Things that make me smile :)

birthday parties

friends

balloons

blue skies

trains

pictures

love notes

clocks (melting ones, or broken ones)

ice cream cones (with ice cream inside)

mint chocolate chip

Pixar movies

good books

flying

fairy tale endings

life, the universe and everything

architecture

starry nights

campfires

irises

s'mores

hugs

waffles

Greek yogurt

cantaloupe

sweaters

old movies

poetry

walks (on the beach, up to campus, through a foreign city at night, etc)

making up words

good conversations

Christmas songs

A good mystery, read while curled up in a comfortable chair on a rainy day.

comfortable couches

stuffed animals

foreign films

cooking with friends (and eating, too!)

art museums

thinking, musing, pondering or otherwise wondering about life

dancing (salsa or country)

Spanish poetry

fall weather

teachers

dreams

lunch

colorful leaves

spiral staircases

Spiral Jetty

roses

trying new things

talking to people

making lists in an attempt to describe myself.

Those lists are probably unavoidably incomplete, but I try anyway. I made another of these last year in July, so I thought it would be interesting to do it again and compare the two. Maybe I'll do it again next year... Here's last years' version:

Singing in the rain.

Cooking with friends.

Dancing.

Pizza.

Love notes.

Letters.

People who genuinely care, and who take time to show it.

Going for walks.

Swimming.

Picnics.

Canyons.

Blue skies, with not too many clouds.

Playing soccer with friends, in Spain or wherever.

Going for walks.

Fireworks on the fourth of July.

The way nighttime smells.

Jumping into/through pool toys...

Writing and expressing myself with words (thus this note).

Hearing songs I like come on the radio.

Lying on the floor with my roommates and talking about whatever we want to.

Talking about books, movies and plays with other people who like talking about books, movies and plays.

Singing out loud, when I'm with people who won't mind.

Museums.

Seeing friends I've been missing for a while.

Swing music.

Finding really cool parks.

Spontaneous dance parties.

Liar's dice.

Hugs.

Fiddle and folk music.

Hearing stories.

Speaking Spanish with people.

Baking cupcakes.

Sharing food.

Weddings!

Laughing.

Waterfalls.

Taking pictures and making memories.

Making people smile.