Things I Love

Since my other blogging girls did it....

I love playing and winning trivia games.

I love listening to all kinds of music, but I really, really love rock and roll.

I love tea with honey and half-and-half at night, with a blanket over my legs and a new book to read in my hand.

I love gabbing with my hairstylist.

I love grapefruit and oranges and lemons and limes. The smell, the taste, the everything. I love pineapple.

I love a perfect Honeycrisp apple.

I love cheese: goat cheese, gouda, cheddar, brie, you name it. I loved stealing a wheel of gouda with my Lillie girls. I knew we’d be friends forever that day.

I love dogs.

I love the smell of a dog’s paws.

I love the joyful reunion at the end of each day. They teach us to live in the moment.

I love a good, hard yoga session.

I love that I can now touch the ground, where I used to only be able to go a little past my knees.

I love red hair.

I love the smell of babies’ heads.

I love one-on-one time, or small-group time.

I love the underdog.

I love that the internet allows us to connect with people around the world.

I love traveling.

I love that I can take Xanax to get on a plane.

I love peonies and lilacs and orchids and begonias and hibiscus.

I love that my husband sends me flowers from time to time.

I love the moment when the lights go down and the band walks on the stage.

I love my parents’ cabin on Deer Lake.

I love small-town junk shops.

I love mid-century modern decorating.

I love buying local and independent.

I love glitter and sequins and sparkles and tinsel and bright colors.

I love sleeping late.

I love getting up early and actually feeling awake. (it never happens, though.)

I love elderly people.

I love big sunglasses.

I love postcards.

I love learning.

I love random acts of kindness.

I love when you let someone in in traffic and they wave at you.

I love when someone lets you go ahead of them, or you let someone go ahead of you, at the grocery store because you have less stuff.

I love people who get excited about everything.            

I love when you’re sitting next to strangers at an event and they turn out to be super fun.

I love natural, safe ingredients.

I love soap.

I love ballet flats.

I love massages.

I love being with my family.

I love figuring out a new outfit from clothes I already have.

I love people who go for broke.

I love animals, but not insects, except for butterflies.

I love writing.

I love when good things happen to good people.

I love hot summer sun.

I love Hawaii.

I love magazines.

I love laughing at people’s jokes.

I love line-dried sheets.

I love long conversations.

I love big vocabularies.
I love craft shows and art fairs.

I love hot pink lipstick.

I love the idea of universal healthcare, marriage for all, wage equality, the power of choice, and making sure no one gets left behind.

I love the scent of lavender.

I love picking out gifts.

I love the library.

I love snail mail.

I love coffee-table books and documentaries.

I love neck and shoulder rubs.

I love impromptu dance parties and singing in the car.