Happy Things

• The penguin my mom gave me, and coming up with unique places to put it
• Eva taking a long nap and totally oversleeping the time to pick up Rebecca. When I took up Rebecca, we woke Eva and she didn't even realize what was wrong or what time it was at first!
• Jeanne Marie requesting that I learn to say, "No, I will not marry you" in Norwegian
• Hans wanting to check himself into a nursing home so that he could be eat and sleep and "witness to the residents"
• The elderly man and woman making faces at each other at the nursing home
• Bargaining with Jessie Biegler to get her to leave my apron strings ALONE during breakdown
• Celeste S. wants to be an LIT
• A day outside and cold water afterward
• Watching sign language phone conversations
• Being picked up on the way down
• Happiness=just being with the LIT department girls
• A discussion over chore reversal day:
  Kendra to Mike and the guys: Maybe we should get Mrs. Ritchie to train you on table set up . . . .
  Matt: Patrick and I can take care of training them.
  Daniel: I think I'd rather have Mrs. Ritchie.
• Incompetent girls attempting to feign competence in the dish pit
• At night when Kendra says, "Shut up, Kendra!"
• Jamie's creative point chart for the Spring Challenge display
• Seeing teams busily at work on Challenge service projects
• When dessert at the mission is cookies
• My secretary bringing me Starbucks
• A beautifully organized bookcase