Whoa there

I know I haven't posted here in forever. My other blog that I actually update is Chartreuse Knits. Yeah, it's mostly knitting. But every so often I post about other stuff too. Here's a post I posted over there. It's quite revelatory, just in case you were interested.

I got inspired to make a list of things that bother and please me. I decided to post it to reveal a little bit about myself. These are in no particular order, except the order in which I thought of them. Be inspired to make one of your own (I am quite verbose, so feel free to reduce it to ten or even five things!)

25 Things that bother me:

1. Greasy hair
2. Adults ridiculed or outwitted by their children
3. Being vain and thinking I know something, only to be proven dreadfully wrong
4. Pretentiousness
5. My haircut
6. Not being able to understand things easily
7. The taste of milk that’s beginning to turn slightly sour
8. Acne
9. Realizing I’m much stupider than I believed myself to be
10. Feeling fat
11. The feeling of spiderwebs on my skin, either real or imagined
12. When I make a fool of myself
13. Knowing I’ve made a mistake, ignoring it in the present, then in the future coming across it and remembering my laziness at not fixing it
14. How mean I was as a child
15. Being overly flattered or overly criticized
16. Humidity
17. Getting mango fibers stuck in my teeth
18. Poor grammar
19. Unrequited love
20. Unhappy endings
21. Naming someone Jesus
22. The totally irrelevant naming of subdivisions and street names, such as “The Woods” to describe a subdivision that is scrub brush and weeds
23. Extreme disorganization
24. How I’m always in love
25. The lack of inspiration for poetry I’ve suffered in recent years

25 Things that please me:

1. Wearing warm sweaters when it’s cold out
2. Listening to melancholic music and feeling a surge of melancholic emotion, even if I’m happy
3. Capturing an awesome photograph
4. Random acts of kindness
5. Waking up ½ an hour early, and then realizing I get to sleep that much longer
6. Ice Cream
7. Knitting
8. Bagpipes and violins
9. Blue eyes
10. Getting chills of excitement at a movie preview
11. Being a Spaniard
12. Fantasy worlds accessible only through literature
13. Music moving me to sing and dance
14. Long Hugs
15. Disney movies
16. Online games like Alchemy, Fowl Words, or Gold Miner
17. Unexpected but harmonious color combinations
18. Bargain shopping
19. Overstuffed chairs and cups of hot tea
20. How attached I am to my family
21. My ability to memorize and recite poetry
22. Looking at the scale and realizing I’ve lost weight
23. Cute artistry and stuffed animals
24. Teaching someone something they didn’t know
25. The smell of rain