I'm Thankful For

I realized yesterday that I did not post a picture, I intend to post some too. But hey, it's the holiday's... who's really paying attention to my blog anyways? GO BE WITH YOUR FAMILY.

In honor of thanksgiving, I wanted to post a list that I made for a friend of mine. I had been dared to make a list of 457 of my favorite things. I am going to post it here, but add a few things, and call it "I'm thankful for".
If you actually read through this whole list, I apologize... but maybe it'll help you find things to be thankful for!!
1. God
2. Worshipping
3. Dad
4. Mom
5. Brooke Fuller
6. Benjamin Fuller
7. Ethan Fuller
8. Lights
9.  The color yellow
10. My church
11. My church Family
12.  Snoopy
13. Stories
14. Books (yes there is a difference)
15. Pictures
16. Electricity
17. Fire
18. Lasagna
19. Grace
20. Love
21. Happiness
22. Joy
23. Peace
24. My Ductape Sandals (MOM)
25. Playing the piano
26. Playing the Bass guitar
27. Singing
28. Singing A-cappella in church
29. Singing to Switchfoot
30. Switchfoot
31. Jon Foreman
32. Tim Foreman’s bass skillage
33. Mary Ramsey
34. Ivoryline’s “Vessels” CD
35. Switchfoot’s “Nothing is Sound” Album
36. DC*B’s “ A Collision” Album (seriously.  Go listen to this album. It’s order is so beautiful)
37. When people *DON’T* Argue about doctrinal issues over youtube.
38. When people share the truth in *LOVE*
39. Un-angry people
40. Forgiveness. Deffly one of my favorite things.
41. Kindness
42.  The answer to life (Yes. That does count Avery)
43. Ashton Rueda
44. The English Language
45. Teachers
46. The fact that I never needed braces
47. Unbroken bones
48. Bananagrams
49. Scatagories
50. Mao
51. My laptop
52. Ipod’s (seriously? COOLEST INVENTION EVER)
53. Phone’s
54. CELLPHONES
55. Facebook
56. Twitter
57. Email
58. Pretty much the internet in general
59. When Ben plays the drums whilst I play the bass :D
60. NOT playing the piano in front of a large group of people
61. Good health
62. Inhalers. Because they’ve saved my life more than once.
63. Un-awkward situations
64. Rita’s
65. DMX Calculators
66. Calculators in general
67. Good math scores
68. MONEYMONEYMONEY ARH ARH ARH
69. NOT watching spongebob
70. Being in the tech booth
71. Having a Brain
72. Breathing
73. Being able to walk
74. Green lights
75.Bubbles
76. Paper
77. The Cajone
78. PLAYING the Cajone
79. Summer
80. Swimming
81. Dancing
82. RANDOM Dancing
83. Scaring people
84. Making people lose the “Game”
85. Irish accents
86. Teasing Megan Black
87. Megan Black
88. Sho Baraka’s “Shut Us Down”
89. Lecrae. SO MUCH WIN
90. Having deep theologically sound rap music
91. Having deep theologically sound music in general
92. The fact that Krista Hoganson is moving back to NC
93. The fact that Krista Hoganson and I are still friends even though she moved when I was in gradeschool and we were best friends and we didn’t think we’d ever hear from each other again.
94. Krista Hoganson
95. Skype
96. The fact that I COULD win all those special contests
97. Actually winning a contest
98. Shouting happy things
99. Calanders
100. The fact that I’m already at 100 things
101. Old people (YES. THEY TELL GREAT STORIES)
102. Quotes. I have a secret obsession with looking at quotes.
103. Quoting quotes.
104. When people like my status
105. When people I know add me on Facebook first
106. Extremely well-made Christian movies
107. Good movies in general
108. Netflix
109. Monk
110. Numb3rs
111. Camera’s
112. People with better camera skillz than me
113. People who let me use their photos because they know I’m not good at taking pictures
114. Free stuff
115. Free USEFUL stuff
116. Stocking Stuffers
117. Tacs. They hold things to my wall.
118. Letters.
119. Oh you thought I meant written letters from people? I like those too
120. Chubby adorable babies.
121. Think Geek
122. Church Productions Magazine
123. That the Lord knew I was terrified of being ON stage, so he gave me the ability to do techie things BACK stage.
124. Notebooks
125. Being Hydrated
126. Going barefoot
127. Being barefoot in the snow until your feet go numb
128. Nirchi’s Pizza
129. The New York Yankees
130. Spiedies
131. The Beach
132. The Mountains
133. The fact that it’s not winter all year in N.C.
134. The fresh air of NY
135. People Watching
136. Theater
137. Adding a good beat to an old hymn
138. The lyrical strength of old hymns
139. The Lecrae Concert I went to last yearish
140. Attalus Concerts
141. Working at Attalus’ Concerts
142. Tight Harmonies
143. Finding a song you heard at a concert and loved, but didn’t know the name of.
144. Heaven.
145. Mangoes
146. Toothpaste
147. Running Water
148. The fact that I can take a shower every day
149. HOT running water
150. Waterfalls
151. Oceans (Not the same as the beach)
152. Glow in the dark weapons
153. Music Videos that make sense
154. The Truthfulness of children
155. Making a Walmart Cashier’s day.
156. Smiling and watching people feel better
157. Glowsticks
158. Blacklights
159. Toilet-papering the whole gym under blacklights while the leaders were encouraging it
160. Competition
161. Actually completing a dare.
162. Only accepting dares that aren’t dumb
163. The fact that I missed out on a lot of crud in middleschool
164. The fact that I am no longer IN middleschool
165. The fact that God blessed me with great friends
166. The fact that I can sing along with a lot of rap music
167. Dwayne Tryumf’s unbeatable rap skillage
168. The color blue
169. Lime green, yellow, and orange ALL TOGETHER
170. Lemonade
171. Cooking
172. Pink Pants
173. When people wear more than the color black
174. Haley Mathiot
175. Haley Mathiot’s sewing skillage
176. Haley Mathiot’s throwing skillage (like the pottery)
177. American Sign Language
178. Narnia
179. Jaclyn Young
180. Unlimited Texting
181. When Jaclyn and I watch Disney movies together
182. Eleventyseven’s “Galactic  Conquest” album
183. Robots
184. Gaff Tape
185. Duct tape
186. When I get past the retarded bird in GIRP
187. Unicorns
188. Cute earrings
189. Cheap Earrings
190. Glitter
191. Not spending massive amounts of time shopping for nothing
192. Going out with my mom on mommy daughter dates, and getting to pay for her food
193. When I actually get to drive. Stupid government.
194. When people totally guess my age wrong.
195. The hilarious look on people’s face when I tell them how old I am
196. Sunday Night Hangout-times after service.
197. Moriah Grant.  She just brings me so much joy.
198. The Mccoy Kids.
199. When the Mccoy kids give me hugs J
200. Amanda Mann’s drawing skillage
201. Amanda Mann’s mean banjo skillage
202. Amanda Mann in general
203. The After's "Summer Again"
204. Megan Black’s photography skillage. I would steal this.
205. Megan’s “Dead puppy face.”
206. Yakkety Sax
207. A song with more than 3 chords
208. BIRTHDAYS
209. The fourth of July. This is my all time favorite holiday.
210. Christmas too.
211. Wearing dresses
212. Wearing dresses for SHORT periods of time.
213. Walter the Owl.
214. CUTE LUNCHBAGS
215. The smell after it rains
216. The cornfield next to my old house in NY
217. Cheese
218. Twirling in a happy dress
219. The starkness of shadows when light is shown upon them
220. The jingling of car keys in MY HAND
221. Canolies (spelling? Some really delicious Italian dessert.)
222. When free songs on itunes actually are worth listening to
223. Contacts
224. The Cupcake Bite
225. The Cupcake Bite’s “Blondie Cupcake” (joooyyy)
226. I really really really like vegan soap for some reason
227. Adorable hair pins
228. Sequins
229. Decent Shorts.
230. The memory of jumping in the icy-cold pool in the middle of January with my siblings.
231. “The Shadow Proves the Sunshine” by Switchfoot (yeahyeah it’s off that album. Get over it.)
232. The fact that my purse is really speakers for my ipod
233. The fact that my key card gets me into the church when I’m working. I didn’t always have that privilege.
234. Amy Justice coming back to church in the summer and letting me tag along on her techie adventures!
235. Hot chocolate on a cold day
236. Eating Icecream when it’s cold and rainy.
237. My nice warm bed after a long day.
238. Sitting around the dinner table with my family telling stories.
239. Laughing. I *LOVE* laughing.
240. The smell of a new book
241. The smell of an old book
242. Finding treasures in a book
243. Those books that have the pockets and things that you can open and pull out stuff of. (anyone know what I’m talking about?)
244. Nancy Drew computer games
245. Specifically  The Curse of Blackmoore Manor
246. Going to the pool with Megan Black and Brooke Fuller, and Jumping in all at the same time
 247. The memories of “Veronica” The evil Barbie doll that represented all the “popular bad girls” we didn’t like in middleschool
248. Arthur the Aardvark. Who taught me how to spell “Aardvark”
249. Pens
250. Markers. I have this strange obsession with them.
251. Bandaids. I don’t really know why. I just love multicolored/decorative bandaids.
252. I loovvee glass dolls. I collect them. Did I just admit that over the internet?
253. Tiny glass tea-sets.
254. When people do my hair. I’m so uncreative with it… I love it when people dress it up.
255. Super Mario Sunshine
256.Super Nintendo
257. The movie “The Imposter” with Kevin Max
258. DC Talk, even though I’ve never gotten to listen to all their songs.
259. “The Second Chance.” With Steven Curtis Chapman ( I think? Some famous guy.)
260. The fact that Newsboys sounds so much better now that they switched singers
261. The fact that Betsy Townsend took me to Winterjam :D
262. Betsy Townsend in general. She is a role model of mine.
263. The fact that my mother likes Switchfoot
264. The fact that my mother made a Lecrae reference the other day without noticing it…
265. The fact that my daddy takes time to ask me how I’m doing
266. The fact that my daddy let me go to a Lecrae concert even though he can’t stand the stuff.
267. My kitten, I usually hate cats… but this one thinks he’s a dog. And he loves me.
268. Watermelons
269. Skin. I like having skin.
270. The smell of fried chicken
271. Hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com
272. Electric nail polish colors
273. Those converses that I wanted to buy years ago but couldn’t afford and still want but seem to no longer exist.
274. Shopping Carts. I mean come on, try holding all that stuff by hand
275. When people actually use the shopping cart corral
276. Golden Corral
277. HUSH PUPPIES
278. Curlz MT
279. Being able to count.
280. The little rainbow swirlie thing that twirls and twists in the wind that sits above my bookshelf
281. Rulers. Like the things that you can use to draw straight lines with
282. Sketch pads –ahhhh-
283. Brand new pencils
284. That brand new pencil smell
285. The smell of those bring pink erasers.
286. Glitter Glue
287. Crayons
288. PLAYDOUGH
289. Yellow Ductape
290. Dragonfruit and Thai Febreez room spray
291. Cheesecake
292. Christmas Sweets
293. Working in the kitchen during Christmas Sweets
294. Working as a waitress during Christmas Sweets
295. Working as a techie during Christmas Sweets
296. The kitchen staff at Colonial
297. Ed Maness
298. The fact that the CYT cast can do the Bernie
299. When my hair doesn’t frizz
300. Creating sets with Mrs. Cindy
301. Mrs. Cindy’s brain. Serriously. I love her creative mind
302. Mrs. Cindy in general
303. The memory I have of going into home Depot with Mrs. Cindy
304. Galatians 2:20
305. Spellcheck
306.  CYT
307. The people at CYT
308. Working as a techie for CYT
309. Gummy anything pretty much
310. Mike & Ikes
311. Reeses
312. That little statue of cupid that keeps showing up in random places
313. Bacon
314. Making Waffles with Krista Hoganson
315. Sausage Pizza
316. Those Hot N’ Ready’s from Little Ceasers
317. Dominos Pizza
318. Audrey Daum
319. Going to the Dollar tree with Audrey Daum
320. Going to Cookout with my carpool buddies from CYT
321. The memory of Jacob Abraham and Jamey Meeker hopping on Megan’s van
322. Jacob Abraham’s guitar skillage (steals skillage)
323. Jamey Meeker’s vocal skillage
324. Grooveshark
325. My stuffed animal puppy ^_^
326. Random Conversations
327. Josh Mcdowell’s message at our church
328. The silly reaction of people to “famous people.”
329. Those orb thingies with electricity inside that follows your hand around.
330. Lava lamps
331. Multicolored lightbulbs
332. Mountain Dew
333. Not doing what the crowd does
334. A gentleman
335. Arsenic and Old Lace
336.  LOTR
337.The Cosby Show
338. Ashton Rueda’s hair flip
339.Scrabble
340. Mad Gab
341. I Am Number Four
342. George the statue
343. Dani Fuller
344. Sammi Fuller
345. Quenton Fuller
346. Tina Fuller
347. Uncle Wesley
348. Aunt Becky
349. The fact that my cousins respond to life the same way we do
350. The fact that we were instant friends… once we could remember who was who
351. The fact that they like to laugh
352.The Starship Unicorn
353. IT lights
354. Children
355. Pastor Aaron
356. Pastor Don
357. “Myspace” By The Afters
358.The Parrot on The Curse of Blackmoore Manor
359. Little Debbie Swiss Rolls MMMMM
360. My piano teacher
361.  When my body lets me sleep in
362. Felt
363. The softness of  a Chinchilla
364. The fact that Chinchillas look like Pikachu
365. Cotton Candy Body Spray
366. Edith Olivarez
367.The fact that Turbo Dax’s profile picture is a show I lite
368. Avery Thorn’s pinano skillage
369.Chocolate
370. A double chocolate chip mocha frappacinno without the coffee xD (Doublechocolatechip)
371. The fact that I know all the people at the Starbucks across from church
372. The fact that they know me xDDDDD
373. Playing in the rain
374. Rain in general
375. You know what? Snow.
376. Salt n’ Vinegar chips
377. Going out to lunch with Lauren Folk
378. My daddy’s laugh
379. Ethan’s dancing
380. Ben’s Old Spice Man impression
381. Evil Genius by EleventySeven
382. American Dream by Switchfoot
383. Smashing Sprite cans with a car
384. Stickers
385.Drawing
386. Painting
387. Biltmore Castle
389. Taking pictures at Biltmore Castle with Brooke Fuller
390. Going to Tweetsy Railroad during Halloween
391. Holidays that get you free candy
392. Texting my friend while she’s driving all the way across the country
393. Petting Puppies!!
394. Petting Kittens!
395. Holding a Rabbit!
396. I want a Rabbit. SO. BAD.
397. Amigurumi
398. Juicy Juice
399. Candy Corn
400. Memory Cards
401. Memory Sticks
402. External Harddrives
403. Seeing Haley and her family for Thanksgiving
404. Nicknames
405. Hugs
406. Jericho
407. Cheese Whiz
408. Rhubarb Pie
409. Moose Tracks Ice cream
410. Cookiedough Ice cream
411. Sugar
412. Hammocks
413. My Bubble Chair
414. Snickerdoodles
415. MP3’s instead of MP4’s
416. Emma Marx’s photo skillage
417. The Student Tech Team
418. Air Conditioning
419. Heater
420. Cheesecake
421. Those Cheesecake Jello things.
422. Ice Cream Cake
423. The Cave
424. My strange hearing abilities when I’m around Mary Ramsey
425. Picnics
426. Emma Marx red hair
425. Straighteners
426. “All I have is Christ”
427. “We Stand Amazed”
428. Nachos
429.Dutch Blitz
430. Cookout
431. Getting trucks to honk
432. The little convenience store by my house
433. Walking around the neighborhood without worrying about dogs
434. Walking around the neighborhood AFTER DARK and not worry about creepers
435. Feeding the ducks at the pond
436. Contemplating life at the pond
437. Scaring the trashman because I’m singing at the lake at talking to ducks.
438. Naming the ducks
439. Realizing that the ducks know their names
440. Ducktor Laura (yeahyeahyeah cheesy)
441. Cream Cheese Frosting
442. Spice Cake
443. Despair.com
445. Blarnia
446. The dollhouse we had as kids
447. SHOPPING CART  (Brooke Fuller)
448. “Adventures in Space” Featuring the seven dwarves
449. When my little brothers and I would wrestle in the bonus room
450.  The fact that my cat is ticklish
451. Glazed Pecans
452. Peanut Butter
453. Brut Ads
454. Steven Crowder (most of the time)
455. What little I’ve read of the “Adventure’s of Dr. Mcninja”
456. Ninja’s SO beat pirates
457. Playing piano whilst rain is pelting the music room windows
458. Attalus' new Album "Post Tenabras Lux"
459. The love of God pulling me out of darkness into his wonderful light
460. The faith God's provided me with, and that I'm not responsible for saving myself.
461. Puppets
462. Joanne's Fabric's
463. Thanksgiving Break
464. Christmas Trees
465. My Religion Professor at School