Things I Love Thursday #2

Okay, I haven’t really gotten into doing ‘Things I Love Thursday’, but I’m feeling the love today. So here are some thing I love right now, with a ‘bein’ up in Sandstone’ theme.
– Changing up my breakfast. Actually, for the most part, I’m very happy to eat the same thing(s) day after day, but it’s nice to have a little variety when I’m away. This morning, I had a packet of instant oatmeal (already in the cabin cupboards) with some egg white cooked in (better than it sounds), frozen blueberries, and a blueberry yogurt. I mixed everything (oats+yogurt) together after I took the picture, which was strange, but delicious.
– Minnesota stickers. Like the one on my journal this year. Actually, I liked that Sanibel sticker, too. I find most kind of kitschy state pride appealing, but I love Minnesota kitsch the best.
– The tiny donuts that the IGA in Hinckley sells. See this photo. I stopped in today to get a donut exactly like that for my breakfast tomorrow. That’s the sort of planning ahead I can get on board with.
– The Hinckley thrift store is, on the whole, only average (although it’s better than its nearest competitors). But they have a really good selection of sewing patterns, spanning many decades, and they always seem to be different when I visit. Oh, and they’re only a quarter each. Today I got patterns for a ’50s blouse, a ’70s (I think; I haven’t checked the date) dress, and a ’70s/’80s knit-fabric hoodie. For 80 cents, including tax.
– Being warm. The cabin actually gets TOO warm pretty quickly during the day, thanks to the sun (curse you, day star!). But I have a high threshold for being warm, thankfully. I laid on the sofa for a while this afternoon, after closing all the blinds, and I imagined it was the middle of the summer. Then I opened the blinds a bit and dozed in the sun until I had to get up and drink water, because I’d boiled my brains. So much better than constantly wishing I were warmer, though.
– I love Richard Dawkins’ writing. I know he can be a bit dogmatic in interviews (although I generally agree with him, so it’s more the tension that makes me uncomfortable rather than his views), but I think he’s pretty amazing at explaining complex ideas in writing and making them understandable. And funny. I keep finding passages that I want to share, except that they have nothing to do with anything; they just make me laugh. About DNA.
– Ace Hardware. This is on my list of places to go before I head back to the cities (although there’s an Ace just down the road from my house, too), because I might buy some roller catches to fix my kitchen cupboard doors whose hinges are busted. My dad used to talk about the hardware store being ‘like Disneyworld’ or ‘a little girls’ favorite place’ (or some other outrageous hyperbole/blatant untruth), and I can kind of understand it now. Another quirk to chalk up to home ownership, perhaps.