'Cause I felt like it
Feb. 2nd, 2007 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenRather than bash my head against the wall with a Botticelli (and 'cause ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bigscary is still kicking ass at his), I'm creating a meme. Just something I've been thinking about.
Life's Little Pleasures:
Name five things that continue to surprise and delight you no matter how many times you do them/they happen. (tag for anyone who wants to do it!)
1) Putting on new clothes for the first time.
Nothing like it. Especially underwear. Especially nice underwear (yay Victoria's Secret; hooray for TMI!).
2) Getting non-bill mail.
E-mail is exciting, too, but snail-mail is just more fun. Is it a letter (how quaint!)? Is it Netflix (woot!)? A magazine? A postcard? Sure, junk mail blows and what not, but it's worth it to open your mailbox every now and again and find something you didn't know you were looking forward to getting.
3) Kitties jumping into my lap.
Oscar does it all the time--and he and Wally almost never stop purring--yet I still want to go all Elmira on him and squeeze the life out of him because it is so cute when they do that. I have lived too long with skittish kittens, and now I don't have to and I might die of cute.
4) Previews at the movie theater.
If you shell out the money for a movie, endure the getting there super early for good seats (because I hardly go out to the movies any more unless it's something I absolutely must see opening weekend), and the fucking annoying guy with the weird Eyebrows talking you through that cinema's version of "THE TWENTY" (aka bullshit you pay for TiVO not to see), you deserve a medal. But still, no matter how bad the previews get (and some of them can be painful), you get to see previews and that's fun. In the age of the internet, where you can see those on Apple.com two minutes after the studio releases them, they're still better on the big screen. I was kindly walked to my seat--being guided around people in the aisles--so I could not take my eyes off the preview for Spider-Man 3. Mmm, previews. If I had seen the preview for 300 that left me a drooling mess in the theater, I wouldn't be able to ever stop thinking about that movie coming out. IT IS COMING OUT IN MARCH STILL, RIGHT?
5) Tie for smells: The smell of freshly microwaved buttered popcorn and the smell of bacon being cooked.
Two things that will not be denied: when you smell buttered popcorn or bacon, you cannot but want to eat three billion pounds of both. I don't like popcorn especially because I wind up with the kernel shell stuck in my gums and greasy fingers, but the smell of a bag fresh out of the microwave is enough to drive me mad. The McDonald's french fry smell isn't even as alluring (and believe me, it's plenty tempting). And I've heard vegetarians tempted back into the fold of omnivorism for bacon. Because it's fucking bacon and that smell, and the slightly salty taste...mmmm.
Great, now I'm hungry. Time for lunch, methinks.
bigscary is still kicking ass at his), I'm creating a meme. Just something I've been thinking about.Life's Little Pleasures:
Name five things that continue to surprise and delight you no matter how many times you do them/they happen. (tag for anyone who wants to do it!)
1) Putting on new clothes for the first time.
Nothing like it. Especially underwear. Especially nice underwear (yay Victoria's Secret; hooray for TMI!).
2) Getting non-bill mail.
E-mail is exciting, too, but snail-mail is just more fun. Is it a letter (how quaint!)? Is it Netflix (woot!)? A magazine? A postcard? Sure, junk mail blows and what not, but it's worth it to open your mailbox every now and again and find something you didn't know you were looking forward to getting.
3) Kitties jumping into my lap.
Oscar does it all the time--and he and Wally almost never stop purring--yet I still want to go all Elmira on him and squeeze the life out of him because it is so cute when they do that. I have lived too long with skittish kittens, and now I don't have to and I might die of cute.
4) Previews at the movie theater.
If you shell out the money for a movie, endure the getting there super early for good seats (because I hardly go out to the movies any more unless it's something I absolutely must see opening weekend), and the fucking annoying guy with the weird Eyebrows talking you through that cinema's version of "THE TWENTY" (aka bullshit you pay for TiVO not to see), you deserve a medal. But still, no matter how bad the previews get (and some of them can be painful), you get to see previews and that's fun. In the age of the internet, where you can see those on Apple.com two minutes after the studio releases them, they're still better on the big screen. I was kindly walked to my seat--being guided around people in the aisles--so I could not take my eyes off the preview for Spider-Man 3. Mmm, previews. If I had seen the preview for 300 that left me a drooling mess in the theater, I wouldn't be able to ever stop thinking about that movie coming out. IT IS COMING OUT IN MARCH STILL, RIGHT?
5) Tie for smells: The smell of freshly microwaved buttered popcorn and the smell of bacon being cooked.
Two things that will not be denied: when you smell buttered popcorn or bacon, you cannot but want to eat three billion pounds of both. I don't like popcorn especially because I wind up with the kernel shell stuck in my gums and greasy fingers, but the smell of a bag fresh out of the microwave is enough to drive me mad. The McDonald's french fry smell isn't even as alluring (and believe me, it's plenty tempting). And I've heard vegetarians tempted back into the fold of omnivorism for bacon. Because it's fucking bacon and that smell, and the slightly salty taste...mmmm.
Great, now I'm hungry. Time for lunch, methinks.
