Happy Things

Mostly from me, a few from Matt, and one from Katie A.!

• Mrs. Ritchie starting to play "Joyful, Joyful" as a church prelude just as I was telling Naomi K. about singing "Joyful, Joyful" "blues style" that morning in church
• Jessica C. calling me "Matt"--very inadvertently
• At a sleepover with Naomi M., Angela, Jessica C., and Jessica G.:
  Angela: "I think that Mary Ruth wants to get some sleep."
  Jessica G.: "She's not here."
  Angela: "I think that Amanda wants some sleep."
  Someone else: "She's down the hall in 1012/14."
  Angela: "I think that Danicka wants to get some sleep."
  Someone else: "She's across the hall; do you really think that she can hear us?"
  Naomi: "I think that Angela wants to get some sleep."
• Chad trying to explain to me why watching college basketball tournament games is higher priority than cleaning his bathroom
• Plotting to hold a bridal shower for Jill and to split the loot and decorate our rooms (after hearing about someone having five bridal showers)
• Catching up with the Camenisches
• Working on Revelation verses on the church steps in the beauteous spring weather
• When Chad calls me
• E-mails from Ruthie
• When people dry my clothes for me
• Gifts
• Missionary presentations
• Talking with Amanda S. on the phone . . . and realizing that Australians set their clocks back when we set ours ahead
• Telling people who asked why I was getting my picture taken that it was for E-Harmony
• A sturdy blender
• Happiness is: Writing in this book in Kendra's office! So good to see her. (Katie A.)
• "Jenine Haines is NOT my true love." --Kendra
• Standing in front of a much-wiser EQUIP group
• Calling the EQUIP XXI group "My children" again during announcements
• Hearing a new Pastor Fraley story
• The knowledge that, no matter how cruel their killers are, ITC mice LIVE ON!
• A. v T. trying to recall a well-known American figure: "It was that guy who bombed a building."
  Danicka: "You mean Timothy McVeigh?"
  A: "No, the other one . . . O.J. Simpson."
• Having someone honk at me, me thinking, "I wouldn't know anyone driving a car that nice [some sort of Lexus]," then realizing it was Micah M., with Aaron and Abram
• Exchanging insulting names ("Trash Can Head" and "Four Eyes") with Aaron M. once again
• Having four recommendations I have to give for people who have gone through EQUIP!
• Getting things for people
• Having people name my shirts: the "zebra gum" shirt and the "Blue's Clues" shirt
• A surprise visit from Mrs. Adams, Katie, and Megan
• What Clyde told my family I was doing today