1. Peanut Butter

2. The sound of the word ‘Aquamarine’

3. Pandas

4. Baby Pandas

5. Baby pandas on slides  

6. Writing

7. A good song

8. A good Kpop song

9. Running into someone who also listens to Kpop

10. Friends (Obligatory)

11. Family (Sometimes)

12. My mother (Only when she sends cookies)

13. Izzy (Only when she does something I can write an article about so I don’t have to come up with something that week.)

14. Fireflies

15. Cooking

16. Eating at fine restaurants

17. Chinese restaurants where they actually refill your water

18. Chinese food in general, but especially Sesame Chicken

19. OMG, I almost forgot about Korean food.

20. Really any food is good. Let’s be real.

21. Penguins  

22. Halloween

23. Large groups of penguins

24. Home goods stores

25. Movies about penguins

26. A good TV show

27. A good book

28. A good movie

29. A good comic book

30. Any youtube video involving any cute animal doing anything cute and adorable.

31. While we’re on the cute animal subject, dogs in boots

32. Dogs in raincoats

33. Dogs in sweaters

34. Dogs with really droopy, old man faces  

35. Dogs whose whole butts shake when they wag their tails.

36. Christmas cookies

37. Watching an entire episode of a television show online in one night instead of doing what I was supposed to do.

38. Dancing by myself when no one is around to see or prove it.

39. Walking around the house pretending to destroy things like Godzilla

40. Being creative

41. Being inspired to be creative

42. Inspiring others to be creative

43. Did I already say penguins?

44. Coffee  

45. Scary movies

46. Youtube videos where people do flash mobs as a way of proposing marriage

47. Running (For exercise, not away from bears)

48. Getting near the end of a list that I thought would be easy to come up with but ended up being a super difficult challenge even thought I listed penguins 28 times.

49. Walking somewhere beautiful, ie, parks, bridges, near a lake.

50. Obviously I’d be crazy not to mention the person that makes me happy when it all seems like crap and makes me smile when I am at my absolute rock bottom pit of feeling the feelings I wish I wasn’t feeling, Carl Li.

There’s plenty of things to be happy about in the world. If there is a point to be made from this week’s entry, it’s to simply go out there, enjoy life and remember the little things that keep you afloat. They are ten times more important than that man who grabbed your butt on the subway this morning.