A Refreshing Change

After a few negative blog posts (if I’m being honest, I think they are all pretty negative) I have decided to compile a list of things that I like/that make me happy/that I appreciate. I hope I can sustain the list for an adequate amount of time as I am aware of how easy I found it to compose a list of things I do not like…

• Inevitably, it must begin with the cold side of the pillow
• When my fridge at uni has food in it (which is rare)
• When there is money in my bank account (also rare)
• When it’s my birthday and I get presents
• Home and away (and sometimes Neighbours)
• James the giant panda
• 99 ice creams (before they started to cost more than 99p)
• Submitting essays (getting them back should be added to my negative list)
• Falling on the sofa just after the cushions have been plumped up
• The smell of chlorine
• A full tank of petrol (if I haven’t had to pay for it)
• The Wit & Wisdom column in The Week (and obviously all the educational bits too)
• Waking up in the middle of the night and realizing you still have loads of sleeping time before morning
• My youngest sister, Gemma (added on request)
• When my bread isn’t moldy
• When my hair smells nice
• Bananas
• My other sister, Belinda (for good measure)
• Drinking my tea when it’s the perfect temperature
• Looking at everyone else’s faces in the cinema
• Funny youtube videos
• Getting complimented for cooking/just generally getting complimented
• When I understand something in my Latin grammar class (rare)
• Completing a crossword
• Coca cola when I’m hung-over
• Every day that I am not hung-over
• Getting texts
• My potato masher (a JosephJoseph potato smasher – can do no wrong)
• Finishing a book
• Gold fish
• (And talking about myself, evidently)