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11 November 2005
A short list of things I love→[More:]1. The first, just a little bit too hot, sip of a really good coffee 2. Fall 3. The "ungh" punch to your gut from an awsome rock song.
1. Good food.
2. Biking and hiking, especially on beautiful days.
3. Travel (see also 1).
4. Taking pictures (see 2 and 3)
5. Music good enough to air guitar to.
6. Good films.
7. mrs. carter.
8. mrs. carter's dog.
1. The smell of leaves burning
2. The way my dog looks at me when I come home at night
3. The moment the lights go down in a movie theater
4. Cool sheets
5. The first snowfall of the season
6. My mother's lasagna
1. When the whole house smells like the pumpkin pie in the oven.
2. Good acoustic instrumental guitar.
3. Live music.
4. Seeing my dogs with tongues out and tails wagging, trotting to greet us through the front door.
5. Walking in the woods in the fall on crunchy leaves.
6. Pot.
7. Watching the sky.
8. Being anonymous in a new city.
9. Talking to people at the bar (jonmc!)
10. Drum circles.
11. Lor -my SO I just married.
12. Being able to smell the xmas trees at the nursery out back without having to pay for one.
13. Making things.
14. Cheese.
15. Soup.
16. Going to a sunday matinee with Lor.
17. Hanging out on sites like this where people have brains.
18. Red wine.
19. Listening to what kids talk about.
5. Riding my bike down Conselyea Street from Leonard once the Christmas tree shop on Union gets set up. From up there you can see the lights at the bottom of the hill, plus the Williamsburg bridge above it all, so friendly and loving. And the weather is crisp and the dry leaves rattle around with perfection.
1. Music in general and XTC, the Buzzcocks, Cheap Trick, the Ramones, Boomtown Rats, and the Beatles in particular.
2. Good beer. Especially the British and Mexican kind.
3. Drawing and cartooning.
4. Pho.
5. New York City.
6. The internet.
7. Magazines.
8. Aquariums and Museums.
9. Weather just cold enough that you need a light coat.
10. Having nothing on my to-do list.
1. My kids
2. Sleep
3. Good food
4. Throwing dinner parties when it all comes together and everyone is happy.
5. Hiking
6. Bars
7. Books
8. Museums and galleries
9. Sudden serendipitous coincidences
1. Mexican food.
2. Twilight.
3. My dog and the way that he wakes me up my gently nudging whatever body part isn't covered with a blanket.
4. Freshly fallen snow.
5. Autumn and the sound of leaves under my feet.
6. A good beer.
7. Penguins.
8. The feeling you get after you read a great book.
1. Capn for creating this thread and a balance.
2. Unexpected, happy surprises.
3. Happily married old people.
4. Wind.
5. The Suzzallo Library, specifically the Graduate Reading Room.
6. The way people's faces flush when they first start laughing.
7. Watching the transformation that takes place in people when they're engaged in something that they're skilled/talented in or passionate about.
8. Orange freesias.
9. Getting to know and building a foundation with another person/group of people and then hitting your stride together in such a way that things work almost seamlessly.
10. The complete release that happens at the moment I decide I can't stay awake one second longer and free fall into sleep.
1. Cooking garlic chicken enchiladas for someone.
2. Freesias.
3. Holding a sleeping baby.
4. New white cotton socks.
5. Sleeping in.
6. My mom.
7. Singing Ella.
8. A nice oaky merlot.
9. The smell of snow.
- the mister
- snuggling with the mister
- my beasties
- Autumn
- orange juice (liquid sunshine!)
- books
- clean sheets
- gardens
- road trips
- Spring
- seeing wildlife in unexpected places
- my new jeans
1. good coffee
2. a nice apple
3. milk chocolate
4. ice cream with chips
5. a soft new sweater
6. my rabbit
7. happy, smiling people
8. the calm quietness on the train in the morning
9. london
10. pink
13. newspapers (only nice ones, mind)
14. cosy in bed on a freezing cold night
15. people working together to achieve something good
16. finshing something you've worked on for ages
16. boobies
0. Family
1. All kinds of music
2. Reading
3. Forensic crime shows and documentaries
4. My godsons
5. My cats
6. My best friend
7. Metachat
8. Scrabble and other word games
9. Sunshine
10. My car
11. Boobies!!!
1. my husband. how we wake up smiling and kissing each other after all these years
2. sunrise, as viewed through the steam rising from a cup of hot, strong, delicious coffee
3. easy sleeping
4. The Zone. when you get into the sweet spot of doing anything.
5. the seasons, especially the changings of
6. weird weather
7. sunlight, all its forms and manifestations
8. clean house
9. a working fireplace in winter
10. dancing on the balcony after too much wine
11. being utterly transported by a great book
12. streams, brooks, waterfalls, springs, oceans, seas; any kind of moving water
13. Okay... there's more, but let's just stop on "13"
13. being utterly transported by great music
14. unexpected, un-asked for kindness (giving/receiving)
15. how little kids look at you when they like you and trust you
16. old people who've seen it all and still manage to hold on to love, hope, and a sense of delight in the world
17. cooking a great meal for people you love and watching their faces as they eat
18. the cat curled by my monitor, and the other asleep on my lap
Is it coming or going? the weekend is coming, hello weekend, the work week is going, goodbye work week; and my sanity, did it take a walk? I don't know but the list of things hated has been updated and I tell you that bug is still not squashed and I'm just going home anyway.
1. Walking long distances through New York City. (previously I've walked from the North tip of Broadway 14 miles to Battery Park, another great walk was from Astoria to the Upper West Side)
2. Delicious mom'n'pop restaurants.
3. Transcedental food.
4. Cigarettes (I hate myself for loving you)
5. Hearing people having silly arguments (no man, I'm telling you! Russia is in Western Europe!)
6. The stereotypical polite, nice, helpful, know-it-all New Yorker.
7. Sharing a laugh with a stranger.
8. Happy lunatics. (like the guy who wanders through the city making bird calls with feathers in his hat)
9. Chinatown; New York's and San Francisco's.
10. Northern California, especially San Francisco.
11. Dogs!
12. Being in a place where I don't/barely speak the language.
13. Early Jackie Chan movies.
14. Home Movies cartoons.
1. My beloved
2. My daughter
3. His tender eyes
4. Her merry laugh
5. His knowing hands
6. Her beautiful singing voice
7. His hard, hot body on a cold night
8. Her dry wit
9. His deep, sexy voice
10. Her long, thick, hair of many colors
11. His black curls
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101. The new book I haven't read yet
102 the old books on the shelves
103 The Sunday New York Times
104 Doing the Sun NY Times crossword puzzle with my beloved on the porch
105 The classical music that hurts in my chest
106 The new baked bread right out of the oven slathered in butter
108 Juicy peach, creamy cheese, sour pickles
109 Making fun of movies with my beloved
110 A magazine in the mailbox
*The $5 "pashminas" I buy on the street.
*The girl at the desk across from calling me "Crabs" (I call her Captain Miserable)
*Eating chips for dinner on Friday night
*Eggs Benedict
*My ING Savings Account
*Having a balanced checkbook
*Short socks (the kind that sit below the ankle)
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