Things That Make Me Happy (AKA The Sappiest Thing I've Ever Written)

• When I walk into the bathroom right after my husband is done getting ready and the whole room smells like his cologne.
  
• Bees landing on the sunflowers I planted this summer.
  
• Buying a used book that is worn and marked and I can tell someone loved it very much.
  
• The way Dingo jumps and runs in circles and wags her tail when I come home from work.
  
• The first 4 measures of Rufus Wainwright's 'Hallelujah' when I recognize the song and instantly think of the people I love.
  
• The smell of fall.
  
• Finding candy I'd forgotten about.
  
• Feeling my baby kick.
  
• The smells of Black & Milds and clove cigarettes.
  
• Knowing the secret languages of my friendships - i.e that Lisey and M hate bouncies and knowing all of Mia's 10-cent abominable words.
  
• Handmade clothes and accessories.
  
• When my husband rubs my fat, pregnant belly.
  
• Chiclets out of a gumball machine.
  
• When gay men hold hands unashamedly in public.
  
• Calling an old friend and saying, 'It's me' and she knows exactly who it is.
  
• My Channel Surfers hoodie.
  
• Waking up to find my cat Zeus asleep and spooning with me with his head resting in the crook of my arm.
  
• Asymmetrical art.
  
• When I bring my husband peanut butter no-bake cookies from the grocery store and he gets really excited about it.
  
• Hearing homeless J on the radio.
  
• Every time Locke doesn't let Jack tell him what to do on LOST.
  
• When my sister makes me laugh really hard and my mother gives us that look that says, "Guess it must be a sister thing".
  
• Coins from foreign countries.
  
• Hearing a reference to classic literature and knowing the story it came from.
  
• Runts Easter Egg candies.
  
• Getting handwritten notes from my grandma in the mail.
  
• Giving away something I made by hand.