Things I Love

Originally published January 31, 2024

Started this list about a year ago. Will continue to add. 

• Eggs benedict

• The North Pole Diner (Newport, MN)

• Condiments

• The moon

• Classical music

• Christmas lights

• Redvines

• Thunderstorms

• Raspberry tea

• Honey

• Looking at old pictures

• The smell of the laundry detergent at the resort

• Playing cards

• Museums

• Sunglasses

• The feeling of clean teeth

• Driving through the cities at night

• Lake Superior

• The smell of pine trees

• Puffy white clouds + finding shapes in them

• Painting

• Gin and tonics

• Coffee with white chocolate

• Hydrangeas

• Hearing crickets at night

• Sleeping

• Pesto

• Dainty little buttons

• Book dedications

• Almond/pistachio flavored baked goods

• Italian love songs

• Bodies of water

• Aquaphor

• Winged eyeliner

• Heist movies

• Cursive

• When animated movies have bloopers

• Silver jewelry

• Cool colors

• Drawings on the cover of the New Yorker magazine

• Old animation style

• The smell of laundry from outside a building

• Bottle episodes (bonus points if it's a hostage situation or power outage)

• Gus Walks Into a Bank (Psych)

• The Gang Beats Boggs (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

• Chuck vs. Santa Claus (Chuck)

• Cooperative Calligraphy (Community)

• Impressionist paintings

• Dreaming

• Stained glass

• The do not disturb feature

• Bar carts

• Buzzers in apartment buildings

• The way that British people say pasta

• That when I lay down in my apartment all I can see out the window is the sky

• Anything that comes in a tin

• When batteries come with the product

• Opening credit sequences

• Cufflinks 

• Slanted ceilings

• Indoor balconies

• When people describe things as cheeky