- Pressing/poking my bruises
- Sewing
- Cooking/baking
- Putting hydrogen peroxide on cuts and scrapes and watching it fizz and bubble.
- Rubbing thick, glossy book pages between my thumb and forefinger to make that noise
- Smelling books
- Vacuuming
- Cleaning bathrooms
- Interior design/rearranging furniture
- Scrapbooking/making collages
- And hearing the invisible little crumbs and bits being sucked up the tube
- Meticulously organizing and capitalizing my Itunes.
- Similarly, obsessively creating files and folders for pictures on my computer.
- Proof reading 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
- Peeling things - sunburns, dry skin, facial masks, glue, paint, wallpaper, oranges, you get the picture!
- The feeling of sneezing
- Having my back cracked
- Running my tongue across my teeth after just brushing them
- 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
- 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 cleaning cleaning
- Movies that make me cry
- Popping bubble wrap
- Squeezing and pulling out splinters
- The first stroke of a brand new razor on a shaving-cream lathered leg
- 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
- 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
- Waking up unnecessarily early just so I can have my alone time before the day begins.
- Stretching to the point of pain
dec 14 2011 ∞
oct 15 2012 +