listography: about me (1,000 things for me to be happy about)

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Court	Sarah
Courtney	bree
Danny	bridget
Emily	cookie
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Jamie	fishbowl
Jane	j
Jessica	katherine
Jo	katiebarracuda
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Mindy	peachflavour
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about me (1,000 things for me to be happy about)

#lincolnmemorialegyptianratscrewproblems
"Anybody want some sliced bacon stickers?"
"Camp people"
"Classic _______"
"Fluent Lewis"
"Good dipping"
"Have you seen that one Spongebob episode where..."
"Her coupon game was s fuckin raw"
"Hi Denise!" at the beginning of Community meetings
"Hideous female, no taller than an oompa loompa, falls off of lead arch"
"I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down"
"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within my there lay an invincible summer" -Albert Camus
"Niggga you fucked uppppp" -Andrewpants, & now everybody
"Shmishmeen" -Mr. Ternes
"Tell 'em, Nancy"
"Think about __________". -Justin
"TK!" "PK!"
"We're day camp, we're awesome, we really like potatoes"
"What was your favorite Thanksgiving masturbation?" -Austin
"Woah brother, seagulls don't talk"
"You too? I thought I was the only one" moments
2 Dope Queens
365q
9 o'clock open climb with Grant!
999
A Great Big Pile of Leaves
A shared feeling of wanderlust
A stranger saying "bless you"
A thousand voices singing at a concert
Acrylic paint
Acupuncture
Adam's apples
Adam saying "rude town"
Adam wearing a tie on his head
Adam buying C-Staff food
Adding "in my pants" to the end of fortune cookie fortunes
Addressing people as "friend"
Admitting to my mistakes
Adorable open climb kids
Aerie underwear
Afternoon cups of coffee
Aim & Ignite
Airplane pajama pants from Mobey c:
Alec's cleverness
Aliza's happy book
Alpine lakes
Alto's coffee in Newport beach
Amelia hitting the wall and saying "it can be Halloween agaaaain!" because we made fun of her for dressing up again??????
American Eagle underwear
Amsterdam falafel
Andante's Cafe Latino drink
Andrew McMahon
Anna Sun by Walk the Moon
Annie Ann's dinner bell
Annie Ann's shrimp and pineapple curry
Anomia
Anti-jokes
Arnoud
Art booths/festivals
Art in the Alley at Augie's
Artsy days with cousins
Ashland, OR Sunday morning ecstatic dance
Asking people how old they think I am
Asking people how they visualize time
Asking people what they call "moon bounces"
Asking questions
Assorted sandwich trays
Astrea's room(s)
Augie's
Augie's dates with Maddie T.
Australian football
Avocado pits coming out cleanly/easily
Babies in baseball caps
Babies in sun hats
Baby golden retrievers
Bagels
Bagpipes
Bananagrams, especially late at night with Shmorgs & Tyler
Bananas
Basement coffeeshops
Basil
BATH CREW ("Assemble!")
Bathroom foyers
Bathrooms covered in climbing posters
BB Camp
Beach
Bead shops
Beautiful depth of field
Beautiful kitchens
Beautiful videos that give you a look into someone's lives
Becci's gluten free challah at camp
Being "good with kids"
Being a prospective student
Being at the top of super tall buildings to see beautiful skylines of cities like San Francisco and Melbourne
Being called babe or baby
Being clean
Being content with whatever the fuck I'm doing
Being hundreds of miles away from home with my climbing team
Being in the library just because I can and want to be around people
Being in the mood to walk places
Being on my henna game
Being sarcastically overdramatic
Being woken up by friends
Bekins 8 dance parties
Bekins porch
Bellies
Belly shirts
Ben Howard
Best Vines' Facebook page
Biking to gelato
Bikini Bottom freestyling
Bishop, California
Biting collarbones
Black & white with splashes of bright color
Blackout poetry
Black Sheep Coffee
Blasting "Sweet Disposition" in the car with the windows rolled down while driving over the Bay Bridge
BLM land west of Terrebonne, OR
Block parties
Blue Sky Black Death's "Noir" album
Bo Burnham
Body wash that has the little beads
Bon Iver's self titled album, especially on vinyl
Boogie boarding in the Outer Banks
Booking a flight
Books
Books that stay splayed open
Boulder, CO
Boys wondering about periods
Bowling with Alex
Breakfast for dinner
Breaking up chunks of sand
Breve's
Brushing my teeth in strange places
Bryce's accents & voices
Buffalo calls
Buffalove
Buffest
Bumper cars
Burning CDs for people
Bustling kitchens making bomb meals with friends
Butterfly silicon stamps
Buttermint tea
Buying things like perfume or lipstick and not giving a fuck
C-staff dinners
Cadd9
Cafe Bustelo
Camp Rim Rock
Campfires, especially at Horse Pens
Candles
Caprece salad
Cards Against Humanity
Catching photos of friends when they're not looking
Catching up on the phone
Causing shenanigans ("shenanigizing"), especially with Kelsey
Caviar cones
Celery apple juice
Center-aligned text
Chacos tans
Chai tea
Chai on Fridays at MCS
Changing desktop backgrounds on random devices in public places to photos of pugs. (i.e. computers at the front desk of ET, the Augie's iPad, etc.)
Cheap sunglasses
Cheering "Day camp! Day camp!" over and over and the fact that much of the rest of camp will join in because MOTHER FUCKIN' DAY CAMP
Cheering someone up
Cheesecake
Child's Pose
Chia seed pudding from Le Pain Quotidien
Chincoteague Island
Chinese food
Chipotle
Chocolate bars from co-ops
Chris helping me find books in the library
Chris McAuliffe's positivity
Christmas
Christmas lights
Circles in houses
Claire from team;
Clapping songs
Clean feet
Clean mirrors
Cleaning car windshields
Clearing a table (or floor) for a project
Climbing after hours
Climbing comp schwag
Climbing guidebooks
Climbing gym noises, like quickdraws clipping and people shouting "come on!"
Climbing lingo
Club Ryan
Cocoa butter
Coconut Flakes by Love as Laughter
Coconut oil
Coed sleepovers
Coffee in the shower
Coffee smells
Cold pizza for breakfast
Colorado
Colorful homes with natural light
Colorful meals
Colorful walls, covered in stuff
Comfy boots
Comparing climbing experiences & running experiences with Robert
Compliments
Confidently reaching out to people I haven't spoken to in a while
Considering many things yoga
Contact (the game)
Conversations with Chad
Cool Ranch Doritos
Corduroys
Corduroy jackets
Corn on the cob
Couples making dinner for each other
Cousins
Covering things in stickers
Crash pads, and using them as couches!
Cream cheese frosting
Creating perfect Instagram photos
Cross multiplication
Crossword puzzles
Crosswords with Purple
Crowd surfing
Crunching leaves
Crystal necklaces
Cuddling, especially during storms
Cupcakes made by Kerry and/or Kayla
Curly hair days
Curry puffs
Customers teaching me how to do my job (in a friendly way, you know?)
Cute towns with hippie shops
Cutting open glow sticks & splattering them everywhere
Dad saying, "hi sweetie pie!"
Dancing to If Work Permits by The Format on a picnic table inside the living room of the saga house in Chincoteague, while brushing my teeth with an electric toothbrush.
Dangly earrings
Daniel's dance!
Dark room spinny doors
Dark room spinny door shenanigans
Day Camp!
Day camp's skits & performances in front of everyone - from being lifted and spun around in a trash can with David Bowie playing, to Tala and Cole's rap at Maccabia
Day time Javaaaaa
Decorating Christmas trees
Deerfield Farms Sweet & Nutty Trail Mix
Delegating
Didgeridoos
Dill
Dips in the road
Direct reblog links
Dirtbagger vans & trucks
Discovering the beauty of your own town or city
Dogs' eyebrows
Dogs yawning
Doing homework in coffee shops
Doing wheelbarrow pose without getting a headache
Doing yoga outside in the morning and shedding layers as I warm up
Doodling with sharpies
Doses of buffalove when they're needed most
Doughnuts!
Douglas
Down in the Valley by The Head and the Heart
Downloading a shit ton of new music at once
Dr. Kornfeld
Drawing fake eyes on people's chins & looking at their mouths upside down
Dream Life Of Rand McNally (Live & Acoustic) by Jason Mraz
Dried mango on climbing trips
Driving across the country
Driving around the beautiful Red River Gorge, in between crags & Miguel's
Driving on Military to Takoma Park on pretty days
Dry erase thermos
DSO's!
Duke Hall fire escape
DuQuah
Duvets
Earth Treks reunions all over
Earth Treks Rockville & its wonderful staff
Easter egg hunts
Easy poops
Ecstatic dance
Ed Debevic's
Effortless conversation
Elderly couples walking down the street holding hands
Elephants
Ellicott city
Ellis
Emergency blankets!
Empty climbing gyms
Empty highways
Especially large chapsticks
Eucalyptus trees
Everyone laughing together at community meeting
Eyebrow dimples
Explaining to people that I respond to "Victoria"
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fairmont's pet corgi, Conah
Fall Out Boy
Families that temporarily take you in as one of them
Feeling loved in a place
Feeling seen
Film photography
Finally landing after a long day of traveling
Finally learning to accept something that changed
Finding a member of the Australian Parliament to stage a wedding photo with
Finding old pictures that you completely forgot about & finding that you remember when they were taken
Finding out that I complete a cool channel with someone
Finding the best spot for your nature poop
Finishing a great book, & pausing to contemplate it
Finishing something
Fireworks on the National Mall
Five Ten Arrowheads
Flavored coconut water
Finishing sentences with, "am I right ladies?"
Fisheye lens pictures
Flickr
Flinders Street laneways
Flip Burger
Floral print
Flying with friends
Folded leaf (the acro pose)
Foods with chia seeds in them
Foursquare mayorships
Fred Rabinowitz
Free anything - tshirts, stickers, fudge samples, etc.
Free stuff from sponsored friends
French braiding Purple's hair
French toast/taco/tortellini Tuesday
Freshly cleaned windows and mirrors
Fried egg, hummus, & spinach sandwiches
Friendly car mechanics
Frisbee
Front doors crowded with shoes
Front porches
Fruit stands
fun.
Game nights, especially with Johnston or dad's family
Gas station trail mix
Gemstone jewelry
Gender neutral bathrooms
Geneva's artsy videos about her nice days and adventures and vacations
Georgie Abel's poetry
Getting a back scratch without having to ask
Getting a really smooth shave
Getting a sweeeet tan
Getting back from the store and realizing you forgot to take off something you were trying on
Getting back home from long climbing sessions and eating everything in sight
Getting excited about a book
Getting fresh french fries at the plaza
Getting good grades
Getting just the right ratio of peanut butter & jelly
Getting knocked over by a wave in the ocean, standing up and realizing that you are actually fine, and getting back in the water.
Getting let out of class early
Getting M&Ms with my cappuccino
Getting things done after they've been on your to-do list for a long time
Getting to the Pacific Rim station when there's hardly any line
Getting to your destination right when the song ends
Giant swings
Gilmore Girls
Giving someone your leftovers
Giving zero fucks
Glow in the dark balloons
Go Dog Go
Going barefoot
Going downtown because I fucking can
Going out of my way to step on a crunchy leaf
Going to a cool new place and thinking "I could totally live here with my pug when I'm older"
Going to absurd amounts of concerts
Going to the commons and saying hi to everybody and just seeing everybody I know
Going to Wal-Mart with team while also in Narnia
Good morning texts
Good Netflix connections
Good setting days
Good skimboarding days
Good thoughts days
Good vibes at pretty boulders
Good water pressure
Google Docs
Grapefruit soda
Grapefruit spoons
Grape tomatoes
Great sticker arrangements
Green thumbs
Gregory Alan Isakov
Grocery lists
Guitar slapping
Hacky sack in the Black Sheep parking lot
Hair flowing underwater
Half paper towels, so you can choose how much you waste
Hammocks!!!
Hand-me-downs
Hanging out in rock formations
Hanging pots & pans
Happy tears
Hard candies with chewy liquid insides
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Harmonicas
Harry Potter
Having a good hair day
Having a lot of newly cleaned clothes
Having a really really awesome sled run
Having class outside
Having lots of sunglasses
Hearing Paul's laugh in the nook
HAVING MY CAR AT SCHOOL
Hearing stories about me or my friends when we were younger
Hearing that I'm a good coach
Hearing the ice cream truck coming & rushing to get outside
Helping someone improve at rock climbing
Heel hooks
Henna
High meadow hike
Hipstamatic
Holding back laughter with someone else when a kid says something really funny
Holt Third Floor 2013-2014
Honey roasted peanuts or almonds
Honey roasted peanut butter from the grind-it-yourself thing at Whole Foods
Hookah
Horses
Hot Chip sampling LCD Soundsystem in their cover of Dancing in the Dark
How CK kissed Katie's mom
How Grant convinced us that his friend Andrew was a foreign exchange student from Sweden for like a year
How Jessica enunciates everything
How Nadia says "perfect"
How people call Merriam "Merm Town" and made a sign for it in their dorm room window
How team Earth Treks became team Tilt to Live for a summer
Huge bath towels
Hugging
Human Design
Hyper nights with Alice
I-70 West through the Rockies <3
Iced hazelnut lattes
Ignoring right turn only signs
Ikea
iPad cash registers
iTunes or other programs/apps helping you find related bands
Inside jokes with Ellis
Inside jokes
Inspiring or hilarious Reddit comment threads
Instagram
Instrumental music
Interactive maps
Interior design
Intermediate team
Ira Glass's voice
Island countertops
Jack Jack, the climbing gym baby
Jake Rosenblum's voices & impressions
Jake also accidentally referring to his bed as "our bed" (as in, the hall bed.)
Jake and Avery's improv acting
Jam sessions on Sari's bed
James!!!!!!!!!! (Poling/but also Katie saying "JAMES!!" in reference to Akinsanya)
Jason Mraz live recordings, or just live :)
Jenga
Jeremy's fuckin' raw/positive outlook on life, how happy he got when he started climbing
Johnston
Johnston open mics
Joints
Jon Garcia quotes
Jon pressing his finger on his shoe which he is pretending is a phone, as he puts it down, and saying, "you're on speaker."
Journaling during class
Journals that a lot of different people write in
Jumping off a 20 foot cliff into Crater Lake
Justin's awkwardness, especially when he's doing it on purpose
Justin's hazelnut butter packets
Kate Heaton being the best host ever when she has people over at her room
Katie Kaminsky
Kenton's rage
Kielbasa
Kissing
Kissmas
Kitchen islands
Kittens saying "pet me" by bumping their head into you over & over
Kneaded rubber
Knee socks
Knowing climbers from all over
Knowing how many people all over the country are so angry at Donald Trump being elected as president
Knowing that my car has been in so many wonderful places
Knowing that someone is a climber because of their bumper stickers
Knowing without saying
Knuckles with Sayer
Kokopelli
La Sportiva Solutions
Label makers
Lack of punctuation in Tumblr posts
Lady the third floor dog
Laid back teachers that don't care if you laugh in the middle of class
Lake Tahoe cabins
Large men with small dogs
Laughing so hard I cry
Laughing with Nana or parents
Lavender chamomile tea
Laying on a bed with a bunch of friends
Laying with my head in someone's lap
LCD Soundsystem
Learning random connections (mutual friends, etc.) you have with someone
Leaving bits of my heart in each new beautiful place (namely climbing destinations) that I go
Leftover Indian food
Lens flare & sun rays in pictures
Levels by Avicii
Lewis keeping sticks of incense in his hair
Liberty Park on a summer evening
License plate collections
Light
Light kisses
Light painting
Light shining into climbing gyms
Liking a food that I didn't used to like
Lip shimmer
Lingering shampoo smells
Listening to a speaker and feeling at one with the audience
Listening to Tiny Dancer by Elton John with dad
Lists
Lived-in homes
Living in a hall with a Chipotle brand manager....yOOOO
Living in a tent with Alice for a week and doing whatever the fuck we want
Long car rides, especially with a bunch of friends
Long exposure shots
Long skirts
Long sleeve t-shirts with the grippies
Looking at old pictures
Looking through the menu even though your heart knows you're gonna order the same thing you always do
Lorellis
Los Agaves in Santa Barbara
Losing my voice
Lot 6
Louis C.K.
Lunch on the field on Fridays
LUST (storytime)
Lyrics that explain the unexplainable
Maddie Ryan's facial expressions
Maggie saying "Hi I'm a 23 year old sophomore" and "HUMAN BRIDGE!"
Making 350 pb&j sandwiches under a tarp behind the dining hall on Shabbat because the power went out
Making eye contact with Purple across a room full of kids
Making friends with flight attendants
Making green lights you don't normally make
Making lists of things I'm thankful for
Making people labels with my label maker
Making seventy sandwiches in under an hour
Making string bracelets
Making the perfect cup of coffee
Making the perfect playlist
Making up drink combinations at Starbucks or the cafe
Making videos with cousins
Mallory Jon & Harlin passing around my mascara tubes
Mama Cheryl
Mango smoothies
Mao, the card game
Maps
Marc Johns' drawings
Mariokart Double Dash
Mark's Kitchen
Market Night
Maya insisting that it's the Year of the Banana
Maya telling people "that's why you got kicked off the cheerleading squad"
Me & cousins' "Don't Drop That Thun Thun Thun" Vine
Me & Htoo-Eh's handshake!
Meeting people in coffee shops
Meeting people's parents from back home, like having a little snippet of their home/former lives
Meeting the best friends in the worst classes
Megabeds on complex
Melbourne Uni's campus
Member discounts at REI
Memories
Memrise
Men with dark brown hair and, for whatever reason, ginger beards
Mendocino, California
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Mezzanines
Midnight (Mobey's dog)
Miguel's Pizza
Mike Doughty playing "Firetruck" live
Miles' christmas wish lists
Millenium Park in Chicago
Mini Reese's peanut butter cups
Mirrors in showers
Misery Ridge with Max the pup
Mismatching outfits that work anyways
Missing E
Mixed age spaces for children
Mobbing the plaza late at night with a bunch of friends
Mochi
Montessori three-year-olds saying "bye bye Miss American pie!!!"
Montessori works & puzzles
Morgan's duct tape collection
Morgan's listening skills
Mountain views from the library or pool
Movie-watching moods
Movies about travel, road trips, backpacking, etc.
Mushu Munchers
Music boxes
Music seshes
My "here comes trouble" socks
My All American Ski Team Coca Cola sweater
My button down shirt with giraffes and elephants on it
My Canon Rebel
My chord bracelet that connects me to all other May Term 2014 participants
My green & purple striped tank top
My GriGri
My journal
My list of things that make other people happy, in my journal
My long/skinny patterned Ikea pillow...and all the places it's been!
My Magma sleeping bag
My Patrick Star hat - I NO LONGER HAVE THIS & IT MAKES ME SAD.
My quotes note
My tattoos
My tie dye Brew Thru shirts (especially the long sleeve one)
My utility belt
Nag Champa incense
Nana
Narrow depth of field
Nate Ruess
Native American flute music (especially while driving up to Bears Ears)
Neck kisses
Nectarines
New Moons
New York City
Nice lotions in public bathrooms (cafe bathrooms, yoga studio bathrooms, etc.)
Nice people on Toontown who actually talk to me and laugh at my jokes and whatever
Nicole using "go big or go home!" as an excuse to turn her car's AC to either fully hot or fully cold
Nights spent with Mobey & Justin
Nikita saying "neat!" at everything
Noodles & Company rice krispie treats
Not caring when my hair is up
Not getting kicked out of places for going barefoot
Not having a headache for a whole day
Not procrastinating
Not wearing makeup and being able to rub my eyes whenever I want
Nutella
Old Spice Hawkridge
Olive Market
Olvera Street
Omelettes with avocado
Opal the bulldog
Open D tuning
Open windows
Openly feminine men
Oral sex
Orange juice and vanilla ice cream
Orange juice glasses in the maaawning
Otis Cafe
Out-and-about days
Outdoor showers
Packing for trips
Pacsun
Pad thai
Paint swirls
Paisleys
Palm trees
Palo Santo
Panda Express
Panorama photos
Parking perfectly the first time with no adjustments
Parks & Rec
Pastafarianism
Patterned leggings (with boots!)
Patterned pillowcases
Peaceful days with Alice
Peanut butter & jelly on ricecakes
Peanut butter M&Ms
Peanut butter omelets
Peeing after having to pee for a really long time
Peeing while friends are in the bathroom with you
Peel apart Twizzlers
Peeling things; skin and paint especially
People addressing me by my name
People being there for me & scratching my back when I need to calm down
People listening to my neverending stories
People opening up about their tattoos
People randomly stopping by my house
People sending me pug pictures/gifs/videos
People stepping on my feet
People who I've hung out with all over the country
People who treat me like an adult & not a kid
People who understand the weird thoughts I have
People with smiles on their faces for no apparent reason
Perfect bananas in the middle of climbing sessions
Perfect fruit (i.e. mangos, strawberries, nectarines)
Perfect weather; sunny, a bit breezy, warm but not hot or humid
Pesto
Photos in front of bricks
Photos of climbers walking with crash pads on their backs
Photos on the road
Photoshoots
Physics
Pictures taken from inside a tent
Places where beach volleyball happens
Planning trips/road trips and knowing how awesome it's going to be
Playing air hockey with multiple pucks
Playing guitar on the back porch of Bekins at sunset
Playing guitar on the dining hall porch at BB Camp
Playing my music at the gym
Playing nose goes with only two people
Playing ping pong while sitting on the table
Playing sardines in public places
Pockets large enough to actually hold things
Polaroid pictures
Pomegranate
Porch Parties, especially the ones that you can feel the energy of all over complex
Porch swings
Potlucks
Powder soap
Powells City of Books
Prayer flags
Pretty fonts
Productivity
Public chalkboards
Puffy paint
Pugs, & how people know I love them so much
Pug people
Pumpkin salads
Purple potatoes
Purple's Salt Lake sunroom on I Street
Purple's wooden carvings and creations
Putting food on the conveyor belt at the grocery store
Putting half my hair in a bun
Putting my hair in a perfect messy bun...the first time
Putting phones in a stack during meals out at restaurants
Putting the perfect amount of water in my oatmeal
Queen Victoria Market
Quinoa
Radical Face
RainX
Random nights
Reading out loud
Realizing how good a song is even though you've known the song for so long
Realizing how good a song lyric is even though you've heard the song so many times
Really long songs
Really smart, aware, human-like dogs
Recording videos of friends & I just being weird
Red hair
Red Herbal Essences' smell
Reddit
Redlands Thrift
Reevaluaton counseling
Rehoboth Beach boardwalk
Remembering my dreams
Remembering where I was when I heard a song for the first time
Reminiscing
Researching colleges
Restaurants that serve breakfast all day
Reuben bringing me Tim Tams at the bar
Richochet Robots
Riding in the cart at the grocery store
Rivers
Roads that end at the sea
Rob saying three different answers to a question, one right after the other, each just as confidently as the next
Robeks
Rock climbing
Rock climb names
Roll-on deoderant
Ron Swanson
Ronald and his enthusiasm for Redlands
Rooms that don't remember a time without incense
Rounded corners
Route 330 to Big Bear
Rubber cement
Rubbing my face with a dry towel after taking a shower
Running around the monuments and memorials with friends
Running into people you know in the middle of nowhere (ie at the bottom of a boulder or crag or a campsite)
Running out of shampoo and conditioner at the same time (this never actually happens, but I know that if it did, it would make me smile)
Running through the sprinklers in the quad
S'mores around the campfire with ten people that you just met
Sadie dog laying on her tummy and inching backwards staring so intensely at a stick with her tail wagging back and forth so so fast
Salt flats
San Francisco
Sandcastle contests
Santa Barbara, California
Saying "holla"
Scrapbooking
Screaming as we leave the BB Camp gates
Secret Santas
Seeing a bunch of cars near each other with license plates from all over and knowing you're in a cool place
Seeing a loved one who never lets out their tears let out their tears
Seeing another plane flying by the plane you're in
Seeing DC in a new/beautiful light after being away at school
Seeing old couples holding hands
Self checkouts at the grocery store
Selling merch for Breaking Borders!
Sending a project
Settlers of Catan
Shakey Graves
Shakshuka
Shared birthday parties
Sharing food at restaurants
Sheetz!
Shmorgs' walk-in bathroom at her Dad's house, covered in mirrors
Shopping with a decent amount of money
Shopping with Alex Mansfield
Showing people my Starbucks video
Silent laughter at the dinner table with a group of friends
Silky hair days
Sitting, homeworking, frisbeeing etc. in the quad
Sitting in Lewis' mom's art studio with him & Lenny, smoking joints, painting, and listening to Paul Simon
Sitting in the Jimreivat's kitchen talking to Annie Ann while she cooks
Sitting on kitchen floors
Slacklining sessions
Sleeping in a different place every night for a while
Sleeping in the back of a car and waking up to mountain views
Sleeping on the floor of the climbing gym
Sleeping outside for nights on end
Sleeping near rushing water
Sleepovers or parties with the ET crew - Kenton, Jules, Alex, etc.
Slow open climb days when I can just hang out in the office and by the front desk
Small children saying their parents are like nine
Smoke bubbles
Smooth & straight bangs with curly & fluffy hair on da rest of da headdddd
Snapchat
Sneaking song lyrics into everyday life/conversation
Sneaking Spongebob quotes into everyday life/conversation
Sneezing
Snuggling with Bijou when I wake up
Snuggling with Finn when he wakes up
Someone lovely pressing my face into their chest to calm me while I'm crying
Someone stroking my head
Song lyric games
Songs that make you feel like you're traveling back to a certain time period
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Sour Cream and Onion chips
Sourdough pizza crust
Spending the night at the climbing gym, and the obscure things that we do to occupy our time there
Spending time in Jake and Avery's room when they aren't even there
Spending time with neighbors in dorm lobbies
Spiral staircases
Splitting apples in half
Spongebob time cards (i.e. "three hours later")
Spooning
Spotify
State Street Deli's BBQ Chicken Salad
Staying in hotels with team
Steel Train.
Stopping games of bananagrams to watch Douglas throwing boiling water outside into the freezing air and watching it turn to snow/ice
Stories about how someone's pet's name evolved into what it is now ("well, at first he was Fluffy...")
Strangers that do really nice things, just to be really nice
Street art
Street performances
Stumbling across a beautiful blog
Successful skill builders
Sucking in helium
Sudden motivation
Sugar snap peas, and carrying them around with me everywhere as a snack
Summer night thunderstorms
Summer smells, like hawaiian tropic sunscreen and saltwater
Sun salutations
Sun shining on planes
Sundried tomatoes
Sunshowers
Sunglasses
Sweet potato fries
Sweet potato noodles
Swimming in all the little lakes around Tahoe
Switchfoot
Synesthesia
T-Shirt dresses
Taco Bell
Taco truck tours
Taking a really good picture
Taking my pants off as soon as I get home
Taking naps in strange places
Taking notes in class - especially when they're super organized and maybe even colorful
Talkative little children, willing to introduce themselves for no good reason other than to talk to someone new
Talking about DC while in California
Talking about Ellis' feelings
Talking about sex
Talking to a really inspiring, deep, thoughtful person
Talking to Slobes late at night from our own rooms
Talking to strangers/new people
Target
Tax returns
Teachers going off on tangents
Team building games
Team ET
Telephone Pictionary
Thai iced tea
Thanking your past self for those leftovers you kept last night
That bar soap/fresh air smell that reminds me of the beach
That downhill section of Barton Road on the way back from Threshhold that perfectly overlooks the valley & mountains
That feeling of playing a song on guitar for the first time all the way through
That first second of being in snuggled up in bed
That feeling you get when you're driving to a place you've missed
That groove on the dashboard that's perfect for a toothbrush
That lemon in the mural in the basement of the library
The "Can you tell me about rock climbing?" video
The "carry ooo-ooo-ooooon" at 2:04 of Carry On by fun.
The "Drinking Out of Cups" video
The "island" game that Julianna & Mark made up
The "Shit climbers say" video
The "smelly aisle" at Whole Foods
The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
The Ashland Food Co-op
The barista at Sugarhouse Coffee who says "I'm really needy and I'm gonna need you to have a nice day"
The Beerkat
The buddy system
The Buttermilks
The C-Staff Whatsapp group chat
The chairs in the back corner of the Jimmy Room
The Chasm of Doom
The climbing community
The climbing gym little brother
The color turquoise
The crinkliness of written-on pages
The DC Metro system
The dirty Jenga set at the Napa house ("swallow this block whole")
The door to Bekins kitchen with all the wonderful writing on it
The dynamic of my SAES friend group (that touchy feely we do whatever the fuck we want kinda deal)
The fact that Connor used to run to the kitchen and grab a banana to play as a clarinet during the Spongebob theme song
The fact that dogs turn and look at you when you stop petting them, and that people do the same thing
The fact that Dustin and I have hung out in so many different places all over the country
The fact that Harlin had a Bart-Mitzvah
The fact that I did a fucking mural on third floor
The fact that I got asked to prom in 12th grade with Nutella and fun. lyrics
The fact that I started running because I drew a card during that game at the Napa house that said "make a change in your life for the better"
The fact that I was a judge at Maccabia
The fact that Jeremy pretended to be some guy that this Ethiopian lady was trying to call and told her he could cut her bushes
The fact that my mom and Jake's mom still talk even though they only met once
The fact that someone, somewhere, is falling in love.
The fact that we (me, Mick, Katie, Indie, Nikki) were talking about different haircuts and who could pull off short/long/colored/whatever hair, and then the next time she comes into the gym, Nikki has short hair
The Five Ten Outlet
The front patio area of the Scott's house
The game where you each say a word and then have to each say a word that relates the two and you try to eventually say the same word
The guitar riff in Perth by Bon Iver
The hookah crew
The Jimmy Room
The Johnston drinking song
The Johnston song
The lines that planes make in the sky
The love note that I wrote to honey roasted peanuts while living at the Red
The movie 23 Feet
The Napa house
The New American Road Trip Mixtape by Brendan Leonard
The New York City subway
The ocean
The old guy who has a dope old shiny red car and drives around Redlands really slowly and blasting oldies music <3 <3 <3
The opening jingle of the Harry Potter movies
The Parent Trap
The peace sign in front of Fairmont
The pool song at BB Camp
The poster Sam Armacost gave to Johnston, of her grandfather riding a buffalo over articles about Johnston
The Pronunciation Manual
The pulley Slobes and I made outside of our rooms
The rainbow house that Nadia's mom rents in Big Sur
The ripple effect
The Sherman Ave. neighborhood
The search for the perfect campsite
The second floor Holt whiteboard
The sitting area behind Holt
The smell of horse feed
The smell of nail filing
The sound of a running coffee pot
The sound of cars driving by in the rain outside
The sound of Alice & her mom laughing downstairs
The sound of seagulls
The story of how Purple's name became Purple
The Tallest Man on Earth's Live @ 9:30 album
The Team ET Facebook page
The Tragically Hip
The universal love for Harry Potter
The Vans store
The video of the guy's acid trip that his friends animated with a gecko
The waterfall at the Motherlode, Red River Gorge
The waves etched into the walls around the chapel at Redlands
The way Andrewpants says things
The way Blair falls into someone when she laughs
The way Chanel talks about things she loves
The way Liam says things, especially "dude" and "wasSAP dude" <3
The way Rob says "Saddiiieee giiiirl!"
The way that climber in Better Than Chocolate says "slopey"
The whistles in Andrew Bird songs
The Whole Foods prepared food bar
The Wikipedia Game
The word "dweeb"
The word "paraphernalia"
The yurt at BB Camp
Therapy
Things that totally suck while they're happening but afterwards you laugh about it and wish you could do it again. Like, for example, being a pioneer.
Things with elephants on them
Thinking of a great comeback...on time.
Thinking of lots of things that make me happy at once
Those anonymous notes we wrote on the last night of camp and the fact that I said something to Purple about wanting to hook up with him
Those community meetings where everything is funny and lovely
Those signs that point to different cities around the world and say how far away they are
Thurber the bulldog
Tie dye extravaganzas
Tights
Tillamook cheese factory/ice cream
Tish
Toast with butter and blueberry preserves
Toasted peanut butter and banana sandwiches
Toblerone
Toe hooks (solid ones, at least)
Toe rings
Toontown
Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's coriander body butter
Trader Joe's curried white chicken deli salad
Trader Joe's gluten free chocolate chip cookies
Training on the system board with my climbing coaches
Transparent
Triple Crooooooown!
Trivia
Tumblr
Turiya's
Two lane roads by the Oregon coast
Two Pocket Fairtrade on Little Lonsdale
Typography
U Club with Leah and Sari
Uncle Jim's cheese & onion omelets
Uncle Tom's white beard
Unexpected calls from cousins
Unexpected cuddle sessions
Unexpectedly seeing someone you haven't seen in forever
Uniqlo
Unspoken meaning of hickeys
Upstairs coffeeshops
Urban Outfitters & their tables of funky stuff
US Route 101 in Northern California
Using footholds as intermediates
Using the "wrong" bathroom
Utah license plates
Vanilla musk scent
Vanilla powder from Lush
Veggie wraps
Verve simplicity
Violin
Visiting high school & people freaking out when they see me
Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show
Walkie talkies
Wakeboarding on Devil's Lake on days off
Waking up in a tent on a cool but sunny morning
Walking around with a crash pad on my back in a place full of people who won't know what it is
Walking into an air-conditioned place on a hot day
Walking into friend's places without knocking
Wall-E
Waking up happy
Wandering around Bethesda like the good old days
Warped Tour
Washington Square Park in NYC
Watching Cities: Skylines gameplay on Youtube
Watching Purple talk about otters
Watching Silas (or any little human) learn to crawl
Watching the silhouette of shenanigans happening at the back of a school bus while driving behind it
Watching this video I made with Geneva, Julianna, & Caroline in the summer of 2009.
Water
Wearing what I want and not caring
Wet washcloths on my forehead
Whale spewing your toothpaste when brushing your teeth in nature
What Are The Odds
When all the books I've been reading totally are talking about the same shit
When Annabelle says super morbid things
When I put my iPod on shuffle and it plays just the right songs
When Lewis speaks about himself in third person
When mom comes to me for her sadness
When multiple classes that I'm taking directly overlap in subject material or ideas
When my parents are in really good moods
When my photo blog looks good
When my shoulder cracks while I'm warming up or doing downward dog
When my therapist really helps me figure something out
When Nana makes me coffee in the morning
When people are shocked, in a good way, about something they didn't know about me
When people ask me what that song I was playing earlier is
When people see me with my fancy camera and ask them to take a picture of them because I look like I know what I'm doing
When somebody is good at comforting me
When someone remembers me
When the cafe has rice krispie treats
When the last line of my writing ends at the end of the line so there isn't just one word in the last line....you know?
When the metro drivers announce the stations in a good mood
Where's Waldo books
Whole Foods
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
White water rafting
Wind chimes
Wonderful by Chance the Rapper
Wonderful neighbors & neighborhoods
Wood burning stoves
Words that can be typed up with one hand because all of the letters are close together on the keyboard ("created")
Wreck This Journal
Writing nice lyrics in colorful fonts
Writing on dry erase boards
Writing on mirrors
Yay! Life!
Yoga
Yoga sessions where your body just seems to flow, almost like a dance session, instead.
Yummy gluten free things
Z playing guitar around complex
Z-burger with Ryan, Roby, Alex & Lily

jun 27 2010 ∞
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