Roses are Expensive and I Am Pretty Much Ambivalent Re. Cats

A list of favorites. My, this is new for me. It is just so positive and up-beat. Good practice for trying to be a better person, I s'pose. So, without further ado (was there any ado in the first place?), my list:

• The Ritz.
• Days where I have no particular place to go and nowhere to be.
• Hanging in my PJs well into the afternoon, watching trashy TV (preferably Lifetime docudramas centering around a former star of Family Ties, Melrose Place, or Little House on the Prairie)
• Walking around a city - and going a different way to get to the same place.
• Shopping...for everything - from shoes to furniture.
• Bookstores (but not libraries because I don't get to keep the books, so I can't write in them, and as such, I cannot read them "properly")
• Dancing. On tabletops. Not professionally. :)
• Dinner - either in or out - with good friends (and a good bottle of wine).
• Clean laundry - especially fresh clean sheets.
• High thread count sheets.
• My bed.
• (Notice a theme here?)
• Rice. Frozen Yogurt. Almonds. Broccoli. Apples. Waffles. Cauliflower. Asparagus. Heirloom Tomatoes. Salmon. Turkey Sandwiches (on rye, no mayo). Tofu. Egg (beaters). (Yes, it is almost lunch time...)
• Field of Dreams, Bridget Jones, and A Few Good Men (the insanity of the star of this movie aside)
• Baseball - in every possible incarnation, always.
• Stick straight hair.
• Snarky, wry well written e-mails (to and from)
• $2M words
• Pink (the color, not the artist known as); Black; Green
• Brunch (both as a concept and in execution).
• Writing - anything. Well, anything except briefs.
• Getting lost when I am not in a hurry to get where I am going.
• Getting places on time.
• I know this one is taken, but... Shopping for "perfect" present + the giving of present "money shot" (I admit it, my altruism is limited, I live for the look on peoples faces when I have done my job correctly and gotten them something they would actually want.)
• Lounging vacations.
• My Blackberry (is that nerdy? Yes, it is. Don't care. It's true.)
• Playing no-holds barred Scrabble with my family (we own a championship board...)
• Driving the "back way" to get to places (i.e. no freeways).
• Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, Arrested Development, and Coupling.
• ....the armed services??? and representatives thereof...
• Pretty men (Abercrombie and Fitch pretty, not Orlando Bloom/delicate woman pretty)
• Starbucks. Diet Cherry Coke. Diet Dr. Pepper. Caffeine.
• Moments when I forget to be afraid.
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lolita, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, Dry, Katherine Graham's autobiography, Hamlet, The Woman Warrior. Reading, anything and everything. Including the back of cereal boxes.
• Unplanned spontaneous moments and/or events that you remember for the rest of your life.
• Documentaries.
• Sting, Metallica, Britney Spears, Ella Fitzgerald, Greenday, Dave Matthews, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Sinatra. (No, I am not schizophrenic, I swear).
• When I manage to do something that makes someone smile.
• School.
• Very high heels.
• Mi amigas (y mis amigos tambien).
• That my background scares the bejeezus out of everyone, and that, as insecure as I am, I wouldn't change it for the world.
• Getting the window seat.

Okay, fini. No more blathering for me today. Back to attending to some things not on my list of favorite things to do.