Favorite Things

Well, it's that time of year again. It's not quite the Christmas season, per se, but it certainly is holiday season! It's almost Thanksgiving, and then after that, before you know it Christmas will be here! Christmas is quite stressful for many people, but for me personally, I just love the feeling of Christmas. I don't know if I can exactly describe the "Christmasy feeling," but it's a happy warm feeling that goes along with Winter Wonderland songs, freshly baked gingerbread, eating apple pie with friends around a warm fireplace while it's cold outside, hot chocolate, and the smell of pumpkin pie in the oven. So good. It all feel cozy, and happy, and safe, and makes the world seem like not such a bad place after all!

On Thanksgiving, I like to take some time to write down a list of things I am grateful for: things that especially apply to that year in particular. On Christmas, I'm just in the mood to enjoy everything more for no good reason. So anyway, today I've decided to take some time and just make a random list of everything that I really like. Not just things, but also ideas, or activities, or people. I find that I enjoy everything more if I keep track of what I'm enjoying, and I enjoy a lot of things! I tell you, I probably enjoy more things than most people do! But perhaps I don't. You could make a longer list and disprove me. I'd like to read that list, actually. ;)

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Things I like:

Skipping

Cute necklaces

Disneyland

Dancing

Boots

Playing paintball

Winning games

Making Gingerbread houses

Surprising people

Really smart cars (like go-carts)

Warm coats on cold nights

Sliding on ice

Pithy sayings

Creamy, rich hot chocolate

Awesome hats

Good come-backs

The intelligence, skill, style, and wit of spies

Arch rivals

Russian Coffee Chocolate

Being outside while it's snowing

Getting into a snowball fight

Roasting marshmallows over a fire

The smell of cookies baking in the oven

River rafting

Carmel apples

The sound of rain as it hits the roof

Splashing in puddles

Making music

Snowglobes

Beaches

The Jungle Cruise

Popping Bubble wrap

Getting a package in the mail

A gorgeous sunset

Hitting the "Snooze" button a whole bunch of times

Comfy chairs, especially rocking chairs

Mood rings

Dressing up

Deep sparkly blue

Cute and cuddly stuffed animals

Pets

Reading a good book

Listening to a favorite song on repeat 'til I get tired of it

Whacking weeds with a golf club

Painting of underwater scenes

Getting up early to go somewhere special

Thinking of the perfect analogy

Funny mistakes

Driving fast late at night

Almost tripping, but catching myself before I fall

Biking down a hill

Making a new world record

Providing comic relief

Poking people

Writing letters

Picking fresh berries and eating them

Secrets

Naming places

Buying new clothes

Looking at a window, when it's dark outside, and seeing a reflection

Symbol (like the Black Butterfly!)

Brownies

Annoying a good-natured person

Getting lost

Throwing mud

Wind-up music boxes

Remembering that you remembered

Making up "Old chinese proverb"s

Singing favorite hymns

Getting out of a cold pool and into a hot tub

Reading the end of a mystery