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fifty things that made my year, 2016

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Last year was Not Kind. But in the midst of the madness, I think I can come up with fifty things for this list, as I have for the past couple years (2014, 2015).

  1. obviously, buying our house
  2. getting my tattoo
  3. hanging out backstage during Cloud Cult
  4. new car!
  5. Cloud Cult’s album and film, “The Seeker”
  6. my fancy new coffee maker
  7. Paul McCartney at the Target Center
  8. seeing Dave Chappelle at First Ave during his Minneapolis takeover
  9. Little Red Porkette
  10. paying off one of my student loans
  11. having a woman on the presidential ballot
  12. voting for said woman, even if she’s not going to be president
  13. Rebekah’s wedding. Table 7 for liiiife
  14. growing my hair out…
  15. …and then cutting it off again because long hair is annoying
  16. the Chicago Cubs
  17. The Crown on Netflix
  18. six years of marriage ❤
  19. learning how to make scones
  20. the Tony-Award-winning musical Fun Home
  21. hot chocolate
  22. the TSA’s Instagram
  23. the strange and wonderful art we bought
  24. another West Wing re-watch (that is continuing into the new year)
  25. a coworker gifted me a Christmas tree
  26. chocolate & peanut butter brownies from Pizza Luce
  27. Leslie Knope’s letter to America
  28. the Bob Ross Twitch channel
  29. Halloween cat onesie
  30. several successful DIY projects
  31. silicone baking sheets
  32. Julia Turshen’s Small Victories
  33. night coffee
  34. all coffee, actually
  35. so many HGTV shows on Netflix
  36. “Delete your account.”
  37. learning grasshopper pose, kinda
  38. becoming better friends with our now-former apartment neighbors
  39. moving out of said former apartment
  40. pretty sunrise views from our bedroom window
  41. my solo one-day trip to see some of my WI family
  42. the super-sweet thing (about being a family) that Darren said to me on his birthday that made us both cry
  43. Enli being Enli
  44. Amazon Prime (34 orders in 2016, could be worse? lol)
  45. not being sick for Christmas break, for the second year in a row!
  46. my 11 day Christmas break
  47. TV marathons
  48. Harrison turned one and continues to be awesome
  49. Boca Chica’s Taco House
  50. that there were enough good things to make even the shortest list