Tuesday, Aug. 02, 2005 - 8:51 p.m.
Learning to love stuff more
Erin set me onto this extremely enjoyable challenge from Learning To Love You More:Make a list of 100 things you like in no particular order. Avoid the obvious (significant other, cake...) and be completely honest with yourself. If you try to think of things that you are curious about and inspired by, you'll end up discovering a lot about yourself and in doing so developing a sort of bank of your interests and ideas.
So, here's my list. (And if you're tempted to do the same, please do: it's extremely therapeutic.)
1. the way birds walk, including ostriches, excluding pigeons
2. the moment you give up trying to impress someone and admit something geeky and they get with it anyway
3. laundry smells
4. sliding into bed naked
5. thinking about the victorian era
6. sliding into a bath
7. beautiful handwriting
8. freckles
9. boulder-hopping in rivers
10. surprise letters through the post
11. programs about architecture
12. debbie drawing me cartoons
13. a good bra
14. tea and cake
15. the name 'scout niblet'
16. singing songs in a car with pals
17. staying up all night because there's too much to talk about
18.creating happy lists
19. heads in laps
20. haircuts
21. compliments
22. waking up from a doze to hear a song you'd not paid attention to before
23. surrendering to tiredness
24. clean sheets
25. camping in the wild
26. museums
27. that there is a place called ouagadougou
28. trains pulling out of stations (with me on)
29. baking
30. steamy windows of tea shops
31. kissing
32. 'thank you's on album covers
33. letting go
34. david shrigley
35. casting off
36. mum-cooked food
37. sitting between my neice and nephew
38. birdsong
39. sit-down gigs
40. post-exfoliation
41. good hair days
42. when anticipated problems never even arise
43. second-hand bookshops
44. steven appleby's cartoons
45. humour hidden in serious programs
46. edinburgh
47. bringing homemade cookies to work
48. agreement
49. crossing off items from a to-do list
50. a film you can love everything about
51. www.flipflopflyin.com
52. making plans
53. little kindnesses
54. eurostar
55. ripe cherries from next-door's tree
56. irreverence
57. when people use my name in conversation
58. sitting upside-down
59. parks
60. canals
61. first hand-holding
62. laughing with strangers in public places
63. scandinavian accents
64. developing a film you'd forgotten about
65. laughing hard
66. dimples
67. good tears
68. skin that smells of the sun
69. showering after a day at the beach
70. curry
71. being impressed by your friends
72. wooden shutters
73. being unable to stop listening to a song, it's so good
74. the alps
75. monkeys
76. karaoke
77. downtown manhattan
78. the internet
79. the way britain looked in the 1950s
80. colour photocopiers
81. being unable to stop smiling
82. lip gloss
83. boxes
84. small-town friendliness in a big city
85. coastline
86. watching the stars out of the back window of a car
87. franglais
88. shop mannekins in funny poses
89. coming back from holiday and still smiling at strangers
90. olive oil in tins
91. houses painted pretty colours
92. port meadow, oxford
93, unabashed intellectualism
94. gingham
95. country lanes turned into tunnels by trees
96. resting my head on my shoulder
97. devon
98. pain au chocolat
99. the anticipation of finishing
100. completing tasks, even if they were fun