101 Things That Make Me Happy

In completely random order…

  1. Sasha
  2. Pace
  3. Shea
  4. The Flames Kicking Ass This Year
  5. Tropical Holidays
  6. Helping People With Technology Problems at the Library
  7. Our Dozen or So Young Regulars Who Hang At the Library
  8. Craft Beer
  9. iPhones and Knowing That I Have A Device in My Pocket More Powerful Than The Computers That Sent A Man To The Moon
  10. Reddit
  11. Staples Office Supply Stores
  12. Not Being Able To Name The Favourite Thing Shea Cooks (Tonight’s Tikka Masala Stir Fry was Amazing!)
  13. Days When I Don’t Have To Scrape The Car Windows In The Morning
  14. Days When I Do (As Long as It’s Not *Too* Cold) As It Makes Me Feel Very Canadian
  15. Reading Through Chapter Books With Pace
  16. When Sasha Demands To Be Read Her Board Books at Bed Time
  17. Anytime I Walk In The House After Work and See Sasha, Pace and Shea at the Dinner Table Waiting For Me
  18. Memories of Our Kauai Trip – One of the Best Trips of My Life
  19. Staying Up Until The Wee Hours of the Morning Reading a Book I Can’t Put Down
  20. Staying Up Until The Wee Hours of the Morning in General
  21. Pace Making the Next Leap in His Technological Progress Connecting with a Friend on XBox Live Today So They Can Play Minecraft Remotely
  22. How Much The Oilers Suck This Year
  23. Pizza
  24. Living in the Centre of the Continent
  25. That I Still Get the Occasional Freelance Writing Gig
  26. Being On the Board of a Local Literary Press
  27. Hawksley Workman
  28. Fred Eaglesmith
  29. Corb Lund
  30. The Beatles
  31. Books about the Beatles
  32. The Movie *Boyhood*
  33. My New HaflingerAS Slippers (shout-out to ShoeMe.ca for the wicked deal)
  34. Realising that part of the reason I wear through slippers so much is that I wear one pair pretty much 24/7 while at home and that I could have two pairs – one good lounging pair and a cheaper one for when I’m working/sweating/going outside to save the good pair.
  35. Old Dutch Cheese Nacho Chips
  36. Bushwakkers Brew Pub
  37. That Shea’s parents and my parents get along so well, go on trips together, have holidays together
  38. Pace not playing hockey makes me sad in some ways but makes my pocket book *very* happy! 😉
  39. Looking through old photos
  40. Playing guitar
  41. Memories of my exchange to England which was probably the single best four-month stretch of my life – not just a holiday but a whole different way of life for a semester
  42. Johnny Gaudreau
  43. When Sasha says “Allll done!”
  44. The sense of calm that pulling back from pretty much all volunteer/political activities I’ve had since Sasha was born
  45. Our new Google Chomecast dongle
  46. Bacon
  47. Bacon and tomatoes
  48. Bacon and tomatoes and cheese
  49. Rdio.com
  50. The smell of a new book
  51. NetFlix
  52. When Sasha’s sleeping with us and you open your eyes to see her gazing at you
  53. Freedom of Expression issues
  54. Being an atheist
  55. Those rare times when Pace has a clean room
  56. Those even more rare times when our entire house feels clean
  57. Wednesdays mornings at work – that’s our closed morning and it’s the best time to be in the library when, other than a couple other staff, it’s pretty much empty and quiet (kinda like an old fashioned library!)
  58. YouTube
  59. The recent Supreme Court ruling against Saskatchewan’s Essential Services legislation and how the current government’s overreach may have helped the labour movement across Canada in a way that no left wing government has been able to do
  60. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  61. Daniel Bryan, Seth Rollins and Damien Mizdow
  62. Barack Obama basically seeming to have no fucks to give now that he’s a lame duck President – snarking back at the State of the Union to drinking a beer during a Super Bowl interview to using Presidential power to unilaterally move forward issues he knows Congress won’t support
  63. Science and anything cool that happens in science
  64. The Qu’Appelle Valley
  65. This video
  66. Weddings
  67. Dancing at Weddings
  68. Our rPod182G Camper
  69. Starting To Think About Summer Camping Options
  70. Low Carb Beer (I am officially an old man)
  71. Reading in the Bath Tub
  72. Crossing Things Off My To Do List
  73. Waking Up On A Day Off and Realising I Don’t Have To Go to Work
  74. Facebook
  75. Caesar Salad
  76. Steak
  77. Caesar salad and steak
  78. Caesars
  79. Frame TV (saw this channel of rotating HD wallpapers in our hotel room this weekend and couldn’t turn it off)
  80. Blogs/Blogging
  81. Kurt Vonnegut
  82. That Final Catch in the Super Bowl (even if I hated the interception that followed on the next play)
  83. That my library has an XBox and Kinect available for programs and patrons to use
  84. Following politics
  85. Doug Stanhope
  86. Louis CK
  87. CalgaryPuck Fan Forum
  88. Visiting libraries in other communities
  89. Calgary (one of my favourite cities I’ve ever visited)
  90. That Shea Lost 40+ pounds after Sasha was born
  91. Joining a road hockey game on Christmas Day
  92. ThisLife.com (if they’d only improve their pricing structure)
  93. Pretty much anything written by Marcello di Cintio or Chris Turner
  94. Whenever I get my e-mail in-box under control at home or at work
  95. External hard drives
  96. Sasha dancing
  97. Sasha laughing
  98. Pace laughing
  99. Pace dancing
  100. Writing – anything from stories to poems to journals to reports at work
  101. Lists!

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