Today is Valentines Day. I have a different opinion on Valentines Day every year. Mostly I'm indifferent. I think it can be sweet, i think it can be dumb. I like that we celebrate love but most of time we do it in a way that is mostly awkward and little bit offensive.
I've spent the better part of the day in my bed, and to be honest, I'm not entirely sure what i've been doing. I've read some blogs, i've half-heartedly tried to read a book i bought on a whim. I've been thinking about shaping my eyebrows for the last hour and half and i just haven't made it to the bathroom mirror to do it yet.
As you can see, my life is real hard today. Oh, i straightened my already mostly straight hair for no one or reason today because i'm as single as they come. I've also changed my lock screen background to something I personally think is adorable and i've basically transferred everything to my new (used) phone so all i have to do is activate it.
So basically i'm winning. Anyway, in honor of Valentine's Day, love and the shear joy I get from making lists, here is a list of things I love in no particular order.
1. London Fog's. Seriously. Although, i had one made with "Moon over Madagascar" tea the other day and it just about changed my life.
2. Raspberries.
3. Fall
4. Navy Blue
5. Anchors
6. Boys butts in good jeans. The kind that are worn in, a little faded with tiny rips form being handy.
7. Boys who play guitar.
8. Boys who love kids. Especially Elementary School teachers.
9. Making playlists.
10. Classic movies
11. Sea Salt spray
12. living the beach life in the summer
13. Books.
14. the theater
15. my family.
16. driving.
17. Collaging
18. Eau Claire.
19. St. Paul. <3 omg. This city.
20. planning road trips even if i never go on them. For example i really want to drive to New York to see A Streetcar Named Desire in june because 1. Tennessee William's is a boss.. 2. Gillian Anderson is Blanche (omg. i'm so about it right now because X Files Revival)
21. Ahem... X Files revival. David Duchvony might be old and a skeeze in real life but I would marry Mulder in a heart beat.
22. BOYS IN SUITS. omg. (see: Justin Timblerlake, Jimmy Fallon)
23. Funny people.
24. Sea Salt. dear Jesus i love sea salt.
25. curry. Though, i'm beginning to think it might have been a phase.
26. coconut everything.
27. Sunsets.
28. flip flops.
29. The water.
30. The East Cost.
31. The deep south
32. naming my fake children.
33. The gilmore girls
34. Remembering things
35. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey
36. Memoirs
37. nail polish
38. curling my hair when i'm bored.
39. Foreign Films (read: Just amelie)
40. AWARD SHOWS
41. Adele.
42. musicals
43. Country church
44. History.
45. old buildings
46. Antiques
47. Jesus.
48. Good Jeans.
49. clean sheets
50. new journals.
51. Candles.
52. Lent
53. my students
54. Green Bay.
55. Looking up tattoos.
56. Champaign
57. Red Wine.
58. My Minnesota Family.
59. photos.
60. hashtags.
61. Poetry
62. Babies.
63. Designing tattoos.
64. dreaming of getting a tattoo
65. planning my non-existant wedding.
66. sending mail.
67. Every version of "someone to watch over me" that has ever been sung...ever.
68. Here Comes the Sun and The only living boy in New York.
69. Hearing stories about the people i love before i knew them.
70. Big Snows. The big fluffy snow globe kind.
love a lot of things. I have a brain that almost never shuts off. I'm a day dreamer. I wish my life would play out like a romantic comedy. The more grandiose the better.
and for the record. I don't hate being single. I don't want to be single forever, but i also am not going to spend time freaking out abut how no boys love me....because for real, my anxiety is high enough with out adding "undatable" to the laundry list of things i freak out about the regular.
What do you love? who do you love? what makes you smiles so big that you feel like a fool but in the best way.
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