Day 8

From yesterday

1. The moon
2. Whitney being funny
3.VM from Lindsay about DMT
4. Scott's email about workshop
5. Talking to rachel while watching SYTYCD
6. Night Air
7. Emilie's haircut
8. Deciding to write a book
9. Forgiveness
10. Laying on the office floor at lunch

Day 7

C-Day

1. Having Emilie be such an incredible friend and come home when I was sobbing
2. Cheddar Popcorn
3. The move going well
4. Maria answering my every call
5. The perfect breeze in the afternoon
6. Walking around the neighborhood with Will
7. Will's smile
8. Having so many neighbors and friends say hello

Day 6

From yesterday

1. Beers at 11am at work
2. Finishing a huge job
3. Talking about Detroit with Emilie and Steve
4. Nathans for lunch
5. Extra pickles
6. The breeze in the evening
7. Nap
8. Adventure to find Nitty
9. Emilie being hilarious
10. Sleeping on the love seat for the last time!
11. Being pissed instead of sad

Day 5

1. Slurpees
2. Beasting the air conditioners
3. Laughing with Whitney
4. Seeing Will Security looking fine as ever
5. Barrel of Monkeys
6. Discovering what an 8-mile city is
7. Thinking about St. Clair Shores
8. Remembering my energy inspires people to do good things
9. Being grateful for having such an incredible friend in Maria
10. Air conditioning
11. Awkward engagement photos and family photos
12. Making a doctors appointment
13. Having my sunburn turn into a tan
14. Spaghetti
15. Josh's compliment on my haircut
16. Breathing easier

Day 3 and 4

These days are a little tougher to write about because they started or ended poorly.

Challenge.

Day 3

1. Shrek Party
2. Free McDonalds
3. My awesome green punch
4. Andrew killing the whole green cookie I made at the end
5. Being awesome at FlipCup
6. LADIES LADIES LADIES!
7. Sitting on Tiff's roof smoking a black
8. Comfortable socks
9. Cartwheels

Day 4

1. Being honest
2.The heat
3. The beach
4. Lake Michigan
5. Being sundrunk
6. XO noodle roll from Ken Kee
7. Funny chafing conversation
8. Being a fantastic "work amy"
9. New tan lines

2nd Day

So I forgot to write in this before bed. But here is what I remember from yesterday being great.

1. Learning about Puerto Rican Culture
2. Being Reinspired to play my Djembe by learning about the Boomba Drum
3. Doing a good job in the midst of a major work crisis, in which the executive director of the organization I work for congratulated me.
4. Motivating myself to really paint something while I am here
5. Whitney telling me to just shut my phone off, and all I needed was right around me(my friends and sangria)
6. Expressing myself.
7. Watching Psycho
8. Falling asleep on the couch and waking up during the credits.
9. Destroying feelings of being 2nd best
10. The way my comforter felt wrapped around my body as I faded off into sleep.

First Day

I have decided to start a blog in which every day I reflect on 5 things that made me happy.

I am hoping that this blog helps to remind me that even though life can be insanely hard, it is always insanely beautiful at the same time.

It is so easy to remember the things that sucked about the day, but to seek out the beauty takes a bit more focus.

So cheers to lightening my life up!

Things that made me happy today

1. Walking down Michigan Avenue by Tribune Tower (my favorite building in chicago)
2. Having my hair look really good for T.V.
3. Judge Mathis being amusing and being seated front row in the court room
4. Canceling my membership at Ultimate Exposure
5. The lady behind us at Judge Mathis making a joke about how Emilie and Andrew should get a room because of the PDA
6.Remembering how much I love the city and how lucky I am to live here.
7. Jay-Z's song "Thank you"