- Sore muscles.
- Pressing/poking my bruises.
- Putting hydrogen peroxide on cuts and scrapes and watching it fizz and bubble.
- Putting hydrogen peroxide in my ears to clear them out and feeling it fizz and bubble.
- Rubbing thick, glossy book pages between my thumb and forefinger to make that noise. You know the noise I'm talking about!
- Plucking my eyebrows.
- Cracking my knuckles.
- Smelling books.
- Vacuuming.
- And hearing the invisible little crumbs and bits being sucked up the tube.
- Similarly, obsessively creating folders and categories for pictures on my computer.
- Finding spelling mistakes in published books.
- The nose-stinging smell of vinegar.
- Purging my belongings, getting rid of things I don't need or use.
- Especially getting rid of things associated with old relationships/people that aren't in my life anymore. It feels so good to let go of things.
- Washing a really dirty load of laundry and folding it fresh and warm from the dryer.
- Cleaning out my ears with a q-tip.
- Running a comb through wet, freshly conditioned hair.
- Washing my hair after a long run when it's dirty and sweaty.
- Peeling things - sunburns, dry skin, facial masks, glue, paint, wallpaper, oranges...you get the picture.
- Getting sick - I RARELY do get sick, so when I find myself under the weather I love to curl up with hot soup and watch movies and sleep all day.
- The feeling of Icy-hot on a sore muscle.
- Cleaning out my fingernails.
- The feeling of sneezing.
- Piercing bubble blisters with a safety pin.
- Having my back cracked.
- Running my tongue across my teeth when I get one of those painful, sore taste buds - what are they?!
- Organizing and straightening shelves in grocery/retail stores.
- A good bowel movement.
- Grating cheese.
- Using Windex on a dirty mirror or window.
- Writing on dry-erase boards.
- Color coordinating my closet.
- Getting anesthesia medication/laughing gas.
- Counting my steps.
- Eating one food at a time on my plate in order from least favorite to most favorite.
- In a box or bag of chips/crackers, I like to eat the broken pieces first.
- Getting tattooed.
- Sealing Ziploc bags.
- Laminating things.
- Deleting unnecessary files from my computer.
- Putting moisturizer on when my skin is super dry.
- Depositing money into my bank account.
- Cleaning my house before I go away for an extended period of time and then coming home to a fresh, clean place.
- Movies that make me cry.
- Biting all the way around a sandwich/eating all the crust off first.
- Popping bubble wrap.
- Walking in the rain without a sense of urgency/rushing.
- Cleaning out the lint trap in the dryer.
- The raspy, deep quality my voice gets when I have a sore throat. It makes me feel sultry!
- Squeezing and pulling out splinters.
- The first stroke of a brand new razor on a shaving-cream lathered leg.
- Power outages.
- Filling out surveys and questionnaires.
- The feeling of falling when you're about to drift off to sleep.
- When you say a word so many times that it starts to sound extremely strange and loses meaning.
- When you crest and begin to descend a hill in your car and your stomach does that topsy-turvy lurch like when you're on a roller coaster.
- The sleepy ha-ha's.
- When you're so tired that everything is hysterically funny.
- Getting into a made bed at night.
- Writing out numbers.
- Where are they now's?
- Putting on sad music when I'm already sad and having a good cry.
- Waking up unnecessarily early just so I can have my alone time before the day begins.
- Stretching to the point of pain.
- Popping a big zit.
- Building up the calluses on my hands from trapeze.
jan 12 2008 ∞
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