133 things, because I just couldn’t stop at 100… 1. Sharpies 2. Wearing camo 3. Hedgehogs 4. Dreaming 5. Wearing matching necklace and earrings 6. Reading the Chronicles of Narnia 7. People who play the piano 8. Guys who wear reading glasses 9. The Wicked soundtrack 10. Running up marble staircases barefooted in my prom dress 11. Wrapping gifts 12. Sewing my own clothes 13. Wearing other people’s clothes 14. The smell of old books and new carpet 15. The fact that Khara and I are cousins 16. Journaling 17. Using big words 18. Making up my own words when I can’t think of the right one 19. All my nicknames 20. My big brown eyes 21. RENT. 22. Roses 23. Duct tape 24. Scrapbooking 25. Coloring books 26. New crayons 27. My EMS fleece 28. Bare feet 29. Watching ballerinas 30. Dancing along with the Newsies 31. Quoting movies in normal conversations 32. T-shirts from Goodwill 33. Freshly sharpened pencils 34. Tropicana orange juice 35. Chapstick 36. My black flip flops (on my second pair) 37. Socks that are inside out 38. Liam’s Car Toons 39. Funky Camp Songs 40. Rocking Disney SceneIt! 41. The theme song to the Boondock Saints 42. “Whip it out!” 43. Saving worms 44. Warm milk 45. Going to sleep when I’m really tired 46. Waking up and realizing that I have another hour until I have to get up 47. Saturday morning cartoons 48. Remembering the good old days 49. Music that gives me shivers 50. Goosebumps that hurt 51. When my hair smells good 52. Fresh out of the shower when I’ve brushed my hair and it’s still all wet 53. When my hair looks wavy or has an almost curl at the bottom 54. Wearing short sleeves and feeling my hair brush the back of my arm 55. Talking to my parents on the cell as I walk back to my dorm after studying in the library late at night 56. Seeing Kessa randomly around campus 57. Curling up on my couch with my blanket and a book 58. Children’s books 59. Reading school books that I’m actually interested in 60. Not being Meek 61. My Sweet Syrup 62. Being perfectionistic in the JJ 63. Seeing Josiah or Wayne pick up my habits 64. Organizing the syrups 65. The smell of caramel and hazelnut 66. My snowflake that is still hanging on the door of the Eagles Nest from Christmas 67. My pee competitions with Josiah and Vicki (both of which I am winning) 68. When people make fun of me for loving the JJ 69. When people tell me they love me 70. Playing dead horse and not waking up 71. Dressing up like a pirate 72. One match fires 73. Nick Ressler’s E-town hoodie 74. Doing the Mike Rinard Dance 75. Looking at my camp album 76. Hanging out with Matt Rinard on our pirate ship 77. Diners late at night 78. Leaving big tips 79. “Suck it up, Cupcake” 80. My leather Kenbrook bracelet 81. The leather Romanian bracelet that Peno gave me 82. Camo man pants and my pink tie-dyed shirt 83. “Go big or go home” 84. Hugs from Nick Ressler that are so big that he picks me up 85. Knowing how much he loves me 86. Necklaces of naughty nakedness 87. Being Mean 88. Gavroche the Bearded Dragon (may he rest in peace) 89. When boys smell good and it’s just their deodorant (weird, I know) 90. Wrestling with Nick or Mike or Jon or Jon or anyone else 91. Being Feisty 92. Baked Oatmeal 93. Club Nurse 94. Talking about Kenbrook 95. Peno’s peanut butter icing 96. Logan Jones Smores 97. Poking Matt MacNeill 98. Wearing boxers with Mandy in anticipation of dropping our pants 99. Sneaking into the kitchen during the glowstick game to steal chipwiches 100. What the female staff didn’t wear during the last Jesus Walk 101. Erin and I never closed the bathroom door in our room this summer 102. Having an arranged marriage with Matt Rinard 103. Matt MacNeill owns my life 103. Calling Erin a Wench 104. “Big Stick” 105. “Playdoh” 106. My pirate sword 107. Pieces of Sheet 108. Donald the Deer 109. Making my summer movie 110. Playing with Peno’s hair 111. Playing with boy hair in general 112. Da Drunk Krew 113. Inside jokes 114. The Armor of Kendra 115. Campers that are mean to me 116. Learning the all the names of campers in a cabin that isn’t mine 117. Dismissing tables on backwards day 118. Being a food pirate (stealing campers’ food) 119. Wal-Mart runs 120. The fact that I could write all 100 things about camp 121. The smell of cedar 122. Sunrises 123. The way my hair shines when the light of a sunset hits it 124. Rainy days 125. Those misty/ gloomy days that make everyone else depressed 126. Dancing/ Playing in the rain 127. Standing outside at night when it’s snowing and the snow muffles all the sounds 128. Not getting cold because I’m too stubborn 129. Walking barefooted in the snow 130. Knowing that it’s going to rain or snow because I can smell it 131. Seeing crocuses or various other spring flowers pushing up through the dead leaves. 132. When it rains so much that it overflows the bridges between the dorms and main campus 133. Making this list And, as Khara said, “Knowing that there's so much more than a hundred things that make me happy” |