Tuesday, February 13, 2007

a HUNDRED things i like

(another quiz-ish post. this is the last one, i promise. it's just that they are so much easier than actually writing anything.)

1. fuzzy blankets and lots of pillows
2. flip flops
3. sunshine
4. phonographs and scratchy-sounding records
5. dark chocolate
6. my birthday
7. wild flowers
8. staying up all night
9. being outside in the middle of the night
10. road trips
11. ancient cultures
12. history
13. intense music
14. photography books
15. eyes
16. old books
17. music that i've listened to so many times i feel like it's my friend
18. sparkles
19. russian history
20. language and everything involved in it
21. pizza with extra cheese
22. jeopardy (the show, not actually being in it)
23. purple (the eggplant color)
24. worn in jeans that still fit just right
25. good hair days
26. my family
27. driving in huge puddles and, oops, splashing the fancy cars that try to go around them
28. cozy, snuggly anything
29. thick hearty soup/stew
30. midnight phone calls
31. bells (all sizes)
32. colorado
33. when appliances work just like they're supposed to, or are really easy to clean
34. road trips
35. watching something when you don't really care about it, so you can still talk to your friends
36. seeing/feeling people laugh really hard
37. laughing really hard
38. medieval-era stuff
39. asian food and chopsticks
40. quilts that remind me of stained glass windows
41. hearing people i know talk on the radio
42. christmas trees with the silvery strands of tinsel, and white lights
43. fresh breath
44. perfume
45. cologne
46. coming inside from the cold
47. roller coasters and the flight simulator at the SAC museum
48. baby animals, especially puppies and bunnies
49. texas hold 'em
50. fossils
51. farmers markets, and fresh food in general, and the idea of eating plants that grew from the ground
52. having a lot of books
53. glass bottles
54. funny movies/tv shows
55. tadpoles and tiny fish
56. the word "jurisprudence"
57. when people say they have "scads" of something
58. chicken enchiladas
59. beautiful acoustic guitar music
59. hot lava
60. aviator sunglasses
61. when it's raining lightly at night and the streetlights shine through the mist on your windshield and look like glowing jewels
62. spontaneously deciding to do fun things
63. concerts
64. honeysuckle-scented stuff
65. pistachios
66. acorns
67. squirrels and chipmunks
68. classical music
69. dancing by myself or with my sisters
70. Kramer
71. never ironing anything
72. wales
73. paid holidays
74. free money (see above)
75. putting lemons down the sink disposal so the kitchen smells clean
76. Micah 6:8
77. mittens
78. the word "ants"
79. spinning wheels
80. freshly ground coffee
81. fishing
82. the smell of fresh lakes
83. the sound of water patting the side of the boat, or soaking into the sand
84. getting text messages
85. constellations
86. the family i stayed with in ecuador
87. hearing people speak in other languages
88. cathedrals or large majestic buildings
89. when people do nice things for me
90. artwork
91. when, as young children, we made a giant model of the inner ear, using boxes that we could then crawl through to observe the hammer, anvil, and stirrup, among other things
92. a sunroof
93. homestar runner
94. scallops/lobster with butter and lemon juice
95. deep conversations
96. white herons wading in swamps
97. dignified old people
98. the jungle
99. daffodils
100. four-wheeling

3 Comments:

At Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:06:00 PM, Blogger Justin sayeth thus:

We should probably try to incorporate ALL of these into what we're doing, although, judging by the looks of it, we already have a pretty good head start.

 
At Tuesday, March 06, 2007 5:58:00 PM, Blogger Jacob sayeth thus:

you put road trips twice so thats only 99 things. plus, im pretty sure jurisprudence isnt a word

 
At Saturday, April 07, 2007 11:32:00 AM, Blogger NLWilliams sayeth thus:

who says you can't use the word jurisprudence??? It's an excellent word, on par with gubernatorial and patronization!

 

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