FAVORITES

• The crunch and rustle of leaves underfoot
• Children laughing
• children talking to themselves while playing pretend
• The right type of music at the right time
• Rain on the rooftop
• waves
• the clap of the swinging door in the dining hall at Medomak
• church bells
  • chiming out the time
  • the ones in Farmington that play a song at 5pm
• the click of heels on a hard surface
• the sound a cork makes when you uncork a bottle
• popcorn popping
• the swishing and rustle of snowpants
• the chirping of birds in the morning after a long winter
• the muffled expressions of someone talking with a cooked marshmallow in his or her mouth
• the crackle of fire in a fireplace or woodstove
• the "SHING" of a knife being drawn

GEEK ME OUT

• Fingernails on a chalkboard
• The ticking of a clock when I'm trying to sleep or read
• turning the car on and having the music be way too loud
• someone throwing up
• grinding teeth
• when windshield wipers squeak because they're on a too-fast setting
• the sound of a crinkling plastic bag...my cat likes plastic bags...especially at night when I'm trying to sleep