Love Thursday: I have no other post ideas Edition
Posted August 30, 2007
Yeah, I did this once before. But then I limited me (and you) to ten items, which made us all think that we needed to think of ten really significant/most important things. And yet, Meg Fowler has been doing this Friday Love List thing and she lists as many things as she wants, which leads to including littler things, which makes her lists far more interesting.
In fact, forget that I included those links because her terribly interesting lists are going to make mine look mundane. Since you won't be going over there, I'll explain that it works this way: I tell you some stuff that I love and then you write a similar post on your own blog and put the link in my comments or you just go ahead and leave a comment for us with a bunch of stuff that you love. Maybe we love it too. Or maybe we would love it but we don't even know about it yet. You'd be doing us a service.
So here we go, some things I love, in no particular order:
When a kid I'm teaching really gets something
Sour blackberries
Coming home and changing into my crazy soft yoga pants, which yes, have a hole in the leg, but it's ok since I never wear them out of the house
Sunny and 75
Daydreaming
Throw-your-head back, silent shaking laughter. Or the even rarer (for me) right-out-loud laugh.
Iced mochas
Big goofy puppy smiles
Sheets on skin
My Reefs
Margaritas. Boy howdy, do I love a good margarita.
Sleeping in
Football season!
And with it, the return of Brett Favre, Kirk Herbstreit, and Howie Long to my television.
The smell of basil
Long, (almost scaldingly) hot showers
The lovely, lovely woodwork in my new apartment
All of the lots of different kinds of flowers down at the farmers market
Sourdough bread
Yoplait Whips orange creme flavor. It tastes sort of...fizzy.
Maps. They're mesmerizing, aren't they? Maybe it's my wanderlust, maybe it's my total lack of innate sense of direction, but I could stare at maps for hours.
New book smell
Good, soft, barefoot-quality grass to walk around and sit in
Digital cable - God help me, I'm not sure I can ever go back.
I could go on and on, but tomorrow is not a sleep-in day as I've got to get my car in to the shop since this was the first appointment I could get after that whole AC not working thing started. Let's all think inexpensive thoughts.
And comment! LET'S ALL COMMENT.
One Smart Cookie says:
August 30, 2007 at 03:26 PM
Puppies
Curling up with a blanket, a good book, and a cup of hot cocoa when it is snowing outside
A genuine compliment
Peanut butter cookies
Good hair days
Peanuts (the comic not the food)
Post-its (it's an addiction)
Anne of Green Gables
Halloween
Holidays in general
Three day weekends
Febreeze (every product they make)
A pair of jeans that fits really well
Wine
My watch
Shoes
TiVo
Flip flops
Any drink that comes with an umbrella in it
Maps, especially old ones
The clock in my living room
Flowers
Emily says:
August 30, 2007 at 08:10 PM
MAAAAAAAAAAPS. Me too! I have an atlas and I look through it often.
And also babies that sleep through the night.
Oooh! And also a clean house.
And last but not least: Jeans that are FOUR SIZES SMALLER than the ones you wore a month after giving birth.
carolie says:
August 31, 2007 at 04:41 AM
"Throw-your-head back, silent shaking laughter. Or the even rarer (for me) right-out-loud laugh" -- I second this one in its entirety!
Having my husband home every night for several weeks.
Knowing my husband will eventually go back to sea for a while.
Sliding into bed when the sheets have been freshly laundered...that first few moments when there are no wrinkles, and the sheets are cool against your skin and they still smell like the sun...
Watching my new kitten, Koimo ("little potato") bounce off walls and do backflips, then feeling the rumble of her purr beneath my chin.
A cold, rainy day when I don't have to do anything except curl up on the couch in my softest sweats, with a blanket, a mug of cappuccino and a good book.
My Japanese bathtub (neck-deep...need I say more?)
Heated toilet seats. Laugh if you must, but in a land without central heating, these are HEAVEN.
Finding a fantastic new author.
This list could go on and on...thanks for inspiring it!
Horrible Warning says:
September 01, 2007 at 12:20 AM
I threw up a list here:
http://spinthesun.typepad.com/a_horrible_warning/2007/08/love-thursday--.html
Also, I second the maps thing, too...I love to know several routes to get places. I am weird.
And the Yoplait Whips? I like the orange creme one, and LOVE the chocolate raspberry. Yum!
Holly says:
September 01, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Good friends that make me funny
Kirk and College Football
Texas Tech, even when they lose
3 day weekends
Principals who appreciate me
Still being in my pj's at 12:30 p.m.
LaughingMouse says:
September 01, 2007 at 11:43 PM
My list is here ...
http://mousemarie78.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!535ADE2E5CD2FC31!1316.entry
Dave says:
September 01, 2007 at 11:57 PM
No hitters
4th and goal from the 2 yard line
October baseball
Autumn in New England
Hiking/kayaking in the Catskills
Flannel sheets in December
The scent of freshly squeezed lemons
Garlic
The sound of crackling loaves of bread fresh out of the oven.
Camp fires
Merlot (screw you Paul Giamatti)
Clear nights full of stars
Thunderstorms
Bears
Mafia and WWII movies
10 hours of sleep, in a row
Mashed potatoes
Holly Rose says:
September 02, 2007 at 07:20 PM
the return of the gingerbread latte
grandma's salsa
unexpected hugs from Sydney
Watching Sydney sleep
pedicures
chocolate and peanut butter
listening to the 1st Jars of Clay CD
Looking at old pictures
rain
unexpected naps (for me & Sydney)
uncontrolable laughing fits when your eyes water
a good book
Maryland Crab dip
long conversations with old friends
Bethany says:
September 05, 2007 at 01:15 PM
I think this is the link: http://plasticorplastic.blogspot.com/2007/08/few-of-my-favorite-things.html
If not, go to the site :)
Alexander MacPhail says:
September 12, 2007 at 05:38 PM
Yeah, okay, I like maps, too. Basset hounds and popsicles...though preferably not together.
Really good pizza, ice cream, the Big Lebowski, anything composed by Beethoven, and anything even vaguely related to the Episcopal Church.