These are a few of my favorite things...

Two things make me unexplicably euphoric

Night with a full moon
Cloudy and windy Friday afternoons.

Seriously, they are like crack to me. I also enjoy the love a woman and everything that makes her feminine.

Great thread idea!!

* Walking with no particular destination, being open to whatever interesting things happen. Living in the moment.
* The thrill of discovery, insight, seeing connections.

Being on a boat at a close reach.
Cooking a meal with family and friends, and then sitting down to eat it, without interruptions.
An uninterrupted sleep, in my own warm bed with my own comforter and my own pillows.
And nice smellies, of course!

This almost borught tear to my eyes... I remember those. It is a beautiful childhood memory

Sitting in myleather glider, pot of tea nearby, sheepskin slippers on my feet, reading.
Holding hands with my DH, over a bottle of good red wine.
Maille mustards
Popcorn
Ballet. Even in my worst (personal) times, I would go to the ballet and know that, with such beauty in the world, life would get better.

With both kids, husband & dogs all together in a pile covered by comforters watching a great film.

Not having to watch the time.

Creating a special suprise for a loved one.

I have about a million more, but I'll leave it at those three!

Lazy days at home with a stack of old books.

Alternatively...road trips. I love to take a trip in the car - anywhere, as long as it's over the horizon to see what's there.

Finding a really great deal in an antiques shop or flea market.

Eating all the raw garlic, gefilte fish and Vegemite I want when my other half's out of town.

Shopping and laughing with friends on cold, windy days.

Christmastime panto performances (If only my fellow Americans knew what fun panto can be!)

Dancing 'til I'm covered in sweat and ready to plotz.

Curling up with my dogs and my other half on a snowy afternoon.

Reading a really superb book while I'm on a road trip or flying.

Taking long walks by myself, especially in the autumn.

Having long, hot, acrobatic, sweaty sessions of incredible sex.

Cooking huge meals for friends and family members -- especially on holidays.

Listening to really great music.

Crying and laughing over a really wonderful film, no matter whether I've already seen it or not.

Eating Ethiopian, Japanese, Korean or Lebanese food in a great setting with good friends.

Seeing Paris by sunrise.

Giving my nieces cooking lessons.

Staying in Chicago (Belmont area) any time of the year.

Swapping jokes with my brother.

Visiting Kyoto in autumn.

Gabbing on the phone with friends.

Reconnecting with old friends.

Going to Camp Willowswish once a year.

Eating marzipan alongside coffee and dark chocolate.

Discovering a wonderful fragrance that I hadn't yet encountered.

Some of my favorites -

listening to music
cooking
sunrises and sunsets, I live in the best place to enjoy them
laughing 'til I cry
2 hour naps

Spending all of Sunday in bed with boyfriend and dogs + newspapers (OK, in laptop form these days) and toast. Lazy sex, reading stories from the Lifestyle section to each other, dogs curled up at my feet. Ahhhhh.

Very windy days that aren't cold. I love just standing in the wind and feeling it on my face.

Making a big roast dinner with my best friend at his house in London - then feeding his wife, kids, and our friends, whilst also going through a few good bottles of red and talking, talking, talking.

A summer day at the beach (one with only me/us on it) in British Columbia/on Vancouver Island - just alternating swimming and sunning, and then eating a huge meal when I get home (swimming and suntanning, for some reason, makes me starving).

Sleeping bare-belly to bare-belly with my little doxie, whilst holding hands/paws with my mixed breed. Yes, she likes to hold paws. It's devastatingly sweet.

Road trips with my boyfriend or my sister.

Sultry summer nights in Montreal.

Bernard Callebaut chocolates.

Frappuccinos. Bad, I know, but I love those fat-filled calorie bombs.

Reading a juicy book indoors with my fire burning while it's snowing outside.

I could go on and on...

* The sound of my wife's laughter in another room.

* Sleeping in my own bed again after a trip abroad.

* Returning to my own TOILET after a trip abroad.

* When the windows are frosted with condensation during winter, because there is a rich thick soup on the boil on the stove.

* Walking through fallen leaves on windy autumn days.

* Opening parcels, envelopes, gifts and so on.

* Using the FIRST SQUIRT from a fresh tube of toothpaste.

* Reading a glossy mag or travel brochure from cover to cover and being completely engrossed with the experience.

* Packing the freezer full of fresh meat - always makes me feel safe, stocked up and satisfied.

* Howling at jokes until I'm crying with laughter.

* Listening to a new CD I have been DYING to hear, for the very first time.

* Full moons on cloudy nights, when the sky looks like an illustration from "Where the Wild things Are".

The tranquil silence of laying in a field of snow.

Walking without a precise destination.
Winter without snow, including cold weather and wearing lots of clothes. lol
Rainy days.
Silence.
Driving while listening to good music.
Spending a whole night reading an interesting book.
'Wasting' time in the company of my best friend, the most fascinating person I've ever met.
Watching my cats playing or sleeping, that's really relaxing.
Making silly jokes and 'talking' to all the stray dogs in order to annoy my boyfriend. lol

This is a very nice thread. I enjoyed reading those replies so far. Let's see...

Eight hours of deep, deep sleep, after a heavy exercise session or football match.
Being around my friends doing anything at anytime.
Planning for a great night out, dressing up for it, carefully picking a scent for the evening, and enjoy watching the minutes go by.
Food.
Night driving, optionally with music. Extra points if I wasn't the one driving.
Flying.
Scent. In a garden, a beach, a coffee place, a bakery, a restaurant, our kitchen, on people. Scents always stop me for a second. And fragrance on a girl always makes me smile.
Flying.
Winter. Cold weather, and cold winter nights spent out, wearing heavy clothes and sipping hot drinks.
Music.
Final Fantasy, Broken Sword, and Monkey Island.
Solving a complex programming problem. Gives me an unequaled rush.

-To have interesting conversations. (With all people, absolutly different....big authourities, tycoons,friends,employes,homeless,whoever)
-Airports (I have airports fascination....I see the buildings, the people,fragances, cafés, etc...)
-All armenian things (Whatever)
-To negotiate (Whatever 24 hours a day, 365 days)
-To go to the church (every sunday)
-To go to the gym (5 times per week)
-To give a queen treatment to my 2 grandmothers
-To travel

You know, I like that too, Tony. My dad and I both love to people watch in airports, and point out things about them all. I think Neil Simon once wrote that airports were great places for him to derive characters for his plays.

- solving a programming problem in a beautiful way (I'm totally with Mostapha on this one!!)

- thoughts of God which bring tears of joy to my eyes

- my wife in a tight dress and high heels wearing Dior Addict EDP or Gucci by Gucci

- making an unexpected climbing move and feeling it work beyond what I had hoped for

- arriving at work with my coffee and bagel

- hearing my son make a really good joke, or playing one of his own compositions on his guitar

- rocketing around a turn on a snowboard

- my climbing buddies and I go into comedy mode, and we get 3 pants-pissing jokes in a row

- understanding a scientific or mathematical principle or equation for the first time

- a story which suddenly takes shape in my head, or which falls into place unexpectedly

- people who destroy my preconceptions and stereotypes

- my collection of bad shower songs for my imaginary Broadway musical Ahmadinejad

- any Sanrio character, Miyazaki creature, cool anime character, or anime-influenced drawing

- the AFLAC duck

- those strange sexual dreams that don't correspond to this reality

- a non-problematic Linux installation, possibly including a wireless card

- reading somebody's LMAO post on Basenotes

- getting any kind of encryption or decryption to work (Mostapha - ya gotta do crypto! )

- getting out of any kind of climbing epic or other tense outdoor situation

- reading someone's poetry or writing and being able to see what they saw and feel what they felt

- driving toward mountains on the horizon

- dreams where I can fly

- extra napkins at McDonalds

- a really good cup of coffee

- dreams where I have a good smoke again

- a table in a coffee shop with an electrical outlet next to it

- having coffee with my wife in a little shop with no place to go

- opening up my motorcycle on a highway in the summer

- memories of mountain vacations with my parents as a child

- skipping rocks

- perfect backspin on a cue ball

- splitting firewood in the fall

- breakfast out back with the family on Saturday morning

- movie popcorn, or truckstop imitation movie popcorn

- a movie that changes the way I see the world when I walk out the door

- Chinese characters

- sushi where the chef makes those little cross-slits that let you bite through it cleanly

- Unicode

That really made me laugh out loud


I remember during the semester when I took my crypto class. I remember saying "Now how did they come up with THAT?" at least 20 times. It was fascinating stuff really. But my interest stopped there. Part because there's very little cryptography work going on down here, and part because I know I was never that good with math.


Add to my list:

A lucid dream. Two years ago I was obsessed with this topic. I read so much about it and about methods to induce it and keep it going. Nowadays I rarely get a lucid dream, but when they happen, it's an unequaled experience.

The stream of thoughts in the morning when you're lying in bed half awake, when you can feel you can do anything (and the five minutes after that, when you realize you really can't go to that girl, hold her firmly and tell her you want to be together, and you can't move to Canada tonight, can't buy your dream car next week, and you can't make all your work tasks magically solve themselves, and can't have a week off any time soon, can't have a proper vacation for the next two years, can't expect to type "make" and watch everything go smoothly, can't see London in the next five years, can't run a half marathon when you know your last proper run was six months ago... *sigh*).

To see a falcon rising from my hand and soaring into the sky. Free.....

Fresh snow, making the first footsteps, rolling in it until I am covered

The sound of a saxophone that makes me longing for unknown things

Singing and hear other voices joining

To come home in the dark, alone... let the dark sink in. And then go from room to room, lighting the lamps and wonder why we think this is so normal

Hot summer days and I can take a shower. Water, so precious...

The first tender green of the trees in spring

Talking and laughing for hours, forgetting time

The smell of my home after a holiday.

Cooking huge Indonesian meals for friends, smelling the rich spices

The house filled with peonies in every shade

An unsolicited hug and "I love you" from my children
The smell of fresh coffee brewing while I am still lying in bed
The smell of leaves burning on a cold day
The smell of the wild honeysuckle that grows behind my house on the warm Spring wind
My cat snuggled up with me and purring
Candlelight
Holding my Husbands hand
Holding a new baby
Laughing until you can barely breathe

Pretty cool you like airports also Aiona!

You know, I like to go to pick friends or family members....Kind of taxi driver....lol......Most of people don t understand why I like that much.

I like ALL in airports, to drink a nice cup of coffee with my family members, friends or simply alone.

I do all check in on airline counters (including if I dont travel) , I love to ask for spetial traement (good seats or upgrades).....And I obtain it!

I also like to see newspapers or books in the stores.

But Aiona.....I dislike 1 thing:

To watch bigshots walking around kind of "I m a celebrity"....And they are simple people like me or whoever to take a fly.

1. Teaching my students how to protect themselves when they don't know how to.
2. Experiencing new fragrances.
3. Starting to read a new book.
4. Seeing kids playing.
5. Sharing with friends and people I don't know.
6. Voicing my opinion verbally without punching someone in the mouth.
7. Getting out of bed in the morning.
8. Bike rides.
9. Those first 5 seconds when I enter a ring to fight another BB.
10. Seeing or hearing good things that happen to other people.
11. Veal parmisian. (sp?)
12. George Bush's retirement.
13. My friends of Bill W.
14. Panty hose with those black lines up the back
15. Oh yea, and tdi's avatars

Oh so many....

Filled with what

My three bambino's
My family
Learning
Candy...especially chocolate
Perfume
My computer
Good friends
Honest, stimulating, and deep conversation
Personality tests
Psychology (sp?)
Documentaries
Lazing around
Helping others
Cooking
Gardening
Rib-eye steak...medium-rare
A GOOD Caesar salad
Ginger-Ale
Making lists
Crossing said things off of lists!
Painting
Mixed media
Having a crush...or the feeling of "new" love
Or, the feeling of true intimacy (deep love)
Astrology
Crossword puzzles
Shopping...for anything!

I love a lot of things, but perfume's biggest competition is scented bath and body products.

Food. All kinds of food. And shoes. Pretty, sexy, tough, wicked, elegant shoes.

But shouldn't this thread just be continued from the one we had last month?

sorry! I even did a search!!!

Maybe CJ will merge them and we'll pick up where we left off!

*Doing unexpected favors for others.
*Having my Mother tell me she loved me when I was a child.
*The look of pride in my Mother's eyes when I was a child at the completion of the simplest things.
*Music
*Pets
*Fresh Air
*Gravity