Favourite Things

My current ten favourite things:

  • Books
  • Boardgames
  • Podcasts
  • Tea
  • Sunshine
  • Archaeology
  • Sleep
  • Nookie
  • Music
  • E-mail

And yours, Dear Reader?

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Here's what I wrote in 2009 about weekend fun. The way I like to lead my life is basically Epicurean: "Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility and freedom from fear as well as absence of bodily pain through knowledge of the…
The way I like to lead my life is basically Epicurean: "Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility and freedom from fear as well as absence of bodily pain through knowledge of the workings of the world and the limits of our…
Spent a week gloriously off-line at my mom's glorious summer house in the archipelago. Oh the joy of reading 300 pages for fun in one day without feeling the need to check e-mail! Here are the books I read: Invented Knowledge. False history, fake science and pseudo-religions. Ronald H. Fritze 2009…
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Doesn't sleep come after nookie by definition?

-Girls
-Friends
-Girlfriends
-Friendly girls
-Girly Friends

Wait a minute! Does this list make me seem single minded? I should maybe add:

-Surströmming
-Kendo
-Books
-History
-Firefly (all sci-fi series really)
-Music

-Books
-Pets
-Study of the past - which covers History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Paleontology, Geology. It's all the same obsession.
-Garlic
-Camping
-Nookie
-Whiskey
-Computer games
-Nature
-Comics

OK then. And this is THINGS and not PEOPLE...

Rocquefort Papillon
Writing
Shopping (yes, yes, I know...)
Books
Cappuccino
The Wire
Autumn
Exercise
Nookie
Trains

- Hoppy, robust ale
- Shiraz wine
- Crayfish
- Aquavit
- The Isabel Dalhousie series of books by Alexander McCall Smith
- The board game Brändi Dog
- Sunshine
- Old records I haven't played in a long time
- Travel (the discovery and experiences, not the actual travelling)
- Skype

-books
-deciduous trees
-coffee
-meals with cheese in them
-cats
-cheap travel
-archaeology
-good song lyrics
-Greek yogurt
-New York City

- books
- teh interwebs
- people with a twisty sense of humor
- sleep
- warmth
- sun
- small mammals
- small non-mammals of all descriptions
- computers
- seeing new places

If I were allowed more, I would have to add
- coffee
- beer
- rum
- peaty single malt whiskies
...but I know, that's getting greedy

By Luna_the_cat (not verified) on 29 Aug 2008 #permalink