Happy

The other day I was perusing some of my friends blogs and saw an entry that I really like so I'm totally going to copy! :)  I'm going to list 10 things that make me happy!  And then I'm going to remember this list and relish these wonderful things forever and ever every day.  (these aren't really in order of the happiness they bring to me, except for #1 :) )

10. I love love love to climb into my bed after I've washed the sheets and there all clean and soft, but even better when they are IRONED!  For those of you who have not had the delightful opportunity to climb into some clean ironed sheets you have to give it a go at least once!

9. There is something wonderful about going on vacation and then coming home to a clean house.  I love when I walk in the door and everything is in its perfect place and clean.  Well... I guess it's really nice to walk into a clean house every day... so I guess I just like a clean house period. :)

8. Jared isn't much of a romantic but when he does do something like write me a letter or surprise me with flowers I get warm fuzzies all over.  He's no poet and he really hates writing, so when I get that letter for the year, or note for the decade it about makes my month I'm so happy!

7. Vacations make me so so happy!  I love to go somewhere and relax and play and not have to worry about the day to day duties and stresses of life!  Whether it's riding quads at Glamis or visiting family in the many diff. places they live or just Jared and I exploring the world... it really doesn't matter what we're gone doing, just as long as we're GONE!   I'm game to just shut the phones off and pretend that nothing but this bliss exists. 

6. My Family is something that makes me happy... most of the time, haha j/k!  I love that I get to go back to STL every year and spend Christmas with my family.  I love that I get to live next door to the best in-laws in town.  And I LOVE that I'm actually friends with my brothers and sisters now!  And most of all I love love love my own little family that I get to see every day.  I have the most wonderful husband in the whole entire universe and our kitty is the cutest ever. :)

5. I'm kind of embarassed to admit this one... but yes, food makes me happy.  It seems like there is nothing better than eating a frozen treat on a hot day or drinking a cup of hot chocolate while there is a blizzard going on outside.  Popcorn goes with movies and beef jerky and licorice with road trips.  I love to bake and cook up lots of tasty things and I feel so proud when someone compliments my meal.  When I'm happy I like to eat and when I'm sad, food just seems to take the edge off of things and make me feel a little bit happier.  So yes... food does make me happy.

4. I think I have some of the best Friends around and they always make me happy.  From my very best friend in the whole world that i was lucky enough to marry, to the friends I work with, to the friends that live far away.  I'm not a very good long distance friend, but I've been trying hard lately to be a better one and I love how my very true friends, I can just talk to like we haven't been apart at all.  I think I'm truely a lucky girl to have some of the best friends around.

3. Okay, I'm going to sound like a dork now... but reading a good book makes me feel happy.  I love finding a good book that I just don't want to put down.  Like... the Twilight series... I know, I know, I avoided it for so long but I absolutely LOVED reading those books.  I finished all four of them in a matter of um... less than 3 weeks.  Woops!

2. I love when I get Compliments.  Doesn't everyone love that though?  Especially if your having one of those days where nothing is going as planned and you wish you never forced yourself out of the warm comfy bed.  To have someone give me a compliment on my gloomy days is like having the sun come out from behind the clouds.  It really just brightens my day and significantly improves my outlook on life.  All because someone observed something good about me and decided to be nice enough to tell me about it. :) 

1.  Most of everything else though Jared makes me happy.  I really don't know how I could possibly be as happy as I am now if I didn't have him in my life.  He does pretty much everything right and is always there for me.  He makes me happy when I'm sad, deals with me when I'm grumpy (and can pretty much get the grump out of me if he wants to), plays with me when I'm hyper and he just always does whatever I want or need.  I love love love him and I'm so happy that he's the center of my life.