• eleven
• delicious food
• people i love
• kids when they aren’t screaming or crying
• häagen-dazs’s white chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream
• smart quotes
• choral nirvana
• eric whitacre’s sleep
• jazz music
• harry potter
• chronicles of narnia: prince caspian the movie
• my best friend, stephanie
• places with amazing acoustics
• being with people i love
• tonia wu
• sally hong
• pictures that make everyone happy
• capturing moments with a single click
• a fine frenzy
• mozart when he’s not kicking my ass
• spontaneous trips to the beach
• spontaneity at any point
• past midnight adventures
• conversations with matthew nguyen
• a truly mouth watering burger
• hugging prashant mantha
• the people of the howler
• completing a deadline successfully
• daddy squishing spiders and other bugs for me
• olivia ying
• little dix bay
• my family--daddy, mommy, audrey
• 8+ hours of sleep and sleeping in general
• randall nguyen
• dennis lee
• seeing kids laugh--seeing anybody laugh, and capturing that
• pictures that capture people
• the world when i am seeing it the way it is supposed to be: beautiful
• givesmehope
• reuniting with people
• anything remotely related to choir geekiness
• music
• chor"us"
• wicked
• rent
• nate directo and josh lee
• pee in your pants, tears streaming down your face, cheek hurting laughter
• the feeling after shaving
• the feeling when realizing i can put off shaving for another day
• peeing when you really need to
• drinking a huge glass of water
• opening up a carton of ice cream
• family time
• boston tour chorus + recordings
• connecting things that seemingly have no relation
• lulu's with diane and isabelle
• waking up without an alarm
• being with my family
• making something with my hands (cooking, scrapbooking, what have you)
• putting a smile on someone else's face
• a clever comeback
• tumblr
• ikea
• laughing so hard my face hurts
• laughing so hard i pee a little
• getting sucked into a book to the point where i don't sleep
• confessions of georgia nicholson
• italicizing things
• gorgeous wedding photos
• fangirling irl
• fangirling any time, really
• smart quotes
• finding new music to sink into
• excellent fashion editorials
• pure inspiration
• inception
• star trek
• chris pine and zachary quinto individually, pinto together all the time, every time
• the parent trap
• waking up without an alarm clock
• dancing in the car
• the temper trap's sweet disposition
• regular cheetos
• freshly baked chocolate chip cookies
• strickland's
• taio cruz's dynamite (summer 2010)
• (500) days of summer
• audrey hepburn anything, but specifically breakfast at tiffany's
• unconventional compliments
• boys who dress well
• an update from my favorite blogs
• pretty, lovely, ~hipster things
• biking
• crushes
• adjusting the colors and saturation of things in photoshop
• musicals
• enjoying a classic novel
• up (and really, anything pixar)
• hearing mr. halop confirm that yes, 11 was the pinnacle of, the epitome of, his musical experiences
• having a great choral rehearsal, doing choral-y things again
• ordering things online (it's a terrible habit, but)
• shopping
• cruising in my new baby :*
• saying fuck you (in my head) to things i finally let go (still working on this one, but i do know how it feels)
• marathoning television shows
• feeling the breeze in my hair
• appreciating things and realizing how lucky i am, all the time
• "unhinge"
• reading
• georgia nicholson books
• have i mentioned harry potter?!
• dark chocolate
• shaving my legs (well, the after feeling when soft things brush up against my legs after they've been shaved)
• spontaneous jam sessions within vv
• vv (... sometimes) and the people in it (most of the time): angela, angelyn, ashley, daniel, david, eddie, jessica, josh, le, nakul, nehemiah, randall, rie, steph, vicky, yuko
• the three freshmen = the three musketeers all hanging out and chillin' and doing nothing and talking about nothing (sometimes it's steph and i just ranting, but)--just being cool together nbd, and our thursday traditions (often interrupted nowadays, but we had at least one in our second year of college!) at strickland's
• hugs. big hugs.
• sun in my face
• shady areas when it's super hot
• my kindle
• giggling manically to myself when i find something hilarious
• hugging super cuddly people (le, nehemiah)
• fridays (specifically fridays on which i'm not working and fridays when i can catch up on all my tv and paint my nails and generally be the biggest bum ever)
• buying things that are a steal. buying things that i like. buying things. INSTANT GRATIFICATION. eternal gpoy.
• using internet speak irl
• converting people to things (castle, strickland's, what have you)
• being with my boyfriends (dennis + randall)
• receiving snail mail!
• LEARNING about something interesting
• letterstocrushes
• lovely dreams (and remembering those lovely dreams)
• A FULL EIGHT HOURS OF SLEEP
• that moment when the light bulb appears over the kid's head, and they are as equally interested in the topic as you are
• music that gets played on shuffle that i haven't heard in ages and bring back good happy feelings
• any music from the parent trap soundtrack
• as well as the amélie soundtrack
• tangled
• how to train your dragon
• toy story 3 (in a i want to die i'm so sad but happy way)
• THE DOLLAR THEATRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• being thrifty
• receiving emails
• intelligent conversations
• cooooooooooooooooooffffffffffffffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (that's not starbucks)
• doing something crafty
• being around people that i like when they're otherwise intoxicated
• buying things (HAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAH)
• cleaning
• vevo vevo vevo vevo :'''''''''''''''''''''''''') (vevofication and its aftermath and not so much the drama that followed in terms of authority luuuuuuuuuul)

as things have changed, i've decided that instead of an ongoing list there will simply be multiple lists of that time that is applicable because... people change. things change. it's life!