So, on this gorgeous april day, I’m obviously skipping school (my parents are getting quite grumpy about this, uh oh) in order to spend hours and hours planning out this one project that will basically rule over my professional future. I’m so excited. I’m taking a break now to kind of roll around in things that make me happy
Things I’m starting to realize that I can’t live without:
- Family and friends (no fucking duh)
- Witty t-shirts
- Making people laugh
- Good food
- Acoustic songs you can’t help but listen to over and over again (something like “this lullaby” by queens of the stone age)
- Tea. Not bubble tea, not tea with milk, but strong, borderline bitter Russian tea. With sugar added in if I’m feeling like a sissy, like today.
- Open, clear, sunlight-filled rooms
- Ways to appreciate other people’s talent and accomplishments. I was going to write out an excerpt from this one book about Sandor, a truly extraordinary man by my standards, but I thought better against it since most of you won’t even read it.
- Big, warm, down blankets
- Leather armchairs
- The combination of harmonica, guitar, upbeat songs, tents and campfires (call me a hic if you want hah)
- The Express editor pant. Oh my god.
- Sailing. This should have been much higher up on the list, but oh well.
- Books you can get lost in. Specifically non-fiction you can get lost in.
- Traveling. The process of traveling as opposed to hotel vacationing, actually. I just like to move around.
- Having a plan. Like now, the prospect of SJ makes me incredibly happy. That’s why I’m not even writing out the full name of the restaurant since I’m paranoid someone will steal the idea and I will no longer have a plan lol
- Singing in my car with the windows down.
- My car in general
- When people smell good. i.e. Old Spice drives me nuts.
- How can I put this…physical contact? I don’t understand how people can go through life with minimal hugging, kissing, and general touching. It must be so depressing.
- Men that look like sailors or the occasional offbeat romantic with an excellent sense of humor. Also, I just watched King Kong and Adrian Brody and the guy that played the captain were definitely something.
- Meeting adults that behave like me at my most familiar (like at home.) Sort of like Mrs. Osgood. That rather encourages me to just keep going the way I’m carrying on.
- Sweet Child of Mine. In the million times I’ve heard this song I haven’t been annoyed by it yet. It’s just that good.
- Actually, there’s a whole collection of songs I can’t live without. I can’t live without music in general.
- The words cacophony and conniption. And embroilment. Actually, just words I come across in class and learn the definitions of and then come across in the reading I do outside of school. That just kind of puts the world together like a jigsaw.
- Dressing up
- Seeing my little brother becoming exactly the kind of person that’ll make the world a bit of a brighter place. And teaching him things that he’ll find useful later on in life. I’m excited at the thought of the magnificence of his future, how one day he’ll be the kind of man to bring happiness to his family.
- The release you get when you cuss at no one in general, just at the little misfortunes that come your way. Like when I’m restocking and a whole section of the triple Lindor packs collapses.
- Being independent, not being a goody two-shoes.
- Being able to accept defeat
- Turtles. Sounds weird, but turtles have been symbolically reappearing in my life for as long as I can remember. I’m taking it as a sign of good luck.
- Actually, my louvre bear that’s been mutilated a bunch of times by now is also a sort of good luck symbol, I carry him around a lot when I feel I need to.
- Big bags that feel good to the touch
- A cell phone
- SAUCES. Oh my GOD how do people not experiment with sauces when they cook?! It kind of pisses me off when my parents or anyone else just follows traditional ways of preparing food and doesn’t take the time out to do something a little extra. It takes no time to taste a couple of sauces or to look through the fridge and dump a crapload of parsley into the salad at the idea that it will make it all taste infinitely better. Because it will, I guarantee it, as long as you put some common sense behind your decisions.
- French songs that I may not even understand, but that sound good.
- Beach umbrellas
- Being out at night
- Climbing trees and fences
- The line “I’m running high on my deep depression.” Yay for Garbage! And the way Tryo goes “doucement doucement doucement….Je t’aime” and the audience goes wild… and the final scene of fight club with the Pixies song in the background… and when they dust the ashes in "the big lebowsky" and the idea of Ferris Bueller and the the toga scene in Animal House...and the video for “not about love”… and ‘supreme’ by robbie williams… and the senselessness of Kaiser Chief’s “once you ask me what I’m thinking I lay back and think of england, do you know my real answer? I was born to be a dancer” and music that people wouldn’t expect me to like (I’m a bass-heavy hip hop FREAK) and Franz Ferdinand’s “I’m alive, I’m a live and how I know it, but for chips and for freedom I would die” and so much more..
- The Office and Arrested Development and Monk and South Park and the History Channel
Wow this is getting long, but I could go on for a long time.
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