1. When you're sulking 'cos no-one sent you a valentines card. Again. 2. When your head aches from playing Bliss too much. 3. When your ex-girlfriend of 6 months comes back from her college break and it's terrible b/c you still like her. (I was talking to one of my guy friends, and this just happened to him, and I told him... "it's okay... I know I'll live to fight another day..." 4. When you only have $32 a month coming in. 5. When you're 6 months behind in your sophomore year. 6. When you have 4 months to raise $2000 for this year's missions trip, and you only have $32 a month coming in. 7. When you can't fall asleep until 1AM and you have to get up at 6AM. 8. When you have to read all 101 of these things. 9. When you're waiting for your University interview. 10. When your CD player goes mental and can only play track 5 of any album. 11. When your ears ache from playing Bliss too much. 12. When your brain aches from playing Bliss too much. 13. When you get bored with Bliss...oh, wait, we want a sensible reason - using this one would result in never hearing It's OK. 14. When you spill some milk. 15. When the crowd chant "We want It's OK" 16. When it's released as a single. 17. When you get to numbers 50 and 51, realise neither are amusing, and that you've still got half the list to go. 18. When you're a Canadian fan and you can't get the It's OK single. After hearing about it for months on the web. (thank goodness for obliging UK web friends!) 19. When you're feeling depressed about life. Oh, sorry, were these supposed to be humorous reasons? :) 20. When you're feeling a sad sense of loss after seeing old videos of D: with the goatee intact. 21. When you're in the middle of an awesome guitar solo and you lose your pick (d’oh!!) 22. When you wish that you could think of something humorous to add to the "101 reasons to play It's OK" list. 23. When this list nearly dies and you have to resurrect it. 24. When your arm is brutally snapped in half. 25. When you feel like listening to some swear words. 26. When Bliss ends (on the UK Mezza, at least). 27. When you find yourself humming the Stu G solo but your voice breaks. 28. When you practice the mirror-ball effect with your wheelie chair. 29. When you produce your own video in time to "It's OK" with your cat as the girl and yourself as Martin. The rest of the band can be played by inflatable aliens, Lego men, fake ginger goatees and Harry Hill. 30. When the single flops without a single sale because all d: fans were planning a second-week purchase to lengthen the staying-in-the-chart time. 31. When you think your boyf going to dump you, but you know it's actually 'cause he's incredibly stressed! 32. When you have nothing better do. 33. When you realise that you haven't actually listened to Mezza since Christmas. 34. When you realise that the rest of the list is going to be incredibly shocked by that last statement. 35. When you've got someone to convert to a d:fan before the 21st Feb, so they'll go out and buy it. 36. When you almost fail your psychology exam. 37. When you have an English essay and a math exam on the same day. 38. When you realise that you only have 20 more days to think of 63 more reasons to play It's OK!! 39. When you are watching the music video on TV but your TV speakers are broken. ;) 40. When you are still going on about the choir in "Jesus' Blood". 41. When the latest dnews hasn't been released yet... 42. When you start seeing leprechauns and fairies with goatees and green alien blowups in your dreams, haunting you as your unconscious begins to act out your sheer and desperate anticipation for the single... 43. When you look at that last reason and wonder if Brandon is insane. 44. When your sister declares that d: aren't any good and we "shouldn't just like bands because they're Christian." 45. Whenever you hear the words "A" and "level" in the same sentence and feel like you want to die. 46. To persuade Katie that d:'s new stuff is as good as the old and could she please give me CE back? 47. When you're on a diet and you haven't had a single biscuit for 6 days and they're normally your main source of energy. 48. When you are over come with the agony of waiting loads more days for the d:signing. 49. When you're torn between telling everyone you meet about the d:signing so they'll buy it but you don't actually want anyone else to turn up at HMV so you can have a one-to-one with the band. 50. When you're listening to Radio 1's Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, and they make an almighty mistake and play the same taped dialogue between songs on a show that supposed to be live, and you realise that the sooner Zoe leaves, R1, the better. 51. When you get the blame for something you didn't do and suffer extreme humiliation for no reason, and then prove to everyone else that it wasn't you and walk around for the rest of the day in Smug Mode. 52. When you're sulking because no one even sent you an electronic valentines card. 53. When you realise d: are not signing anywhere in the south west. 54. When she breaks your heart. 55. When you realise you're replying to your own email. 56. When that Rebecca St James video still isn't available. 57. When you get an electronic valentines card and then realise that it's from *that* one in your brother's youth club. 58. When you go to the pub with your friends who are all too tired to talk and end up sitting there in silence wishing you were at home. 59. When your car won't start. 60. When you have a wonderful girlfriend and are tired of hearing everyone else complain about Valentine's blues. (60b.) When you don't have a girlfriend (or boyfriend) and are tired of hearing about everyone else's Valentine happiness. 61. When you are the kind of person who likes everything organised and gets really annoyed that people can't just copy and paste this list, instead they have to forward it and it gets a million of these stupid things ">" and makes it impossible to read. (Anybody take a hint?) 62. When you realise just how right you were back at no. 17. 63. When dnews is really late because your internet broke. And is still broken. 64. When you need the toilet but have to just cross your legs and hope for the best. 65. When you realise that’s the ones you added ages ago have been missed out and you no longer have them, so vainly hope that someone else might and add them here! 66. When you too have a boyf but will still want to play It's OK on valentines day as he's probably going to forget (ever the cynical!) 67. When you've got to go to a lecture about theology in the 2nd millennium in five minutes. 68. When your mate comes in at 12am having had a really bad evening and talks till 12:45 when you wanted an early night, but she's really down! 69. When you're worried about GG's state of mind after 64!!!!!! 70. When you realise that your boyf's gone home for the weekend and you're really going to miss him. 71. When you've lost your Mezzamorphis tape but not the box (thank heavens it's signed!) and have had to buy a new one! 72. When you realise you've gone off alcohol. 73. When you realise you have to walk into Heavitree because you’re far to lazy to cook Lunch your self. 74. When you've realised that 'Its Ok' was played far too much in January. 75. When you realise that you should be using study leave for study, not net. 76. After reading Stew's reply to the question about the Happy Song. 77. When you realise you might have to do cell group next week, because you can't convince anyone else. 78. When you plan to spend Valentines day locked away in your bedroom (by yourself) 79. When you wonder how sad we really are for doing so many 101 lists. 80. Because it's a good song. 81. Because it's Martin's favourite song. 82. When it's raining. 83. When you do a really wet sneeze and cover your nose with your hand, and then - because you don't have a tissue - have to subtly wipe your hand on a trouser leg in front of a group of people. 84. When you managed to send dnews out with a spelling mistak. 85. When life gets really hard, and all you can say is, "It's ok..." 86. When the weather outside is CRAZY! (It really has been over here in CA... Yesterday, it was like, 60 degrees, and today, it was like 80 degrees! No kidding!) 87. When you have no comforting words to tell the people who lost loved ones in the Alaska Airlines Flight 621 accident, except, go listen to d:! 88. When you get to number 27 trying to delete all the little ">" things because it's really annoying, but figure... what the heck and leave the rest of them for someone else to do. 89. When a guy named Jim comes from somewhere in the south to play the guitar for your church band and he can't play... at all. 90. When the Latino band at your church is going to come and play with the regular band this Sunday and you're not going to be there and their band is really awesome! 91. When you're going to Northern Arizona where it actually gets down to 4 degrees(F) at night and there is NO SNOW!!! (I've never been in that cold of wether and there is still NO SNOW!!! AAAGGGHHHHH!!!!)(It was like 80 degrees today too Megumi) 92. When you write really long things to play It's Okay for and everyone is like... shut up already... 93. When you realise that there are almost 2 BILLION people in the world that have NEVER heard about Jesus... and then you realise that it's really NOT okay! 94. When you find out that the Easter bunny does not exist. (and you were looking forward to those little chocolate bunnies he always brings you... or so you thought) 95. When you have cable and all your parents want to watch are old classics for hours on end. 96. When you ride with your parents in the car and they put it on the Christian station that still plays Amy grant, and Michael w. smith from when they were in the 80's. 97. When you find these really cool shoes at Wal-Mart and they have them in every other size except yours(9). 99. When you realise that you're 2 away from 101 and you need to stop because the last 11 questions were really stupid. 100. When you had a couple of pints at 'All Bar One' yesterday lunchtime and got back to work in an alcohol induced tiredness and so couldn't finish fixing that laptop that was meant to go to Paris yesterday evening, greatly annoying the sales staff involved in the trip to Paris who escalated it to their manager, who escalated to the divisional exec who escalated it to the relevant director who unescalated it all down on to me. :o( 101. When number 100 has happened and it's my end-of-probation appraisal today.