Happy Things

All mine! . . .

• Lauren B. singing, "Oh, Au-au-tumn, O Au-au-tumn, you look so very gorgeous" to the tune of "Oh, Christmas Tree"
• The way Slash answers his phone: "Phone/House of beauty, this is Cutie!"
• Reading that one of Mr. DeBruin's goals is for him and his wife to give away $1,000,000 in their lifetime--neat goal!
• Watching traffic along busy, four-lane Route 36 come to a complete halt while two ducks and six ducklings waddled their way across the road
• Arnah mistaking Autumn for the Death Angel when Autumn showed up in Arnah's room at 2:30 AM, wrapped in a blanket--and Arnah telling Autumn that if she (Autumn) had lifted her arms, Arnah would have passed out
• Autumn telling her roommate about the EQUIP training panel scenario where students were asked, "What would you say if your roommate announced to you one night that she had given her life to the devil that day?" . . . then Autumn being freaked out when she turned out the light and her roommate roared at her. "I thought it was the devil," Autumn confessed. "[My roommate] knows my weak points."
• Chaplain Lee raving about Naomi and Culinary
• Pastor Buffenbarger's nickname (yeah, guess)
• Tom "giving" my Red Sox hat to Nate, then offering (threatening) to replace it with a Yankees hat
• Brotherly sarcasm on Skype:
  Kendra, to Chad and Craig: "This is cool--when I talk, my icon lights up! It's like Clarence the angel!"
  Chad: "Well, otherwise you can't tell who's talking."
  Kendra: [pause] "Are you joking?"
  [brothers laugh]
  "'Cause you are both guys, and I can tell you apart."
  [more laughter]
  Craig: "Well, it would come in really handy if you're deaf."
  Kendra: [pause]: "Wait, if you're deaf, you wouldn't be talking [on Skype]!"
  [more brotherly laughter]
• Chocolate pancakes
• Long meetings with Naomi in her "office"
• Zulei's revenge: tying a paper towel roll on my apron strings without me realizing it!