Reasons to be Happy

This was from an e-mail I got. Everyone had to answer the question "What makes you happy or a reason to be happy?" If you would like me to add your response to this page, E-Mail me with your response. No answer is stupid.

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• Falling in love.
• Laughing so hard your face hurts.
• A hot shower.
• No lines at the Super Walmart.
• A special glance.
• Getting mail.
• Taking a drive on a pretty road.
• Hearing your favorite song on the radio.
• Lying in bed listening to the rain outside.
• Hot towels out of the dryer.
• Walking out of your last final.
• Finding the sweater you want is on sale for half price.
• Chocolate milk shake.
• A long distance phone call.
• Getting invited to a dance.
• A bubble bath.
• Giggling.
• A good conversation.
• A care package.
• The beach.
• Finding a $20 bill in your coat from last winter.
• Laughing at yourself.
• Midnight phone calls that last for hours.
• Running through sprinklers.
• Laughing for absolutely no reason at all.
• Having someone tell you that you're beautiful.
• Laughing at an inside joke.
• Friends.
• Falling in love for the first time.
• Slumber parties.
• Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you.
• Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep.
• Your first kiss.
• Being part of a team.
• Making new friends or spending time with old ones.
• Playing with a new puppy.
• Late night talks with your roommate that keep you from sleeping.
• Having someone play with your hair.
• Sweet dreams.
• Hot chocolate.
• Road trips with friends.
• Swinging on swings.
• Watching a good movie cuddled up on a couch with someone you love.
• Wrapping presents under the Christmas tree while eating cookies and drinking eggnog.
• Song lyrics printed inside your new CD so you can sing along without feeling stupid.
• Going to a really good Dave concert.
• Getting butterflies in your stomach every time you see that oneperson.
• Making eye contact with a cute stranger.
• Winning a really competitive game.
• Making chocolate chip cookies!
• Having you friends send you homemade cookies!
• Spending time with close friends!
• Running through the Purdue fountains with your friends.
• Riding a bike downhill.
• The feeling after running a few miles- an accomplishment!
• An understanding heart!
• Making up with a best friend after a fight.
• Driving by yourself at night during a snowstorm.
• Sitting around a campfire with friends.
• Getting a letter from a friend just to say hi.
• Falling asleep before your head hits the pillow.
• Knowing you made a difference, no matter how big or how small, just as long as it is for the better.
• Knowing that through thick and thin, your friends will stand beside no matter what flies your way.
• And also Smurfs. Nothing but love for friends and Smurfs. =)
• Coming home after a long period of time and seeing all of the people you have desperately missed.
• Be able to hold and cuddle a small baby while they are sleeping and enjoy the essence of their small bundle of joy that they bring.
• Knowing you helped someone out during a hard time.
• The crunching sound that packed snow makes when you step on it.
• That queasy, giddy feeling that runs through you when you're touched by someone you truly love.
• Snuggling up in a thick warm comforter on a cold rainy day, and also TIGERS.
• Waking up for class and then realizing it's Saturday- it's likehaving a day off!
• Getting a hug from a friend for no reason except to say that they care.
• Teaching Sunday school at church and having all of the little kids coming up to you and giving you hugs.
• Leading somebody to the Lord.
• Eating fresh raspberries right out of the garden.
• Getting caught up in God during Sunday morning worship.
• Getting a standing ovation from a huge crowd!
• Ice skating with a special someone and having fun even though neither one of you are any good at it!
• Spending time alone with God and enjoying the refreshing goodness ofHis love and mercy.
• That feeling that wells up deep within you during praise time.
• Hidden Acres Summer of '98.
• Going out of your way to do something nice for someone and knowingthat it was appreciated.
• Talking with a friend when you've had a really bad day...week...and having them encourage you and listen and understand...or maybe just knowing they are there!
• Talking about everything with your best friend and knowing that whether you say it or not she knows what you're thinking. -That, and ICE CREAM!!!!
• Saturday morning cartoons.
• Cocoa Puffs in the morning and one Saturday morning cartoons. -Love.
• Getting a card from a person you only know on-line.
• Being in the presence of Almighty God and knowing that He is controlof my life (and also Jammin'.)
• Turning up your favorite cd really loud and singing and dancing around the house in your pj's while your parents are gone.
  I Say:
• The feeling right after you go to the doctor for a physical when you know you're healthy and won't have to go back for another year.
• When you get film back and all your pictures are really great and bring back a lot of memories.
• Winning track medals
• The feeling you have the day the track season ends
• Speeding down the highway with your friends and knowing everything else can wait.
• Going deaf and losing your voice blaring the radio and singing along no matter how bad your are
• A smile from that guy
• 'Nsync
• UCONN sporting events
• the Jersey Shore
• the feeling after you get off the tallest roller coaster in the eastern US alive
• laughing for no reason
• no matter how bad your day was, you can go to sleep at night and dream it all away
• funnel cakes
• knowing i'm an american citizen
• Monet paintings
• airports
  Kathryn Says:
  
• When you see and or make a baby laugh.
• When you come to the realization that Gods' plan for you and the life He has planned for you is better than you could have ever created for yourself...
• Watching the snow fall
• Going onto your schools webpage and finding out that school has been canceled! :0)
  Jess Says:
• the bump on naughright during a bus ride
• if you took physics and you fell off a cliff, you could calculate ifthe force of you hitting the ground would be great anough to kill you upon impact.
• five iron frenzy
• knowing that there is a place called texas, where sky is blue, the temperature is above 90, &$% @#% ^&$^#%$^%&% ^*& #$%$#$ ^&$#$#%@ @# *% ^&$ #$@%^& @#$%^##@!! (The end of this had to be bleeped out considering this is a website based in New Jersey :))
• knowing that if you die from sniffing those scented markers (the ones that smell like cinnamon, or strawberry, etc.) you can always sue.
• snow days
• tom
• windows
  Megan Says:
• Waltzing to Metallica
• Eskimo kisses
• Shaving cream fights
• Having Paul McCartney call you "Babe"
• Knowing you've got a friend "When you can't feel God's hand in yours, will hold it 'till you do."
• Getting a kitten for Christmas
• Frisbee in the rain!!! (i'd have to agree)
• Letting your soul dance to the music
  Steph Says:
• Spending time with friends
• Playing with my puppies
• Watching Friends every Thursday evening
• Having the still image of Sandra spitting pancakes and whiped cream across the table
• Watching the Yanks
• Knowing that vacations are never that far away
• Shopping
• Making my friends and family smile :)
• Knowing that no matter how bad the weather, or how my day has been. ATWT is on every week day at 2pm
• Listening to my friends problems and hoping that in some way, i was able to help them and make them feel better.
• Being independent
• Being a New Yorker
• Patio Pizza
• Finally having direction in my life

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