- 'Claire de Lune' - Debussy
- 'Ho Hey' - The Lumineers
- 'I'm gonna be (500 miles)' - The Proclaimers
- 'Once More With Feeling' the musical episode of Buffy
- 'This is the Day' - The The
- 'When I win the lottery...' daydreams
- 'Whole of the Moon' - The Waterboys
- A bit o' brass in a song
- A good sneeze when you really need it
- A hot bubble bath and a good book
- All things Disney
- An ice cold glass of milk after a hangover
- Aquariums and zoos
- Babies dressed like wee old men
- Bacon Double Cheeseburger XL!
- Bagpipes
- Baking cakes, despite the fact I'm not very good at it and usually need Frazer and his strong arms to do the whisking!
- Ballet (especially The Nutcracker)
- Bands/singers who sing with Scottish accents
- Barbeques
- Bath bombs from Lush
- Becoming completely engrossed in a book to the point where I can't put it down
- Being able to record my favourite TV shows with Sky+
- Being in the house all cosy and warm when its raining outside
- Being on holiday from work
- Being part of something meaningful or important (like the Census)
- Being Scottish and immensely proud of it
- Being suddenly hit by inspiration
- Being the first one on my floor in work in the morning
- Bike rides and picnics from Callander to Stratheyre
- Birds singing on a Spring or Summer morning
- Birthday cake with lots of icing on it
- Black t-shirts
- Blue skies and sunshine
- Bowling in America - so much better than in the UK!
- Breakfast rolls at work - potato scone and link sausage, mmm!
- Building sandcastles and digging holes at the beach
- Butterflies in my tummy when I'm excited
- Buying stationary
- Buying Tatler because I find it amusing to read about how the other half live.
- Cadbury creme eggs
- Candles, matches and watching fire burn
- Card shops
- Carving pumpkins
- Categorising my DVDs - alphabetic, geographical, chronological, etc
- Ceilidh dancing
- Cheese burgers
- Chips and Cheese (salt, no vinegar)
- Chocolate doughnuts
- Choosing presents for people
- Christmas
- Church bells ringing
- Church/cathedral architecture and stained glass windows
- Cinnamon pine cones that make our house smell like Dobbies at Christmastime
- Collating data
- Colouring-in books
- Comfortable silences
- Comfy couches that you don't want to get up from
- Converse trainers
- Correcting spelling mistakes made by other people.
- Cosy socks
- Covering up mistakes with daisies
- Crash Bandicoot for the PSone
- Crosswords
- Cuddling up in front of the telly with Frazer and watching MasterChef Australia or Friends With Better Lives
- Cute baby animals, especially ducklings
- Dairy Milk chocolate
- Daisies
- Dancing about, singing loudly and off key when I'm drunk
- Dancing to Skippinish with Frazey
- Days where I feel very energetic and productive
- Dinosaurs
- Dirty talk
- Doodling
- Driving electric automatic cars
- Driving late at night when the roads are empty
- Ducks
- Dystopian books and films
- Empire biscuits
- Eskimo kisses
- Everything from the shop Ness
- Family trees
- Fanta Lemon, tastes like sunshine in a bottle. Mmm, sunny.
- Fantasy books and films
- Feeling included
- Feeling like a proper professional in my work clothes
- Feeling safe and secure
- Feeling useful or valued
- Festive cheer and how happy everybody gets at Christmas time
- Filling out surveys and questionnaires
- Film trailers
- Films about superheroes
- Finding money in my jacket pockets that I forgot was there
- Finding something I thought was long lost
- Fleece pjs
- Frazer's silly jokes
- Frogs
- Fruit flavoured alcohol
- Funny fridge magnets
- Game shows on telly, except Deal or No Deal
- Garlic sauces or food with lots of garlic
- Getting a massage
- Getting answers right in a pub quiz, especially for the hard questions
- Getting happy birthday texts
- Getting praise for good work
- Getting snowed in
- Getting to the till and finding out the item I was buying has been reduced in price
- Ghost stories and unsolved mysteries
- Gin
- Glitter in general
- Going bird watching with my dad
- Going for a walk in drizzly rain
- Going on dates with Frazer
- Going to the cinema
- Going to the pantomime at Christmas
- Good manners
- Gossipy lunches with my friends
- Grouping things in threes
- Having ginger hair
- Having money to spend on whatever I want
- Having my hair brushed or played with
- Having something to cuddle at bedtime, preferably Frazer but I'd settle for a big teddybear
- Highland games and pipe bands
- Hogmanay
- Hot chocolate with mini marshmallows
- Hot water with lemon
- Houses with character
- How beautiful the rooftops of the old buildings in Glasgow are
- How vibrant and shiny my hair looks when its just been dyed
- Ice cold water after exercising
- Inspirational quotes that make me feel better about life
- Jaunty, feel-good tunes about love, sunshine and happiness
- Just lying down on the grass and watching the clouds go by
- Kaleidoscopes and the pretty colours and shapes they make
- Knowing all the words to a song and feeling totally cool because of it
- Knowing some interesting and intelligent fact that Frazer doesn't (admittedly doesn't happen all that often)
- Lavender scented things
- Lemonade flavoured ice lollies
- Living beside the hills
- Long lies
- Looking at old photos/letters/cards and reminiscing
- Making lists
- Making playlists for my morning commute
- Making ridiculously ambitious plans
- Making snowmen with carrot noses and button eyes
- Maltesers
- Managing to cheer someone up or make them smile
- Managing to find a table with enough seats for everyone when we go to the pub
- Managing to paint my nails without smudging them
- Marshmallows
- Martha's Vineyard
- Meeting my grandparents for some drinks and jazz music on a Saturday afternoon
- Melancholy music that makes you think about life and other deep and meaningful things
- Men who wear kilts
- Milk chocolate covered raisins
- Moments when you get caught up in passion
- Monarch of the Glen
- Morganite jewellery
- Munro climbing with Frazer
- Murder mystery programmes on the telly
- Museums, castles and anything historical
- Music from the early 2000s
- Musicals
- My dad's rubbish ghost stories
- My frazer
- Names (and on probably not such a nice note, judging people based on what they name their children :P)
- Naps
- Nights when the sky is clear enough to see the stars
- Open top tour buses (only when its a nice day though, not so good when its raining)
- Organising all the boxes up the loft
- Owning our own home like proper grownups!
- Passoa and lemonade. Yummy.
- Pastel colours
- Peach coloured Roses
- Peanut butter on anything and everything
- Pedalos
- Penalty shootouts
- People watching with Frazer
- People who are passionate about things - their views, hobbies, etc
- People who love to learn
- People who put loads of Christmas lights on their houses
- People with positive attitudes
- Period dramas
- Pink lemonade
- Planning our wedding, even when I feel mega stressed out about silly details
- Planting flowers in our garden
- Playing badminton - but not by the boring rules
- Playing Pokemon on the Gameboy
- Playing Scrabble with Frazer
- Polite people
- Polka dot dresses
- Postcards of Scottish landscapes
- Pottermore.com
- Pretty summer dresses, especially with flowers on them
- Princesses, fairytales and happily ever afters
- Programmes on the Discovery Channel
- Propmt responses to my emails or texts
- Puns
- Putting on Armageddon or What Dreams May Come and having a good cry
- Quavers
- Quiet days in work
- Rainbows
- Raisins and kiwi fruit,though not together!
- Re-reading the Harry Potter books
- Reading about acts of kindness and selflessness which restore my faith in humanity
- Reconnecting with family members I never thought I'd see again
- Relaxing with cucumber slices on my eyes, listening to classical music
- Reliving my youth at Pop Punk Kareoke
- Researching honeymoon ideas
- Rivers and waterfalls
- Rollercoaster Tycoon
- Sausage rolls from Greggs
- Scandinavian countries
- Sean Connery as James Bond
- Seeing the daffodils starting to bloom at the side of the roads and knowing its finally Spring again
- Self service tills, so I can avoid dealing with having to talk to people. Also emails and being able to book things online, for the same reason!
- Sherlock Holmes books
- Shopping for shoes
- Shopping trips where I find exactly what I'm looking for
- Shortbread
- Showing off my engagement ring
- Singing along to the radio in my car
- Skerryvore and Skippinish and Tide Lines!
- Smiles
- Snuggly cuddles
- Socially awkward characters on TV shows, like Gil Grissom or Temperance Brennan
- Socks with cute patterns on them
- Soft hands
- Spending all day in my jammies watching DVDs
- Spring cleaning and how relaxed it makes me
- Standing in a castle and imagining what it was like to live there
- Starting a new project
- Stirling University
- Sundays
- Sunrises and sunsets
- Swimming
- Swimming underwater and how quiet and peaceful it is
- Sylvanian Families
- Symbolism, hidden meanings and conspiracy theories
- Taking a nap (especially if I'm hungover)
- Talking/dreaming/thinking about the future
- Tartan
- Tattoos (unless someone gets their own name tattooed on, that's just ridiculous!)
- Tea length dresses and skirts
- Ten pin bowling, but only when Frazer pretends to let me win :)
- That 'Friday Feeling' of relief that the working week is just about over
- That feeling you get when you make a difference to someone's day
- That part of the book when the heroine and her leading man finally get together
- The 'Carols by Candlelight' service at New Monkland Church
- The 80s
- The arrivals gate at the airport
- The big library at Pollock House
- The breaded chicken Frazer makes me for dinner. Mm-Mm.
- The cheeseburger with pork belly I had in Portland, Maine
- The Corrs
- The Eurovision Song Contest (even though the political voting makes me shout and shake my fist at the screen)
- The excitement of Christmas morning
- The feeling of accomplishment I get when I tick everything off my to do list in work
- The feeling of calm and relief I get when I finally master a mathematical problem
- The freedom I get from having my wee car
- The fresh papery smell and cracking noise from the spine when you open a new book for the first time
- The idea of an independent Scotland
- The kind of good nights sleep that you wake up from feeling all refreshed and rejuvenated
- The smell of baking in the house
- The smell of freshly cut grass
- The smell of suntan lotion in summertime
- The way the kitchen smells so delicious when Frazer's making bolognese
- The words 'espionage', 'whimsy' and 'rapscallion'
- Theme parks and fast rollercoasters in particular
- Theodore from Alvin and the chipmunks, he's adorable
- Things in miniature
- Thumbs up
- Tiffin
- Travelling by train
- Trees and forests
- TV programmes about weddings (eg. Don't Tell the Bride)
- Waking up after a night out and not having a hangover
- Walking barefoot in the sand
- Warm blackcurrant juice when it's chilly out
- Warm fluffy towels when they've just come off the radiator
- Watching a really funny film or TV episode for the first time (the jokes are never as funny second time round...)
- Watching baby Panda videos on YouTube
- Watching Brigadoon when I'm snuggled up on the couch not feeling well
- Watching fireworks, especially the glittery ones
- Wearing brightly coloured clothes and shoes
- Weddings
- Wee kisses on my forehead and the end of my nose
- When a song I really like comes on the radio
- When England get beat at sports
- When Frazer calls me 'Moggy'
- When Frazer comes out the shower and his hair dries all fluffy
- When Frazer gets excited and carried away buying Christmas decorations for our wee house
- When Frazer let's me watch what I want on the telly
- When Frazer really likes my surprises, like making a special dinner
- When Frazer sings to me
- When Frazer surprises me with flowers
- When Frazer talks about our future
- When Frazer tells me he loves me or that I look pretty
- When Frazer writes me wee love notes and hides them with my pieces for work
- When frost makes the ground sparkle
- When it gets dark really early in wintertime
- When its my birthday
- When Jessicat is feeling affectionate and wants cuddles
- When my Guides are well behaved and actually listen to me
- When my mum tells me she's proud of me
- When my wee sister asks my opinion on something
- When our flat looks really tidy and clean
- When people I didn't like in high school get fat or have like 8 kids before they're 25
- When Rangers score and Super Ally gets all happy
- When someone gets me a really personal and meaningful present
- When strawberries and clementines taste a wee bit sour
- When the fairylights get turned on at Christmas time
- When the leaves go all orange and red and yellow in Autumn
- When the trains are running on time
- When the underdog wins
- When the wi-fi works in my office
- When they play Fleetwood Mac or Stevie Nicks on a night out
- When they release the full list of names given in Scotland for the year before
- When things have clear instructions or step-by-step guides
- When things turn out or go the way I want them to (rarely happens)
- When we lie in bed on a Saturday or Sunday morning and just cuddle and read the news
- When you can hear a smile in someone's voice
- Winning
- Wrapping Christmas presents
- Youth theatre
- Reading about other people's 'Real Weddings' in wedding magazines or blogs
- Singing in the shower
- Empty or almost empty car parks with plenty of spaces to park in
- Reading out the road signs when I'm on a road trip with Frazey
- Bridges
- The Highlands, particularly when it isn't raining there
- Fireplaces and four poster beds
- Lisianthus
- When Frazer wears his woolly bobblehat and looks all cute
- Days when I wake up in the morning with no make up on yet and my skin hasn't had a chance to get red and blotchy yet and I still think I look pretty
- Taking my makeup off half my face at a time so I look completely different when my head turns (like Twoface)
- Blankets that feel extra soft
- Braids in my hair
- Beating Frazer at 'Ticket to Ride'
- 'The Lark Ascending' - Vaughan Williams
- Gingerbread houses
- 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Schaffer - my favourite book
- Being skinny enough that I don't need to suck my podgy belly in anymore
- Advent calendars
- Taking the car for a car wash
- Pub crawls with friends
- Getting my hair and makeup done for me
- Gaelictronica
- Wearing high heels
- Being a Guest Blogging Bride on wefellinlove.com, the Scottish wedding blog
- Managing to get a seat on the train
- Getting compliments
- Making mix CDs for people
may 15 2011 ∞
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