Following my friend Alex’s lead, I’m going to play the ‘Things I Love Thursday’ game this week (and in the future?). Here are some things I’m loving this Thursday:
– Going to the Asian supermarket. Really, I just love seeing shelves lined with products I’m not familiar with. Different packaging. Yesterday, I picked up some Swiss rolls that aren’t covered in chocolate. They’re a little disappointing, actually; Little Debbie is miles ahead on the filling front.
– Papercraft. There’s just something about the precision of measuring, cutting out, folding, and gluing. And my brain likes the task of visualizing a 3D object flattened out on a piece of paper.
– Smoked cheeses. I currently have a chunk of smoked Gruyere, but Mozzarella and Gouda are also prime choices. Homemade butternut squash soup with grated, smoked Gruyere on top? Awesome!
– Coffee in the morning. I make a single cup of decaf in my Bialetti every morning and mix it with unsweetened almond milk. Using caffeinated makes me feel sick, but I just love the flavour of coffee with my breakfast. I’ll drink it in the afternoon, but it’s never as good.
– New glasses! New glasses! I got an automated call this morning, letting me know they were in, so I swung by this afternoon, and now I can see. Two years ago, the eye doctor I went to spotted that I was actually farsighted (despite my having always been ‘diagnosed’ as mildly nearsighted), and that my trouble with distance was just the result of eye strain from all the reading and computing I do. Two years later (now), my close-up vision has gotten noticeably worse, so my new (twice as strong!) reading glasses are really making a difference.
– Absorbing projects. I’m so easily distracted and/or have such a short attention span a lot of the time, even when I’m doing things I enjoy. But every now and then the odd project comes along where I start and then only remember to look up/make a cup of tea/run to the bathroom/stretch my legs every few hours. I like my job, but if I could somehow find a way to make money doing the sorts of things that pull me in like that… well, that would be a recipe for perfect happiness, I think. Or just a lot of missing days.
– Being invited to things. Who doesn’t love to be remembered? It’s particularly good when the invite comes form somebody unexpected.
What things do you love this Thursday? If you want to play along on your own blog, leave me a link to your post in the comments!
Whoo hoo! T.I.L.T. lists are the best.
I, too, adore Asian Supermarkets. Especially the colorful cans of boba tea, Thai iced coffee, mangosteen juice, basil seed potions and other exciting drinks. There’s one called “peanut soup,” though, which I am frightened of. I’m hoping it’s a mistranslation.
I loved this Thursday because it was BUSY! And it was almost FRIDAY!