I think we all have those things that we say all the time (whether we are aware of them or not) that either annoy us or others or both. One of my roommates works with special needs kids and now says "Good job" all the time. My other roommate's thing is saying "wait what?" and then proceeding to respond to whatever you said rather than wait for you to respond.
     My thing annoys the crap out of my mom. I over exaggerate everything: I never just like things. I love love love them. Nothing is nice. Things are really nice. I often die of starvation and/or being cold or am so tired I'll just die. However I also live  for a lot of things. I decided to start keeping track of the things I say I live for in March ago so that when I'm dying of something I'll remember things aren't so bad. Sadly there are dozens and dozens of things I've said,  "Oh, my God I live for..."in the past 2 months. Here they are:

1. Musicals and show tunes. Growing up, Grease was my favorite movie. I thought that's what high school would be like--that my friends and I would go around dancing and singing all the time. My first celebrity crush was John Travolta as Danny Zuko. This leads into the next thing I live for:
2. Men singing show tunes (sad story concerning this one. One of my cousins just informed me he picked up a girl by singing "Part of Your World"  to her, yes, The Little Mermaid. I thought wow, that's ballsy, then I realized, no, it's genius. That would work on me. Crap. I hope no one tries that--that's sneaky. Good thing the only men I know who sing Disney are gay or related to me...so far haha)
3. Anything with any combination (or by themselves) of Dark chocolate, peanut butter and oatmeal. Monster Cookie dough is my favorite food of all time.
4. Dogs, real dogs not yippy rodents.
5. Yippy rodent dogs that I can laugh at.
6. Dogs that drive.
7. Hugs. Good God do I live for hugs. I love love love them. I come from a family where I got hugged every day, multiple times a day. Now that I don't live with huggers, my body craves physical human contact. I am a hug addict and going through withdrawal.
8. Free stuff. Doesn't even matter what it is. I live for free stuff.
9. Competition and winning. There doesn't even have to be a prize. Cards, dominos, sports--ANYTHING I'm sure I've said it about most games. Except Apples to Apples. I freaking hate that game.
10. Daily crossword puzzles.
11. Waterskiing.
12. Napping in the sun.
13. Pancakes, waffles, french toast, cereal--breakfast carbs especially for dinner and combined with peanut butter and syrup.
14. Garden Cafe's Carrot Cake. And only Garden Cafe's.
15. Planning and Scheduling. I live to make my new schedule each semester of school and draw up little calendars and plan things and make lists. So I have a little OCD...
16. 90's music, "Come Together" by the Beatles, "Beast of Burden" by the Rolling Stones, "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls, "Drops of Jupiter" by Train, "How to Be Dead" by Snow Patrol and "Some Might Say" by Oasis, The Wallflowers station on Pandora, Pandora in general.
17. Fried flour tortilla chips and $2 chicken tacos.
18. Leon's Mexican Restaurant in Norfolk, my hometown.
19. Any Mexican Restaurant in Norfolk.
20. Roller Coasters.
21. Hilarious signs.
22. My mom and my brother. I need to find a way I can make them be like the king and his heir so they aren't allowed to travel together so that they both can't die in a crash or something. I could live if something happened to my mom because my brother would need me and vice versa, however, I can't live without both.
23. Candy bars in the form of eggs. I don't normally go for Snickers or Reese's (unless they are dark chocolate or on frozen yogurt) but there is something about them in egg form that is so much better than the bar form.
24. Singing in the car. Loudly. Full out Erin Darby Gesell concert when I travel alone.
25. Singing (loudly and horribly) and dancing (also horribly).
26. Butterflies in my stomach. I find this to be an awful and wonderful sensation all at the same time that makes me happy and want to puke.
27. Cold water from Scoular's filter. Yep, I really said that recently. I live for Scoular's cold water. The little things in life, I guess!
28. The Target Clearance Section.
29. Victoria's Secret free panties. I get one in the mail a least once a month. I have new underwear coming out of my ears and enough to last a lifetime.
30. All you can eat sushi--sounds gross, I know, but it's not out on a buffet, they bring it out fresh just like any other sushi place and it's amazeballs.
31. Fat Fest. My friends and I all went to Vegas after we turned 21 and stayed at the Monte Carlo hotel. One day we got the all-day-all-you can-eat buffet. We dubbed this glorious day Fat Fest 2010. I peaked at breakfast where I ate my weight in blueberry pancakes with blueberry syrup and didn't eat the rest of the day. Fat Fest 2011 was held at all you can eat sushi. I paced myself better that time. We've been discussing the location of Fat Fest 2012. I can't wait to live for that too.
32. Laughing at myself. Some days if I can't do that, I think I'd just cry.
33. Swinging, especially in the round-and-round swings in Lexington.
34. Laketime.
35. Three Silly Girls Boobie Smushes with my cousins Darby and Sydney. We have always done three-way hugs. Then Darby and I got boobs and Sydney's face was at boob height. For a couple of years it sucked to be her.
36. Johnny Depp, the love of my life.
37. Yogurt.
38. Frozen Yogurt.
39. Frozen yogurt covered in mounds of chocolate.
40. Those few and far between books that are so amazing that you check out of the real world while you read them and then are depressed to return when the book is over.
41. Being warm in the sun.
42. My heated blanket.
43. Not having to do laundry.
44. Being away from my phone and then returning to it to see that I have a missed call, text or Facebook message...and not have them be spam or from work
45. Harry Potter references.
46. Karma catching up to people.
47. My friend and co-worker Frank's photos he posts on Facebook.
48. Nebraska Football.
49. Good athletics.
50. Nebraska in the fall aka football season.
51. Boys' hoops. As in good competition boys' basketball games...not boys with hoop earrings or boys with hula hoops or anything like that.
52. The tv show Boy Meets World. I then proceeded to add that I lived for all of the shows from TGIF when I was a kid.
53. Bedtime.
54. Eatingtime.
55. Going to Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.

So 55 things that I've said I live for in around 60 days. Looks like I shouldn't run out of reasons to live.