these are the really important things
small things about my life now that please me:
In Seattle around my birthday, fresh figs are in season, these regional varieties that are less sharp and more honey-crystal-sweet and grassy fresh than the mission black figs from cali. So ever since I moved here I've bought fresh figs around my birthday and I scoop them out with a spoon and eat them straight. Nomnomnom. I never had fresh figs really before in my life so this is a special PNW phase of my life thing for me.
Also, when we moved here we got a totally awesome deal on Fiestaware for our kitchen. We got four sets of dishes in crazy colors - this peacock blue, a tangerine orange, a lemongrass yellowy green, and a plum dark purple. They always pleased me because any given combination of mug + saucer or bowl + plate or whatever was always interesting and pretty. But a few months ago the same great deal on Fiestaware popped up again so we ditched our last remaining crappy chipped mismatched ikea things and got two more sets of dishes, a bright rich red and a sunny yellow. So now sometimes when I empty the dishwasher and put stuff back in the cabinets, my dishes stack themselves in rainbow order.
In Seattle around my birthday, fresh figs are in season, these regional varieties that are less sharp and more honey-crystal-sweet and grassy fresh than the mission black figs from cali. So ever since I moved here I've bought fresh figs around my birthday and I scoop them out with a spoon and eat them straight. Nomnomnom. I never had fresh figs really before in my life so this is a special PNW phase of my life thing for me.
Also, when we moved here we got a totally awesome deal on Fiestaware for our kitchen. We got four sets of dishes in crazy colors - this peacock blue, a tangerine orange, a lemongrass yellowy green, and a plum dark purple. They always pleased me because any given combination of mug + saucer or bowl + plate or whatever was always interesting and pretty. But a few months ago the same great deal on Fiestaware popped up again so we ditched our last remaining crappy chipped mismatched ikea things and got two more sets of dishes, a bright rich red and a sunny yellow. So now sometimes when I empty the dishwasher and put stuff back in the cabinets, my dishes stack themselves in rainbow order.