These are a few of my favorite things...
Was feeling kinda cozy and content this morning about a lot of things, just thinking. Then I started thinking about all the "little things" I dig or that bring me joy, even if small or silly or fleeting. You know, things I kinda look forward to and savor?
Here goes:
- upcoming previews/trailers at the start of theatrical movies. If I arrive late for a movie, I sometimes skip it if I can't see the trailers
- ABBA (found an old QuickTime clip of "Dancing Queen" I snagged from Limewire on my iMac last night. Great pop music and the two girls were quite sexy, in that dated, 70's kinda way...makes me smile)
- Land O' Lakes butter (over popcorn, with a little salt, is THE BEST movie-snack ever)
- Irish Spring soap
- TLC's "Trading Spaces"
- Subway tuna sandwiches
- OS X and all the little things I discover or stumble upon nearly everytime I'm messing around on my iMac
- iTunes (if I could have only one program...)
- flannel sheets on a king-size bed, tucked in nice and tight at the bottom and sides
- Norm Abram and the "New Yankee Workshop"
- girls with "that look"
- morning hair (I always give myself a good chuckle when I first see myself in the morning: kinda like Keith Richards meets Brian Setzer, with a dash of Kato Kaelin thrown in for good measure...one day I'm going to be brave and just go about my day looking like that)
- TV remote controls
- Black Cherry Kool-Aid
- the smell of gasoline
- choosing my own Lotto numbers
- a really good pee (not trying to be tacky, but when you REALLY need to go and you finally get a chance to...well, it's just a great feeling
)
- The smell of cedar
- getting an oil change (I would've said "lube job", but that could be taken in SO many ways...)
- Sunspots hitting the couch just right, when I'm in a magazine reading mood
- A REALLY cold beer with REALLY good Mexican food
- Chili's chips & salsa
- Dr. Pepper (duh...)
- the color orange, in all its shades, textures and ranges (see Dr. Pepper comment...)
- women with nice smelling hair
- 38-year-old (and up) sexy women (don't get me started...)
- Barnes & Noble at 9:30pm
- Krispy Kreme donut...ONLY if they're hot and fresh (that red neon "Hot Now!" sign has to be flashing...)
- Cheesy movies like "Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man" and "The Last Boy Scout"
- Christopher Walken
- Sheryl Crow's mouth (and the rest of her too, while we're at it...)
- AppleInsider forums (96% of the time...)
- maccentral.com
- the build-up before a Macworld expo
- watching the Macworld keynote and that feeling of "oh man, here it comes..."
- Did I mention the color orange?
- Adobe Illustrator 10 (and every version before)
- IKEA
- My Gibson J-45...it sounds sweeter every time I pick it up. I'll own it forever.
- Old Pat Benatar songs (takes me back)
- Brian Setzer and everything about him
- Keith Richards (see Brian Setzer)
- drink coasters
- people watching at airports
- finding out someone who you kinda like and dig on feels the same toward you...that luscious period of time where you BOTH know it but haven't acted on anything yet. Just that wonderful feeling of "yeah...this is going to be nice..."
- dark nail polish on girls
- young women who dress conservatively, but older women who show a little tummy or thigh (I know...the opposite of what it should be, right?)
- Realizing (by any number of methods) that a woman is wearing a certain kind of underwear that you happen to find very sexy (that's all I'm going to say about this...)
- Putting the TV on the sleep timer and drifting off to Conan O'Brien's show. Fall asleep chuckling so you don't have bad dreams.
- polar bears
- autumn
- the way apples smell (the fruit, geeks! )
- when I'm in the mood for it, a good thick pizza with everything on it
- garlic bread
- a Fender Telecaster with thick strings on it
- driving fast
- and sometimes, driving slow
- rain, when I'm home, safe and sound, and getting ready for bed
- thunder & lightning (see rain)
- roller coasters
- bluegrass music done right
- certain women with toe rings
- QVC
- NASCAR Winston Cup racing on Sundays...half my day revolves around it and it's great!)
- When my driver wins
- Home Depot on a Saturday afternoon
- Target anytime
- Seeing a PC user realize that there is indeed a "better way" (just happened to me recently...I've caused yet another "switch")
- Baskin-Robbins banana royale
- $5 bills
- state quarters
- getting all green lights
- biscuits and gravy made by my grandmother
- cuddling with cutie-pie vixen and just "talking about life"
- greyhound racing
- Post banana nut bread cereal
And you?
Here goes:
- upcoming previews/trailers at the start of theatrical movies. If I arrive late for a movie, I sometimes skip it if I can't see the trailers
- ABBA (found an old QuickTime clip of "Dancing Queen" I snagged from Limewire on my iMac last night. Great pop music and the two girls were quite sexy, in that dated, 70's kinda way...makes me smile)
- Land O' Lakes butter (over popcorn, with a little salt, is THE BEST movie-snack ever)
- Irish Spring soap
- TLC's "Trading Spaces"
- Subway tuna sandwiches
- OS X and all the little things I discover or stumble upon nearly everytime I'm messing around on my iMac
- iTunes (if I could have only one program...)
- flannel sheets on a king-size bed, tucked in nice and tight at the bottom and sides
- Norm Abram and the "New Yankee Workshop"
- girls with "that look"
- morning hair (I always give myself a good chuckle when I first see myself in the morning: kinda like Keith Richards meets Brian Setzer, with a dash of Kato Kaelin thrown in for good measure...one day I'm going to be brave and just go about my day looking like that)
- TV remote controls
- Black Cherry Kool-Aid
- the smell of gasoline
- choosing my own Lotto numbers
- a really good pee (not trying to be tacky, but when you REALLY need to go and you finally get a chance to...well, it's just a great feeling
)- The smell of cedar
- getting an oil change (I would've said "lube job", but that could be taken in SO many ways...)
- Sunspots hitting the couch just right, when I'm in a magazine reading mood
- A REALLY cold beer with REALLY good Mexican food
- Chili's chips & salsa
- Dr. Pepper (duh...)
- the color orange, in all its shades, textures and ranges (see Dr. Pepper comment...)
- women with nice smelling hair
- 38-year-old (and up) sexy women (don't get me started...)
- Barnes & Noble at 9:30pm
- Krispy Kreme donut...ONLY if they're hot and fresh (that red neon "Hot Now!" sign has to be flashing...)
- Cheesy movies like "Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man" and "The Last Boy Scout"
- Christopher Walken
- Sheryl Crow's mouth (and the rest of her too, while we're at it...)
- AppleInsider forums (96% of the time...)
- maccentral.com
- the build-up before a Macworld expo
- watching the Macworld keynote and that feeling of "oh man, here it comes..."
- Did I mention the color orange?
- Adobe Illustrator 10 (and every version before)
- IKEA
- My Gibson J-45...it sounds sweeter every time I pick it up. I'll own it forever.
- Old Pat Benatar songs (takes me back)
- Brian Setzer and everything about him
- Keith Richards (see Brian Setzer)
- drink coasters
- people watching at airports
- finding out someone who you kinda like and dig on feels the same toward you...that luscious period of time where you BOTH know it but haven't acted on anything yet. Just that wonderful feeling of "yeah...this is going to be nice..."
- dark nail polish on girls
- young women who dress conservatively, but older women who show a little tummy or thigh (I know...the opposite of what it should be, right?)
- Realizing (by any number of methods) that a woman is wearing a certain kind of underwear that you happen to find very sexy (that's all I'm going to say about this...)
- Putting the TV on the sleep timer and drifting off to Conan O'Brien's show. Fall asleep chuckling so you don't have bad dreams.
- polar bears
- autumn
- the way apples smell (the fruit, geeks!
)- when I'm in the mood for it, a good thick pizza with everything on it
- garlic bread
- a Fender Telecaster with thick strings on it
- driving fast
- and sometimes, driving slow
- rain, when I'm home, safe and sound, and getting ready for bed
- thunder & lightning (see rain)
- roller coasters
- bluegrass music done right
- certain women with toe rings
- QVC
- NASCAR Winston Cup racing on Sundays...half my day revolves around it and it's great!)
- When my driver wins
- Home Depot on a Saturday afternoon
- Target anytime
- Seeing a PC user realize that there is indeed a "better way" (just happened to me recently...I've caused yet another "switch")
- Baskin-Robbins banana royale
- $5 bills
- state quarters
- getting all green lights
- biscuits and gravy made by my grandmother
- cuddling with cutie-pie vixen and just "talking about life"
- greyhound racing
- Post banana nut bread cereal
And you?
Comments
-sleeping in the mornings...till 1 p.m.
-the smell of my brother
-if it's all blue outside and a wonderful day awaits me
-riding to work on my "special" bike
-my cat; so fluffy !
-doing nothing all day long
-helping people
-doing volunteer work (see above)
-going to bed with my iPod, feels goood.
-skating on my longboard
-ahhhh
all day long at some resort in Vermont like Killington. There's nothing like that feeling. In fact I dream about it in the off season, and in between trips during the season.
college
I love doing well in my classes. It's just that part of me that want's to do well in life. It's usually stressful, but I have to admit that I do I enjoy it.
girls
Thongs peeking out of pants, tight shirts, sexiness, elegance, beauty. Oh! They drive a young 19 y/o mad. But I love it!
<strong> List of things<hr></blockquote></strong>
Just about all the things pscates said and:
-iced tea
-washing the car at the self serve car wash on a sunny day
-ice cream
-starbucks anytime
-that feel of the wind going through your hair just after a good hair cut
-taking pictures of outdoor treasures
-printing perfect pictures on my photo-quality printer of pictures I took printed on photo stock
-candles candles candles
-the color blue
The list could go on forever
fellows
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girls
Thongs peeking out of pants, tight shirts, sexiness, elegance, beauty. Oh! They drive a young 19 y/o mad. But I love it!</strong><hr></blockquote>
They drive a young 15 y/o mad too.
Lets see a few of my favorite things?
-The Mets no matter how bad they are
-Coming home from school on Fridays
-Obviously AI
-the Nets
-GIRLS
-being different compared to a lot of guys my age
-the mall on fridays and saturdays (plenty of girls)
-money
And the .75 vacuum cleaner? The best! I love how my car looks when it's washed. Since I only do it 3 times a year...
- Running, Racing, Having fun running
- MY Giant NRS MTB (2002) model
- Going for good long MTB rides
- My Dog "Jack"
- Getting good marks for uni!
- A nice simple home cooked dinner.
- Good Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
-my perfect messenger bag, timbuk2!
-spending an hour sweeping a barn till its perfect
-grooming a horse
-doing really well when people arn't looking, but not caring
-really soft tissues
-when my floor gets all warm, walking around barefooted
-hiking up streams barefoot, a stepping on really nice but not squishy mud
-making movies
-the sound matchs make when they first light
-spending sleepless nights fooling around in photoshop and not saving
-new shoes
-coming home from the horsebarn in the winter, defrosting to homemade soup and wholewheat bread
-taking breaks at the barn in front of the propane heater
-sleeping in the hallways at school
-climbing on tables and tackling people(i'm short)
guess thats all for now. . .
-good music all the time
-hiking up streams barefoot, a stepping on really nice but not squishy mud <hr></blockquote>
the heating for our whole house is pipes that run hot water just under the tile in our house, so in the winter our floor is the source of heating...the floors are always toasty warm...it is so sweet...
and when i lived in PA for a couple of my teen years we lived on the river...it was just after a hurricane had come up the coast and flooded out large sections of the river...so if you walked in the river you would sink up passed your ankles in thick, gooey silt....it felt so wrong, yet made me tingle in places i would rather not mention
as for other things (and nice "small" list there phoebe cates brother):
biting into hard sweet baby carrots
wrestling with the dog...especially when he is sleepy and doesn't really want to
a good, thick, dark beer after a hard day at work
watching my daughters sleep....don't do that much anymore that they are bigger (can't stay up as late as they do)....but when they where infants, then toddlers....nothing more lovely than a child sleeping...could make angels cry
kicking a rock down the street
spooning
tearing christmas wrap off presents (no looking for the tape shit for me)
peeling the labels off my beer without tearing it
chewing ice
watching "i love the 80's" on vh1
trying to talk and walk like ozzy
first pee of the day
women in sundresses and bare feet
the way toddlers walk with that almost falling frankenstein waddle
sitting at the bar up in the balcony of a local music club watching the Ataris play and seeing my daughter go crowd surfing up to the stage....it may be a sign that i am getting older to see that, but it sure was funny...and she looked so happy....so that was cool.....g
Watching my cat lounge about on his rug
The smell of a real Christmas tree
Finishing painting a Warhammer reginment and ranking them up with the rest of the army
Finding a new summon or spell ETC on a Final Fantasy and testing it for the first time.
Finishing school at lunchtime on a Wednesday and going home to nap.
Chatting to people on MSN and making them feel better.
Squeezing out a turd that's not too hard, not too soft and comes out at juuuuuust the right rate.
Thinking of my favourite things, getting all whimsical and fuzzy, realising that I'm a geek, then realising that i don't care.
Waking up and thinking it's a Friday then realising it's Saturday.
<strong>sitting at the bar up in the balcony of a local music club watching the Ataris play and seeing my daughter go crowd surfing up to the stage....it may be a sign that i am getting older to see that, but it sure was funny...and she looked so happy....so that was cool.....g</strong><hr></blockquote>
wow.. that is cool...
i mean for her, and for you... the ataris are (is??) great.
[quote] morning hair (I always give myself a good chuckle when I first see myself in the morning: kinda like Keith Richards meets Brian Setzer, with a dash of Kato Kaelin thrown in for good measure...one day I'm going to be brave and just go about my day looking like that) <hr></blockquote>
hahah its really not that hard to do...
[quote] girls with "that look" <hr></blockquote>
I know *exactly* what you mean...
my list:
- falling asleep to classical music
- really good chinese food take out when you haven't eaten all day
- really good italian food from a good italian restaurant
- being full
- being hungry
- taking a relaxing trip to the bathroom to do some reading
- driving
- commuting in the morning with my iPod while wondering what everyone else is thinking on the train (thing i miss the most now that I am in college)
- doing really well on a test you didn't study for
- doing really well on a test you really studied hard for
- not doing homework, and not caring
- not caring about grades as long as I know the material
- sleeping
- not remembering your dream, only that it was a good one
- a good game of chess
- a good game of poker...and winning
- a good hand of poker where you know you have the guy beat and try and get him to bet as much as possible
- fiddling with my TiBook
- posting here
- talking to people I have never seen before online
- talking to someone far away online
- reading away messages
- responding to people's away messages
- posting in my livejournal
- jamming on the guitar even though I suck
- down pillows and comforters
- sleeping in total darkness
- warm bed
- sleeping naked
- falling asleep in my clothes in some random place near the bed
- a warm shower in the winter
- a cool shower on a hot day
- fixing my iTunes library so it is perfect (not missing any information... have a ways to go)
- sleeping on the train ride home from school listening to ska on the iPod
- dressing up really nice (suit, tux, whatever)
- not caring what I look like when I leave the room in the morning
- a big glass (carton, whatever) of cold OJ in the morning
- eggs
- making breakfast
- getting SOAKED in the rain and not caring
- swimming in the rain
- learning
- late-night TV surfing
- girls that don't wear make-up, not because they don't need to(although this is nice too
) but because they don't care
- smelling nice
- good coffee
- espresso after a big dinner
- wireless broadband
thats good enough for now...[ 12-21-2002: Message edited by: Paul ]
[ 12-21-2002: Message edited by: Paul ]</p>
wow.. that is cool...
i mean for her, and for you... the ataris are (is??) great.<hr></blockquote>
Gotta agree with that... The Ataris are great.
-Snuggling with my girlfriend (and everything after
-A really good glass of wine in the company of friends
-A really good beer in the company of friends
-A great meal when you are hungry (especially Chinese or pizza)
-Watching the Patriots win the Super Bowl
-Knowing I did a task well
-Waking up and realizing I have 2 hours to sleep
-An autumn day when its sunny, but windy and cool and I can smell wood smoke from someone using a wood stove
-Laying in bed while a thunderstorm is going on
-A good book
-A good movie
-Did I mention good wine?
-Seeing a live musical performance that is trancendent (Rush, Gov't Mule, Marc Ford...all of these artists need to be experienced once)
-Installing something from Software Update (yes I know, don't say it)
-Watching a Red Sox game...even when they lose
-A brisk walk when its cool enough that I don't sweat
-Holidays
-Whenever I buy a new piece of gadgetry (computer stuff or audio equipment especially)
And many others too.
I.M. VanDeWaals
Oh, and I thumbed through and skimmed a chapter (and looked at the pictures) of that new Patricia Cornwell book where she "solves" the identity of Jack the Ripper. Pretty cool stuff. Just saw her on C-Span tonight, talking about it. Probably what made me go to Barnes & Noble to begin with.
Too bad I don't drink coffee. Would've been perfect (there's a Starbucks in there). If only it tasted as good as it smells.
Since I was out, I also went to Best Buy, Target and grabbed some "to go" chips and salsa from Chili's (ooh, ANOTHER one of my favorite things from my list above...wow, I'm just having a very cool day).
I drove to the Gateway Store (talked about in another thread) to possibly tweak a hapless sales clerk about their inclusion of a Titanium PowerBook in one of their ads, but, alas, they were already closed.
I was just in the mood to do it too!
I thought that was interesting. Target carries both version (Mac AND PC).
I don't get the "phoebe cates brother" thing above. Is that a reference to ME?
Is she that girl in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"?
My user name has nothing to do with her: it's my first initial and last name.
An all too infrequent hug from my parents.
That first drink of water/milk/juice in the morning after you wake up.
-a nice long walk with a few good friends.
-that same walk, but each with a fine cuban cigar.
-a few hours of pool; regardless of my winning/losing
-playing low-stakes poker
-winning hi-stakes poker
-the wonderful game of asshole [with a few friends and brown irish bottles]
-getting into the right mind, and blazing some amazing tunes on guitar; i remember one time i was in this groove that went on for like ten minutes, uninterrupted, and i was playing perfectly.
-blazing on not-quite-legal substances.
[ 12-22-2002: Message edited by: thuh Freak ]</p>
Bright copper kettles and warm, woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad
-my computer setup
-sleeping in
-talking at 3 AM with people on my floor
-basketball
-watching the Indiana Pacers kick ass
-watching Cincinnati Bearcats upset #5 Oregon (poor white boys)
-comin back to C-Town
-seeing/talking to old friends
-eating lunch (or dinner) at Taco Bell
-whenever they have smoothies in the dining hall
-my cap (black Pacers cap)
-havin tha phatest kicks (Im a shoe fiend)
-freestylin over beats, or havin someone freestyle over my self-made beats
-college girls
-making a girl smile
-basketball games in the "Shoe" aka Shoemaker Centre
-cute girls who go unnoticed
-good and SPICY chinese or mexican food
-blackberry Italian sodas
-lime cordials
-stuffing
-my autographed J5 "Power In Numbers" CD
-mixing every single drink together at fast food places (or in the dining hall)
-Christina Aguilera
-Michelle Branch
-the girls.....
and for pscates...
MILFs!
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