In my efforts to emulate Mama Gena, and devote myself to the study of pleasure, and also in an attempt to answer my FF sisters’ call to think beyond chocolate and carrot cake in terms of what brings me joy, I have alphabetized all the things, big and small that bring me pleasure:
80's Girl Rock
50's Furniture & Glam Dresses
Apples
Artichokes
Ballet Slippers
Bargains
Bear Hugs
Blow Dried Hair
Books of Floor plans
Bookstores
Brushing my teeth
Bubble Bathes
Chair Dancing
Chaise lounges
Chunky jewelry
Clean Countertops
Clearance
Colorful Bras
Cookbooks filled with Pictures
Cooking
Creating new recipes
Dancing in My Living Room
Dangly Earrings
Dinner at the Table
Discovering Wavybrain’s style
Dishy Autobiographies
Downtown Stores
Drinking Ice Water
Drives to Nowhere
Eating Out alone
Enormous restaurant salads
Farmers Markets
Feedback on my blog
Feminine Lingerie
Finishing a chapter on my book
Floating in Warm Water
Fresh Flowers in my Bath Room
Freshly Shaved Legs
Friendly Dogs
Funky Purses
Fuzzy Blankets
Garnishing Plates
Girlie Dresses
Green Tea Perfume
Hiking
Holding Hands
Home Spa Treatments
Hotel sheets
Ink Pens
Jewels (Fake and Fabulous)
Kissing
Libraries
Lip Gloss
Long Showers
Made Beds
Making meringues
Making Sclupey Flowers
Making Lists
Midnight Snacks
Mountain views
Movies that make me cry
New Hair Colors
New Office Supplies
Oldies
Organized Bookshelves
Paint Chips
Painted Toenails
Painting
Parks
Peeks into other’s lives
Peppermint Tea
Perfectly Steamed Broccoli
Pink Shirts
Playing Ball with Caylis
Poofy Skirts
Posting to the FF forum
Quirky Eyeglass Frames
Perfect Pie Crust
Pretty Stationary
Publishing a blog entry
Reading to Sleep
Reading the Sunday Paper
Reading Chic Lit Novels
Red nail polish
Refrigerator filled with fresh vegetables
Ripe strawberries
Running with happiness
Saturday Naps
Scrapbook pages
Sequels
Shapely Calves
Sharing good news with my mother
Shopping for Produce
Silly Putty
Sitting on the Beach
Sketching
Sleeping Kitties
Slow Dancing
Smiling at Babies
Sparkly Floors
Spring
Sunday Brunch
Sunflowers
Sunshine on Green Grass
Swimming pools
Tights
Touring Empty Homes
Trying new restaurants
Tubs for Two
Tulips
Unexpectedly hearing a favorite song
Virgin Cocktails with Little Umbrellas
Window Shopping
X-rated Daydreams
Zoo Picnics
wow! i would *love* your milk glass-- i especially collect white milk glass compotes, but have all kinds.
i can pay you for it or trade you something for it (i can knit...mainly scarves right now, and sew, and i do lots of canning)...let me know. :)
what a story i could tell people who asked about it!
Posted by: natalie | February 21, 2005 at 04:25 PM
Ummm..."Freshly shaved legs." Yours, or mine?
You sure have fun, lady.
Posted by: Old Horsetail Snake | February 22, 2005 at 02:50 PM
My own!! Aack! That was confusing
Posted by: wavybrains | February 22, 2005 at 04:07 PM
here is a list of more things to be excited about, according to a boy I know:
ceramics
seedlings
windows
fire
red leaves
blue apples (they DO exist, deep in the forests of Kazakhstan)
snow tires
hydrogen
Coltrane's solo on Impressions off the European Tours
bluefish
sunlight
starlight
email
1-800 numbers
silverware
clean laundry
arrows
dead tour
pencil sharpeners
mountains
harps
VHS
this friday
next saturday
candles
corduroy
paint
milk
Case (a friend)
shells
wind power
roofs
birds of prey
yellow lines
spring time
jazz drumming
sandwiches
foreigners
rain
and,
sitting.
Posted by: sarah | February 22, 2005 at 08:16 PM
Cerebellum: I see Sarah lists bluefish but not blowfish. Isn't she interested in sex at all?
Posted by: Old Horsetail Snake | February 23, 2005 at 09:23 AM