Happy Things

With all the stressing I've been doing lately over moving, and money, and the state of the world, and the fact that I can't go to SMUG and I miss my friends, and the way unschoolers are being exploited by the media, it occurs to me that I haven't had much fun lately! I want to lighten up, and I want to add a bit of levity to my blog in between serious posts (since I have another of those in the works), so I thought I'd write up a little list of things that always cheer me up.

In no particular order:

• My friends
• My cats
• My dogs
• Silly packing tape with Rosie the Riveter on it
• Hula hooping
• Unschooling blogs
• Chinese food
• Barenaked Ladies
• They Might Be Giants
• George Winston
• Little white Christmas lights I leave up all year
• Sparkly nail polish
• Wil Wheaton and James Urbaniak on Twitter
• Dinosaur Comics
• My Cabbage Patch Kid that for some reason smells consistently like cookies even after spending 10+ years in a musty closet
• Knowing that NEUC is in less than three months
• Twirly skirts
• Dan Brown (of Youtube fame, not that Dan Brown)
• Star Trek
• My CD of theme songs from 80s and 90s kid shows
• Fresh homemade bread
• TV Tropes
• Little kids
• Fruity candy
• Dave Barry
• Jon Stewart
• Incense
• Blog comments (hint ;))
• My rainbow bracelet my friend in Australia made me
• My rainbow charm bracelet and earrings that I made at Maria's house with Shrinky Dinks
• Thunderstorms (unless they knock out my power)
• Old Simpsons reruns
• Playground swings
• Dry-erase boards
• Mr. Bubble

There. I feel lighter and fluffier already! Is some of that stuff totally childish? Sure! Do I care? Heck no! Growing up is for suckers and sad people. And doo-doo-heads.