Things I like

[lighter]

I like:

Figuring out how to feel better..... then feeling better.

Making a giant ice cream sunday with vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup and nuts on top of a warm crusty chewy waffle.... salt it!  Yumm!

Starbucks Ice cream, with or without chocolate covered almonds. 

Feeling validated by at least one person.  As long as I have that, I can tolerate and cope with those that don't understand what I'm going through.

Really SEEING my children and feeling present in the moment with them.

Hearing my children say things that let me know they're learning important lessons.  "Use your little voice mommy"

Feeling 2 tiny hands on my face as double kisses are aimed at my forehead, chin, nose and cheeks..... unexpected and lovely. 

Realizing that all will be well..... even if things aren't Ok.... it'll be OK. 

Realizing I don't have to figure everything out. 

Realizing there will be life after N.

Asserting myself the right way, at the right time, for the right reason to the right degree.

Getting more competent at explaining my situation and seeing it come accross the faces of those I'm speaking to.

Feeling stronger and more capable. 

Juggling all the balls in my life successfully.  It comes and goes, lol. 

[spyralle]

Starbucks ice cream WOW I need to move to the US..!!!!

Be back with my likes once I have been out for a bucket of ice cream xxx

Spy x

[NoMoreMindGames]

wow...you salt your waffles?  i guess that makes sense...salty and sweet go hand-in-hand!

okay, things i like....(btw, i have this *thing* for lists....slightly OCD

~animals, espesh baby animals, and ESPESH baby hippos, kittens, baby elephants, and cuteoverload.com
~getting into bed after changing the bedding....clean sheets!
~dark, dark chocolate and ice-cold milk
~music
~feeling more confident as i get older
~being able to notice red flags right away, rather than 2 years later (hahaha!)
~having a clearer, stronger sense of my boundaries
~getting over being passive-aggressive (because of being more confident, knowing boundaries, etc)
~feeling more self-sustained...not feeling like i NEED anyone to complete me or make me happy
~being pregnant, despite the yucky symptoms that go along with it
~italian food
~warm, cloudless days spent by a lake, river, or ocean

there's more, but i'll stop there now!

[lighter]

I love the dark chocolate too.  The milk stuff tastes like wax with chocolate in it to me. 


Just being on the verge of feeling chilled...... and finding the sun rushes in to make you feel perfectly warmed, at the beach.

Waking up then realizing there aren't 40 things I have to do.... going back to sleep.

Dancing!

Excellent physical chemistry.

Figuring out a problem and solving it.

[Certain Hope]

Fudgcicles (having one now)

Watering the flowers and stopping to spray the dogs (about to do that next)

 

note:  typing w/fudgy in 1 hand ain't easy

[lighter]

Love beach combing.

Internalizing a painful confusing thought till all confusions gone, and my understanding can't be shaken by the craftiest N.

Finishing something I've been putting off.

[spyralle]

This is driving me mad...  What is a fudgecicle... sounds like something willy wonka would come up with???

Spyralle x

p.s. can you tell I'm on a diet

[spyralle]

1.  That warm fat rain that drenches you in a second
2.  Pannetonne
3.  When I wish for something and it happens
4.  My beautiful daughter
5.  My beautiful new grandsaon
6.  Roller blading in the middle of the night along the seafront in Brighton
7.  My best friend
8.  When I am working with a client (all addicts) and I touch them in some way (even the smallest way)
9.  That feeling when I have created something
10.The fact that for the first time in my life I am standing on my own two feet...

....and all of you guys for helping me to do so...

Spyralle xxx

[Certain Hope]

This is driving me mad...  What is a fudgecicle... sounds like something willy wonka would come up with???

Spyralle x

p.s. can you tell I'm on a diet

Lol...
let's see, how to describe a "fudgie"...
Well, it's a frozen confection, chocolate in flavor, rectangular in shape.... like thin chocolate milk, frozen, on a stick.
A rather brittle texture when frozen hard, that melts in your mouth like icy chocolate snowballs?

Oh yeah, I'm no poet 

((((((Spyralle)))))  Wish I could send you one to sample!

Love,
Hope

[lighter]

MMMmmmm... I prefer my frozen calories rich and creamy. 

Give me a smooth fattening ice cream anytime. 

Fudgecicles haven't been on my shopping list....... ever, lol. 

Glad you enjoyed yours though Hope. 

[teartracks]

Clean linens every day put on by someone other than me!  (No, I don't have that, but I'd like to!)

tt

[isittoolate]

Oh tt----------how I wish I had someone to do that for me--you ought to see me make a bed from scratch!!

I sit in the middle and work the top to ½ way down, lift my bum over the pilke and work the bottom--- the final ,though, is to sit on the floor at the bed bottom and pull everything straight and tuck in and make sure spread is the right length from floor.

I cannot do the dust ruffle thisng as I couldn't ever ewash it, and one day there will be no more bedspreads. This one I had made to order along with the draperies. Gotta keep 'em

Love clean sheets, snuggling in with my latest mystery............................................

Izzy

[Certain Hope]

Clean sheets are fantastic... all smoothed out and fresh...
Izzy, that sounds like a complicated procedure... you could make a video... ?  but you make the end result sound delicious

Lighter, the fudgie thing... I just realized... childhood memory, I think, as much as anything. I get them when they're on sale, summertime thing, for the kids, cuz when I was a kid, Dad would get me one from the ice cream truck. Don't think he much got anything for himself... but he knew I liked those.

Mother would take me for a sundae at the ice cream parlor sometimes... or a cone, after music lessons... but I have this sense that it was more about what she wanted, than for a "fun outing". She didn't like the way I twirled my spoon to swirl the hot fudge around the ice cream.
Why I remember that is beyond me... ice cream was good, but I dunno whether it was much fun... don't even know if my memories of feelings are accurate... but I do like butter pecan with caramel topping!!

P.S.  I take a man's view of dust ruffles... what in the world do we need one for??

[lighter]

NEW ADDITION TO MY LIST!

Butter Pecan Ice Cream! 

Oh Hope, how could I have left that one out?!?!?

Picturing Izzy snuggling into clean sheets and a good mystery. 

[isittoolate]

a good mystery and yes----butter pecan ice cream -----------and Mango Sherbet