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A Few of My Favourite Things

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A while ago I made a post with a list of  Things I Just Can’t Handle. It included pet peeves of mine as well as things I just generally dislike. I figured I would counter that with a list of my favourite things! Check them out below:

  1. Fireworks
  2. Coffee
  3. Trains
  4. S’mores
  5. Sunflowers
  6. Tea
  7. Coziness
  8. Mugs
  9. Journals
  10. Books
  11. People with a passion
  12. Bees
  13. Songs with pretty voices
  14. Fishing
  15. Flowers- anything floral, really
  16. Singing
  17. Piano
  18. Libraries
  19. Auction sales- don’t ask me why, I just love them
  20. Kittens
  21. Sunsets & Sunrises
  22. Rainy days
  23. Cows
  24. Stationary- crisp paper, new pens, new pencils, beautiful designs *sigh*
  25. Driving
  26. The smell of woodsmoke

I do have a top 5, and I can name them off at any given moment- the others are in no particular order. These are all things I love and things that make me really happy! If you find me and any one of these things in the same place at the same time, chances are I’ll have a smile on my face. Feel free to share things you love, things that make you happy, or your very favourite thing!

Hope this finds you well,

-L

Things I Just Can’t Handle

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Everybody has something or some things that they just can’t handle. There are things that annoy, things that irk, and things that just shouldn’t be a thing. I don’t have a lot of patience so my list is fairly lengthy. I seem to have many pet peeves. (I will probably counter this list with another list, but of things that bring me joy) Here are some of mine, feel free to share yours!

  1. Bare feet touching me
  2. Mint chocolate
  3. Uneven pages in books
  4. Bad grammar- “I seen it”, etc.
  5. Strings inside socks
  6. Pettiness/Passive-aggressiveness
  7. Slow drivers
  8. Dodge Intrepids- I just think they’re horrible
  9. Being corrected with “Technically…”
  10. Egg yolk
  11. Eggnog
  12. Brownie edges
  13. Unnecessary crunch- crackers on mac ‘n’ cheese, sprinkles on anything, etc.
  14. Mistakes in books
  15. Bad books- I can’t stop reading in case it gets better, usually it doesn’t
  16. Strong perfume
  17. Other people pumping my gas- I am perfectly capable; I always try to find “self-serve” pumps
  18. Truck nuts- literal imitation testicles you can hang from your hitch
  19. Wet socks
  20. Mansplaining– had someone tell me once that I spelled my name wrong, umm…
  21. Kids screeching (kids anything really)
  22. People not changing the toilet paper roll when it is empty
  23. Pre-popped popcorn
  24. Toast crumbs in the butter
  25. Weak tea or coffee
  26. ZITS/PIMPLES/ACNE
  27. Chocolate with fruit centres or anything fruit anywhere near chocolate
  28. Shuffling through radio stations- please just pick one!
  29. Jokes about rape/race/sexism- it’s not a joke!

I’m hoping this list doesn’t make me sound like too much of a jerk! I promise I am a nice, kind person. It took me a long time to be able to say anything negative out loud for fear of offending someone or not being liked, so in a way, this negative list is a positive! I feel like I can voice an opinion, even one as simple as things I don’t like.

Hope this finds you well,

-L

27 Unread Books in my Library

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I like to consider myself an avid reader, and as most avid readers, I like to buy books. Unlike most avid readers, I buy books and don’t read them. I love everything about books; the cover art, the font, the feel, the smell, the stories. I love everything about stories; the characters, the phrasing, the descriptions, the flow, the plot twits, the unravelling, the tone, the themes.

However, whenever I have time to read, I inevitably turn to books I’ve already read. I love the familiarity, I love enjoying a story knowing the outcome, and I love reliving it again and again. I love catching things I missed the first couple times. I always feel like I don’t have time to commit to a whole new book, and in it, a whole new world.

I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and decided to do a tally of how many books I have yet to adventure into! This is the list I came up with in the process:

  • The Light Between Oceans, M. L. Stedman
  • Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
  • The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins
  • Dunkirk, Joshua Levine
  • Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
  • The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
  • Concussion, Jeanne Mable Laskas
  • Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
  • Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  • The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
  • The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan
  • Beartown, Frederik Bachman
  • The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
  • Turtles All the Way Down, John Gree
  • Miracles From Heaven, Christy Wilson Beam
  • Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey
  • It’s Not What You Think, Jefferson Bethke
  • Jesus > Religion, Jefferson Bethke
  • The Last Letter From Your Lover, Jojo Moyes
  • A Few of the Girls, Maeve Binchy
  • Christmas on Primrose Hill, Karen Swan
  • Don’t Go, Lisa Scottoline
  • The Moon and More, Sarah Dessen
  • Granite Mountain, Brendan McDonough
  • Thank You for Your Service, David Finkel
  • Against All Odds, P. J. Naworynski

If you have any suggestions for me to read or any comments or reviews on any of these you’ve read, leave me a comment.

Hope this finds you well,

-L