I appreciate these people and things:

• Books that make me laugh out loud. 
• Katie, for indulging me and letting me read passages from said books to her, thereby doubling my laugh-out-louding. 
• Laugh-out-louding, laugh-out-louded, maybe even laugh-out-louder. Although I don’t know if that last one is an adjective describing something truly hilarious, or a noun. It’s probably a noun. I am definitely a laugh-out-louder. 
• Sara, for her excellent use of colons and exclamation points, among other things. (See how I changed my usual “I appreciate:” to “I appreciate these people and things:” so the text before the colon constitutes an independent clause?! This special one-time aberration is just for you!)