Live, Love, Laugh - makes me wanna gag!

So, I've been told, repeatedly, that I am a glass half empty type of chic. I think know I am simply a realist.  I call it like it is. The two people in the world who know me best, know that I pretty much despise EVERYTHING, and I have a 45 minute rant pocketed for each and every thing I hate.  So today instead of focusing on everything that is wrong with the world... like radiation seeping into the atmosphere, Fox 'news', ignorance and capitalism ;) I have decided to write about the things that make me happy. (Thank you Kati for the suggestion ;) )

I will try to add to this as I think of stuff... 

*My husband's love and devotion 

*Past accomplishments

*Cherry Soda

*Dancing

*Reading stuff that makes me feel smart hehe

*...Feeling smart.

*Visiting my family in Sacramento

*Playing with Roxie (or torturing her lol)

*Driving- I love driving, I used to drive about five hours a day once or twice a week to and from work in LA. Sometimes this was after working for on set for 12-15hrs... and I still loved driving... ( but I hate traffic... ugh see there I go, can't even get through this 'happy' list w/o interjecting a 'hate')  

*I love learning

*Playing with children, rough-housing, racing, I just love getting the opportunity to get muddy and act like a ten year old ... as long as I can shower immediately after hehe.

*Working out

*Doing photo shoots with great photographers for movies or print, if it's in a glamorous location in a metallic bikini or sparkly dress I'm happy lol... If it includes a large paycheck then it REALLY makes me happy lol.

*Getting mail, postcards, note-cards

*Shopping for shoes, clothes, or purses, I have a problem and probably need a 12 step program but I own about 15 pairs of boots alone and over 30 pair of pants, (to prove the point I have bought two pair of jeans this week already) Most of my jeans don't fit me now, I am having an increasingly difficult time finding jeans that are small enough... that topic just leads to one of those rants I spoke of earlier, so... moving on.

*I love getting my hair shampooed at the salon hehe

*I love and miss getting my hair and makeup done all the time in the makeup trailers at work!

*Hiking, and camping, exploring the wilderness...

*I love working with my hands, doing carpentry work gives me a sense of nirvana.

*Painting, I love painting walls and trim, but not ceilings.

*I love designing, pretty much any type of design. From architectural, to graphic, to fashion, and beyond it is my outlet for artistic expression.

*I love tanning in tanning booths (but hate tanning on a beach) haha, haven't done either of those in a while now.. hmmm

*I love my true friends. I don't have as many acquaintances as most modern young females, due to my lack of social butterfly-ness, but I believe I have made more true friends than most. :)

*I get joy out of sending people random gifts (and not random too... probably part of the shopaholic problem mentioned above hehe)

*It makes me happy when I can make someone smile and like me who wanted to hate me from the moment they saw me, this is probably one of the things I derive the most enjoyment from :)

*Skittles and Starburst

*Studying the processes of evolution

*Text conversations with Drew :)

This list got pretty long fast... I guess I do have a lot of things that make me happy in this world!  Which only goes to show, I am not an all around negative person who is incapable of deriving joy from life, just a realist. ;) -I cannot wait to write a blog about what makes me unhappy and on that list will be the kitschy,overused, generic expression, live. laugh. love.  So what makes you happy?