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Love List

October 28th, 2010 - Uncategorized - 9 Comments »

It’s that time again. Amidst all of the venting and complaining that typically goes on around here, it’s nice to take a day and reflect on the things we love. Not the big, important things, mind you. We all love those. But life’s trivial pleasures. Things like:

The one-more-episode glance
When Amy and I really get into a TV season that we’re watching on DVD or Netflix, there’s a split-second side-glance that occurs between us when the episode ends that silently (but convincingly) communicates “Just one more.”

When TV shows use real childhood pictures
I think Growing Pains might have pioneered this movement with its opening credits.* I can’t really explain why I love it, but I do. Maybe it has something to do with attention to detail. Maybe it has something to do with how it reminds me these are normal people. Maybe I subconsciously want all shows to be like Growing Pains.

Clubhouse celebrations
I love seeing a bunch of men, whose job is to take themselves too seriously, let loose for a little while and act like kids. Kids who pour beer all over themselves.

Giant Chewy Sweet Tarts
A road trip staple for me. I treat those things like chewing tobacco – pop that baby in, chew it up a tad, and store it in my cheek for a few minutes while it aggressively rots my molars and cheek lining.

The third “Good, how are you?”
Every now and then, usually when seeing an acquaintance you haven’t seen in a while, the greeting will go something like this:

Neil: Hey man! How’s it going?
Me: Good! How are you?
Neil: Good! How are you?
[Slight pause as dense awkwardness sets in.]
Me: Good, man…still good.

Nike+
My only current motivation for running is the fact that Bryan Allain, Tyler Tarver and I are competing in a Nike+ challenge and I don’t want to lose. Anybody but them.**

What about you? What trivial things do you love?

Click here to read the previous Love List.

* If you’ve never seen it, check out our old Growing Pains tribute from when I was balder, fatter, and gap-toothed.
** Technically Tripp is in the competition too, but he runs like he blogs.

  • nate

    i love the cold chill you get in your insides when you drink a cold beverage for the first time in several hours…nothing quite like it.

    and i love a good BM. like the kind you take when you finally get home after a few days out eating strictly restaurant food.

  • http://www.sweetannieskitchenblog.wordpress.com Annie

    I list my "loves" as my facebook status often. Helps me to keep things in perspective and have an attitude of appreciation no matter what my circumstances. Not to make me sound like I'm always positive…because I'm not…hence the love lists. :) Here's a few things I love:
    1. The first Starbucks cup of the holiday season
    2. Christopher Walken
    3. Waking up to a song that you don't mind having stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
    4. Coffee in one of those old diner mugs…it just tastes better. :)
    5. Actually completing a crossword puzzle.
    6. Lucille Two (if you know who that is, I think we'd be good friends)

    And on November 9, 2009 one of the loves I listed was Kirk Cameron. Big Growing Pains fan.

  • Adam Keyes

    My wife and I (just about) neglected our kids and our sanity thanks to "just one more" episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. We had every season on DVD. Every season, every episode. That should be illegal. 2 o'clock in the morning, stumbling to the DVD player to pop in the next season….

  • Mindy

    I love getting a red speech bubble thingy on FB that let's you know someone messaged you or commented on your post.

    I love Fun Dip and when I can steal it from the kid's candy basket without them knowing.

    I love good hair days.

    I love when a zit is finally gone…really gone and not just almost gone. (i HATE that I still get said zits at 36)

    I love my crock pot. Like truly LOVE it.

  • CCW

    I'm right with you on the SweetTarts – love, love, love them. I love the feeling of waking up early and realizing I don't have to get up and can snuggle back down into the covers.

  • hayne

    I've recently been watching lots of old sitcoms, and have particularly become fascinated with Don Knotts and Andy Griffith. Their writing, acting, chemistry, timing, etc. (It's really quite brilliant.)
    Anywho… was watching an episode early this week and during a city council meeting Aunt Bee shows the council a photograph of Andy in high school. Amazing, it was really Andy Griffith, at like age 15 or 16.
    Not sure if they were the pioneers… but I thought it was unique for the time.

  • Dan

    I love it when restaurants make their own tortillas. I can ruin my appetite in no time devouring those little beauties.

    I love it when my sons have the expression on their face of "getting it".

    I love it when my sons ask us to come upstairs for prayer time before bed.

    I also love the old B&W Andy Griffith shows.

    I love my Keurig coffee maker. Makes it extremely easy to grab a cup of coffee on the way out of the door.

    My travel food is beef jerky (minced up and shoved between my lip and gum) and Goetze's Caramel Cremes (Bull's Eyes).

  • Jamie

    It's the little things!

    *white Smarties
    *saving the last bite of mint-n-chip ice cream, forgetting about it 12 seconds later & feeling disappointed, but then looking down & finding that last bite waiting in your bowl! YESSSS!
    *fresh vacuum lines in my carpet
    *cold side of the pillow
    *underachieving popcorn kernels – you know, the half-popped ones at the bottom of the bowl.
    *stepping on perfectly crunchy leaves – not too thick, not too thin
    *killing a fly by snapping it with a damp dish towel

  • http://180tampa.com Jerry White

    1. Hot bath towels.
    2. The weekly six, so I don't have to go looking and not finding.
    3. Blowing out candles.
    4. The sound of dirt bikes.

    I think that's a good start, but I too will be thinking about these things more often.