- Google, and all the myriad services they offer
- Household pets
- Bookstores and libraries
- A cool breeze coming through an open window
- The Sims and Sim City
- A quiet evening at home with my wife
- Having lunch at Wendy's virtually every Friday for over five years
- My iPod
- A glass (or two) of a good Riesling
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Being under pressure and thriving
- Being a townie in the town where Brandi and I both went to college
- Stretching after a hard workout
- Staying awake until the sun comes up
- Transformers (more than meets the eye)
- Leaving work early for whatever reason, especially on a Friday
- Playing catch
- Making people laugh
- Live music
- Unexpected emails or phone calls from friends
- Hearing various languages spoken
- Driving (especially at night)
- Thunderstorms
- Inside jokes
- March Madness
- Watching Jeopardy! and playing along
- Hearing my wife sing and/or play guitar
- Going out for a drink with co-workers
- Dancing
- A good bowl of chili
- Re-reading a great book
- A brisk late afternoon/early evening in the fall
- Riding my bike
- Occasionally watching the DVD slideshow of photos from my 10-year high school reunion
- Cotton shorts with "BGSU" emblazoned across the back
- Vibrant colors in the sky at sunset
- Being creative in just about any form
- Oreos and milk
- Family Guy, Futurama, and South Park
- Songs that tell stories
- Bowling
- Spending time in my hometown of Troy, Ohio
- Flying
- Star Wars action figures (especially the ones with lightsabers)
- Mist rising from ponds in the morning
- Photography
- NCAA Football video game
- Listening to Marty and Joe (now Marty and Thom) do a Reds game on the radio
- Root beer
- A full moon on a clear night
- Sophomoric humor
- Being around intelligent and creative people, and counting them as friends
- Reading stuff I wrote a long time ago
- Being challenged
- Seeing epic movies in a good theater
- The potato, in just about any form
- Visiting new sports venues, particularly high school football stadiums
- Making lists, apparently
- Snow in the moonlight
- Having time to myself
- Recognition for a job well done
- Shooting hoops
- The fact that Lady Justice on top of the Miami County courthouse faces away from Piqua
- Discovering new music
- Physical contact
- Listening to people talk about anything they have a passion for
- Taking people (especially myself) by surprise
- When it's so hot outside that it takes your breath away
- Being at the ocean, or any large body of water
- Froot Loops
- Receiving and paying compliments
- The stillness that comes only very late at night/early in the morning
- Yellow highlighters
- People with a dry or off-kilter sense of humor
- Having a vast wealth of obscure and trivial knowledge
- Sheer absurdity
- Prose that is almost poetry
- Fruit snacks
- The word "defenestration"
- Crowds (most of the time)
- Halloween costumes
- Dense fog
- Being in Anderson Arena or Troy Memorial Stadium
- Going for a walk
- College bowl season
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- Most forms of pasta
- Going out for dinner with friends/family, and the rare occasions when I'm able to call for the check
- Staying in hotels
- Long, hot showers
- Troy beating Piqua, or BGSU beating Toledo, at any sport or competition
- Weird, vivid dreams that I remember upon waking
- Lemonade
- The crack of the bat
- People reading novels in public
- Riding in the car, and being able to check out the scenery
- Pillows and blankets
- Girl Scout Cookies (Thin Mints, mostly)
- Words, words, words
- Spending the last four years of my life with Brandi (with many, many more to come)
Thursday, April 12, 2007
100 Things I Greatly Enjoy
You may (or may not) remember my list of 100 Things I Greatly Dislike, which I posted over six months ago. I meant to follow it up with this list in short order, but that obviously didn't happen. Now, however, without further ado, I present to you 100 Things I Greatly Enjoy:
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