List making is just something I do and have always done.
It sometimes can be revealing, especially if honesty is applied.
It is interesting when we compare them.
Another friend made her list and I made comments (IN RED).
Things I love: (and when I say I love it, I mean I couldn’t live without it)
1. My family (I would be nothing without them)
2. Music (all kinds) (except rap....I don’t consider it music, anyway)
3. Laughing
4. Hugs
5. Good movies (funny clean ones or ones that make you cry or good action movies....without all the blatant gore or a really good suspenseful horror movie (and no gore)
6. Forgiveness
7. Kisses
Things I like: ( I almost love these things, but COULD live without them if I had to)
1. Carbonated drinks...practically any sugar-free kind
I always stir out carbonation
2. Cheeseburgers
No cheese on my burger
3. Macaroni and cheese (the kind my grandmother made from scratch where she baked it and put cheese on top and browned the cheese...yummy!)
I make the BEST. Several layers with extra sharp cheese
4. French Fries (homemade)
YES! I like skins left on
5. Ice cream....practically any kind
Ice cream doesn't thrill me
6. Big Sexy Hair hairspray (it is expensive, but just a little holds your hair however you place it without it making your hair feel dirty)
What is hair spray?
7. Sunsets
Sunrises
8. Birds, butterflies, dogs, cats, horses, cows
ALL critters
9. My Canon camera (it’s amazing)
My poor old Fujifilm camera held together with duck tape and scotch tape. Wish I could take a photo of it to show you!
10. Picasa ( I love cropping my pictures on there and I love the way they organize your pictures by face for you....cool!)
Shutterfly - They make great prints, cups, wall pictures and books for me
11. My computer
YES YES YES!
12. My blog
I like to write blogs and other memory stories. Always have written.
13. My blogging friends
My beach friends and 2 others who blog
14. Understanding
To be understood
15. Patience
Persistence
16. My Saucony walking shoes....best things I ever did for my feet and legs.
Bare feet - I don't know anything about Saucony shoes!
17. A good concert....and I have been to hundreds of them in my life....George Strait, Reba McIntyre,Heart, Neil Diamond, Madonna,Billy Joel, John Denver, Alan Jackson, Katy Perry, and Taylor Swift top all the ones I have been to....I would pay to go see them again in a second....been to see Madonna twice and George Strait four times.)
Only went to live shows as a teen, no concerts
18.Six Flags Over Texas.....as I have gotten older, I love the scenery around the park as much as the rides....but I still love a good ride!
NO rides except Ferriswheel and carousel and I love carousel music
19. Enchiladas
Never had one
20. Chocolate meringue pie
Never had one but like lemon meringue homemade pie
21. Firm, soft pillow
Soft soft feather pillow
22. Soft tshirts
The older the better - cotton
24. Bracelet watches
I don't wear a watch but have 4, one I won from Reader's Digest Magazine
25. All In The Family
YES!
26. I Love Lucy
YES!
27. Barbie and Ken
NO!
28. Clarinets ( I played one in band for 6 years)
I played mellophone and French horn in school bands and orchestras (grammar and high)
29. Pianos (I had one for about three years and missed it terribly when it was taken away)
Disliked and feared teacher who used to rap my knuckles with ruler
30. Clouds
Rainbows
32. Flowers...petunias are my favorite because of their aroma in the evening....smells like Adams Clove gum, which my Mamaw always had for me when I went to her house.
Love all flowers. Grandpa gave me Wrigley's Spearment
33. Train whistles in the distance
Really like train whistles and train sounds, especially steam
34. The smell of damp leaves
NO!
35. Mud between your toes
Sand and wet grass on my feet
36. Walking in the street barefoot when it’s raining gently
Popping tar bubbles on street in hot weather
37. Thunderstorms at night (if there is no chance of a tornado)
Thunderstorms anytime
38. Surprise visits from my cousin
No surprise visits
39. Surprise visits from my kids
No surprise visits
40. Good poetry
Rhyming poems
41. Biographies
No
42. Learning how to do something new that I didn’t think I could do
Teaching myself without following instructions
43. Painting the inside of the house
NOI!
45. Cross stitching
Can do, boring
46. Floating on my back in the swimming pool when there is no one else there
Floating on noodle in pool never mind who is there
47. M&M’s (peanut, of course)
Marzipan
48. Snickers (frozen are best...let it sit just inside your teeth for a few seconds and let your saliva melt it just enough to bite it.)
Milk chocolate covered cherries - must be juicy and sticky
49. Holding hands
NO
50. Cooperation from co-workers
Worked alone most of the time
51. Reading a good bedtime story to my kids.....when it’s good enough for them to ask me to read it again.
Read to husband often so he will "get it"
52. Having my kid tell me they love me when they don’t want anything and I didn’t tell them I loved them first.
Having my kids ask me how to do something and I know how
53. Having my parents call me on my birthday and sing Happy Birthday to me and ask me if they were first at wishing me happy birthday.
I always called them
54. Best friend
My best friend died and want no other to take her place
55. Scented candles
NO!
56. Body wash
Plain old soap bar is fine
57. Hot soaking baths when my legs are hurting....the heat seems to ease the pain.
No bathtub hot shower does it
58. Spring
YES!
59. Fall
No, it means winter is coming
60. Making flower arrangements
I don't like picked or bought flowers
#61 is missing
62. Rearranging the furniture
I Like things to stay exactly the same EXACTLY
63. Cars that don’t break down
Dependable cars at all times
64. Soft to the touch throws in the winter
Lots of heavy quilts and socks to bed
65. Kisses from my dogs when they know I’m sad
Kiss dog and he kisses back when I go to bed
66. Good teachers....the ones that take an interest in the students and make a difference in their lives and are not just there for the pay check
AMEN!!
Things that I don’t like:
1. Intolerance
Racism
2. Speeding
OK
3. Gore
DITTO
4. Reality tv shows (they pretend it’s real)
DITTO
5. Drinking water
I never drink plain water
6. Cake
Only if has lots of tasty icing
7. Rap
DITTO! Can't stand it
8. A bad haircut
Never notice
9. Saggy pants on guys
Plumber pants
10. Beards
LIKE
11. Having to wear glasses
NO problem I have 4 pair - reading, computer, distance, prescription sunglasses - I would feel naked without them
12. Crowds (concerts are the exception to this rule....they make the concert more fun)
NO CROWDS or GROUPS for me - ever
13. Waitresses that ignore your empty glass (they won’t get a tip)
I don't let them ignore me
14. People who run yield signs....and never even touch their brakes
Lawbreakers!
15. Tailgaters (not the ones who have tailgate parties, but the ones that stay on your bumper trying to get you to move out of their way when there is a fast lane open)
I just tap my brakes to scare them
16. Going to the doctor
Once a year is enough
17. Being sick
Being waited on when sick
18. Spinach, cauliflower, asparagus, broccoli, squash
WHAT! Those are all the best vegetables!
I abhor the word, "veggies"
19. Breaking glass
Breaking anything
20. Dusting
No problem, sometimes I wash stuff in sink to dust them
21. Ants
Carpenter ants - no! Others..mmmmmm
22. Roaches
Palmetto bugs? We spray in SC
23. Having cramps during a period
Never had cramps then
24. Headaches
Don't have headaches
25. Leg cramps
Don't have leg cramps
26. Stickers in the yard
Pickers? Brambles? NO
27. Tattle tales
DITTO
Things I hate: (I would wipe these off the face of the earth if I could)
ALL of the below! Plus rape
1. Cruelty
2. Killing
3. Hatred
4. Lying
5. Cheating
6. Whiskers growing on my face (and I have sympathy for any woman who does)
7. Alcohol (too many people’s lives are destroyed by alcohol....you wouldn’t believe the number....I see it all the time where I work)
8. Drugs ( too many people’s lives are destroyed by drugs....you probably would believe the number....I see it all the time where I work)
9. Cancer
10. Car wrecks that take lives
11. Devastation
12. Injustice
13. Chaos
14. Death of a child, no matter the reason
15. Droughts
16. Fires that destroy
17. Child abuse
18. Trouble makers
19. People who judge someone else without walking in their shoes first
20. Smoking (cigarettes took my dad away) not so much
21. Greed, especially when it hurts others
22. Biting the inside of your mouth and the sore that results
If it doesn't feel good, don't do it!
23. Spousal abuse
24. Hangnails
25. Paper cuts