101 Things That Make My Soul Sparkle

So here’s the thing.  

Paul stole borrowed this thing about a list of 101 liked and disliked things from someone who stole the thing from someone else and then everyone started stealing the thing from Paul because the thing is like, super fun and quick to read and relate to or disagree with and for sure, you’ll smile about all of the things. The very first founders of the 101-things-lists titled this thing “101 Things That Make Me Happy”. Then Paul, being the realist that he is, changed the thing  to “101 Things I like” because he couldn’t genuinely claim that 101 of those things made him “happy”. Valid point. And now I’m changing it to “101 Things That Make My Soul Sparkle” because I’m a drama queen. And when I like something, I typically obsess over it and make it a huge thing and somehow connect it to my “soul” even though it’s a super small, usually stupid thing.

Ok. I just made myself dizzy. I may have overdone it with the whole, “thing” thing. So here is my list of all of the 101 soul-sparkling things!

1. Succulents and desert flowers. I surround myself with them. I can’t get enough.
2. The way we misuse the term “Hustle” but it’s so beautiful and motivational. Especially in a really curvy bold font and across a coffee mug. Ugh! 🙂
3. Mud. Mudding. ATV’s. Swamp buggies. Mud Festivals in Florida. Off-roading.
4. Foxes. (surprise!!!) fun fact: a female fox is called a vixen. You’re welcome.
5. The smell of the pages in an old paperback book
6. Displaying all of my books neatly on shelves and just marveling at them
7. Salt water fish aquariums. Therapeutic and just beautiful to own.
8. Nikki Minaj and Rihanna. Powerhouse females who don’t give a fuck.
9. HALLOWEEN (you need to know what a badass I am on Halloween) and also THE FALL and all of OCTOBER because it’s my birthday month!
10. The Opal. It’s my birth stone, but it’s also my favorite one of all either way
11. Horoscopes
12. My souped-up Jeep and how my rims/tires are the size of half my body (heart eyes)
13. Mood-setting-music. Example: Before He Cheats (Carrie Underwood), Like a Boy (Ciara), Not Gon’ Cry (Mary J Blige)= relationshit picker-uppers.
14. 80’s Freestyle Music (man, this stuff makes me legit smile)
15. Smash cake photo sessions (both for kids and adults- I WANT ONE this year, lol!)
16. PINK. CHAMPAGNE. NOW. PLEASE.
17. Gingerale + Black Label. (yes. I am a whiskey type of girl)
18. PINEAPPLES & FLAMINGOS, together. Decoratively. Dying.
19. When the baristas at Starbucks KNOW my name and use it to greet me when I walk in. Like, I’m such a boss.
20. The emoji of the girl with the hand over her face? All me. Every damn day.
21. Exclamation points!!!!!!!, bold, italics, underlinesstrikethroughs and CAPS.
22. Rebel Wilson, Chelsea Handler, Melissa McCarthy, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer, Leslie Mann
23. Vince Vaughn, Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson
24.  EVOLUTION
25. The cosmos, black holes, galaxies, superstrings, parallel universes, other dimensions, super novas, and life on other planets (Currently reading: The Elegant Universe)
26. SUNGLASSES-aka- Hater Blockers.
27. Killing really mean people with kindness and my banging personality and getting them to love me forever after I’m done (this is related to my patients at work)
28. Singing. REALLY singing. Out loud. Never in front of people
29. Listening to my very white brother rap- he’s a lyricist. So good.
30. Translating popular hip-hop songs into Spanish raps
31. Telling my aunt, “‘Let’s have a dance battle!” and then watching her break dance
32. Waking up in the *middle of the night* to write down an idea or a dream
33. Hot showers in the morning
34. My job in vascular surgery
35. Getting to wear scrubs every single day. NO STRESS. NO extra shopping.
36. Long drives with JUST Pandora on deck and no rush to get anywhere
37. black leggings/yoga pants (not the see through kind)
38. A shopping center with a Marshalls, TJ Maxx, Michaels, Party City, Starbucks, Dollar Tree all at once. I’m never leaving.
39. AMAZON Prime baby!
40. Etsy. Because when I need something unique
41. Clean kitchen cabinets
42. Body splashes. All of them.
43. Really BIG shaggy carpets that say “sit on me and watch TV, I’m so comfy!”
44. REALLY fantastic mascara and black eyeliner that does NOT smudge. (My eyes are like my best feature ok?)
45. Authentic Mexican restaurants where the owner is the waiter and the cooks are his son and cousins and yes, they’re Mexican.
46. Stormy days/really loud thunder/the howling of winds (I guess I love hurricanes?!)
47. Game of Thrones.
48. Movies based on true stories. Faves? The Blind Side. The Wolf of Wall Street. A League of Their Own
49. Shameless (I just finished the 7th season and I feel so lost in this world now)
50. Laughing to radio talk show segments in the morning by myself in my car and noticing when people notice me laughing and then they smile when I notice they noticed me.
51. The smell of tanning lotion and ocean water
52. When the clock says it’s 11:11 and I make a wish (always. since I was a kid)
53. Music that is so loud I can’t hear myself think
54. Making insanely intricate shapes out of clouds like oh. That’s easy. That’s the molecular formula for a caramel latte. Pfffttt. That all you GOT, sky? 
55. Cleaning deep inside of my ears (this and 53 are why I have a hearing problem)
56. Dark/dim bars/restaurants with really laid back, chill vibes
57. Freezing cold AC at night and oversized comforters
58. Oversized t-shirts and mega long fluffy socks on lazy days
59. Really really short fingernails
60. Wearing tiny matching stud earrings in all 9 of my ear piercings
61. Fruit loops *with* Marshmallows ONLY
62. Bananas. Everything Bananas.
63. Coconut flavored frozen yogurt with coconut flakes on top
64. Showing off my cake skills to little kids. Like my x-box cake with the actual power button that lights up in green? GETS THEM EVERY SINGLE TIME.
65. Rose Gold jewelry
66. Organizing my clothes by COLOR and then just standing there, loving myself.
67. People who share my music interests and GET how quickly I can go from DMX to to Linkin Park to Boyz II Men to Ashanti to Phil Collins to Toni Braxton to Jack Johnson (Have you HEARD Better Together or Banana Pancakes?!)
68. Meeting people who “write” and then we can’t stop talking about how no one writes anymore, lol.
69. Making people genuinely laugh out loud. I feel like that’s my purpose sometimes.
70. Bear hugs (not from strangers)
71. chips with dips. Dips of all types! Bring em all. Bring em NOW.
72. When I draw someone’s blood and they’re like WOW! I didn’t even feel that! I know.
73. The rare times I hear the hooting of an owl at night. Magical.
74. Pools > Beaches
75. Unexpected, last minute plans
76. Chapsticks and lip balms. Never enough.
77. Having my hair played with. I am willing to pay.
78. Hoodies with sleeves long enough that I can keep my hands hidden inside of them.
79. Weddings. Because I still dream of having one some day.
80. The Notebook. OVER and and OVER and OVER again
81. Donkey Kong. Mortal Kombat. 007 Golden Eye. TETRIS.
82. Really really intimate late-night conversations
83. That game when you have to find or do random stuff and then be the first to run up to the person who says BRING ME “whatever” or be the first to “whatever”-  because I always win.
84. Hei-Hei from Moana. and just everything Moana
85. Fireworks. I can never get enough fireworks. There’s nothing more romantic to me.
86. Horror/suspense movies (My Fave= Insidious 1-3, All 76 SAW movies; The Purge(s)….
87. Rollerblading
88. Rollercoasters
89. That FEELING of “home” that I get when I walk into a Barnes & Noble
90. Leather journals with the strings to tie them up with? Yea.
91. I did NOT choose the blush-pink-really-soft-shirt life. It chose ME.
92. My “I lost my voice” voice. I want that voice permanently (my SON has this raspy little voice and it is SO SEXY I want to BITE him whenever he speaks to me!)
93. Snap chat filters. Judge me. Do it.
94. Teaching my daughter how to love “old school”  things like diaries,N’Sync, and keeping boxes full of memories.
95. The words QUINTESSENTIAL and EVANESCENT
96. Going to theme parks and fairs on “cold” days
97. Dancing “passionately” when no one is watching
98. The irony of a butterfly’s life from start to finish
99. Geometric. House decor, tattoos, everything.
100. Reading through urban dictionary.com
101. Writing lists about myself (eek)

I just realized my list does NOT consist of 1 worded things. At all. 😳😁

You can’t expect that from me. You need to be more realistic when it comes to what you get from me right? Anyways, this was so much fun. Tune in for my 101 Things That Burden My Soul!

101 Hugs,

-E