10 Things I Love
Despite it ending in a night of epic fail, the other night, while in Seattle, my friend asked me to quickly, off the top of my head, name 10 things that I love.
Here are my 10. Do they surprise you? Apparently they shocked her partner. And now, give ME 10 things that YOU love. Snap decision style.
-Essin’ Em
1. Cats
2. Tea
3. Connection
4. Creativity
5. Performance
6. Hanging out in bodies of water (bathtubs excluded)
7. Books. Reading them, buying them, smelling them, organizing them, collecting them.
8. Laughter
9. Sleeping
10. Lighting people on fire/being lit on fire
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1. The smell of quality cologne/perfume
2. Music–singing it, playing it, listening to it
3. Lifting weights
4. Massages
5. Photo albums
6. Movies
7. People who know how to give head
8. Expressive tattoos
9. Children
10. Black culture
1. Sleep
2. Forests
3. That hour just before dawn, when the sky’s just hinting at pink and light
4. Watching my older cat groom my kitten (sickeningly cute)
5. Hash browns
6. That point in the middle of writing when you’re not thinking about the words anymore, you’re just *doing* it
7. The smell of mist and rain in summer and autumn
8. Hearing the point of arousal when the voice breaks
9. Wissotzky Earl Grey tea
10. Casual, sensual touch
1. Coffee
2. Dogs
3. Music
4. Bellydance
5. Diners
6. Cool/cold weather
7. My partners
8. Masturbation
9. My cat’s food bowl shaped and decorated like a Chinese takeout container
10. My body
1. Listening to music
2. Touch-giving and receiving
3. Photos-taking them, sharing them
4. Kissing
5. Friends
6. Gardening with my dogs “helping”
7. Napping in the middle of a cat sandwich (one in each arm)
8. Coca cola
9. Bookstores and the resulting piles of books
10. Tech gadgets
1. MasterDoc
2. orgasms!
3. chocolate
4. reading
5. springtime
6. British comedy
7. music
8. tea – hot or iced
9. food
10. sex
1. books – wonderful trashy urban paranormal books
2. dark chocolate brownies
3. the feeling of contentment after a really good fuck
4. when you leave the salon and you know your hair looks awesome
5. the burst of relieving laughter when you’re stressed
6. exceptionally witty banter
7. David Tennant
8. the first time you hear a song and know it’s going to be your new favorite song
9. the smell of Bath and Bodyworks’ sweet pea lotion
10. a hot shower after being out in the snow
1 Dog (and dogs)
2 my girlfriend
3 music
4 house
5 simplicity
6 housework
7 touch touch touch
8 working hard (physical working)
9 cocktails
10 research (lay research)
1. Dreams
2. Food
3. Words
4. Physical affection
5. Flirting (in my own way, which usually involves teasing and witty bullshit) when I mean it, not just for flirting’s sake
6. Making myself useful
7. Dancing and dancing and dancing til’ I can’t anymore
8. Music
9. The “AHA!” moments
10. Long conversations that go a million different places