Better Than All the Rest
At the beginning of the year, I made one of those "Best Of" lists (buried in this entry), and now I'm doing it again. The last twelve months have been quite a ride (and you don't even know the half of it!), but out of those ups and downs and bumps and skids has emerged a person who is lately swimming in thankfulness for every little thing under the sun. It seems like once a day I say to myself, "Now this is the best thing ever."
For instance, "Cribbage is the best game ever!" Or, "Cooking food on an outdoor grill is the best food preparation technique ever!" And, "This Bjork music video with the kissing lesbian robots is the best Bjork music video with kissing lesbian robots EVER!"
See also:
--electronic drums
--travel mugs
--tv antennas
--dvd rentals
--cell phones
--internet people
--road trips
--whiskey sours
--longneck martini glasses
--free pianos
--disco lights
--Gogurt
--iPods
There are so many more things out there that deserve mention, here's a narrower list--Things I Have Loved Hard in the Last Two Weeks and If You Pay Attention You'll Notice a Theme:
--electric blankets
--tea
--double showerheads
--knee socks
--new coats
--fuzzy pink hats
--mittens
--fingerless mittens
Interlude: And speaking of mittens and fingerless mittens, I am so ready for the Shiny Revolution to be over and out. This weekend I will spend valuable minutes of my time pulling sequins off my new mittens, where sequins do not belong, and I've decided that there is no better time than now to tell the fashion industry to STOP MAKING EVERYTHING SPARKLY. I do not want all my shirts to have shimmery satin trimming, I do not want my purse to be a sisterhood of paillettes holding hands, I do not want spangled jeans. Enough, enough, enough with the jewels and the rhinestones and the sateen and the opalescent beadwork. Just enough. Last week I saw a pair of shruggy ankle boots in shiny metallic gold, and, like, I wanted to throw them under, like, a truck. Please stop the madness. Do it for me. Do it for yourself.
So despite the twinkling of all things wearable, I'm still thankful for a lot right now. Even the cold, now that I've figured out how to ward it off (with extra blankets and voodoo witchcraft). Happy disco ballidays.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who hates those shiny nasty purses!
wait, I'm confused. 'fingerless mittens'? I thought mittens WERE fingerless hence the difference between mittens and gloves? Where did I go wrong?
While I see the value in much of what you list here, just the mere thought of Gogurt makes me want to hurl.
Cribbage IS the best the game ever!
Ohmygod. I just found your blog; I usually visit a while before I comment, but I just had to tell you: I LOVE "happy discoballidays!" (i am a connisseur of made up words and this one is simply fabulastima!)