The Top 1000

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  1. When you realize there’s just enough milk in the carton to satisfy your first morning cup of coffee … :)

  2. Coming home from vacation to find an empty fridge at the same moment your friend calls to invite you out for supper! AWESOME

  3. calling someone really late at night, expecting to get their voicemail & suddenly they answer. always exciting.

    1. My daughter likes to say, “I’m being serious.”
      I’m sorry but I can’t not giggle when she says that.
      My nephew yesterday said, “I’m taking this game to a whole new level. One you’ve never seen before!” That was awesome. He’s 6.

  4. Eye connection about little kids.
    You’re with a friend and you see an adorable little kid. You both make faces, the kid makes an insane face back at you, or you are dancing awkwardly and the kid follows along. Whatever you’re doing, you and you’re friend both look at each other, make that connection, and you both know what the other one is thinking. “This kid is cute.” That sudden wordless connection is
    AWESOME.

  5. When you are trying to use an Internet password that you haven’t used in awhile (and there a few that you normally use) and the one that you choose first, actually works!! — and you’re IN! AWESOME!

  6. This is maybe more clear:
    When you are trying to use an Internet password to access a site that you haven’t used in awhile (and there a few passwords that you normally use) and you go ahead a try one, and it works, the first time! — and you’re IN! Now that is AWESOME!

  7. When you turn your phone on right as your friend is calling.

    When you pull apart an Oreo and all the cream is on one side

    late dinners

    Accomplishing something before the microwave reaches :00

  8. When your box from Amazon arrives at your door.

    That almost instant reply from a text message you sent.

    That moment when you realize that 10th pin is going to fall down and you got a strike!

    When your ears finally pop.

    Dexter.

  9. well i just bought this book yesterday and it is awesome! i didnt put it down for like 5 hours then i had to go to sleep. well anyways its to awesome i even woke up in the middle of the night and started to read it :D

  10. A fresh tube of toothpaste. There’s no longer the need to squish the tube to try to get that last bit out… and there’s just something to smile about knowing that no one else has wiped their toothbrush on the opening of the tube. :)

  11. When your cat finally decides to stop being psychotic and wants to snuggle.

    Realizing you are done ALL of your work and can go do whatever you want.

    Warm melt-in-your-mouth chocolate chip cookies. (With milk.)

  12. When you open the bathroom door after a steaming hot shower/bath and you get that cool blast of air and you feel all clean and refreshed.

  13. Swimming in the lake in the morning or at night.

    Going for walks really late in your pajamas.

    Staying in your pajamas for the whole day.

    Sleeping on trampolines.

    Turning the music up really loud when you’re home alone.

    When you get out of you’re car right as a really good song ends.

    Cutting a watermelon in half and eating it with a spoon.

  14. When you wake up on the first day of summer and you realise that everyday is going to be that way for 3 more months.

  15. going to bed thinking you have smoked the last cigarette in the soft pack, and waking up, checking the pack one last time and finding 1 more smoke. Gold!
    (dont take up smoking to find out though)

  16. Some of my favourite awesome things:

    1. English and Australian accents
    2. Anything fresh out of the dryer
    3. Drinking out of a glass with your pinki up
    4. Old Bikes
    5. Sun/ Lying on the beach
    6. Getting there JUST before the store closes
    7. Glow Stars
    8. The smell of freshly cut grass
    9. Finding someone as obsessed with something as you are (i.e. Harry Potter <3)
    10. Setting my alarm clock early on a saturday just so i can have the satisfaction of turning it off and returning to the most satisfying sleep possible.
    11. knowing what day it is in the summer
    12. holding hands with little kids
    13. Beating a personal record
    14. Running Barefoot

    15. (Quite possibly the strangest sensation i have ever felt) Drinking cold water with your mouth half frozen from the dentist. (seriously try it! half of the water is warm and the other half is cold)

  17. it’s pretty awesome when you pull out of a busy carpark and watch the other drivers fight for your parking space. It makes me feel powerful

  18. The feeling you get just before you write on the first page of a fresh notebook.

    Coming home after a successfull shopping trip and putting on the new clothes you bought, even though you already tried them on at the shops.

    When you have a crush on someone and you find out they have a crush on you too. haha love it!!

    Waking up and realising its the monring you leave for a massive holiday.

    When u wake up in the morning and try to make a strong fist but you just can’t do it haha (maybe im just wierd lol).

    Driving by yourself for the first time.

    When you’ve just learned how to ride a bike.

    When you have a really cold drink on a hot day and you feel it go down :)

  19. The feeling of new love… butterflies, constantly thinking of them, anticipating the next date with this person.

  20. when you’re texting someone and your phone vibrates and it turns out it’s someone else you weren’t expecting. AWESOME!

  21. Cracking open a new tube of toothpaste and doing that first squeeze….AWESOME!

    Going out of your way to step on a really crunchy leaf…. AWESOME!

  22. After a long drive home, transferring a sleeping child from the car to bed without waking them up. So precious and pure AWESOME!

  23. The perfect ice cream cone.

    The ice cream isn’t sliding off to one side, its stacked centered and perfect. The cone isn’t cracked anywhere or flaking off on the edges.

  24. What about putting aloe on a really bad sunburn?
    Or the first time you learn to cook something that isn’t out of a can?
    Or when you get your first paycheck?

  25. I love this list! One thing should be when your out in public and see someone you don’t like and you manage to hide before they see you.

  26. The moment at a restaurant when you recognize an item someone in your group ordered and realize the food is here!

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