friday love list: sunglasses on top of your head edition.
(dad and meg a while back. but note the ever-present shades on top of my noggin.)
I’m wearing sunglasses on top of my head. In the fall. In Vancouver. FOR THE THIRD DAY IN A ROW.
AIIIYYYYEEEEE!
If you know me, you know I like wearing sunglasses on top of my head. It keeps my fine, floaty hair from blowing into my face when it’s down, as well as giving me that OH HELLO ARE WE AT THE BEACH? SoCal look that I love, or at least discovered I love once I had the opportunity to wear sunglasses on my head in SoCal.
I would like another opportunity, by the way. I’m just saying. And I’d like it right around now. Just saying.
But I digress.
Writing my love list today is my way of smiling in the face of angst. What angst, you ask? Well, I’m on Day 12 of WHY AM I COUGHING SO MUCH AND WHAT IS THIS SUBSTANCE STUCK IN MY THROAT. And I’m beyond tired of it. It’s becoming an effort to focus on anything, because all I can think is
(I left the sentence above unfinished as a joke to indicate that my brain was blank, and then I got three emails pointing out that I didn’t finish a sentence. How You Know Your Sense of Humour is a Bit Esoteric, by Meg Fowler.)
This love list doesn’t have a particular theme, but I’m thinking I need to do a few theme lists. If you have any suggestions, let me know. How about “Things I Love to Stock a Kitchen With” or “Songs I Love” or “Books, Albums and Movies I Love”? I’ll think on it.
For now, however…
THINGS I LOVE
SUNGLASSES ON TOP OF MY HEAD (did I mention that already?)
My new fluffy boots (I guess I’m a convert. Now do I buy true Uggs? Please to advise.)
Half an hour without a cough
This lotion. HOLY GOODNESS.
Being on the radio. Seriously. Addictive.
The hotness of Paul Bettany
Scrabulous in French!
The hook in “I Got It From My Mama”, which is a tragic song, and no it isn’t on my iPod, of course not
Being no. 3 on Google.com for ‘blatantly hot ass’ (I got it from my mama!)
Unbroken fingernails
The extra dot in my eye (my right eye)
Men in tortoiseshell or horn-rimmed glasses
When the upstairs baby smacks herself in the face trying to blow a kiss
Our Christmas tree goes up in just over a week!
Curry!
Tom Brady
The endless photos all my friends send me of their children in pumpkin patches
Dark, dark jeans
Pashminas!
My plant at work that pokes passers-by in the eye
Singing drives
Hockey Night in Canada WOOO!
My fireplace!
Daily attempts to click my heels in the air like a leprechaun
Now, give me your lists! Focus on the love! Give up the love! LOVE! LOVE!
You know what to do.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:04 am
I loved it up on my blog this morning. There’s lots to love right now!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:12 am
I did a love list of love songs last week and promptly forgot to post it here. But it’s there! And this week’s love list will soon be there too!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:41 am
I love:
How my dog rolls over and exposes her belly to me when I walk up to her.
How people still think she’s a puppy even though she’s 13 years old.
Getting to bring her to work with me.
These wonderfully sunny fall days.
The fact that I was swimming in the ocean three days ago. It was a quick dip.
A good pear.
My big double chair where my honey and I snuggle in front of the fire.
The fact that she’s coming home TODAY!
Being a Mac nerd (even though I’m typing this at work on a PC, ug)
The banjo-ukulele that my friend Chris GAVE me! It’s so cute!
My purple hoodie.
Anything Motown.
Getting to dress up THREE times this Halloween!
Having the preschool class I teach fall on the actual day of Halloween.
The imaginations of three-year-olds.
I can’t wait to see what the little tykes dress up as on Wednesday! I’ll be so cute.
Thanks for the love!
October 26th, 2007 at 11:05 am
lemony things
Aston Marting DB9 convertible in dark blue
early morning runs along the ocean in Santa Barbara
my sister-in-law
SUMMER
a good Pinot Noir
Sedona, AZ
my brother-in-law
sauerkraut
Boots, the chemist
my Mini Cooper S
Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter cups
Diesel Jeans
October 26th, 2007 at 11:07 am
my baby, snuggling butt-up on her tummy
honeycrisp apples
fall weather, finally!
my mom, for coming to help me when i needed her most
new jeans, in pre-pregnancy size, that are actually too big
baby smiles that aren’t just gas
coffee…mmmm, coffee
the bright yellow mums on my kitchen table….like a pot of sunshine!
October 26th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Yes! Another Patriots fan in Vancouver! So I’m not the only one. Joy of joys!
(Or at least you’re a Brady fan, but really, I’ll settle for that.)
October 26th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Man, I wish I had a blatantly hot ass. I can’t blame my mom though. The flat butt comes from my dad.
I didn’t do a love list this week, but I did put up a photo of my baby nephew and announced the arrival of my second niece or nephew in May and that, right there, is a lot to love.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Buy the real Uggs Meg! I got mine four years or so ago before they were “cool”…I have two pairs and I keep wearing them because they are SO comfy! The shearling is like butter on your feet!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Just FYI, you are now item #1 and 2 on Google for “blatantly hot ass”. Also, your Christmas tree is going up in just over a week? What? That is just wrong Meg, WRONG. I didn’t know you could even buy them this early!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
ALL OVER LOTION.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Hi, I just found your site by Googling “blatantly hot ass” and I was just wondering…
Ha! That’s awesome, Meg! Hilarious, and yet strangely appropriate. I better stop now before I say something NSFW.
(Are you going to tell Buzz?)
October 26th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Hey, it’s Hockey Night in Washington too! And the Caps are playing - OH MY GOD! - the Canucks!!!
October 26th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I love that my toddler’s bedtime is only 1.5 hours away. Chocolate. The promise I made myself that tonight will not involve economics homework, but a DVRed episode of Ugly Betty and possibly Love Actually if I can’t pry myself off the couch after that.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Not in response to your question, but:
“The extra dot in my eye (my right eye)”
will always make me think “the girl with three pupils” whenever I see MegFowler.com in my Google Reader.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
cuddling with my furry warm kitty
letting a piece of really good chocolate melt on my tongue
walking in the late afternoon with the slight breeze dropping leaves in my path
frozen chocolate silk custard
bread baking and the smell lofting through the air
unexpected comments on my blog
fridays at 4:30!!!
October 26th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
I have so much love to give….but I’ll try to keep it short & sweet…
I love:
* The way my husband’s scent lingers on me after a cuddle;
* Vanilla lattes;
* ‘Love’ (ironic, no?) body lotion from Escents Aromatherapy;
* Stunning fall days in Vancouver;
* Fellow drivers who wave when I let them cut in front of me;
* The good clothes sense I gain when watching Stacey & Clinton on Friday nights;
* All of the beautiful babies my friends are bringing into the world;
* A foot warmer in the form of my cat;
* My new job;
* Phone calls from old friends;
* When laughter turns to a cackle;
* Good haircuts;
* When the Canucks finally win a game;
* The opportunity to share my love…
October 27th, 2007 at 4:33 am
I love:
*my 2-year-old daughter’s laughter and the way she says “RAINbobear”
*the sound of the ceiling fan whirring over my bed late at night
*400-count sheets
*Karmann Ghias
*dark chocolate
*crisp, cold apples
*soft, drippy peaches
*my husband’s soft “snonk-puff” snore
*the sound of my rhythmic, heavy breathing as a shuss down a ski slope