breathless and footloose!
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
love, love, love.
Love!
LOVE!
(It’s still sunny outside, can you tell?)
I’m feeling kind of love-alicious right now, and for no reason I can discern beyond the fact that the sun and my coffee are nice and hot… and both of them give me a glow.
I still did all the normal trauma things this morning: stubbed my toe, spilled my moisturizer, scraped my leg on our broken stick-out soap dish in the shower, and accidentally flung my debit card into the street.
The normal stuff.
BUT.
YAY FOR LOVE AND THINGS YOU LOVE AND PEOPLE YOU LOVE AND LOVE!
(Gagging yet? Good.)
My goal today is to remind myself (and encourage you! and you! and you! and you! and you! to do it, too) about the things in my world that are amazing and wonderful. I know I’ve had a Crap Week from Planet Hell, and I bet some of you have, too. I could use a little head’s-up about the good stuff.
Even if you’ve had a good week, though, it’s never a bad idea to be mindful of all the things you adore.
It makes you more thankful.
More kind.
More… you.
SO! Without further ado…
THINGS I LOVE
Late evening light in Vancouver
A really good turkey sandwich
French fries
Commuting with a friend
Randomly dancing in your own house, all by yourself
Yoga balls!
Kenny Loggins (Seriously. “Heart to Heart” and “Footloose”? Yeah.)
Drafts with few changes
Beaker!
Big, big coffee mugs
Fireworks! (well, from my deck)
Blue cheese dressing with hot wings
Antihistamines that WORK!
Soul singers (shivers up my spine)
Babies that wave and say, “Bye!”
Goldfish crackers
Campfires
Baseball games, watched live
A really honest discussion about something that actually matters
A completely dumb conversation about nothing
Burn-y lipgloss
Caramel apples (Granny Smiths only!)
Rosemary candles
Broken-in jeans
Onion rings
Tickets to San Diego
Update: Being on the radio with Buzz! (Coming later tonight)
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I challenge everyone to post a love list on their own blogs, even if you think it’s horribly cheesy and eye-rolling. And if you have no blog, do it in the comments here! Celebrate something good.
I want to know what you love!
boom!
Tonight is the first night of the HSBC Celebration of Light in Vancouver!
For those of you from out of town (courtesy of the site):
“The world’s leading fireworks manufacturers consider the HSBC Celebration of Light international fireworks competition to be the most prestigious event of its kind in the world and an exciting arena where they can unveil the latest pyro-musical techniques and the most innovative fireworks materials.”
Three countries. Three big shows.
Tonight is Spain… Ole!
We’re planning to watch the magic from the comfort of our balcony.
A couple of years ago, I went down to English Bay to watch the madness unfold close-up. We went four or five hours early to secure a prime spot at the beach, and as time ticked away, we were slowly but surely surrounded by what seemed like half of Vancouver.
It’s fun, but a little crazy. A little drunk. A little mad.
And OH, THE GARBAGE. THE SHEER VOLUME OF GARBAGE.
It should be an interesting “morning after” the first night of the celebration this year, seeing as the city sanitation workers are on strike. Oops.
Oh, well.
I doubt it’s the first time in my city people have gone to sleep thinking they’d had “fireworks”… and then woke up feeling kinda trashy.