Through Rose-Colored Glasses: A Gratitude List (July 2012 / Part 2 )

• Doing what I love (Oh, the thrill of designing layouts!)
• Ideas bursting in my head
• Finishing a design knowing I worked hard for it
• Only minor revisions were suggested for my packaging design and not a complete overhaul (Yaaay!)
• Free tickets from a friend to a block screening of Ice Age 4: Continental Drift 
• Sleeping soundly and not having to wake up to the sound of the alarm
• Fried chicken skin
• Helping a friend
• Giving two friends free premiere night tickets to The Dark Knight Rises (Glad they enjoyed!)
• People who effortlessly make me laugh
• Getting lost in time when I have my earphones on
• Remembering a random funny memory and it's still funny
• Getting past a semi-hell week
• Friends who unknowingly keep me sane
• My mother being there, even if she's a thousand miles away
• Waking up to a text from a college blockmate whom I have never heard from for quite a long time, asking me how I've been
• Rose Tint filter
• A timely homily
• The priest getting us to sing Happy Birthday to birthday celebrants for the week. I guess that was the first time for me to sing a happy song to (a) stranger/s and it felt good.
• The rain pouring down just when I got home (I did the grocery and had it poured earlier, it would be hard to walk with an umbrella 'cause both my hands were full.)
• Commuting alone to a place for the first time (Believe me, it's such a feat for a person with no sense of direction!)
• Caring for my beloved brother in the hospital (Boo, dengue fever!) We were just laughing most of the time!
• Discovering a new old song to love
• Sausage McMuffin and hot choco for breakfast
• A jolly "Good Morning!" from the people in McDonald's
• Falling asleep on my brother's bed at home, after sleeping on a hard wooden bench in a hospital for two nights in a row
• Writing
• How a morning suddenly becomes beautiful upon remembering someone special
• Feeling accomplished after doing something successfully for the first time
• My brother's girlfriend bringing in Yellowcab pizza and chicken for lunch at the same time when we were too tired and lazy to prepare food
• A deep sleep
• Playing Temple Run to de-stress
• Having a few hours to kill after being so busy for weeks
• The wind's caress
• The current length of my hair