Let’s continue our exploration of the value and purposes of lists and red spiral notebooks. I couldn’t decide whether to make this list (the number is my age) a gratitude list, a favorite things list, or a list of 43 things +3 I want to learn/do/be, so I will leave it simply as a mashup of 46 things that make me smile from the inside out, as written by a book indexer. What makes you smile from the inside out?
- apple pie ala mode
- autumn leaves
- Bing candy bars
- breakfast: eggs for; leftovers for; never skipping; pancakes for
- buttons, jars of saved
- Caesar salad, Ristorante Bartolotta’s
- cities, walking in
- Costello, Elvis, listening to
- cotton clothing
- crochet hooks, my grandmother’s
- crossword puzzles
- Fiddleheads and Cranky Al’s, meeting friends at
- Frasier, watching re-runs of
- Harriet’s journals, reading and transcribing my great-aunt
- homeschooling, our ten years of
- hummus, roasted garlic
- Italian, hoping to use Rosetta Stone to learn more than my two college semesters of
- Italy, planning to visit
- Kung Pao, Outpost Natural Food’s Tofu
- legal pads, yellow. See also pencils
- Marquette University
- marriage, the continuing joys of nearly 21 years of
- Michaels, inexpensive yarn at
- Missouri River, banks of
- mom, being a
- morning coffee, Al’s freshly ground
- MSOE students
- neighborhood walks with my son
- Nutella
- onions and garlic, the smell of sauteing
- paperback books, used
- pencils: freshly hand-sharpened; mechanical. See also legal pads, yellow
- quilts, my mother’s
- reading, lots of time for
- Ruhama’s
- running, avoidance of
- sesame bagels with veggie cream cheese, toasted
- Shakespeare Home Players a.k.a. Writing and Literature Group
- sheets, freshly laundered
- sleep, eight hours each night of
- sock yarn, knitting with
- Trader Joe’s Pound Plus Dark Chocolate
- Treme, what I’ve seen so far of
- vacations, family
- yarn stores, economical and expensive. See also Michaels; Ruhama’s
- Zyrtec, Walgreen’s inexpensive version of
My great number (age) is 46 too.so here goes 46 things that bring me pleasure;
reading
eating galaxy chocoate
darren
the rain
the sun
trips to the beach
rolling in mud
knitting for my friends
finding a bargain
daydreaming
renovating my home
scrapbooking
poker night with friends
getting my goal list ticked off
movies
lazing in bed
kissing and cuddling
chatting
surfing the net
blogging
walks in the woods
my children
writing
pamper sessions
smelling newly cut grass
watching butterflies
receiving letters
finding money in an old coat
buying new clothes
acting like a child
helping someone
not sure if that is 46 but plenty of fun anyway.x
Oh, I was hoping someone else would post a list, too! Just reading the items you listed makes me smile. Isn’t it interesting how knitting for friends is much more pleasurable than knitting for oneself? And the smell of newly cut grass, and lazing in bed, and finding money in an old coat (!) … ahhhhh. I’m glad you had fun sharing, and thank you.