Unplanned Picnics

May 21's 10 Things to Be Happy About

1. Single-Serving Cereal Boxes - When I was younger, Edris would always get the single-serving cereal because she never knew what we liked to eat for breakfast as cereal and it was one of my favorite parts of eating breakfast is the fact that I got my own. Now that I look back, I don't understand why having my own cereal box mad me happy, but hey I was a happy kid most of the time anyway.

2. Sane Living - To live in a sane manner, my room has to be semi clean or else I go nuts. I like an organized mess because then I know where all of my things are. This year I lost my keys a couple times and it drive both me and my roommate insane because we would be ready to go to dinner and it would take an extra five minutes to find my keys. It was the same thing with my hairbrush, if I don't put it back in the right place I go insane trying to find it.

3. Salted Pretzels - I like hard pretzels with salt on them but when we get soft pretzels I like them without salt. Auntie Anne's makes the best pretzels in the world, especially if they have the cinnamon on top of them.

4. Beach Music - Jack Johnson is someone that I would definitely listen to on the beach or maybe John Mayer. This is the relaxing music that goes with the beach because you can sit there with your headphones and read a book or you can put it on a boombox and listen to it as you make sand castles or play beach volleyball. It totally works.

5. An Unplanned Picnic - When I first started bring my boyfriend lunch at work we would eat in his truck but then we started eating on the grass in the shade and it always feels nice. If it's not too hot it's a perfect picnic spot even though we probably shouldn't be eating on someone's private property but oh well.

6. Can't-Put-It-Down Books - I love these books because I can just curl up for hours just reading those books. I hate when people give me books that I don't want to put down during school. It drives me nuts. I read a really good one over spring break that took me less than two days to finish. I also read one last week that I couldn't put down because I just wanted to know what would happen next. If you can pull into a book like that, you are a wonderful author.

7. Birds in a Birdbath - We have a small swamp at our school, that is the closest I've ever come to seeing a bird take a bath in a birdbath. I think that birdbaths are a good idea to see the many different species of birds that are in our neighborhoods.

8. The Newsroom of a Major Paper - I have never been in a major newsroom but I've heard that there is always a constant hustle and bustle as people try to make their deadlines.

9. Rabbit Hutches - The better to keep the foxes from eating them. Rabbits are so fuzzy which is always a plus.

10. Acing an Essay or Test - Who doesn't love doing well on a test? I always loved getting my math tests back because I usually did pretty well on them and that made me happy. Getting back my tests from Dr. Lo was always a good thing too because I always get good grades on his tests and homeworks because I can actually understand what he's talking about and his notes are clear and concise.