friday love list: cheaper than an iPhone, but a thousand times more functionality.
Today, Apple’s iPhone launched in Canada, after weeks and weeks of kerfuffle over data plans and whatnot. In fact, there was so MUCH kerfuffle that Steve Jobs yanked iPhones from Canadian Apple stores, and left the sales to Rogers/Fido in their own branded stores.
As I write this, people are lined up to get their hands on 3GB of magicalsomethingorother.
But I’m not going to link to any of the drama because a) I’m not in line for one; b) I won’t be in line for one; c) IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LOVE.
Because what else are Fridays for around here, if not LOVE?
I mean, you can love your iPhone… but can you *love* your iPhone?
And will it love you back?
They don’t have an app that will do that… yet.
As always, I encourage you to rock your own random love list in the comments here, or to whip one up at your own blog, and leave us the link in comments. The more love we can get going on, the better the weekend will be.
So use a little space in your day to celebrate the things that make you tingle… even just one or two. Really.
Because one of the things I love most is hearing about what other people love!
THINGS I LOVE
My iPod Touch… because IT WILL NEVER RING
Cafe au lait
Remembering dreams I had the night before
Waves
Humour so dry it makes your lips chap
Calling people by dorky pet names
Herb gardens
Sour keys
My deck
My mom and dad
Big, fat overbloomed peonies
Ironic Sans
Messy salt water hair
Freckles aplenty
Local strawberries
Sundresses
Cute words like omelette and apricot and bliss
Serious breath mints
Stuff White People Like
Beachy smells like coconut and jasmine and kukui nut
Gifts for no reason at all
My loyal Havaianas
Wishing for a mashup of “Somebody’s Watching Me” and “Moonshadow”
Denim skirts
Yawny stretches
Toast and peanut butter
Knowing when self-deprecation starts to be self-fulfilling
Good tippers
Lemon in marinades
Birkenstock Madrids in fun colours but mostly white (which I have not managed to find a single pair of in stock anywhere. Yes, I know it’s granola. But it’s SLEEK granola!)
The millions of jokes you can make about Koi ponds
Eating peppers straight from the jar
Chair dancing
White tank tops
Font Charades
And you?
July 11th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Sitting on a dock beside a lake chatting with friends
Lemonade-Iced Tea - vodka optional
The French word for leaf - “feuille”
Sound of ocean waves
My two cats
Sharing a joke with friends that is still funny years after it was first made
July 11th, 2008 at 11:29 am
the sound of my four year old’s giggles
a “butterfly kiss” from my six year old
the tingler
a crisply struck four iron
overtime playoff hockey
a sun shower
the smell of a working dairy farm
an ice cold sierra nevada pale ale
a long road trip
the end of a long road trip
someone who gets me thinking in new ways
have a great weekend!
July 11th, 2008 at 11:59 am
1. I love how week after week you have tons of stuff that you love! You are such a positive person.
2. Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.
3. Having my face touched.
4. Daydreams.
5. Jumping into bed right after a hot, hot shower.
6. Days that begin and end with laughter.
7. Chunky, natural jewelry.
8. Watching people rock out in their cars.
9. Lionel Richie. LOVE HIM! I don’t care what anyone says.
10. Crushes.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
- the fact that I am still madly in love with my husband after 15 years of marriage and 19 years as a couple
- my wonderful children
- a hug from one of those wonderful children
- good friends who keep in touch
= laughing with my husband
- staying up late
- sleeping in late
July 11th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Thanks for the motivation to write a love list today! I definitely needed to share the love, after the mess that was the last few days. Things are looking up! My list is on my blog.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Well, I don’t a love-list drawn up yet, but based on one of your entries I can give you a Word-Of-The-Day! The entry is “Yawny stretches” and the word is “pandiculate”! Love the sound of that word! Hmmm.. I guess that’s the beginning of my love-list, the sound of the word “pandiculate”! I think it’s because it sounds like I’m getting away with something naughty in public.
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4752
http://answergirlnet.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-does-pandiculate-mean.html
Now, I AM expecting to hear you use that in a sentence sometime!
July 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
-Free lunchtime concerts in the park
-Photoshop
-Library cards
-The art in my office building
July 11th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
white whispy clouds in an otherwise blue sky
Sleeman’s Honey Brown
barbecues with friends
feta cheese turkey burgers
afternoons at the water park with my son
ice cream sandwiches
the new Barenaked Ladies “Snacktime” CD(sometimes I listen to it in the car even when my son is not with me :)
afternoon naps
Meg’s love lists
July 11th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
i love
lampiphone.July 11th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
re: Birkenstock Madrids
have you tried this? http://www.softmoc.com/ca/systemshow-item_I040731
July 11th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
My deck.
My roommate.
Hair products.
My boyfriend.
my gay work boyfriend.
My new job.
Sunshine.
My roommate’s margaritas.
Playing scrabble.
My roommate’s cooking.
tetris online. Thanks to my roommate.
My gay starbucks boyfriend who gives me free drinks.
Starbucks in general.
The ocean.
The mountains.
Vancouver.
My teddy bear.
fans.
indian food.
Ice.
Ice-T.
Judge Judy.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
* my new iMac
* fresh powdery snow
* skiing in such snow
* Strawberry Gatorade Edge
* daisies
* dripping sweat from a good workout or run
* puppies
* “Viva la Vida”
* weekends with friends
* hubby, always and forever
* winning my age group in races
* Italian, as in the language and food
* snapshots
* barely pink peonies
* the dog days of summer
* Apples & Apples
* my blue Vespa
* Nelson
* memories of my mom
* tears-rolling-down-your-face-laughs
* al fresco dinners
* South Beach
* Greek islands
* waking up at dawn - refreshed!
* haircuts
* afternoons at Starbucks
* flawless skin
* tanktops
* sushi
* lists
* sailboats
* a stack of fresh books and free time to read them
* Facebook
* scrabble
* trips to Santa Barbara
July 12th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Check out my love list… smallercityliving.blogspot.com
Thanks Meg!
July 12th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Mojitos
Moustaches
Hammocks
Strawberries
Ripe bananas
Thunderstorms
Windy days
Smiles with strangers in the street
British accents
Liquid lunches
Jelly Babies
Dark Chocolate
Renoir
Laughing so much that your face and belly hurt
… so many more things!
www.civilizedspice.com
July 12th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Better late than never! Mine’s more of a late in the day Saturday type of list I guess. But really, good for any day I say.
http://tentativeequinox.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/any-day-love/
July 14th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
These are simple, but they’re so real to me:
*my son’s giggles. He’s almost 9, but he still giggles; particularly when tickled, mercilessly
*my daughter’s smile
*the sound of my motorcycle fully warmed-up, climbing a long grade. Power. A little bit, at least. ;)
*the weightless rush of adrenaline in free-fall
*springtime in the midwest. I can still smell it
*red wine, bread, and cheese; anywhere in France
*watching my children sleep
*a genuine, eye-contact, thank you in the service industry
*pecan pie
*an ice cold, frosty mug, rootbeer float
*talking with my son, seeing where his mind wanders/connects things
*Having a good debate; with passion and fact, sans hysterical emotion
*that moment when you “get it”; whatever “it” is (not material things, but concepts)
*a meal not rushed
*anything, not rushed
That’ll do for now. There’s more, of course.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
the sound of rain on a tin roof
the smell of rain on asphalt
standing in warm rain
thunder storms - lightning is an added bonus
a Jarlsberg cheese and lemon curd sandwich (weird, huh?)
a cold pineapple ring between two slices of toast (weirder?)
good manners/basic courtesies - you know, the seemingly long-lost please and thank you of a bygone era…
long, slow kisses on a lazy weekend morning
babies laughing
July 16th, 2008 at 1:40 am
A few of my favorite things, in no particular order:
*my lovely bride
*Scotch
*the smell of rain
*my e-mail pals
*Twitter
*cranking through my list of To-dos
*helping other people crank through their lists
*lazy Sundays
July 21st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
* Sitting someplace quiet enough that you can hear the baby birds in the trees cheeping when mama brings them a worm.
* My friends’ taste in cool music I’ve never heard or long ago forgotten.
* The moment in a song when a really good band decides to drop all pretence and just kick some ass.
* A glass of house red with a good Italian lunch.
* Kids’ giggles.
(Amen to, inter alia, cafe au lait and freckles.)