Day 198: September 30

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Things that make me happy

So wow!! 

It's been nearly a month since I've been on here and nearly a year since I've had this blog! I think my writing has definitely improved since last year this time but there's still a long way to go. 

I think when I go traveling (one day) I want to keep a blog (as opposed to a diary), because while I think diaries are more special an personal, I always seem to give up on them about 2 weeks in. Maybe with a blog I'd be more consistent, but also maybe not. 

Oh well, I've got over two years to figure it out.

Things that make me happy 

1. Michael Buble's songs 

2. Miniature Objects

3. Dinosaur (Kisschasy)

4. It's nice to be alive (Ball Park Music).

5. Books

6. When the weather is at the perfect temperature 

7. My friends

8. Peanut butter flavoured things 

9. Doing well on a test I thought I was going to do shit in 

10. Pastels 

11. Owls 

12. Things that are related to Harry Potter

13. When the June picture in a calendar is good 

14. Fruit salad 

15. Cool English (language) rules

16. Snow globes 

17. Jangly bracelets 

18. Grapes 

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” 

- John Lennon 

Day 197: September 1

From the newsdesk...
September

September is the ninth month of the year and is one of the four months to have 30 days. It is named after septem, the Latin for 7, as it was previously the 7th month.

Today is September the first, a day celebrated (or not celebrated) by many. Why? Well I'm glad you asked because here's a list:

SPRING: Gone are the days where you are greeted by condensation every time you breathe and you can feel the cold under your skin. Instead we're greeted by the sounds of sneezing thanks to hayfever and the birth of many new bugs and insects. Jokes aside, spring is a lovely season filled with blossoms and baby animals and pretty perfect not-too-hot weather. Its a frivalous time and its time to break out that hat and the sunscreen and get joyful.

Father's Day: In the Land Down Under, we celebrate Father's Day on the first Sunday in September, which this year happens to be September 1st. So here's to the last 16 years of homework help, dad jokes, anchovies (small salty fish my dad likes), halva, billtong, advice, boring biscuits, cynical comments, running and just being there when I need you (and also often when I don't)

SEPTEMBER 1st: What does this mean you mere muggles ask? Well September 1st is the faithful day on which Hogwarts students go through the wall onto Platform 9 and 3/4 and take the puffing steam train known as the Hogwarts Express to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It doesn't bother me hugely that my letter is 5 years overdue or that I live in Australia (and Hogwarts is in Ireland). But soon my fellow witches/wizards we will be walking up and down the 432 (?) moving stairs of Hogwarts, transfiguring match boxes into mice and looking into crystal balls with Professor Trelawney. Soon.

(Also for people who live in the northern hemisphere, school starts today).

So stop what you're doing, grab a straw hat, your favourite Harry Potter, your dad, a picnic basket, a mat and skip down to the nearest park for a father's day celebration. The Harry Potter book is for when he goes to BBQ the meat.