Things I Love

In a previous blog – long, long, ago, on Diaryland, I wrote a A Love List. Holy hell, y’all. I’ve been blogging in some incarnation for more than 7 years!

Anyway, G wrote Things I Love, Vol. 3 and just writing my comment to that post made me happy! So, here I am writing, Things I Love.

The color yellow. A rainy day when I get to stay home. Freecycle. The Chihuahua. My new-ish sofa. The cool chairs I got from someone on freecyle. Free samples. Magazines. Used bookstores. Nature photography. My business cards for the new job. They are so cool! When I open a bag that’s been at my girlfriend’s house and the warm, homey smell of her house is on everything. That I have a girlfriend! That, thanks to the internet, I e-know people from all over the world and have great relationships with people I would never have otherwise met. Decorating books. Reading (and ignoring) diet books. Walking The Chihuahua. How The Chihuahua wags her tail all the time. Even when she’s sick, her tail is always wagging. She, my friends, is a great example of a good disposition and gratitude. Also, fierce attitude and diva-ness, which seem contradictory but aren’t.

Getting unexpected notes or letters or packages in the mail. Surprising people with my own small bits of goodness. Making people laugh. The look my girlfriend gets on her face sometimes – I can’t explain it but it makes me laugh. Irreverance. Daisies. Tulips. Greyhounds. Bags: totebags, purses, luggage, wallets, shopping bags. All of them. Paperbackswap.com.

Restaurants that have Caffeine-free diet Coke in the founation. Grilled cheese. (I will order grilled cheese every chance I get! Grilled cheese w/ tomato and fresh basil = yum!) Garage sales and thrift stores – even though I rarely buy anything. When I find something, though, it’s thrilling! I got my TV stand from a thrift store and, once, I got a Michael Kors bag from a thrift store. For $20. The clerk didn’t know who Michael Kors was!

Barbecue restaurants. The kind where you REALLY don’t want to know what goes on in the kitchen. Music. The Girlfriend’s satellite radio. Right now, I totally love “In Love With Your Booty.” House of Dereon jeans because they don’t gap even a little bit.

There. Things I Love. A few of them, anyway.

What do you love?