November 2015 Blog Challenge Day 1

It's the first day of the month, so instead of studying for my next (and last!) midterm, I went searching for blog challenges. I've always wanted to do one, but never got around to creating my own prompts, which I'll try to do for another time; and I couldn't find one with prompts that I liked. The prompts I found came from this blog and they're pretty simple and not too tacky or cheesy, so I'm going with it. But I will also do my usual writing (my average of two posts per month, hah... I'm terrible) on top of it all. Wish me luck!

List 10 things that make you happy:

1. Good weather - sunshine, blue sky, and temperatures in the mid 20s. The kind of weather that makes being outside enjoyable without having to do anything else.
2. My piano. Well, not just my own, but any piano where I can sit down, clunk out and sing wail along to a few tunes to clear my mind of other things.
3. Good times with friends. Usually involving board games, dancing, goofiness and/or lots of laughs.
4. Dessert. Aaaaaaaalll the desserts. Every single sweet edible food item on this planet will probably make me happy.
5. When someone remembers something trivial about me - because most of the time, it's usually me who remembers stupid facts about someone, like how many siblings they have, or their favourite colour, or that time they did that thing the other people don't remember them doing (maybe you all should be creeped out by how much I remember about each of you because it's a bit unnatural to remember the haiku that some kid in your class wrote in grade 5); so when someone remembers my favourite colour or my favourite Pokemon or something (it's Kingdra, FYI), it makes me feel like they want to know me.
6. Reading. I especially like reading aloud, pretending to be the person reading (performing? presenting?) an audiobook. Oh yeah. I go all out with terrible accents and voices and everything.
7. Helping people. I like random acts of kindness done for me, but doing them from others and seeing how much they are grateful makes me happy. (It's a whole other story when they aren't grateful - like the time I offered an apple to a homeless man and he asked for money instead. That was awful). 
8. DIY projects... and successfully completed DIY projects, because, let's be honest, ending up on compilation of fails would kinda suck.
9. Making packing lists. And packing, in general. Not sure about this one. Probably because it implies plans are in the making.
10. Hugs. Meaningful hugs, random hugs, long hugs, quick hugs. Ironically, I'm not a hugger; I just like to be on the receiving end. P.S. To many friends reading this who have attempted to hug me in the past, yes, despite feigning disgust in direct contact, I do enjoy a good hug.

Woohoo! One day down, 29 more to go. I give you all permission to bug me if I miss a day. 

Happy November!