List of Things I’m Grateful For (2014)

* Note: This part of the list is in chronological order - or, at least, as chronological as I can make it.

January1. New Year's countdown with my family
2. Winter Break - yay no school!
3. The first week back from Winter Break - yay no homework!
4. Recesses - more time to talk with my best friend, who was not in my class
5. Snow - well, I loved Frozen, okay?
6. YouTube karaokes for Let It Go and For the First Time in Forever...again, I loved Frozen, okay?
7. Finding my MP3 player because I had been looking for it for weeks
8. Books, books, books. And factions.

February1. Finding the lyric meanings of Summertime Sadness on rock.rapgenius.com
2. Becoming a regular user on rapgenius.com
3. Google Images
4. Weekends because they gave me extra time to do things I wanted to do, and to relax and forget about the horrible events at school
5. All the time I had to talk to one of my friends from class
6. The annotation theme of Rap Genius
7. The simple Genius of the name Rap Genius
8. Editors and mods who reached out to me on Rap Genius after seeing my Frozen tates
9. Meaningful lyrics in general
10. The number 22
11. The Winter Olympics in Sochi - hockey is so fun to watch!
12. My intuition that told me Jamie Benn was going to be a crucial part if Canada was to win the gold medal for men's hockey
13. The rare times in math when we got a relatively harder question that required more logical thinking
14. How my classmates actually had an okay sense of humor sometimes, at least compared to a few months later...
15. The heaters at home and in the classroom
16. Computers
17. Hot chocolate
18. Being able to stay out of all the "drama" on Valentine's Day

March1. Knowing that I should not make friends with one of the girls in my class because she had evident personality disorder. If I did make friends with her, then I would've only suffered from a terrible betrayal at some point.
2. No matter how few, all the things I had in common with any person in my life I appreciated.
3. People I appreciated, like everyone on Rap Genius who helped me work my way towards editorship, and Dyazz, who made me an editor on March the 10th.
4. Getting editored on March the 10th.
5. Hating self-indulgence
6. Realizing the difference between smart and obsessed with being smart. Erudites aren't always intelligent, even though they're known as Erudite, the Intelligent.
7. Realizing that the Divergent factions are more based on values than on personality.
8. Facts and numbers
9. March the 8th, International Women's Day - Dad had to swallow his pride that day :P
10. New ideas from other people that opened my mind
11. Being given the chance to make things more fair.
12. March Break
13. How my teacher gave up on a lot of projects he said that the class was going to do that I didn't like.
14. Notebooks
15. Pens
16. Getting Verified on Rap Genius on my birthday :)

April1. How it rained instead of snowing, at least most of the time
2. The Rap Genius Editors forum and editor chat
3. Eating three birthday cakes in 25 days (My birthday is March 31st, Dad's April 24th, and my little sister's April 20th.)
4. Benchmarks
5. Less homework than in March!

May1. When DarkThoughtsQueDreams/Murkman got editored on May 10th
2. Reading the Swindle series and discussing it with my friend
3. Getting to take the EQAO practice booklets home
4. Enjoying the spring breeze outside :)
5. Pizza
6. Speech competition
7. Everybody I enjoyed talking to, online or offline.
8. Creating and sharing my personal guide to editorship
9. The thread for users you are thankful for
10. New spot for newsfeed
11. Edit with note
12. When people were polite enough to use edit with note :)

JuneMonth of the Year award 20141. The simple arrival of my favourite month
2. The pure, blue sky with few or no clouds - oh, summer!
3. The first football/soccer match I'd properly watched - Holland 5-1 Spain
4. The 15th of June
5. The fact that Messi's surname is Messi
6. The 21st of June
7. The 24th of June
8. The 25th of June
9. The 27th of June
10. Every single day of June actually
11. Messi's football style
12. Football memes lmaoooo
13. The number 10
14. That game we played on the last day of school...
15. The 63rd minute during Argentina vs Bosnia
16. The 91st minute during Argentina vs Iran
17. The 3rd and 46th minute during Nigeria vs Argentina
18. The feeling of freedom on the last day of school
19. Discovering #QRules
20. Chatting with @Alpha-Q-Up and @autumnsayshellQ
21. Celebrating Autumn's birthday in chat and forums on the 28th, aka the day after the last day of school :)
22. Reminiscing previous Junes
23. Musing about being a football fan right now, having hated it just a few months ago...

July1. Continuing to support Argentina in the World Cup as they were the "underdogs" and I always go for the underdogs
2. Watching football, because it just somehow contained a sort of feeling of perfection and elation within its simple, yet abstractly complex, concept, or even purely its existence.
3. The crucial lessons I learned from the pain of suffering and knowing others suffered more than I did
4. My notebook that I brought on the camping trip to keep memorizing my parody
5.

December1. (\_/)
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Things I am thankful for in general 20141. Being messy while all my friends were neat - this gave me an almost ironic sense of uniqueness.
2. Friendly numbers in math, aka multiples of 10
3. Telephones
4. Justice - or at least as much justice as possible. Nothing is completely fair, ever.
5. The ability to write parodies, but not only for the purpose of harassing others.
6. Determinedly staying out of all "drama". Except for drama class, which is really fun.
7. Email in general
8. The people I appreciate
9. Time
10. Opportunities
11. Giving
12. Thinking, imagining, and sensing
13. From January to June - P.A. Days
14. From September to December - School days
15. The very rare occasion in which someone thinks I'm a good person instead of a smart person.
16. How every single human being is unique
17. The blissful times when my sister isn't watching some annoying toddler show.
18. Funny gifs like

19. Messi, who, btw, is actually really neat