3 posts tagged “simple pleasures”

Simple things that make me smile...

* When PostSecret posts their post by midnight on Saturday so I can check it before I go to bed.
* Driving my mom's convertiable with the top down on a sunny day
* When a boy makes me giggle
* Watching the snow fall in a warm room with hot chocolate
* Walking outside when it first starts to snow and it just starting to build up.
* Getting mail from old hostees/friends/vistors online via averageangel
* Waking up in the morning and blasting my music
* Walking past old friends/boyfriends when you look your best/hot (oh you know you enjoy doing it girls!)
* When people send random text messages saying "I Love You"/call me randomly to catch up
* When people leave good away messages up about me (yes, it has happend in the past! :P)
* My mentees (er...I should say ex-mentees)
* Riding on a plane
* Listening to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra play Ode To Joy live at the PAC
* Ice skating at Red Arrow Park
* Being in the middle of a concert, in the middle of a crowd, and just feeling the energy around me
* Helping out at my mom's 6th grade band camp
* Going to work every Saturday (even if I say I don't want to go, once I get there, I always want to be there.)
* Nutrolls
*Using to the third sink (only a few people understand :P)
* When I get a new comment/message on myspace or facebook
* Hearing from old friends from high school
* Working out
* Walking around campus with my mp3 player on, jamming to a song and smiling
* Driving and rocking out to some awesome music, singing along and tapping my foot (not on the gas pedal though :P)
* Getting dressed up
* Random Hugs
* Finishing a scrapbook page, and having people look at my scrapbook complimenting me on all the hours (if not days) I've put into it.
* Getting that letter of 'acceptance'
* Getting back from the Nursing Home, having a feeling of love and goodness in my heart
* Going out to my Grandparents house and watching my family play Sheepshead
* My Grandma Shirley's chocolate cake
* Looking back at old livejournal entries to see how much I've grown
* Being able to look at the past and present and being happy with where I am
* Seeing my favorite band(s) in concert
* When people that I've only met twice comes and visits me at school
* When people make me feel special/loved
* Getting a single flower for nothing special...just that I'm sick.
* When people call me right away to tell me something that happened and tell me that I'm the first to know this big news
* Random nights that turn out to be so much fun.
* Dancing like an idiot with a group of good friends.
* Baking cookies and sharing them with everyone just to spread some cheer/smiles
* Getting into clean sheets/a freshly made bed/pulling my comforter out of the dryer
* Someone telling me I'm beautiful and meaning it
* Recording a tv show so that we can fast forward through the commericals

To Be Continued...
I thought it was a nice way to end tonight...with a smile on my face.

To become full you may need to first become empty.

I swear that I have had the best/worst mood swing today ever.

After my 3:30 class I was just out for the count. Depressed about certain things, just not happy with myself, and all I wanted to do was curl up in a little ball and cry (I hate it when boys have that affect on you!). Instead, Jojo^2 (Joanne and Joelle) and I went to Walmart to pick up some stuff and then headed to Drumlin for dinner. It got my mind off of things and I was happy to be with two girls that make me laugh and smile. It was a night of happiness from there.

Joanne and I went and worked out. There's just this sense of accomplishment that I feel after working out. I then was able to come back and take a quick shower, dry my hair, watch parts of Laguna Beach and then Joelle and I headed down to the basement. The 4th Floor Boys have created their own Iron Chef cook off. It was awesome and it was such a great time. Being surrounded by everyone and just having everyone joke around and smile and laugh. It was just what I wanted and needed. I go from hating living in Fischer, to loving it so much. The molesting/conga line in the kitchen, getting into a towel snapping/drum stick fight with Randy, Alex being granted the rights to my boobs, just everything made me giggle. That's one thing I love...is when I can say that I giggled. As childish as the word sounds, it always makes me feel good inside.

I need to head to bed though...I don't have class till 1:10, but I'm not 'allowed' to sleep past 11 because Joanne gets back from class and wakes me up. So good night to you all.

So today was one of those days that I was grinning for most of the day. Every year I help out at my mom's beginner band camp (as I've already said) and today she decided to go out to lunch with a friend, thus leaving me with her car. Her Spyder Eclipse Convertiable, in red. I've driven it twice...once with her in it, and then she let me drive it to graduation. I was in possession of it for one whole hour. This thing is my mom's baby, so for her to trust me driving it was amazing. Ha. Katie and I decided to go get lunch. Instead of her driving to meet me some place, I said I'd come pick her up. I pulled into her driveway and said, "did I mention I'm driving the convertiable?" and we had a great time singing to All American Rejects with the top down and the wind blowing in our hair. It was such a simple pleasure, it really was. There's so many little things that just make me smile for an entire day. I can't even begin to name them all. My smile is something that I constantly share with everyone. These are the days I'm going to miss when I go back to school, just cruising around with my girl(s). My plans have drastically changed for this week, and it saddens me, but excites me all the same. I was supposed to go to the Amber Pacific concert at the Rave on Thursday with Kay, Jason and Katie. But a few days ago Jason informed me that he couldn't go...it made me sad, but he reasoning is perfectly understandable. I decided to save money and not go also, in which case, caused a domino effect, and Kayla said she didn't want to go because I wasn't going, and Katie obviously wasn't going to go alone. Then on Saturday I was going to go to Six Flags with Ang, Jessie and Katie. After figuring it all out, the trip would cost me around $75 and I am not making enough at my job to just randomly go to Chicago. Plus, that's my last day home and I am not even close to being ready to move back in. So that knocked everything out, but is saving me a ton of money. So now, tomorrow I'm going out to lunch with Adam (yay!!!) and then going to Whitewater to go job hunting with Tracey. Friday is Barb's wedding, which I could not be more excited about. Yay for a night filled with old friends and Johnie G! ha. Once again, simple pleasures. Getting dressed up and looking pretty for one night.

But as for me now, I am off to bed. I know no one reads this, but I enjoy writing in a public place. I'm used to my livejournal where I friend all entries, so no one can see them except those on my friends list. They're all about drama and boys. So this is my "happy blog", haha.

Night!

those notes you wrote me, i've kept them all, i've given a lot of thought of how to write you back this fall, with every single letter, in every single word, there will be a hidden message about a boy that loves a girl, do you care if i don't know what to say, will you sleep tonight or will you think of me? will i shake this off, pretend it's all okay, that there's someone out there whol feels just like me, there is.