'Cause I felt like it

[trinityvixen]

Rather than bash my head against the wall with a Botticelli (and 'cause 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.

Comments

[decidedly.livejournal.com]

You know, three of these could easily be on my list - especially #4 because OMG. Have you seen the preview for Sunshine yet?! I thought the concept sounded utterly retarded, and then I saw the preview and the mind was blown. Plus there's Cillian Murphy, so.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

You know that bacon is a vegetable, right?

http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/baconisavegetable/

[fairest.livejournal.com]

Hee! I love this. I had bacon for breakfast this morning.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Amusingly enough, so did I. I made coq au vin on Wednesday, and still have half a pound of bacon left.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, no I haven't! I will check that trailer at home when I get the chance. If Cillian Murphy isn't the hottest thing since sliced bread, I don't know what is.

And which were the other two you liked, too?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I swear that feiran has explained what this joke was about before, but what is this again?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Just hit "read the comic". It's a fairly standard DS strip, but it amuses me so.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Iiiiiiiii don't get it quite, but I'm dim, and it's a webcomic, so that makes sense. Is she saying she's a veggie-bite but not for bacon? Or that bacon doesn't count as meat because none can withstand its allure?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

If by "hot", you mean "has the most beautiful yet incredibly creepy eyes of any human being ever born", sure.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That is what I mean, actually. I remember going to see 28 Days Later with feiran and both of us going, "meh" to him until the end when he had longer hair and was all cute.

Regardless of his possession of the most gorgeous eyes, he won my respect with Batman Begins for being able to portray a sociopath--versus a screaming, spitting psychopath, which we will get to with the Joker--that didn't just seem like a random villain (which, when I heard the Scarecrow was going to be in it, I was kinda thinking it was).

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Most gorgeous and creepy. Holy mackeral, he does a fantastic sociopath because his eyes almost don't look human.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

They're so...blue. And cold. And they smile at you. AND MOCK YOU. AND WISH YOU PAIN.

Yeah, creeeeeepy.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Which wouldn't, of course, stop me from having sex with him if he offered. Just saying I agree.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Lardons

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Heads up: VS has a sale on, or did last weekend. I got 10 new pairs of underwear (from their "Pink" line, which means they're all cotton and cute, if you like that sort of thing) for $25. At normal price that would've been like, $80.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, really? I might have to check this out if I go shopping with my mom. I got 5 pairs for 25 a few weeks ago, and I love them to pieces (i've even started tossing old, hole-y undies for that reason). I might even be able to stomach the Pink line stuff for that.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

...say what?