Things That Make Me Happy

Damn, first off this keyboard is really fucking loud. Ow.

Second, I decided that today we should have a change of pace. So I'm going to show you a list of things (both cliche and quirky) that make me feel real good inside.

1. When I'm on the schoolbus in the morning, and another bus drives by (most often when we're on 3rd avenue) and the bus drivers wave to each other (although mine salutes). It's cool because it's this network of bus-driver friends! Plus my driver is young, hip, and gangsterrr. Apparently metro bus drivers do this, too. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled.

2. People who sing along to their music in their cars. Oh, man. First off, I appreciate bad traffic, unless I'm in a hurry to get somewhere. Why? Because I get to listen to my music for a longer period of time. But then I look over, and there's someone rocking out, and it's like I've found my soul mate. It always makes me smile really big. Then they see me grinning at them and they get kind of creeped out.

3. Orgasms. Enough said.

4. My job, Team Read. Maybe it's because I have the most awesome student ever, or maybe it's because I feel like I'm doing something woth-while in the community (is tutoring 2nd and 3rd graders in reading not a good thing for the community?), but I always go in there and feel good. Monday and Wednesday afternoons for an hour and a half I get to forget about everything and read children's books with my kick-ass student, KoKo.

5. Strip Squad! Oh lordy, the best Swedish pop band out there. They're my Swedish Band Friends, and we trade packages and email a lot. They've made the best morning record ever. Their songs are pervy as fuck and a joy to listen and dance to. Check them out! You cannot deny a band who has lyrics like "When he masturbates / He thinks of pretty things / Like the arch of your eyebrow, your almond shaped eye / The way you looked when you said goodbye." Plus, they pronounce 'fuckable' like 'fuck-yuh-bull.' Google time!

6. Polaroids. My heart just fills with joy when I take them.

7. Songwriting. This is my life, my pride, my biggest joy. I can't even begin to describe how this really makes me feel...some songs come together really quick, and are like the sweet little children you always hoped for. Others are like those bitchy kids you never hope you have, the ones that sneak out and do drugs and get drunk and have sex all the time...before they're even in high school (they do exist). But once they're done, once they've fully come together and have come out of that crazy period of confusion, they're always the best and the funnest to play. As long as there is a heart beating in this chest, there will be songs coming from this mind and these fingers. Songs: http://www.myspace.com/sarahrog

8. The phrase "Holy toledo!"

9. Musicals. Once I get through the phase of wanting to kill myself whenever they sing and ruin something, I settle into the fact that it's pretty damn hilarious. Heh, Steven got recruited to play bass in the school musical this year...I am so going and hoping to god that he has to wear a stupid costume.10. My male alter-ego, Gangsta Elf. He's pretty chill.

11. the Beavis and Butthead Experience soundtrack that I bought at Value Village.

12. Babies!

13. Devendra Banhart. I went through a phase where I thought I was going to marry him. Now I just think that we'll totally be best friends. We so could be.

14. The hella gangstarrr kids at my school. Not the white trash ones, but the hella gangstarrr ones. You know who I'm talking about. They like to walk down the hall rapping all by themselves and they dress all stupid and stuff. Shit! They just make me laugh so much that it's impossible not to feel good!

15. Life, half of the time. it can just be so fucking beautiful.