September 11th, 2012
1000 Things, 3rd edition: so many things!
These are from Amy, an excellent human with whom I once talked for pretty much three days and she was fascinating the entire time. Happy to have her likes on the list:
382) road trips
383) roller coasters
384) slurpees
385) being underwater
386) group singalongs
387) bears
388) buffy the vampire slayer
389) lake superior
390) dog cuddles
391) beards (RR says: Yes! So underappreciated!)
392) frozen grapes
And these are from Mark, who is also awesome, and the first male contributer to this list. And married to me!
393) That cobalt colour the sky gets right before the dawn
394) David Francey’s music.
395) Really good gym workouts.
396) Fresh tomatoes.
397) A good novel, especially one that you know will be good right from the first few pages.
398) Getting married (RR says: yep!)
399) Flying home for Christmas and meeting delightful weirdos at the Fionn MacCool’s in Pearson T2 while waiting for your plane.
400) The first day of a new season, any season
401) Parties where disparate groups of one’s friends meet and all get along splendidly (esp. at our wedding)
402) Anthony Burgess
403) Wes Anderson movies
404) avocado
405) Thanksgiving
406) back rubs
407) Victoria-by-the-Sea, PEI.
408) Hugs from nieces
409) Seeing your name in print
Buy the book:
410)a new package of coloured markers
September 11th, 2012 at 10:57 am411)post-it notes, in all the colours of the rainbow
412)finding the right word for the job
413)being in the middle of a favourite author’s oevre, knowing there’s still lots of great reading ahead of you
414)thoughtful comments left on your blog
415)recommending a good book
416)nursing a baby in the first six months and knowing all his delicious baby fat has come from you alone
417)teaching a child to read
418)witnessing a child fall in love with books
419)purring cats
420)evicted squirrels
421) the smell of meadows in the late summer/early fall
September 11th, 2012 at 11:53 am422)A flaky croissant, fresh from the oven.
September 11th, 2012 at 3:44 pm423)Bolchaia 4 o’clock tea from Albert Ménès in Paris
424)Paris
425)Smelling a smell you haven’t smelled since you were little.
426)The number eight
427)Harmonizing with a song on the radio
428)Every song on Madonna’s “True Blue” album
429)Ampersands
430)Holding hands
431)Unintentional rhymes
432) Elderly women looking in trash cans
September 13th, 2012 at 9:24 am433) Elderly men standing and watching construction
434) When cats burp or fart
435) When you lock your bike to a pole and it falls down
436) Drunk kids eating pizza or Chinese food while staggering home, letting their trash fall behind them as they go
437) Those people whose whole week leads up to Karaoke Night and who are really good at Karaoke
438) Hearing about someone falling asleep on the toilet
439) When Bonnie Prince Billy makes reference in song to either his beard or stomach
440) When little kids fall down and don’t cry until someone asks if they’re okay
441) West Coast IPA
442) Watching anyone over fifteen learning how to skateboard
443) When firefighters set their practice house on fire
444) This friend I had who had a ghost in his house and would pee his pants (grey track pants) whenever he thought about it
445) Tracking lines on VHS
446) When you wait around all day for the mail that might have money for you in, and then you go out for afternoon beer and come home to find the money has come
447) Frank’s hot sauce on everything
448) Using “dickering” instead of “haggling”
449) Other people’s fear of clowns for some reason
450) Those promises you make to yourself when you’re going to sleep that tomorrow you’ll wake up and do all things you’ve been doing wrong the right way
– the stiffness of a new pair of glasses
– Dad tee shirts that turn into kids’ nightshirts
– Community pioneers who put businesses in places others have abandoned (e.g. Mixed Media, Hamilton & Lunch-bags.ca: thank you!)
– Stories in our spaces (Project Bookmark Canada)
– When your teenagers are proud of you (priceless)
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