This is Love.

I've been feeling far too negative as of late, so I spent Sunday focusing on writing a list of things that make me genuinely happy:

1. Roadtrips

2. Hitting deadlines

3. Receiving handwritten mail

4. Coffee!!

5. Fresh-baked bread

6. Eavesdropping on teenage boys talking about girls

7. The first time wearing new clothes

8. Freshly-laundered sheets

9. New favourite songs

10. Scientific-sounding words

11. Hugs/hand-holding (and any other oxytocin-inducing physical human contact)

12. Puppies (and most other baby animals)

13. Orgasms

14. Board game nights/building puzzles 

15. Swimming in Cold Lake (and most other bodies of water)

16. Sloths

17. Squeezing blackheads (not necessarily my own)

18. Reading books in the bathtub

19. Driving

20. Waking up in a sunny room

21. Favourite Scrabble words

22. Polka dots

23. Writing lists

24. Favourite mugs

25. Campfires

26. Dance parties

27. Potlucks

28. When someone cooks a special meal, just for me

29. Bike riding 

30. Take-out food movie nights

31. Affectionate nicknames

32. The sound of shoes clicking in an empty hallway

33. Diving off the side of boats

34. Freckles/scars

35. Second dates

36. Capture the flag/hide-and-go-seek

37. The smell of skunk

38. Drinking from coconuts

39. Sharing pistachios

40. Fresh haircuts
41. Ridiculous Facebook conversation threads
42. Spontaneously planned hangover brunches
43. Walking around barefoot outside (and also in other places that one should not typically walk in bare feet, such as airports)
44. Stealing the neighbour's cat, Loki, and making him cuddle with me