It’s a cool, rainy-ish Friday in Vancouver… I know, shocking.
I can barely contain my surprise.
Apparently, the winds are supposed to be whipping up, too, although the weather sites are in disagreement about when and if it will happen, and how bad things will get (another not-terribly-shocking Vancouver trademark.)
If they DO whip up, that could mean power outages and downed trees and all manner of hair emergencies.
Also? No internet. And we can’t have that.
So let’s see if a love list can make everything okay again.
This Friday’s love list is all about recommendations. Things you love and want to share with others. Great reviews, fond suggestions, must-haves… the works.
GO!
THINGS I LOVE
Elum Stationery: Gorgeous, gorgeous. I just go there to drool. I love papers and things.
Orange juice NOT FROM CONCENTRATE. I have enough trouble with my OWN concentration.
Weleda Skin Food: Honestly, it smells like freshness and joy incarnate, and gets rid of any dry spots you have ANYWHERE. FACE OR BODY. I know, it seems impossible, but it isn’t.
This American Life: The best radio show/podcast in the land.
Hoop earrings in general.
Gingersnap Lattes: I don’t know why they decided to make it a “Gingersnap” rather than a “Gingerbread” latte this year, but the only real difference is the sprinkly thingies on top. Which I ask them to leave off, along with the whipped cream. Not because I am a puritan or a health freak, mind you (butter keeps the skin moist!), but because I just don’t LIKE it.
Christmas mugs.
Calla lilies.
The Know Your World Game: Like crack, I tell you. Without the strung-out expression and dealer.
Big Dipper Candles: Their Christmas candles in Spice and Mint are FANTASTICO. FAAAAANTASTICO.
Goldfish crackers.
Handel’s Messiah: You know, a lot of people decry the Messiah as a purely religious work, and not just a straight-up fantastic piece of music. I get why… the whole Messiah thing is a large tip-off that the content is scriptural. That said, even if the last time you touched a collection plate was the day you took a fiver for your Sunday lunch, it’s an incredibly moving piece of work. I’ve seen it performed three times, and I cried like a twit in each instance. The Hallelujah Chorus has been used and abused for everything from singing greeting cards to stupid automobile ads, but when it comes as the culmination of the whole thing? Mind. Blowing.
Lemonade Stand on my iPod Touch
Lindt Chili-Cherry Bar: OH. MY. GOSH. IT’S. AWESOME. I’m not even saying anything else. You need to have one.
Emergen-C packets: These are my little envelopes of survival, no joke. Somehow, I managed to dodge my Annual October Illness this year, and I think my packets helped.
My Etsy Favourites: I am the queen of the online window shoppers.
I have to close with a mention of Gradon, by law.
And youuuuu?
Love this Love List!
I love Calla Lillies too – glad to know you do! (What does that say about us?)
Okay, I’ll see what I can list quickly:
- Cherry Cordial Hershey’s Kisses
- A fire in the fireplace
- The smell, texture, sound of a new book
- Soft wind… the kind that caresses your skin rather than trying to push you out of the way
- sitting with a good friend in a small coffee shop and losing track of time
- raspberries
- my darling husband and daughter
Oh, and of course? My friend Meg!! :)
I love folding laundry… is that odd?
and I also love etsy… not odd, but not cheap either!
Excellent recommendations! I posted my love list this morning, and while it probably isn’t a recommendation, it might be construed a “true love,” if you were a kid or teenager in the 90′s. :)
I am a lover of the eggnog latte, personally, but I did get a gingersnap latte a couple of weeks ago because the Starbucks in my Target didn’t have eggnog yet. And they didn’t tell me about the sprinkles (which I’ve since been told are carmelized ginger) and unexpectedly getting something that wasn’t latte in my mouth caused me to involuntarily spit latte all over myself. Uncool, Starbucks. Fortunately, eggnog is in and delightfully floaty-free.
My soon-to-come belated B-Day prezzy from Ma & Pa…
http://uswings.com/aviatn.asp#SSLambIJ
Happy Birfday to Me!
And, of course, I love my wife, who turned a wee bit older today, but is still younger than I.
Thanks. A and I are now addicted to the world game. There goes our Friday night.
Things I love:
- A certain 10-year old
- Summer and Winter mix tapes.
- Hot chocolate
- Cooking
- Temps above freezing
- 500-plus page biographies about crooked Boston-Irish politicians
- HGTV and the Food Network
- Getting a passport (okay, not the actual process, but the why-I’m-getting-it)
- Meg
What exactly are those sprinkly things? I had one yesterday and before I could decide if I liked them or not they’d all sunk to the bottom. Then my last few sips came with something strange and pulpy.
You gotta try Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula Lip Butter in Dark Chocolate and Peppermint flavour. DeeLISH! I think you can find it at all Shoppers Drug Marts for less than 4 bucks.
Etsy.com ROCKS. I’ve got three of the funkiest knit hats here in Kandahar Airfield thanks to some talented crafty folks who sell at Etsy. The hats are stylin’, warm AND keep the dust off. :)
Not that I don’t love my husband all the time, but lately I’ve just been like “Wow! This guy is GREAT!” I am feeling especially lucky to have him and very proud of him these days.
Oh good! I thought I was the only one that noticed the gingerbread/gingersnap name change. Either way, it stills tastes amazing!
I just had to pop in and give you respect knuckles, because the Lindt Chili-Cherry bar is, indeed, something worth living for.
OMG I love that know you’re world game! now I’m totally addicted to it!!
And gingersnap lattes are the bomb
careful with that emergen-c stuff Meggle – you shouldn’t take too much