little things you love :)

[Reenk Roink]

I've almost broken my addiction the the Backroom, which is filled with hate, malice, spite, and nonsensical arguments. It feels good you know, to voice your opinions that don't mean Kenny Rogers' vomit-soaked flannel shirt to anyone else. So back to where I started:

I my Red Wings

[TheSilverKnight]

I love sitting down with a good book, turning on some good music, and just chillaxing

[Kanamori]

CHOCOLATE, the higher the cocoa content, generally, the better.

I miss the swiss cake rolls of the states, and the mountain dew, but one thing that is certainly much, much better is the CHOCOLATE!

No longer do I have to rely on Lindt, which I could ironically only buy in Walgreens, or Ghirardelli which isn't as good as Lindt, IMO. Must experiment more with CHOCOLATES here than I have.


*drool*

[Strike For The South]

That thing she does with her tounge

[TheSilverKnight]

That thing she does with her tounge

You dirty little basket, you...

I know what you mean

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Sarahbeth...

[Mount Suribachi]

I've almost broken my addiction the the Backroom, which is filled with hate, malice, spite, and nonsensical arguments. It feels good you know, to voice your opinions that don't mean Kenny Rogers' vomit-soaked flannel shirt to anyone else. So back to where I started:

I my Red Wings

Like you I now stay away from the Backroom with the same people arguing over the same subjects, with all the stuff that goes along with it.

And like you I love the Redwings (do want to have Nick Lidstroms love child too?)

I love going walking in the rolling green hills of Lincolnshire.

However, nothing, and I mean nothing, gives me a greater sense of contentment than sitting down at the table working on a model airplane whilst listening to cricket on the radio.

[Ja'chyra]

When she plays coy and tilts her just so, makes me feel like nothing else in the world matters

[Duke Malcolm]

Lounging in my Grandad's armchair with Cadbury's Bournville, a hot cup of Ceylon, in my house coat and slippers, with Strauss playing quietly in the background against the patter of Scottish rain on a driech day...

[Samurai Waki]

...when my girlfriend talks with that low seductive accent... "um...yes please!?!"

[Adrian II]

Like you I now stay away from the Backroom with the same people arguing over the same subjects, with all the stuff that goes along with it.

You'll be back. It is one of those little things you love, admit it...

A little thing I love is opening a new book on current affairs and domesticating it in my own way, familiarising myself with its table of contents, its composition, the author's choice of sources, marking important aspects in the margin. Flipping the pages, inhaling that bookish smell of ink and freshly glued pages.

Now a novel is a different animal altogether. I treat it with respect, starting on page one, never skipping a chapter or passage, and never using a marker on the text or in the margin. And if I think it is bad, I don't throw it away but give it to someone else who might enjoy it.

[Beirut]

Reading in the can. "It's locked! Go upstairs."

Falling asleep while listening to the radio.

Watching cooking shows on TV while eating ice cream.

[Mount Suribachi]

You'll be back. It is one of those little things you love, admit it...

Even when I used to post there, I found it was like a car pile-up on the motorway....horrible to look at but I couldn't turn my eyes away. I didn't like what it did to me either. It made me petty and small minded, and I wouldn't be able to sleep at night for thinking about arguments I'd gotten into in the Backroom.

Occasionally I go back, but I only have to read a thread or 2 to remember why I left. I see the same old faces arguing about the same stuff. More to the point, people no longer debate the subject it just becomes "you would say that, you're a rightie" to which the retort is "you would say that, you hate america" to which the reply is "link" which is then dismissed as a biased source coming from the Guardian website. Repeat as nauseum.

Thanks, but no thanks.

[Adrian II]

Even when I used to post there, I found it was like a car pile-up on the motorway....horrible to look at but I couldn't turn my eyes away.

I understand. When it gets under your skin and you can't sleep over it, you are right to kick the habit.

Back to enjoyable little things. Falling asleep with the radio playing, that was a long while ago. I used to do that as a student from time to time, listening to the BBC World Service. They used to have English, French and German language services in my zone, so I would hear the same items in three languages which was a godsend for a language fetishist like me. Sweet dreams/süsse Träume/douces rêves.

[Beirut]

Back to enjoyable little things. Falling asleep with the radio playing, that was a long while ago. I used to do that as a student from time to time, listening to the BBC World Service.

Oui, je comprends. I never fell asleep listening to music, except once in a while listening to classical on CBC Radio 2. It was always while listening to talk radio, the good intellectual stuff CBC Radio 1 has on at night.

[doc_bean]

Singing along with a song really loud
Tea
Waking up and then just lying in your bed for a while until youre darn well ready to get up
Something to do with earlobes
A summer breeze
Cooking something really good