Things That Made Me Happy In January 2018

photo cred: me, with a not so awesome camera :)

• Making and eating an oreo cheesecake
• Melty snow
• A midwinter thaw
• A day spent with my Granny
• A Paddington 2 movie date with my youngest brother
• My 20th birthday decorations, handmade by my mother (blue and white paper hearts and teapots)
• Lighting candles a lot
• Sewing a new blanket cover with my sister
• "I Can See Clearly Now," song by Johnny Nash
• Going on lots of walks
• Cajeta brought back by my sister from an ethnic food market in the city-taste of my childhood!
• Muffins
• A Sunday lunch with my family at a friends' house
• A rock collection on a windowsill
• Gingerbread-snow on pine trees in my backyard
• My 3 year old cousin's birthday party @ Cici's Pizza
• Steve Winwood music in general, especially "Finer Things"
• Wood fires in the woodstove
• A sleepover with pizza and whipped cream in a can and cocoa puffs and two tween sisters
• Receiving in the mail the birthday gift I ordered for my sister's March birthday (it's cool!)
• Messy-scrapbook-journaling
• New pajamas and a new fluffy red bathrobe for my birthday
• Watching the BBC four part movie adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma with my youngest 2 sisters
• Wool socks
• A panda bear phone case
• Slushy-muddy-melty-gravely-windy-notsupercold-weather
• A new laptop (MacBook Air hand-me-down-birthday-gift)
• Free audio books on librivox (The Invisible Man by H.G.W. and Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde by R.L.S.)
• Clementines
• Going clothes shopping for/with a sister
• A specific tan sweater
• "Take The Money And Run," song by The Steve Miller Band
• A new pencil and art supplies pouch for my backpack that was found in a bag of hand-me-downs
• Hot chocolate
• A pellet stove
• Somebody got the big can of Peter Pan peanut butter
• "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," movie
• Sixlets
• A pretty floral storage box bought for pocket change at Goodwill
• St.Ive's Oatmeal & Shea Butter Bodywash
• Fruit salad in winter
• Quickly throwing a birthday party for my mom with what was in the house
• Starbucks sweetened iced coffee
• Blue sky with airplane lines in winter
• Sleeping in
• An old green army trunk
• "Because of Winn Dixie," the movie adaptation of one of my favorite books
• Walking on paved park trails
• An unplanned sleepover with a sister where we pushed the couch by the fire and I fell asleep fast
• Watching Numb3rs with La
• Texting a sister far away
• Not losing my cellphone forever thanks to a kind gas station attendant who found it
• Four tomatoes savored in the middle of winter
• "Someday," song by Michael Buble featuring Meghan Trainor
• A dinner date at a local diner (Donna Jean's) with two former work pals turned friends
• Walks in the woods with my youngest brother
• Window shopping in an expensive but cool antique store with my mom and sisters
• Counting all the cars on a train from mere feet away and no fence inbetween
• Buying much-needed new tennis shoes
• "Father of The Bride," movie on my mom's birthday
• Spotify
• A blood moon or super moon or something along those lines (It was pretty! And NASA wrote about it!)
• Internet pictures of cute hedgehogs
• Not worrying at all about my tire pressure
• Ritter Sport milk chocolate with hazelnuts in it