I absolutely love fresh bread. I have a bread machine, which is probably the most wonderful invention ever (other than, you know, the wheel, and electricity, and all those actually important ones). I love being able to set it up the night before so that I can wake up to the delicious aroma of it in the morning and eat a warm and delicious breakfast that finished baking 5 minutes before I woke up. I love the texture and the flavour and just everything.
Warm summer rain is just the best. It rains a lot here, and most of the time it's cold and awful, but in the summer, when it's a nice warm rainfall I love to be outside in it. The harder it falls the better. I like to see all the people with their umbrellas, and hear the sound of the rain, and I don't know, something about a good rain storm just makes the whole world feel fresh and new and beautiful. Two years ago my friends and I were camping and we ended up doing the hike out of our site in the middle of a tropical storm, and it was just the most wonderful thing. I also especially love going to the beach in the rain.
I'm also a huge fan of used books. I like to see what pages past owners have dog-eared, and what places they may have chosen to underline or annotate. I like the smell of them, and I like to wonder if anyone else laughed or cried over that same book in the same pages that I did, and why they decided to get rid of it and why they had bought it in the first place. I especially love used book stores, and most especially one nearby that has books absolutely floor to ceiling and boxes sitting haphazardly in the aisles because they just have so. many. books. and I always just want to know where they all came from and whether or not they were loved.
Another thing I love is discovering new music. I do this thing sometimes where I just go to the library, browse the CD section, and pick out a few to listen to based entirely on band name, album title, cover art, and song titles. If something catches my eye, even if it's a genre I don't usually listen to, I'll bring it home and give it a try. I've discovered some really good music this way, and it's always such a thrill to hear a really good song for the first time ever and have it be all special and surprising and wonderful.
I think the last favourite thing I'm going to mention is blankets. I love blankets. I grew up in a big old house that was really hard to keep warm, so I was used to just using blankets all the time - curled up on the couch reading, sitting at the computer, whatever. There's something about blankets that's just far cuddlier and more comforting than a sweater could ever be. I have a variety of blankets of various weights and snuggliness that don't even go on my bed at night, they're just around, and I grab whenever I sit down anywhere that isn't the table or the floor. Blankets are just great.
Rain can be super underrated it's nice to find another fan. I know what you mean about how fresh the world feels I love the sweet, wet, clean smell after a nice rain. I also feel the same way about used books, and library books I love to imagine all the people who have read them before me.
ReplyDeleteI never really thought about used book stores like that before. I always preferred new books because even though the book may be really popular and everyone knows the story, the clean pages make it seem like the story is new and unexplored. But I guess that used books can be like bonuses because they can have more than just the one story within their pages.
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