- tea
- chocolate
- sunshine in spring, when it's warm but not enough to make me burst into flame
- the light through green trees that wave in the wind
- daffodylls
- roses
- Emily Bronte's poems
- Robin McKinley's books
- Anything written by Neil Gaiman
- The Dresden Files
- home made cake
- 50s pyrex glassware
- t-strap vintage shoes
- shimmery nail polish
- icecream in unusual flavors
- washi tape
- Doctor Who (especially Ten, but really all)
- unabashed gleeful geekiness, like Nerdist
- metafiction
- tree-ripe peaches in the early summer, when they taste their best
- lychees straight from the can
- guava paste
- the smell of fresh-baked bread
- actually making the bread--it's so primal and soothing
- making ceramic pots on the wheel
- embroidery
- origami
- the breeze off the ocean on a chilly, rainy day when it brings fog
- the smell of the wind over a heather field in the hilly Scottish countryside
- petting soft kittens (or, really, any cat with fur)
- the smell of old books
- the smell of new books
- the look of books as decoration
- walls covered in mismatched pictures
- wallpaper with weird and vintage designs
- velvet victorian-revival chairs
- napping in the grass under a tree
- making love under a tree
- swimming when there's no one else in the pool
- watching seeds I've planted come up with their first little leaves
- watching babies figuring things out for the first time
- office supplies
- collecting quotes
- making collages
- comic books, even if I'm not impressed with the story in them
- interesting-shaped glass bottles
- dollhouse miniatures with more detail than the actuals
- foods that are the wrong color or the wrong size--purple potatoes, red bananas, sliders, tomatoes the size of your head, tiny taco salads
- flan
- meditating outside on a nice day
- moving through airports when I'm not in a hurry
- takeoff and landing on airplanes
- silk skirts
- men who smell like sweet spices and sandalwood
- pinstripes on a suit
- corsets
- sleeping in
- sleeping at the wrong time of the day
- writing when everyone else is asleep
- having the house to myself
- cooking whatever I want for dinner
- unexpected days off
- standing and walking in snow
- wraps instead of hoodies
- hoodies instead of jackets
- vintage-style jackets instead of modern ones
- feathers and flowers in my hair
- cat-eye eyeliner
- silver bangles
- emeralds
- black pearls
- black opals
- amber
- labrodorite
- going thrifting and finding the perfect item I didn't know I needed
- losing weight without trying (rare)
- smoothies
- having breakfast outside in the shade while the world wakes up
- pannetone at christmas
- cannollis
- tiramisu
- paintbrushes, even when I'm not using them
- wardrobes instead of closets, or while using the closets for something else
- scrapbooking notions, especially the paper and the journal cards
- noisamajigs
- traditional embroidery and woodblock prints on fabric
- new notebooks
- hand-binding books
- getting letters in the mail
- enjambment and internal rhyme in poetry
- bootleg videos of things I haven't seen since I was a kid
- making up new literary genres
- learning words that don't exist in english
- le pen pens
- iphone apps that do just what I wanted an app to do
- the idea of living in outer space
- geeky teeshirts
- blazers with skirts
- knee socks
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