 

·         ‘Phony baloney’ 

·         Sweet n’ sour tofu 

·         Painting 

·         Magritte’s paintings 

·         WOODY ALLEN! 

·         Dialogue movies 

·         Quotes 

·         Garter belts 

·         *Lusty lime green 

·         Swing dancing 

·         Inspector Gadget reruns 

·         Flirting 

·         *French toast with powdered sugar 

·         Pocket watches 

·         ‘Boy hair’ 

·         *Avocadoes 

·         When Harry Met Sally 

·         A Fish Called Wanda 

·         ‘Making out’ in a car 

·         MAXWELL 

·         *New York! 

·         West Coast 

·         Clicking keyboards 

·         Singing along to music 

·         Jingling things 

·         Stick shifts 

·         *Cinnamon 

·         My penguin blanket 

·         Hugs 

·         Smiles 

·         Poetry 

·         Concerts 

·         Pencil sharpeners (both manual cranking kind and electric) 

·         Lip-gloss 

·         Cologne 

·         Neckties 

·         Funny candy  

·         Slang 

·         Sandwiches cut diagonally 

·         Licking my lips after smoking a clove cigarette 

·         The smell after the rain 

·         Cat Stevens 

·         *Baseball 

·         Foreign telephone booths 

·         Shadows 

·         Photography  

·         Green banker lamps 

·         Zippo lighters 

·         Ani DiFranco in concert 

·         Learning 

·         Purring 

·         Hips 

·         Uniqueness 

·         Male bonding 

·         Sarcasm 

·         Cravings 

·         Cereal 

·         Laughing! 

·         Rain! 

·         ART 

·         Whiskers 

·         *Swings 

·         Film 

·         Noses! 

·         My best friend, Solomon 

·         SLEEP 

·         The stormy beach 

·         Picnics 

·         Black and white checkered floors 

·         Chimneysweepers 

·         The shade 

·         Old yellow taxicabs 

·         People 

·         Crosswalks 

·         Sparkly sidewalks 

·         Bread crust 

·         Taco Bell food 

·         COFFEE! 

·         Sighs 

·         Free refills 

·         Socks on the side of the road 

·         Carnations 

·         Receiving mail 

·         Jazz 

·         *The Beatles 

·         The smell of bookstores 

·         Jennifer’s scent 

·         *Freckles 

·         Writing on napkins 

·         Sex! 

·         Playing catch 

·         MacKenzie’s love of ice-skating 

·         Daffodils 

·         Playing records 

·         Fire escapes on old apartment buildings 

·         Sexual fantasies 

·         Kurt Vonnegut 

·         Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 

·         *Big windowsills to sit on 

·         The sunrise 

·         Solomon’s humour 

·         Puns 

·         Movie critiquing 

·         24-hour donut shops 

·         Red and white striped barbershop signs 

·         Taking apart vacuum cleaners 

·         *Email 

·         Oh Hell! (card game) 

·         Boggle 

·         Fresh tomatoes 

·         Warm bread 

·         Not using umbrellas in the rain 

·         *Fog 

·         CATS! 

·         Chihuahuas 

·         Naming things 

·         My paisley yellow shirt 

·         Easels 

·         “Push” straw dispensers

·         *Smoked Gouda cheese 

·         Accessorizing 

·         Little silver hoop earrings 

·         *Parsley 

·         Coffee shop chats 

·         KERMIT the frog! 

·         Harold and Maude 

·         Michael Reinbold 

·         Obvious humour 

·         Innuendoes 

·         Asterisks** 

·         Unmanageable curly hair 

·         Crunchy autumn leaves 

·         Funny-shaped clouds 

·         Beaded curtains 

·         *Cats basking in the sun 

·         Skyscrapers 

·         Lightning 

·         Storms 

·         Nerdy black plastic-framed eyeglasses 

·         Black and white saddle shoes 

·         Crisp white dress shirts 

·         Pinstriped suits 

·         Vintage dresses 

·         Slips 

·         Seeing my breath in the cold air 

·         Satin sleepwear 

·          Jazz instruments

·         Volkswagen commercial (‘da da da da’) 

·          Black and white photos

·         Art history books

·        Contact (the movie)

·         Songs with the word ‘Wild’ in the title (“Wild World,” “Take a Walk on the Wild Side”) 

·         Dog tags (for people) 

·         Christmas lights as non-Christmas decoration 

·         Holiday socks 

·         The hills in San Francisco 

·         Braids 

·         Cool bumper stickers 

·         Pigeons 

·         Downtown 

·         Getting warm 

·         Toast! 

·         Champagne 

·         Red wine and Italian food 

·         Hiking 

·         Romance! 

·         Feeling independent 

·         Doodling 

·         Dimples 

·         Hot bath soaking 

·         Winks 

·         Punching the roof of cars while driving under yellow lights 

·         Men in sweaters 

·         Men wearing jewelry 

·         The Jews 

·         *Journal writing 

·         Curvy roads 

·         *Decorating 

·         Scarves 

·         The Moon! 

·         Swimming 

·         Romantic foreign films 

·         Playing in the mud 

·         Dancing, kissing, and spinning in the rain 

·         Breakfast 

·         Eyeglasses 

·         Old trees 

·         Free-spirited people 

·         Nag Champa incense 

·         The smell of gasoline 

·         People-watching 

·         Tree-lined streets 

·         Passions! 

·         Piercings 

·         Soft grass 

·         Cold metal 

·         *Garage sales 

·         Quilts 

·         Vineyards 

·         Fresh strawberries 

·         *Movie previews 

·         Mozart 

·         SUSHI 

·         Salt & Pepper shakers 

·         Swings on porches 

·         Accents 

·         Thumbs up! 

·         Window boxes for flowers 

·         SPORKS! 

·         Silliness 

·         When people say my name 

·         Breezes 

·         Feeling challenged 

·         Three-quarter length sleeved-T-Shirts from the 70s 

·         Bistros 

·         Wonderful flowers 

·         Dockers pants 

·         Popcorn strings on Christmas trees 

·         Pink in the sky before the snow 

·         Calling Maxwell with a kissing sound 

·         Clashing one’s clothes on purpose 

·         Masquerade balls 

·         Quiet (or silent) ticking watches 

·         Cat-eye glasses 

·         Buying clothes by the pound 

·         Consignment/used clothing stores 

·         Bead stores 

·         People who massage their feet at coffee shops 

·         Cool erasers 

·         Listening to the Twin Peaks soundtrack as I fall asleep 

·         Slinkies going down stairs 

·         Hiccups 

·         *HOT fudge 

·         Toes 

·         *Mangoes 

·         Chalk outlines 

·         Finger drawing on condensated windows 

·         Kick-ass tattoos 

·         Fortune cookies 

·         Chinese food To-go boxes 

·         The appearance of fly-fishing 

·         Murphy beds 

·         Little plastic cream barrels 

·         Naked trees 

·         “Pull” Strings on buses 

·         Fresh-squeezed orange juice 

·         A rrows with a triangle as the point 

·         Huge coffee mugs 

·         Doilies 

·         Blueberry bagels 

·         Photocopies of children’s hands 

·         Hot tubs 

·         Cabins 

·         Snuggling 

·         Back in ‘Nam jokes 

·         White chocolate drops 

·         Apple-cinnamon flavor 

·         Yente the Matchmaker 

·         Monarch butterflies 

·         Wacky-ass topiary shrubs in funny designs 

·         Seasons changing 

·         Warm banana bread (no nuts!) 

·         Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting (no nuts!) 

·         *Licking stamps 

·         Other people wearing my clothes 

·         L.A. Story

·         Frivolous inventions (e.g. flavored envelopes) 

·         Spending hours browsing in video stores 

·         Chalkboards and their erasers 

·         Spelling certain words the ‘English way’  

·         Rick 

·         *Love spoons! (small spoon with long handles) 

·         Nipples 

·         ‘Your Basic Hat’ 

·         Synchronicity 

·         Comfy jeans 

·         Cycles in life 

·         The red lamp at Salem Cinema* 

·         Nicole’s smile and giddiness 

·         Morning dew 

·         Being a vegetarian 

·         Brick buildings 

·         The Beanery 

·         Food movies 

·         Kleeo, the coconut purse 

·         Knocking on Kleeo 

·         Crazy socks 

·         My silver Doc Martens 

·         Dancing wildly 

·         Spirals 

·         Haight St. in San Francisco 

·         The Yule season 

·         A slightly cold pillow 

·         Ryan’s mind and quirkiness 

·         My tattoos 

·         Sending letters 

·         Little surprises 

·         Charleston Hesston impersonations 

·         Cool bugs 

·         BIG canvasses 

·         Deadheads 

·         Golden Gate Park’s cement slide 

·         The smell of eucalyptus  

·         Koala bears 

·         Julia, the “Ideal Woman” 

·         A new box of 64 Crayolas (with the sharpener in the back) 

·         Tetris  

·         Crazy, late-night discussions 

·         Lying on someone’s chest, and hearing their heartbeat 

·         The idea of living in New York City 

·         Maxwell’s curly hairs 

·         Paul Simon’s voice 

·         “Elvira Madigan” (by Mozart) 

·         When a guitarist thumps on their guitar 

·         Pianists 

·         Seahorses 

·         Fruit plates with lots of yummy fruit 

·         The sweetest things I’ve ever heard 

·         The appearance of a martini 

·         Green olives 

·         When people refer to me as an artist 

·         Cats in the window 

·         Cream cheese frosting 

·         “Flaming June” (painting by Lord Frederick Leighton) 

·         Funky shoelaces 

·         Solid-colored dishes 

·         Going back to sleep 

·         Miro’s circus-like paintings 

·         Metal lunchboxes 

·         *Soupspoons 

·         Dancing to music in my head 

·         *Things that glow in the dark 

·         The way David “the hair guy” smells 

·         Alex’s facial expressions 

·         Muppet parodies 

·         Peanut butter and jam sandwiches 

·         The box purse Ryan gave me 

·         Claw-footed bathtubs 

·         Photo albums 

·         Award shows 

·         Making espresso drinks 

·         Joop cologne 

·         Tap dancing 

·         Goosebumps 

·         Reading this list aloud 

·         When people say “No worries” 

·         Chili-pepper lights 

·         Drawing/painting fish 

·         *Cobalt blue pottery, dishes, or glassware 

·         Japanese screens 

·         When people change behind Japanese screens and drape their clothing over the top 

·         Blowing bubbles 

·         Revolving doors 

·         “Wife beater” undershirts 

·         Monkey in the Barrel 

·         Oscar night 

·         Brushing teeth with my women friends 

·         *Gingerbread 

·         RYAN 

·         Hot oatmeal with raisins, brown sugar, and milk 

·         Sidewalk cafes 

·         Brooklyn Heights Promenade 

·         Brownstones 

·         24-hour delis 

·         Peas and Pickles (bodega in Brooklyn) 

·         Christmas trees on the sidewalks 

·         Craig’s profile 

·         Anki’s smile 

·         Writing in the bathtub 

·         Billie Holiday 

·         Soft, warm scarves 

·         Getting a seat on the subway 

·         Purple Passion Plant  

·         Apple butter 

·         English tea 

·         The smell of new books (especially with glossy pages) 

·         The smell of old books 

·         Teacup saucers 

·         *Deep cereal bowls  

·          the Slug (finger puppet) 

·         My glitter wand with the star 

·         Red walls 

·         Museums 

·         Roll-top desks 

·         Clear tiles in the sidewalk 

·         Mosaics 

·         Thanksgiving 

·         Mr. Ben (in London) 

·         Movies on the airplane 

·         Coffee House Café 

·         Mr. Waits 

·         Kandinsky 

·         Seurat’s paintings 

·         “Mind the Gap” (from the Tube) 

·         Converse sneakers 

·         Craig’s little dance 

·         Key Lime Pie 

·         Molly and Blue (doggies) 

·         Flying above lightning 

·         The peace of Vermeer’s paintings 

·         Learning Japanese 

·         Oil pastels 

·         Different colored lights on the Empire State Building 

·         My Whale-shaped oven mitt 

·         Postcards of paintings 

·         *Ginger scones from the Beanery 

·         Peanut sauce 

·         Taking showers in the dark 

·         Fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt 

·         Cylindrical smokestacks 

·         Bookmarks 

·         Yop (yogurt drink) 

·         My butterfly lamp 

·         Holman Hunt’s sheep 

·         The way Mr. Klyver feels about Pre-Raphaelites 

·         Giraffes 

·         Power-napping in cars 

·         Pillowcases that make me drool 

·         The cleansing from spicy food 

·         Smart and cute kids 

·         Kisses on the nose 

·         Paper lampshades 

·         The hippie atmosphere at Grateful Dead shows 

·         School supplies 

·         The idea of being pregnant 

·         Innuendoes in Italian films 

·         My dinosaur blanket 

·         My pillow 

·         Pop-up books 

·         Loft beds 

·         Chopsticks 

·         Plastic Japanese food 

·         Toasted bagels cut in fourths 

·         Banana Republic ad campaigns (Suede, Stretch) 

·         Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good” 

·         “Summertime” (Gershwin) 

·         Brown Army shirts 

·         Baking cookies 

·         David A. Carter’s bug books 

·         Christmas carolers 

·         Hot chocolate  

·         View-finders 

·         Mother Goose and Grim (comic strip) 

·         Bliss (comic strip) 

·         Hokusai’s prints 

·         Apple pie a la mode 

·         Pumpkin pie (very cinnamony) 

·         Chai 

·         Cheesecake 

·         Being a Scorpio 

·         Things that click (pens, barrettes) 

·         My yellow watch 

·         Peeing 

·         Mittens, especially with the string that attaches them 

·         Spirograph 

·         Sesame Street 

·         Eating Kit-Kats and other wafer treats, layer by layer 

·         The Flatiron building 

·         The Chrysler building 

·         Naturale women 

·         Crossword puzzles 

·         Reading the Sunday paper 

·         A malt at Candlestick Park 

·         Chagall’s flying people 

·         The way Maxwell drinks milk from a bowl 

·         When kitties forget to put their tongue all the way back in 

·         Bono 

·         Carrot juice 

·         Warm and clean laundry 

·         Biscoff cookies 

·         Kisses on the top of the head 

·         COLOUR! 

·         Remembering things 

·         Boticelli’s women 

·         Modigliani’s faces 

·         DiChirico’s mysterious paintings 

·         DaVinci’s drawings 

·         Gerbera daisies 

·         Wildflowers 

·         People talking passionately about baseball 

·         *Cranberry sauce out of the can 

·         People caught up in their book so much that they walk and read simultaneously 

·         Directing plays and film 

·         Winter hats 

·         Reading children’s books aloud 

·         Root beer floats 

·         Lemurs 

·         Dancing Snoopy 

·         Talking about Maxwell’s Cereal Bowl 

·         *Giving giggling kids raspberries on their tummies 

·         My list of movies to see 

·         Inside jokes, especially Orange T-Shirt, “That’s my favorite,” Vocalizing the instrumental parts of songs, and “…almost deja-vous” 

·         When Fish “makes his cakes” 

·         Mini Coopers (old and new) 

·         Stanford Uniball Micro Pen 

·         Making people laugh 

·         Talking about sex 

·         Mrs. Butterworth syrup bottles 

·         Soda in a bottle 

·         Triangles 

·         Picking things up with my toes 

·         Groucho Marx disguises 

·         Pirouette cookies 

·         Clampy jars or bottles 

·         Artichokes 

·         Air-drying 

·         Making it up the hill 

·         That nervous butterfly feeling between two people attracted to each other 

·         Drawing little cars 

·         Ani DiFranco’s “Overlap” 

·         Knitting 

·         Bragg’s Amino sauce 

·         Squishing peanut butter in the holes of a saltine cracker sandwich 

·         Silver toys with the two prongs and the little disc that slides up and down (“Wheel-O”?) 

·         Fork crisscross on peanut butter cookies 

·         Ms. Tao Bedic (the cat) 

·         That colorful wire tree 

·         Envelopes that tie around two circles 

·         Donating blood 

·         Kissing women 

·         Making kitties purr 

·         Sitting in odd rows in the theatre (esp. 3rd and 5th rows) 

·         Entering on the left 

·         Little kangaroos 

·         Tapioca pudding 

·         Thomas the Thermos 

·         Collages 

·         Writing little words on Post-Its 

·         The padding on kitties’ feet 

·         The first deep breath after an orgasm 

·         Solomon’s play with ribbon material 

·         e.e. cummings 

·         Hearing about what makes people happy 

·         The redness of the Bowling Green station juxtaposed with the blueness of the Wall Street station 

·         John Cleese 

·         The lack of Green in the Bowling Green station 

·         Passing the Statue of Liberty on the Ferry 

·         Rooftop gardens in New York 

·         The idea of Iceland 

·         Reading Japanese 

·         Flower bracelets/ daisy chains 

·         “The Lovers” by Magritte 

·         The name Silly Putty 

·         Play-Do 

·         My ankh necklace 

·         Greying hair 

·         Earl grey tea* 

·         Remembering recess 

·         Solomon wearing his mandala  

·        Runaway Bunny 

·        Goodnight Moon

·        When people say, “bless you” or something nice when I sneeze 

·         Overalls 

·         Ganas dinners 

·         Brancusi’s kissers 

·         Giacometti’s long skinny people 

·         Getting an extra snack in the vending machine 

·        The Simpsons

·         Burying my face in a kitty’s tummy 

·         Kissing eyelids 

·         Being kissed on the forehead 

·         Bach’s “Concerto for Harps in F Minor, 2nd movement” 

·         Multi-colored rag rugs 

·         Bookcases in kitchens 

·         Barrister bookcases 

·         Kitties playing with a ball of yarn 

·         Lounging in bed with Ryan, drinking coffee 

·         Travel coffee mugs 

·         Postcards 

·         Matisse’s cutouts 

·         Perfume bottles with the ball to push (squeeze to smell) 

·         Pie with coffee 

·         Wine glasses 

·         Cinnamon rolls 

·         Finding a kitty curled up next to me 

·         Hula-hoops 

·         Jade bracelets 

·         Sunday mornings 

·         Reading old love letters 

·         Waking up to kisses 

·         Cozy used bookstores 

·         Shelves of old records 

·         Loving other people’s “junk” 

·         *Nalgene bottles 

·         Clean sheets 

·         Turning a pillow over to the cooler side 

·         Weddings about love 

·         Crazy purses 

·         Globes 

·         Malt-o-Meal 

·         Watching rain race down windows 

·         Art supply stores 

·         Happy lists 

·         Hair ties with balls at both ends 

·         Graph paper 

·         Doing the crossword with Ryan 

·         Rooibos tea 

·         Red paper 

·         Stationary/office supply stores 

·         Curly red hair 

·         The name Hannah 

·         Warm, cozy socks 

·         Pjs with feet 

·         Finger puppets 

·         Moleskine journals 

·         Union Square’s holiday booths 

·         Baby shoes 

·         Custom box of chocolates 

·         Baklava 

·         Chap-stick 

·         Eggnog with nutmeg 

·         Nora, my Nalgene bottle 

·         Having short hair 

·         Reading old journals 

·         Degas’ compositions 

·         Sluggy Slug and other Raschka books 

·         Listening to people talk about art 

·         Dolly Parton’s “Stairway to Heaven” 

·         Janella’s impression of Ozzy Osbourne 

·         Lincoln Logs 

·         Tinker Toys 

·         Real maple syrup 

·         Japanese design 

·         Feeling my baby kick 

·         Napping 

·         Circular windows 

·         My ice cream lights  

·         Xander’s giggle 

·         Elijah’s smile 

·         Barnett Newman’s paintings 

·         Bill Viola’s videos 

·         The name Olive 

·         Filing my papers 

·         Bagels 

·         Christmas stockings 

·         Buttons 

·         Japanese blossoming trees 

·         Bonsai trees 

·         “Bell Bottom Blues” by Eric Clapton 

·         Decorating and organizing shows 

·         Mimosas 

·         Bizarre, vintage Easter bunnies (especially if they have clothing on) 

·         Coffee shops 

·         Bendy straws 

·         Golden retrievers 

·         The smell of tomato plants 

·         The Blues 

·         Abbey Road’s cover 

·         Haikus 

·         Good fonts 

·         Eating at Kwan’s 

·         The way Ryan says “Oh yeah” 

·         When Ryan calls me Gaboes 

·         Mission furniture 

·         Adirondack chairs 

·         Skipping rocks 

·         Rolling up my pants to wade in a river, an ocean, or a pool 

·         Finding agates or beach glass on the Oregon Coast 

·         Choosing what kind of ice cream to get at Baskin Robbins 

·         Getting Chinese food delivered 

·         Listening to the waves as I fall asleep 

·         Hearing a train in the distance 

·         Strawberry shortcake 

·         Waffles 

·         Orange 

·         Sharp knives 

·         Fresh baguettes 

·         Puddles of melted wax 

·         Crayon drawings on aluminum foil 

·         Canning jars 

·         Apothecary tables 

·         Old library card catalogs 

·         Family photos of people I don’t know 

·         Organizing books on a shelf 

·         Cloth napkins 

·         The warm damp towels they bring after a meal at Kwan’s 

·         Sitting at the counter in a diner 

·         Egg and cheese on a roll or biscuit 

·         The appearance of a black and white cookie 

·         Olives and pineapple on pizza 

·         A traditional slice of pizza in New York 

·         Entering through the side entrance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 

·         Colorful umbrellas 

·         Children in raincoats and boots 

·         The pitcher’s mound 

·         The corners on old photographs 

·         Maps 

·         Knowing exactly where something is 

·         Quesadillas  

·         Fresh tortillas 

·         Wood floors 

·         Teething toys 

·         Old typewriters 

·         Joseph Cornell’s boxes 

·         Indian batiking 

·         Knowing what song is next on an album 

·         Twilight Zone episodes 

·         Mystery Science Theatre 3000 

·         Plastic keys (children’s toy) 

·         Bouncing the ball on the paddle 

·         Yo-yos 

·         Fathers holding their babies 

·         Old lampposts  

·         Kitschy Christmas decorations on lampposts in small towns 

·         The five trees in front of Willamette University 

·         The appearance of Conversation Hearts (from Valentine’s Day) 

·         Dyeing eggs 

·         Stargazing 

·         Frankie the wiener dog chasing snow 

·         Milk bottles 

·         Scrabble squares 

·         Double rainbows 

·         Biscuits and gravy 

·         Orange-frosted cinnamon rolls 

·         T-Ball 

·         Children in Halloween costumes 

·         Zabar’s in New York City 

·         Vietnam Restaurant in New York’s Chinatown 

·         Veg-City’s vegan cakes 

·         Red Bamboo restaurant in NYC 

·         Catching a good late night movie  

·         Flipping through magazines while I wait 

·         Roller coasters 

·         Antique stores 

·         Colorful markers 

·         Origami paper 

·         Elephants 

·         Chinese New Year celebrations 

·         Letting rice paper wrap melt on my tongue 

·         Jack Russell terriers 

·         Dogs playing in dog runs 

·         Soft pretzels 

·         Refrigerator magnets 

·         The petting zoo 

·         California poppies 

·         Using rocks as bookends 

·         Cuddling in blankets on the couch, watching movies  

·         Spatulas 

·         Hot showers 

·         Yummy desserts that are also vegan 

·         Blooming flowers in the winter 

·         Kittens before they have opened their eyes 

·         Kitties lying in bathroom sinks 

·         Onesies 

·         Chocolate milk* 

·         Dill pickles 

·         Fruit Loops cereal 

·         Journals 

·         Words 

·         Reading while soaking in the tub 

·         Having my back washed 

·         Van Morrison 

·         Coffeecake with cinnamon streusel on top 

·         James Burke and the Connections series 

·         Windmills in miniature golf courses 

·         Jack-O-Lanterns 

·         Doughnuts: (specifically: Boston Cream, Maple, and Apple Fritters) 

·         Balconies off the bedroom 

·         Realizing my favorite socks are clean  

·         Spending most of the summer in sandals 

·         That toy that is a rectangle of pins – pressing a hand into it leaves the impression of the hand 

·         Waiting for Guffman 

·         The Art Book 

·         Letters typed by a typewriter 

·         Left-handedness 

·         Green eyes 

·         Boy briefs on women 

·         Cars backed up because of a duck crossing 

·         Chocolate truffles 

·         Fresh onion 

·         Mushrooms 

·         Asparagus 

·         Meeting friends for coffee 

·         Having my hair washed (by someone else) 

·         Reference books 

·         www.imdb.com 

·         Reading The Onion 

·         Remembering to use the coupons I clipped 

·         Fishy playing with his glitterballs 

·         Tying my hair back because I’m about to get seriously involved in something (cleaning, making art, having sex, etc.) 

·         Hooded sweatshirts 

·         Thermal shirts 

·         Argyle socks 

·         The pirate joke 

·         People who laugh before the punchline as they tell jokes 

·         French fries 

·         Sesame seeds 

·         Fat Tire Amber Ale 

·         Terry cloth bathrobes 

·         Jalapeno poppers 

·         Tree houses 

·         Blanket forts 

·         Glow Worms (children’s toy) 

·         Candy corn 

·         A shovel and pail for the beach 

·         Peacoats 

·         A touching (but not schmaltzy) greeting card 

·         Target 

·         “Look for a Square” song 

·         “Bluebird” song 

·         Elephant ears (deep-fried cinnamon bread) 

·         The crunchy thing on the end of a corndog 

·         Gangster movies 

·         Christo’s pizza in Salem 

·         Nightmare Before Christmas 

·         Lois Armstrong’s voice 

·         Miniature model trees 

·         HO Model trains (and how much Ryan loves them) 

·         Engineer overalls and matching hat 

·         The appearance of Fruit Stripe gum 

·         Coming of age movies from the 80s 

·         Fishy’s ears 

·         “Littlest Birds” song by the Be Good Tanyas 

·         Really comfortable bras 

·         “Little Green Frog” song 

·         The fog over Golden Gate Bridge 

·         Photoshop 

·         The appearance of those Easter Peeps (marshmallow bunnies in pink and yellow) 

·         The yellow ‘yolk’ in Cadbury eggs 

·         The egg-shaped containers that nylons used to come in 

·         Giving my maraschino cherry to someone who wants it 

·         Men’s V-Neck sweaters 

·         The first blooms of the spring 

·         South Park episodes when I’m really sleep-deprived 

·         Watching Friends with Jennifer and Nicole 

·         “somewhere I have never traveled” by e.e. cummings 

·         Jada the jade plant 

·   The second side to Abbey Road 

·   Gift shops! 

·   Eating a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup my own special way 

·   Wearing other people’s clothes 

·   Pam 

·   Having a million inspiring papers, pads, stickies, and notebooks to write upon --- AT ALL TIMES!  

·   Taking the time to handwrite something beautifully  

·   The tv show – 'Project Runway'  

·   ENNEAGRAM!  

·   Whippet dawgies – they're my soul dogs.  They're just like deer!  

·   Seeing my sister car on the road (identical make, model, and color as the car I drive) "Hello Sister Car!"  

·   Reese's PB Easter eggs – they have the perfect ratio of pb : chocolate  

·   Finding little love notes  

·   Contemplating making new artwork  

·   Colored staples  

·   Light Impressions  catalog  

·   Eucalyptus  

·   Banana splits  

·   Looking at eggs benedict and imagining what they would taste like (I've never eaten them before though!)  

·   Crepes!  

·   The phrase 'fruit compote'  

·   When my eyelashes cooperate and CURL  

·   Going dancing, going dancing, going dancing, going dancing! 

• Tea with Jacob

• 'Fergalicious' video

• Those heart smiley things on gmail chat

• Myspace comments

• iTunes store – you can sample almost any song!

• Endless supply of Uniball Sanford Micro pens at work

• Saying/writing 'Bah!'

• Beaverscouts!

• Homemade toast from Off Center Café

• The chocolate chip cookies from the Coffee House – what's in those? Crack?

• Buttermilk doughnuts

• YOUTUBE

• 'The Dinner Table (Harmony in Red)' by Matisse

• When the girls at the office do a coffee run!

• Warm socks

• Patent leather danskos

• Baby legs (baby legwarmers)

• The red sweater Pam knitted for Clem

• Eyeliner

• Cupcakes

• Knowing how happy cupcakes make Darbie

• Christo's pesto pizza

• Blue cheese

• 3D pipes screensaver

• Pam's red red lips

• Venus magazine

• Ready-Made magazine

• mypapercrane creations

• Bottlecap jewelry

• Hitting the snooze button

• Leaving work and having it still be daylight

• Blooming bulbs indoors in the winter

• Dura-flame logs (especially the crackle ones!)

• Hannah's love for dressing up in her own clothes

• Bailey's growing sense of style

• Lily Allen and her kickass videos

• ALL the dresses at the Oscars!  YAY for Oscar night!

• Obsessive picture taking

• The Keeper (no more tampons! rwwarrrrr!)

• Thinking about getting another tattoo (will it ever happen?  dunno)

• Laying down with Clementine (she gets so excited!  she knows her MAMA MOMOS are coming!)

• The girls' insatiable desire to dance

• Soft-serve ice cream cones

• Party hats (yeah, so the elastic is annoying, but damn they're cute)

• Contemplating making a quilt

• Daydreaming about writing my HOT SEXT 1950s-set LESBIAN NOVEL!  OH, it'd be SOOO GOOD!

·   Lusting over the idea of making more artwork --- deep meaningful artwork 

·   Cloth diapers 

·   Iced lattes 

·   Oompa.com 

·   Specifically, THIS UMBRELLA from Oompa.com 

·   Square Prada watches like this one (a girl's gotta dream, right?)  

·   Knowing the Spring is coming.... 

·   Good-working windshield wipers  

·   Aveda products  

·         Oysters, and how they taste like the beach 

·         All the lovely little shops in which to browse 

·         Strange bunnies (perhaps in clothes, perhaps with red eyes) 

·         Deer 

·         Owls 

·         Pulled-pork sandwiches 

·         Pineapple juice 

·         Talking about adhesives 

·         FYI 

·         Fun bottlecaps 

·         The size, weight and feel of quarters 

·         Half dollars 

·         Jacob’s blueberry/ginger crisp 

·         Other people being ‘infected’ with Jacob’s lingo 

·         Shaving cream, shaving brushes, and shaving cups 

·         Barber shops 

·         Smoking cloves with sassy Jennifer

·         Homemade toast & jam at Off Center Café 

·         Rainy days in school, that kept us off the playground and inside all warm and cozy doing word searches and connect-the-dots 

·         Tim playing Rockband with me, even though I'm no good at it! :( 

·         Steve Martin playing the banjo 

·         When my cup gets a fresh refill of coffee 

·         Shiny paper and binder clips 

·         Smead catalogs 

·         Iced green tea lattes  

·         The concept & aesthetic of bubble tea 

·         Spotting hot air balloons in the sky 

·         GORGEOUS large, low-set orange full moons 

·         All About Eve 

·         Grilled hamburgers 

·         Fresh strawberries 

·         Nectarines 

·         Collage (on Alberta St.) 

·         Oilcloth handbags 

·         94.7’s Perfect Playlist 

·         Long strings of great songs on the radio 

·         A full carload of happy singing-along friends 

·         My girls singing ‘The Little Green Frog’ song 

·         Newsprint paper from school that had a large space for illustration above and dotted lines below for the story (erasing anything will tear the paper!) Hate using it, but it makes me happy to look at it 

·         Eating the ice cream cone, full of ice cream 

·         Twist soft serve ice cream 

·          Thai curry 

·         Picnicking with work friends 

·         Corkscrew maple trees 

·         Fields of windmills 

·         Delilah! In her summer hat!  

·         Yarn stores 

·         Janella’s laugh 

·         Solomon’s unabashed snobbery 

·         Sourdough 

·         Pumpernickel bread 

·         Dwight on ‘The Office’ 

·         “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” tv show 

·         Growing a garden: strawberries, tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, sweet pea, peonies, lilies, kittynip, parsley, thyme, basil, zucchini, peppers, daisies, hydrangeas 

·         Pinked clouds in a sun-setting sky 

·         Keeping all my mental files updated on people I love (she likes this, he doesn’t, etc.) 

·         Checking things off my lists! 

·         Overusing exclamation points!! 

·         Text messages 

·         Baby clothes 

·         Naked Lady Swaps 

·         Photocopied hands 

·         Reusable shopping bags 

·         Honey mustard 

·         Ruby Ale at McMenamins 

·         Rothko’s paintings 

·         David Byrne 

·         Going out on the town with Nicole 

·         Feeling like it ‘all makes sense’  

·         Swimming 

·         Checking out a dozen children’s books at the library 

·         The word ‘clandestine’ 

·         Jacob’s LEMONCURD! 

·         Brandy’s rose petal jelly 

·         Having people around with those fancy phones that have internets to check things like directions, and who’s playing at the fair 

·         Junior mints 
·         Mrs. Pac-Man marathons with Ry
·         Cheyenne's love of Sharpies!
·         Handmade frames by Ryan for me!
            ·        Megan's thoughtfulness

·         The new exciting RETRACTABLE ultra fine point Sharpies! 

·         Firefly, television series 

·         Jacob’s PECAN BARS! 

·         Willamette Valley Vineyards Frizzante 

·         Playing Super Mario Bros. with Hannah 

·         Field-trips 

·         Daydreaming about making my children’s Halloween costumes 

·         When kids movies are actually good 

·         Being able to put my hair in a ponytail (it’s almost there, I don’t care how small and ridiculous it will look!) 

·         Being able to laugh at yourself! What was I thinking?!?? 

·         Making Jacob help me come up with thing that make me happy 

·         Napping with Bentley 

·         Daydreaming about Thanksgiving 

·         Watching Hannah run 

·         Smelling fields of mint 

·         Grilled corn 

·         My inlaws 

·         Going to the theatre. Seeing all the beautiful people.  

·         Pabst Blue Ribbon beer 

·         Skipping 

·         Figs 

·         Fantasy of working for an office supply company 

·         Optimism in people 

·         Skee-ball 

·         Playing games and winning tickets, even if the only thing you can get with those tickets are worthless prizes 

·         Tokens: any kind – from the Carousel, Chuck E. Cheese, the car wash, or the laundromat 

·         Iced tea 

·         Full tank of gas