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  1. When you are driving down the road and you see a car that has a stupid personalized license plate.

    Passing a sports car when you are in a normal car.

    When you really want to hear a song and it ends up being the next one played on your random playlist.

    When your friend thinks that the bad smell in the car is from outside and doesn’t realize you secretly farted.

  2. Finding a really cool website that you know you just have to sign up for.

    The feeling of chewing a soft, warm brownie.

    Turning off your lawnmower and knowing you’re finally done.

    Driving on the highway for the first time, even though you’re scared to death.

    Playing an old video game after going years without touching it.

    Driving into the sunrise/sunset.

    Being the first to finish a test.

    Taking a shower late at night and having major bed hair the next morning.

    That perfect feeling when you’re just tired enough to fall asleep.

    Waking up without being groggy.

    Wiping a sleeper from your eye.

    Finally being able to breathe after a cold.

    Feeling sick enough to stay home but not sick enough to not have fun.

    Listening to the coins as you drop them into the vending machine.

    Biting into a fresh apple.

    Eating ice cream at the perfect temperature.

    Taking a walk at 2 in the morning.

    The feeling when the season “changes”.

    When your dog finally “gets” a new trick.

    Waking up with perfect hair.

    Rushing through a good book in two days.

    The smell after the rain.

    Waking up 2/3 hours before you have to, then falling back asleep.

    A dream that you thought was real.

    Getting the Best Answer on Yahoo Answers chosen BY THE ASKER.

    Putting in contacts and being able to see perfectly.

    Trying a beer for the first time and hating it.

    Twilight.

    Having a friend in another country.

    Playing a sport at sunset.

    Hearing a great song, then driving yourself crazy finding out the title.

    Having the dentist spray water into your mouth after getting your teeth cleaned.

    Strolling through the city listening to your favorite song.

    Knowing you’re going to remember a moment forever.

    Remembering Christmas when you were a kid.

    That feeling when you’re finally finished with everything.

    Sharpening a pencil to the perfect length.

    Sharpening a pencil the “old-fashioned” way.

    The FastPass at Disney World.

    Visiting your childhood home and seeing someone you knew.

    Mastering a song.

    Being able to answer someone’s question.

    Fresh socks without holes in them.

    Having a hotel room to yourself.

    Fresh paint.

    Exploring a building and finding a “secret” room.

    Taking a nap in class.

    Thinking you forgot to do something, then remembering you already did that.

    Going to an amusement park on a school day.

    Getting brave enough to ride that rollercoaster and loving it.

    Staying up 24 hours.

    Having the power go out for a few hours.

    Getting an extra hour when Daylight Saving Time is over.

    When something is exactly as you remembered it.

    Taking off from an airport.

    A Boy Scout camping trip.

    Being so hungry and eating a food that you usually hate.

    Having a bus seat to yourself.

    Being really thirsty and taking a huge drink of water.

    When your iPod is fully charged.

    That last push-up.

    Watching mood rings change colors.

    In-jokes.

    Picking a moment out of each day and trying to remember it forever.

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  4. when you´re lying in the grass with a friend and are cloudwatching, and your friend sees the exact same shape as you do

  5. Sand!

    Sand is awesome. Yes, so it’s just a load of tiny rocks, but think of all the things you need sand for! Nothing made of concrete or held together with mortar could exist without it. That’s a lot of buildings and roads and garden gnomes (OK, bad example).

    Then there’s all those beaches we love to lounge around on, and dunes to drive fat-tyred motorbikes over. Not to mention great deserts of the stuff to be pleased you don’t live in.

    Finally, of course, if you heat it up a bit you end up with glass. Possibly the most useful substance ever invented. How would we make beer bottles, windows or fibre-optic cables without glass.

    So there we are – you can build with it, build castles large and small from it and drink your beer from it. Sand. It’s awesome.

  6. When you walk outside and the temperature is just perfect and the air has a Tropical Aroma to it, reminds you of your vacation in the Tropics, it carries your senses to that very same place, almost like you where standing there right now and for that moment you lose yourself in the beauty of it all. We all treasure those wonderfull feelings and memories inside our hearts and when they are awakened by our senses, they take on a life of their own! That is an Awesome Thing!!!

  7. When you are swinging on a swing set and you go up and look up to the sky and feel like you are going to float away!

  8. When You Meet Someone So Very Special, You Just Don’t Know What It Is About Them That Makes Them So Very Special, They Just Are! No Matter What Anyone Says, No Matter What They Do, They are Always So Special! Even As The Years Go By They Are Always Remembered And Remain Very Special In Our Hearts. Like a Warm Blanket on a Freezing Cold Day, Those Fond Memories Will Always Warm Our Hearts! It Is An Awesome Thing To Be So Lucky To Meet Someone That Is So Very Special!!! If Only They Can See And Believe How Truly Special They Really Are!!!

  9. it’s hard to be sad when you read this list! here are some of mine:
    – when you listen to a song you haven’t heard in months or years and it brings back amazing memories
    – hearing a favourite song or watching a favourite movie for the first time in years and still being able to remember every single word
    – finally eating or drinking something you’ve been craving for days
    – those perfect yawns that are so deep they seem to come from your toes, the ones that make your eyes water
    – thinking about something specific and a friend says it right before you open your mouth to say it, in the exact wording you were about to say it in
    – the sound of rain
    – cooking or preparing a meal/snack and having it turn out absolutely perfectly
    – the very last bite of a soft-serve ice cream cone where the bottom/waffle part is filled with half-melted, but still cool ice cream
    – the smell of melting butter
    – the moment you realize one of your friends has a crush on you
    – being able to have an entire conversation with someone you’re close to without saying a word
    – shoes with funky tread patterns
    – sun dogs (a rainbow halo around the sun)
    – when your body moves of its own accord, like when someone throws a ball at your face, catching you off-guard and your hand whips up to catch it before you can think of what to do

  10. Finding an Italian bakery and buying a piece of fresh bread pizza and a Coke and sitting on the curb in Florence, IT with dirty feet from walking all day and eating it with the pigeons! So awesome!!!

  11. Getting into a freshly changed bed of ironed linen sheets after a bubble bath – alone :) I race my husband to the bed for this one

  12. Mixing a successful pot of washing liquid and water and bending wire so that I can blow bubbles when the kid’s pot has run out. :)

  13. Nothing is better then the smell of the ocean.
    or Submerging yourself in the cold ocean water on the first warm summer day :) Awesome!

  14. when you have been going a bit ferral then finally get around to doing all your grooming on one day – wash your hair, clip your nails, paint your toenails, shave, pluck your eyebrows.

  15. * crawling into bed after being awake all night (whether it be studying/patrying or working)

    * butterflies you get when u see a msg on ur phone from someone you like

    * the excitement you feel when you arrive at the airport to go somewhere

    * massaging sore muscle the day after a big exercise session

    * drinking water from the tap in your cupped hands.. tastes sooo good! especially after brushing your teeth

    LOVE this site :)

  16. Perfect high fives that end in umprompted snaps and when you find out someone has the same favorite color.

  17. That moment when every thing feels right in the world, and your chest and shoulders suddenly feel light and you start walking with confidence.

  18. – the moment in the spring you realize that the trees have budded and are green again

    – the sound of hockey sticks hitting the puck and the ice

    – the smell of a new car

    – the smell of a new pencil

  19. When the whole house is quiet, and all you can hear is your dad playing guitar or the radio you left on in a different room.

  20. A totally awesome feeling is lathering shampoo right into your hair. It’s so relaxing. Same with singing in the shower, totally awesome.

  21. Mid afternoon thunderstorms in the Summer.

    Especially the ones that end abruptly and the sun shines bright again. Feels like a start of a new day. :)

  22. the sound of a can of coke being iopened and the the carbonated mess coming out after and the bubbles hitting you after drink it :)

  23. Don’t know if it was included (at work and can’t go through the whole list) but catching a lingering waft of a perfume that reminds you of a special person or time in your life. Wonderful.

  24. having a song stuck in your head and walking down the hall and realizing your not the only crazy one and this particular song is stuck in everyones head

    when its a snow day in Houston

    when a teacher changes a test last minute because you already studied and you can just rest until about an hour before

  25. Hello:
    More awesome things:

    — mushrooms of the boreal forest (fantastically awesome)
    — Couchsurfing.org
    — getting your groceries on your bike
    — Finnish pancakes
    — noticing

    Thank you so much for being a voice for the wonderfulness of life.
    I was wondering if there was anyone else who noticed.

  26. When a character in a movie says the title of that movie in one of their lines.

    yeah…you know what i’m talking about.

  27. Hey Neil,
    I heard you on CHUM fm this morning and I had to sit in the car until you were off the air before heading into WalMart. I heard you a year earlier and I loved you then!! So, I went into the store and I saw some clothes on a rack that I thought you could only buy at a certain store in the States….OMG… here they were in my WalMart…. AWESOME!!
    Then, as I continued to work I had to take a detour as I had to stop and run a quick errand. I went a different way and I was going a little faster and to my left up ahead was a black unmarked cop car. I though…shoot… He got me. I rounded a corner and saw his lights flash and I started to get in teh right lane to pull over and I looked in my rear view mirror and WOWZA…. the nabbed the car behind me…..AWESOME!!!
    It’s been a rough year for me too but finally last week has been the peak that I have been waiting so long for. I’m still a single mom but every little moment is now one I treasure. It’s those moments that take my breath away.

    Thank you,

    Edana

    If you’re still single….you know where you can reach me… AWESOME!!

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