101 Things That Bring Me Joy

I am the queen of listmaking. My favorite list making app used to be Zenbe Lists but this year I discovered Wunderlist by 6wunderkinder. I love that with both of these programs you can edit online and on your iPhone/iPad/iPod/iwhatever and that it syncs fast and you can share lists too with other users.

Statistics show that people are the most depressed during the holiday months because of the amount of stress and memories of loved ones, family issues etc all come about. Here is something that I always have handy in my group of lists is a list of 101 things that bring me joy. Not just happiness, but Joy.

I believe that Joy is a completely different thing then happiness, there is more passion in it.
So when things start getting rough, I scroll through my list of things that bring me joy and cheer up.

1. An amazing sailor named Kyle Parker. <3
2. Arakawa Family
3. Apple

4. 
Aprons

5. 
Asking the person behind the counter how their day is going and having them be happy and startled that I actually care and want to know

6. 
Baking

7. 
Band shirts with good designs on them that actually took time or were hand screened

8. 
Beach

9. 
Being a motivator

10. 
Being sneaky

11. 
Being spontaneous

12. 
Big white fluffy comforters

13. 
Big wine glasses

14. 
Blue pens

15. 
Boots

16. 
Bows

17. 
Bracelets Anklets earrings and rings

18. 
Brackets { }

19. 
Buying random gifts for people for no reason at all but that it made me think of them or that I wanted to get it for them

20. 
Camping

21. 
Caramel Frappuccino’s

22. 
Chanel Chance perfume

23. 
Colorful huge graffiti

24. 
Cuddling

25. 
Cupcakes

26. 
Cute things

27. 
Dancing

28. 
Dancing beautiful jazz to a ridiculous hardcore song

29. 
Dancing so hard I can feel the music running through my body and I get in this state where I don't even know what I'm doing I'm just moving to the music that is pulsing through my veins

30. 
Developing my own photography

31. 
Dirty or old stand mixers, that means they have been used

32. 
Disneyland

33. 
Doing something good or helpful for someone that they don't know about. Especially if they benefit from it or come and tell me about how this good thing happened and they have no clue I has a hand in it and I sit quiet and never tell them. 

34. 
Dresses, epically flowy ones

35. 
Flower the Lilly. They have the most wonderful smell I love having huge bouquets of them and letting them smell up my room

36. 

Freaking cute coffee cups! 

37. 
French tip acrylic nails

38. 
Frilly things like underwear or on dresses

39. 
Getting all done up for someone who will appreciate that I'm trying to look cute

40. 
Getting excited, even if it's about nothing

41. 
God

42. 
Going on adventures

43. 
Going to shows

44. 
Good books with pretty covers

45. 
Good coffee

46. 
Green

47. 
Handmade stuff. Buying handmade items and supporting artists

48. 
Having good long conversations with strangers

49. Hobby Lobby
50. 
Insulated Starbucks Cups

51. Italia
52. 
Jesus Yourself Others
. JOY
53. 
Joann’s

54. 
Leaving notes for people to find way later on

55. 
Listening to hardcore music really loud in a long car wash

56. 
Little ramekins

57. 
Long talks that never have awkward silences or a need to think of a new subject

58. 
Love

59. 
Lucky
 (RIP)
60. 
Macs

61. Meringue
62. 
Modeling

63. 
Music, except country

64. 
My little may, Amy. 

65. 
My purple camera

66. 
Never knowing what time or day it is

67. 
Old cameras

68. 
People telling me sincerely that they love whatever I just baked them

69. 
People watching with Ashley

70. 
Photo shoots

71. 
Photography

72. 
Pirouettes epically doubles or triples

73. 
Pushing down the buttons on soda lids

74. 
Really bad movies

75. 
Really big coffee cups that resemble bowls so it's like you are drinking soup that tastes like delicious coffee

76. 
Ruffles

77. 
Scrapbooking
78. 
Seeing someone wearing my design

79. 
Shopping

80. 
Sitting in my backyard on a nice morning with my coffee and Lucky and no distractions

81. 
Sleeping Giant

82. 
Song lyrics

83. 
Songs I can dance to

84. 
Spending money on others

85. 
Stand Mixers

86. 
Straws

87. 
Strong arms

88. 
Taking photos. A bagillon of them

89. 
Teaching someone to dance

90. 
The Academy Is...

91. 
The beach

92. 
The library

93. 
Traveling and adventuring

94. Typefaces
95. 
Weddings

96. 
When I don't burn the chocolate I'm melting

97. 
When I make people happy

98. 
When my back doesn't hurt me

99. 
When whatever I’m baking turns out freaking cute

100. Weddings
101. Worshiping like crazy at an amazing Sleeping Giant show or any Tohm Green show