A few of my favourite things

I've made a little list to help me remember the things I like and pick the most blog worthy to make this worth reading. Like Sarah, there are a lot of things I dislike but I'm going to focus on the things I do like.

Glasgow, in my opinion it's the best city in the world. Before I moved here coming up was always something I looked forward to. I love just walking around, my neighbourhood, the city centre, the westend, by myself or friends, it's a beautiful city. It's great for shopping and has an amazing music scene. I think its also a city full of contradictions, the funniest I think being that it was voted both Europe's most dangerous city and friendliest city but regardless I still like it.

I really love music. I was brought up listening to all sorts of music and I mainly influenced by my dad's taste in music. I really love The Clash, The Smiths, Freelance Whales, The Beatles, We Are Scientists, The Decemberists and whole load of Scottish indie pop and a bit of the top 40. My favourite thing about music is when you buy a new album and you listen to it for the first, I always have to listen to with my headphones the first time. I love having the actual physical album too, I really love reading the lyric booklet and looking at the photos in it.

I love to travel, I've not done much of it but I plan on doing more soon. I really like travelling by train, I don't know why, I think I find it relaxing, I like looking out the window and watching the scenery whiz pass me.

I'm a big art nerd, so drawing is one of those things I really can't live without. My room is filled with sketchbooks from college and sketchbook journals, paper, pens, pencils, paint, just about everything art related you could think of.

And last but not least, I collect quotes. I know it's quite an odd thing to do but I do it. I did it for a while before I actually realised what I was doing. Part of my wall is steadily being covered by yellow post-its with quotes on them. I find most of them by just looking around the internet but quite a few are from books I've read. I think I like quotes because they say a lot about a person, the one being quoted and the one reading it. Right now one of my favourite quote is, "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death" by Harold Wilson.