100 Things that Make Me Happy (1-50)

I'm writing down the 100 things that make me happy. Here are the first fifty.

1. Warm bread fresh from the oven
2. Rainbows
3. Sunsets
4. Sunrises
5. Painting
6. Receiving flowers
7. Watching someone open an eagerly-anticipated gift that you bought or made.
8. Halloween costumes
9. Dodger Dogs
10. Coming home after the cleaning lady has been there
11. Touring people around my new house and seeing their expressions
12. Dancing tango
13. Receiving a heart-felt compliment
14. Waking up in someone's arms
15. Warm apple pie a la mode
16. Feeling sore after a good workout
17. Crossing a finish line
18. A baby's little hands and feet
19. A baby's smile
20. A baby's smell (when the diapers are clean)
21. Autumn leaves in New England
22. swimming in the ocean
23. first kisses
24. holding hands with someone you love
25. Landing at your destination airport at the beginning of a trip
26. belly laughs
27. karaoke
28. my mother's cooking
29. Christmas trees
30. Manicures
31. Pedicures
32. Massages
33. Observing someone enjoy my paintings
34. Popping the cork on a bottle of good champagne
35. Beef, especially Argentine beef
36. Sushi
37. My new house
38. Going to the hair dresser and having your head washed
39. hiking
40. Cartwheels
41. african dance
42. kittens
43. puppies
44. Hugs
45. Singing in front of an audience
46. Hot showers
47. Hot tubs
48. Thunderstorms
49. The ocean
50. Belly dancing with my jingly pink belly dancing scarf