Jan 21

This is my friend Sparkles. Thats right..Sparkles. Isn't she precious? Her name is actually Danielle but the first week that all of us joined Pi Phi she announced one night that if she were a stripper, her name would be Sparkles. It stuck. What makes it even better is that she is the littlest nugget you'll ever meet. This semester I'm honored to call her my roommate. She truly has a one-of-a-kind personality that never fails to entertain me. We got ourselves laughing to the point of stomach aches when three packages arrived for her from her home in California. She lugged the fist one up to our room and I immediately rushed over to the futon to watch her open it up. I've found get just as much enjoyment out of watching other people open packages as I do when I get them myself.. As soon as the intensely taped box was ripped open, I immediately lost my marbles when I saw what was inside. It was packed to the brim with every kind of goodie you could ever imagine from Beef Jerky to AirHeads (three XL baggies of them), all for little Sparks. And when I say that this girl barely eats, I mean she barely eats so this box of edible greatness gave me quite a good laugh. As if that wasn't enough, she left and came back up with two more boxes. Sure enough these boxes contained just as many food treasures as the first which only caused me to laugh even harder. Between giggles she told me that it was all from her mom who she had told to "not send a lot of food". I wish I could have seen what too much food was... The case of the giggles that I got from Sparkles and her three boxes managed to make my day extremely enjoyable. I love having a good story to tell people that makes them smile or laugh because no matter how many times I tell it, I get almost as much of enjoyment out of it as I did when it actually happened. Its amazing how one thing can completely change your mood or determine the outlook you have on your day. A couple of my goals that I have already set for this year have a lot to do with realizing my happiness and finding the best in every day and I think that by finding one moment of genuine happiness in a day is enough to help make realizing those other goals even easier. If you can find one thing each week that makes you grin or chuckle just by thinking about it, so many moments of your day could be more enjoyable. Right now I feel like this sounds pretty easy, but just as I usually am, I'll probably end up being surprised by how challenging it may be.