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[nosmallbeer]

Things you enjoy, not because you have to, but because you WANT to. What lowers your stress/blood pressure/anxiety level? Make a list, post it to your journal... and then tag 5 friends and ask them to post it to theirs.

1. Singing...loud and clear and strong
2. Talking to Yam
3. sex
4. hiking
5. calling in sick

I tag... iamyam iron_giants _drudwyn_ captainseely lunapoppy

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I never post these, so I'll answer in your comments.

[iron_giants]

1) driving around aimlessly with my music on too loud. There's a lot of hills near my house and I like to drive up Niles Canyon Road, barely navigating the curves and deafening myself with the Arcade Fire or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
2) Receiving Netflix in the mail. I'm always relieved when I know I have a movie to watch if I can't sleep, which is most nights. Just knowing I have some distraction is enough.
3) When I was still in Santa Cruz (I'm home in Fremont for the summer) I would grab my ipod and just ride the city buses. It didn't really matter where I was going, but a lot of the time I would go downtown and see a foreign unheard of film in one of the funky little indie theatres on Pacific Avenue. My favorite part was listening to classical music in the dark when I was waiting for a movie to start.
4) Buying myself flowers. You always know if I've had a rough day if I show up with a bouquet of callas lilies. Nothing can bother me when I'm carrying a bouquet of flowers that I just bought.
5) Reading an old, worn book from my childhood, like "The Blue Sword" by Robin McKinley, or "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle.

Re: I never post these, so I'll answer in your comments.

[nosmallbeer]

#1 should be on my list, it kind of figures in with the singing thing because it's only really okay to do so in the car. However, I've been without a car for a little while and commuting to work - so I'm missing out.
#2 - I totally agree. My list is so long, however, with a ton of movies we've added for having been recommended...or for reasons neither of us can figure out...sometimes the arrival is disappointing. ("What the heck is this movie?" and "You must have added this to the list because I sure wouldn't have")
#3 - great people watching, no?
#4 - That's much better than my habit of going to Togo's
#5 - I had one book that I loved from childhood and it disappeared before I could swipe it from my parents' bookshelves...I could never remember the title. :(