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+ Freshly sharpened pencils.

+ A new home, almost fully unboxed.

+ Pillow Pets. It's like hugging a freaking cloud.

+ UPS tracking numbers and watching my package get closer. . .and closer. . .

+ I saw a man on a street corner at major intersection rocking the fuck out. Head bobbing, jumping wherever his legs took him, holding tight to his ( Read more... )

Coming back to this community after a whole year and finding people still posting away their thrills :)

- Watching my hamster, Dougal, run around his cage tidying up all the paper bedding only to be dragging more about stuck to his fluffy bum!
- Having Dougal sit on my belly, while I lie down, & groom himself & occasionally look up at Mummy
- Driving

- the gush upon biting a cherry tomato
- a single dried-up ginko leaf on the sidewalk
- re-filling the bird feeder and watching the cat gaze in wonder because i'm on the wrong side of the glass
- two jars of nutella
- forgetting a sweater at work, but being able to use it the next day when the temperature dropped
- a voice to the words

+ being in two different states today (separated by a plane ride) and both places being sunny and clear and pretty.
+ laying across the vacant seats next to me on the plane and catching up on sleep.
+ starbucks offering to heat up my blueberry scone.

- the sudden roar of an accelerating harley in a traffic tunnel
- running my hands over both sides of a hallway with textured wallpaper
- doodling
- snow panic in DC
- a man being comfortable enough to snore loudly on the metro

I was on the bus to the library on Friday, and I was sat near a man who was singing Wake Up by Arcade Fire to himself, not giving a shit if anyone else could hear him. He made my day. He also got off at the same stop as me, and I wanted to tell him that he'd made my day, but then I chickened out.

- the moment of realisation when, yes, oh yes, you can go back to sleep!
- the way he looks at me for conformation every time he says something funny, as though all he wants is to make me laugh.
- when my big fat ginger cat sits on my shoulder and snuggles in around my neck.
- flat lemonade.

- a warm purring cat sitting on the small of my back.