Awesome things

3/14/10

Check out the Top 1,000 of the 1,000 Awesome Things blog! I came across it the other day and got a good chortle out of a lot of the things on there--I may have to buy the book. (Click on links to see the full entries)

#557 When you fold a piece of paper so it fits in the envelope perfectly
#969 Tire names
#945 Spending all your money on candy
#916 The sound of scissors cutting construction paper
#905 Using all the different shampoos and soaps in someone else's shower
#914 Surprise two-ply
#863 The perfect egg crack
#883 Ugly actors
#953 When cashiers open up new check-out lanes at the grocery store

I have a few more to add:

#1001 When your floor is clean enough to vacuum


Because it means that you've already picked up the dirty socks, spoons, books, artwork, diapers, magazines, blankets, DVDs, crumpled tissues, crayons, princess dresses, grape stems, empty juice boxes and those teensy little rubber clothes and shoes that go on those 3-inch dolls your daughter can't seem to get enough of.

AWESOME!

#1002 When you get the rice cereal to water ratio right on the first try

Say you start out with three tablespoons of dry rice cereal--then you add a little water from the tap and stir it around. It lookin' good and you bring it on over to the baby, who is so ready to eat he's shrieking at you and waving his arms and legs around all at the same time. Then you look down and the cereal has congealed into a thick lump. So then you have to go add more water, but then it's too soupy, so you add more cereal, and before you know it you have six times the amount that you really need.

Perfect cereal on the first try = happy, non-shrieking baby.

AWESOME!

#1003 When you have exactly enough batter for 24 cupcakes

This almost never happens. The back of the cake box always instructs to only fill the paper cup thingies "2/3" full, but if you do, then you bake your two batches of cupcakes and still have enough batter for an odd four or five (or even worse, three) more. Do you take the extra time and effort to bake the rest? Then how much time should you do it for, since the pan is mostly empty??? Do you really NEED more cupcakes?? And then of course if you use up extra paper cup thingies, you'll end up with too few for the next time you make some.

Similar to this is the issue of making cookie dough and you either being too hasty in stirring your chocolate chips or simply not having enough bicep power to get them all the way to the bottom, and then you always end up a few with chip-less, flat, unappetizing cookies from the last of the dough you've scraped from the bowl.

So properly proportioned baked goods?

AWESOME!

#1004 When your baby naps in his car seat the whole time his sister is in preschool

This happens on very serendipitous occasions when the little guy is fed, changed and tired when you plunk him into his little portable car seat to take big sister to school. You run a few errands after the drop-off and the lull of a Car Nap is too much for the baby to resist. The portable car seat allows mom to take him in and out of the car with her without disturbing him, and much productiveness (or lazy time at home in the peace and quiet) results, sometimes for the whole 2 1/2 hours that preschool is in session. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, it's

AWESOME!

I can think of more: When those band-aids you've been carrying around in your purse actually come in handy, when you have enough milk to last you till Monday without having to go to the grocery store, when your baby needs feeding, changing or a good stroll in the hall during a boring RS lesson/church talk.

What do you think is awesome?