Listography
Listography Journal: Your Life in Lists by Lisa Nola (Author), Nathaniel Russell (Illustrator), published by Chronicle Books.
Not just a book but a website too - where you can organise and create your lists for anything and everything you can possibly imagine. You can also search other peoples lists - such as music and books, things to do, quotes and lots lots more. Great for the voyeur in us all or great way to discover new ideas.
The book is an illustrated journal - great subtle water colour illustrations and design features like the rounded corners and heavy paper make it a pleasure to use. List all your favourite things - add to it over time or do it all at once and use it as a marker of where you are at right now.
Chronicle are kindly giving away 5 copies of this book. Winners will be chosen by Chronicle - please leave a comment with a list of your top 5 guilty pleasures. Comments will be closed on Friday and winners chosen, published and contacted the following week.
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August 28th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
1. ‘Michelle Night’ - an evening filled with crafting, no cooking, no TV and no phonecalls.
2. A weekend at a cold windswept beach - just me and my love.
3. My mum’s black cherry cheesecake.
4. Skiving off work early to browse the galleries nearby.
5. Peace and quiet.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
My middle name is List, no really, I swear! I am so excited about this journal and website!
My top 5 guilty pleasures are:
1) ooey gooey chocolate brownies
2) pedicures and anything revolving around a day spa
3) sappy girly movies, the ones that require a box of Kleenex
4) crafts of a wide variety, I’m not picky
5) puppies, don’t hand me one, you may never get it back
August 28th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Ooh guilty pleasures. I don’t get to indulge as often as I like (thanks to a small toddler) but here goes in no particular order:
Apple martinis; long hot baths with lavendar bath salts and sipping on an apple martini; buying the latest craft books and reading them with an apple martini (are you sensing a theme here?); sleeping in the middle of my bed all by myself; and writing in a brand new journal.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
1. Dark chocolate
2. Milk chocolate
3. Chocolate ice cream
4. Chocolate with mint
5. Hmmm…did I mention chocolate? Do they have a 12-step course for this?
August 28th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
1. Singing out loud to Duran Duran songs while driving on the highway
2. Eating pickles straight from the jar. Not bothering to get a fork, but just fishing them out with my fingers
3. cracking my knuckles. the sound is so satisfying!
4. punching my mechanical pencil through lined paper. I can get pretty obsessive about filling a sheet with that pattern
5. leaving just a few drops in the milk bag in the fridge without changing it/leaving one ice cube in the tray in the freezer. It’s sweet revenge for when someone else does it to me, but then again, it’s a vicious cycle!
August 28th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
(in no particular order)
~ Champagne on weeknights (not every weeknight!)
~ Buying beautiful things on etsy (not too much guilt - only re: the spending)
~ Judging people by their purchases at the bookstore I work in (a bit shallow, I know)
~ Very expensive organic beetroot dip
~ Crumpets, crumpets, crumpets
August 28th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
a morning in bed with a cup of coffee, a piece of chocolate, a pencil and a book
a craft project binge from beginning to end
a movie in the middle of the day - two movies in the middle of the day
the silence of a tidy house
the scent of my perfect day
August 28th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
1. Ice blended mocha with chocolate chips on top — a very, very indulgent drink on hot summer days
2. Going into bookstores for hours and hours, without the need to rush or feel harried
3. Designing something and taking out my sewing machine, experimenting the whole day
4. Reading my stack of crafty and girly magazines while lying on my bed on a Saturday morning
5. Going online for long stretches and reading too much of other people’s blogs!
August 28th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Milk arrowroot biscuits with butter and vegemite
Drinking cream straight from the carton
Trawling op shops for more vintage fabric to add to the already exploding boxes that I either never get the time to use, or can’t bear to unless the intended purpose is the perfect use for my beautiful piece of fabric!
Checking whip up for the one hundreth time (in ten minutes)
Listening to the soundtrack of The Sound of Music
August 28th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Buying all that’s left of an amazing dollar-a-yard fabric, leaving not a single scrap for anyone else.
Letting the kitten get into a huge bag of yarn and unwind every ball around the entire house. I, personally, think it’s adorable.
Going to the rediculously expensive chocolate and buying just one for me, and not telling my boyfriend I went there without getting him one.
Taking way too long in the shower just so I can finish singing the song that’s been stuck in my head for a week.
Using my relatively agile toes to pick something up when I’m too lazy to reach down and use my hands like a normal person.
August 28th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
having some quality time alone, free to do what i want.
having friends come over for a barbecue, for tea or for an improvised party. though this means lots of work, i don’t want to miss a single second with them.
browsing books and magazines in our local bookstore, having a cup of cappuchino while i search for something to take home, ending up taking home more than i should… but being SO happy afterwards!
chocolate. unfortunately in almost every way… *sigh*
viewing, organizing and cuddling my stash of fabrics, yarns and thread. just looking at all the colors and patterns make me happy…
August 28th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
my top 5 guilty pleasures:
5. going to yarn stores and feel up all the different yarn.
4. pumpkin cheesecake from the cheese cake factory… can’t wait for Oct!
3. marc jacob shoes especially!
2. popping in koreans dramas and watching the episodes one after another the whole day until the next day.
1. Jake Gyllenhaal
August 28th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
having a bath and topping it up until there is no hot water left in the tank…..
eating a whole wheel of soft brie by myself without a second thought…..
starting sewing projects with no real intention of ever finishing them. Its so satisfying to start and so sad to finish…..
having afternoon naps when the sun is directly over my bed, on crumpled sheets because I haven’t been bothered to make the bed from the morning…..
reading trashy magazines at the newsagency for hours and hours and never buying a single one! I love knowing what nicole richie & co are up to……
August 28th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Oh wow! Lists are one of the loves of my life =)
Top 5 guilty pleasures:
1. Spending money that I don’t have (most often sneaking to my handbag in the middle of the night to get my credit card info for my online purchases).
2. Buying fabric when I’m on a fabric ban.
3. Eating yummy food that I know is going to make me sick.
4. Parking my lazy butt in front of the heater for most of Winter.
5. Writing things on my to-do lists that I’ve already done just so I can cross them out.
Off to check out the website!
August 28th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Wow…how did I make my answers go bold? I’m magic. =P
August 28th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Waking up early just to lie in bed
Cappuccino
“Just one more…” crafty magazine
Knitting during cheesy action flicks I’ve already seen ten times
Sweets of all kinds
August 28th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Escaping into a book.
Trader Joe’s dark chocolate covered anything.
Collecting sewing patterns.
Knitting in front of the fireplace all winter when everyone else has left the house.
Reading craft/knitting/sewing magazines.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Handfuls of chocolate chips out of the bag intended for baking.
Watching Martha video clips while baby’s sleeping.
Lying diagnally in bed with every limb stretched to its limit after hubby gets up.
Second hand shopping.
Going through Google Reader to catch up on everyone’s blogs!
August 28th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
1. cinnamon iced lattes
2. watching really bad tv shows (the ones my mother said would rot my brain)
3. taking an hour of of a busy day to paint my toe nails
4. cranking up the volume on my car stereo and singing with abandon
5. shoe shopping on the internet
August 28th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
fabulous book!
1. reeses pieces
2. “me” time!
3. frozen lemonade
4. sleeping all afternoon
5. scrapbooking kits!
August 28th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
1. sour cherry balls
2. reading (and writing) blogs at work
3. lying on the bed still wet after the shower and air drying
4. Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name”
5. reading so intently I can’t hear what’s going on around me
August 28th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
only five?
1. Using the clothes dryer because the hanging on the clothesline takes too long.
2. cheating on my crossword puzzles
3. Throwing away my husband’s ratty clothes (that he insists on keeping) to see if he notices. (He doesn’t).
4. 2 hours 30 minutes of surgery already logged on my new Nintendo DS game “Trauma Center: Under the Knife”
5. half-regular/half-decaf iced americanos (It could be worse, at least I’m not ordering a tall, nonfat, skinny, sugar free, carmel macchiato–extra hot)
August 28th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
1. popcorn with nutritional yeast and sea salt (cooked on the stove)
2. reading crafty blogs (i’m seeing a pattern in these responses)
3. slow mornings involving lots of coffee and maybe some waffles
4. napping
5. fabric shopping
August 28th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
1. macaroni and cheese from a box
2. reality TV
3. Gallagher
4. the font Dom Casual
5. Clash of the Titans
August 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
1. Dates with my husband
2. Sleeping in my bed by myself, without kids
3. Peach pie with whipped cream for breakfast
4. Drinking juice ut of the pitcher
5. Spending time with my Mom without my sisters the drama queens around
August 28th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
1. reading or sewing while the baby naps — instead of cleaning, cooking or working on the “to-do” list
2. watching trashy TV late into the night after hubby & baby go to sleep
3. extra-dark (burned) potato chips
4. skimming a little off the grovery money for lipgloss
5. McDonald’s cheeseburgers
August 28th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
1. Eating cheesecake at Cheesecake Etc. in Vancouver
2. Going out for simple breakfast Saturday mornings
3. Discovering unpretentious, hole-in-the-wall breakfast places in different neighbourhoods
4. Leisurely reading in bed on weekends
5. Experimenting on the knitting machine while listening to CBC Radio (our public broadcaster) or working in total silence
August 28th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
reruns of Perry Mason and Hawaii 5-0
homemade ice cream
lush bath ballistics
fresh guacamole and chips
naps
August 28th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
-Making lists
-Buying Post-it Notes and Sharpies
-Browsing craigslist for deals
-Knitting at work
-Staying in PJs until lunchtime on days off
August 28th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Chocolate
Pedicures
Chick flicks
Sleeping in and/or napping
Fabric shopping
August 28th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
1. watching Full House on DVD (the shame!)
2. Culture Club records
3. Venti chai lattes
4. wandering the echoing halls of IKEA
5. Zombie B-movies
August 28th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
1. wearing fancy head scarves when biking (you feel so vivien leigh)
2. saturday mornings reading free papers in a neighborhood coffee shop (then you don’t feel guilty buying a whole paper just for the comics!)
3. office supplies (despite the fact I don’t have an office, nor a need for much supplies)
4. reading novels in public places (parks, buses, the couch showcases at sears)
5. fabric shopping trips. enough said.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Reading blogs when I should be working
Watching a week’s worth of Martha Stewart on Friday night
Shopping without my husband
Eating key lime pie
Playing music really loud when no one is home
August 28th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
1) waking up very early and then turning off the alarm to fall back to sleep
2) making buttered popcorn and watching a movie on a rainy afternoon
3) buying a bunch of magazines and then slowly flipping through them over a cup of tea
4) buying fabric online
5) letting the phone ring
August 28th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
My top five guilty pleasures - it’s hard to pick just five - are:
Lifetime made for tv movies, the kind that are based on actual events.
Listening to Wham in my car
Iced Coffee
The Air Conditioning set extra cold
after my husband’s gone to sleep, watching reruns of Jackass on mtv - somehow this is the worst one.
August 28th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
1. Reading in bed all day with all 3 dogs (who are technically not allowed in bed), a bottomless cup of coffee and my favorite sweet snacks on the nightstand.
2. Spending an entire weekend knitting while binge-watching my favorite TV shows.
3. Going to my favorite craft stores just to pet the yarn and drool over the new fabrics.
4. Buying yet another pair of cute flats–I can’t stop!
5. Cereal for dinner, especially the sugary, chocolatey, bad-for-you kind.
August 28th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Orange sherbert with Magic Shell on top
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Sundays in bed with the crossword puzzle and many naps
googling high school crushes
Googly eyes!!!
August 28th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
1. PostSecret
2. Buying craft supplies I don’t have a plan for, yet.
3. Ignoring the dirty dishes in the kitchen.
4. Dark swiss or belgian chocolate.
5. Looking at craft and artist websites for hours on end.
August 28th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Watching silly reality tv
Cupcakes
Not making the bed
Wandering
Drinking Milk from the carton
August 28th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
1. Nuttella
August 28th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
sleeping in, on occasion
a cheap new tee from target
peppermint patties
phone calls with my sisters
ice cream straight from the carton.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:08 am
that’s an awesome looking journal.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:16 am
People magazine
Jackie Collins novels
supermarket sushi
Real World reruns on MTV
Judy Judy
August 29th, 2007 at 12:30 am
That book looks so cute.
My five guilty pleasures:
1. Not immediately putting away new purchases so I can be surrounded by goodies for a while.
2. ‘window’ shopping online for land and travel for hours when I should be doing something else.
3. trying a new craft when I should be finishing an old one.
4. duplicating lists so I can have them online, in email and on paper.
5. acquiring cute stationary
August 29th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Five indulgences :
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate (already mentioned above), kept secretly in my dresser drawer for furtive tasting
Roaming bookstores w/out regard to time
Potato chips
Swimming alone in a lukewarm pool
Dinner out with husband and/or friends
August 29th, 2007 at 1:19 am
1. Aug. 14th, annual self-designated “Read-a-Book-all-Day” day. That’s all you have to do all day long.
2. Lunch out on Sundays after church with my mom and siblings. We go to uncrowded restaurants that don’t mind that we sit for hours and talk and laugh. (We are very good tippers.)
3. Home alone all day watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie marathon (I’ve got them all) while knitting or crocheting.
4. Driving all by myself in the car.
5. My sister and I think up “great ideas”. We’ve got a million of ‘em. From a way to blow fog off the highways… to our own little service to comfort people who need a bit of non-judgmental love. Sort of like a mom or a grandma. It’s called “There, there.”
The thing is, we don’t have to take care of all the logistics, we just think up the ideas. That’s the fun part.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:29 am
1. A well-made Mojito
2. Flea market/garage sale/junking trips
3. Reading in my bathtub for hours
4. Reading blogs at work
5. Buying special bakery cookies for everyone in my family and eating them all buy myself before I get home.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:36 am
A big bowl of full fat ice cream.
Fabric buying binges.
Watching favorite (and dorky) childhood movies.
Mid-afternoon naps.
An evening by myself where I turn up the music and craft all night.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Mystery Diagnosis on Discovery Health channel
Countdown w/ Keith Olberman (i love having my liberal politics validated!)
using my 40% off coupons at Michael’s
having my Starbucks card automatically top up from my VISA card
home delivery of the Sunday NY Times
August 29th, 2007 at 2:15 am
1) picking my nose and wiping it under the driver’s seat in my car
2) eating an entire bag of amaretto milano cookies in one sitting
3) after everyone goes to bed: smokin’ pot and sewing like crazy!
4) the weird/gross/familiar smell of my pup’s eye boogers
5) Mariah Carey’s album “Emotions”
August 29th, 2007 at 2:47 am
Re-reading books I loved as a child (or wish had been around when I was a child)
Drive throughs for ice cream
Watching crappy movies in the hope that my movie crush will take off his shirt.
Ordering online at 2 a.m.
And my top guilty pleasure is buying or making yet another bag!!!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:07 am
1. Alone time for music and Knitting
2. Flying to Las Vegas to visit with my best friend and her mother who is also my best friend.
3. Ignoring the house and yard work to see a movie.
4. Chocolate, need I say more.
5.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:09 am
Gossip.. especially about my in-laws…
America’s Funniest Home Videos… I think the winners almost always deserve the $10,000 prize
PostSecret - it’s like anonymous stranger gossip, but artful, soulful, beautiful…
Before/after photos of people who’ve lost lots of weight… I want to be them SO bad
Raw cookie dough… see above
August 29th, 2007 at 3:09 am
1. Alone time for music and Knitting
2. Flying thousands of miles to visit with my best friend and her mother who is also my best friend.
3. Ignoring the house and yard work to see a movie or read a book.
4. Chocolate, need I say more.
5. Wandering through a craft store.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:44 am
Teenage fiction - I’m twentyteen. Yeah.
Going to online stores, filling up my shopping basket…and then closing the window/tab - I feel bad for wasting their bandwidth
Eating almost a whole packet of cookies at once - I don’t feel guilty because it might make me fat, I feel guilty because it won’t.
Reading fun books, or creative writing - when I’m meant to be writing an essay
Getting the same craft or writing books out of the library for months and months and months - no one else can read them
August 29th, 2007 at 4:08 am
1. hoodies
2. fat quarters
3. Celebrity Paranormal Project
4. gummy candies
5. sleeping in the hammock
August 29th, 2007 at 4:13 am
Sugary things
Salty snacks
Martyrdom (don’t tell Mom!)
Buying stationery (ClaireFontaine and Moleskine!)
Making lists of stuff I already know (just for comfort)
August 29th, 2007 at 4:34 am
Nickelodeon
Making lists of easy tasks just so i can feel like I’ve done something after crossing them off
Movies with a guranteed happy endings
Littlest Pet Shop Pets
Buying paper products just because they have cute patterns on them, i have stacks to prove it!
August 29th, 2007 at 4:38 am
Eating mazapan after mazapan after mazapan (I live in Mexico!)
Whittling away an evening perusing fabric websites.
Listening to all the Harry Potter audio books, even though I’ve already read each one.
Anthropologie
Cat naps
August 29th, 2007 at 4:52 am
(i very much want to ditto LittleMissMeshell’s list, especially the last one)
snuggling my dogs in the morning instead of blow-drying my hair
chai tea frappucinos in winter
listening to opera while i’m sewing (with the volume cranked up on the stereo my husband bought for his extensive rock music collection)
reading paperback romance novels when i can’t take any more literary angst like faulkner, or opinions written by scalia (i’m a former english literature major and currently a lawyer)
any food that combines cheese and cream (baked mac and cheese, fettuccine alfredo, tater tot casserole, real mashed potatoes, etc.)
August 29th, 2007 at 5:03 am
I too live for lists …. 5 Guilty pleasures …
Soap Operas
Bubble Baths
A great book
Swimming in a pond
Chocolate
August 29th, 2007 at 5:30 am
Taking the day off of work to craft or read instead.
Checking out an entire season of Survivor from the library and watching it all in one weekend.
Sleeping with my babies well past baby-hood.
Getting a pedicure with cute little flowers even though we can’t afford it.
Doing two yoga classes in a row in order to avoid being home at the kids’ bedtime.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:27 am
1. Teaching myself new hobbies (knitting, crochet, html, digital scrapbooking) and buying all the ‘necessary’ accoutrements.
2. Cheesy chips with Southwestern Salsa
3. Stealing a few hours (or minutes) away from the family for some digital scrapbooking
4. Buying books of any kind - knitting, fiction, crafting, computers, etc.
5. Daydreaming of the old days of waterskiing and boating - imagining the feeling of just floating out over the water. My ultimate happy place.
August 29th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Talking to my favourite boy on the phone into the wee hours of the morning, even though I have to be up early for work and I’ll be cranky all morning (there’s no such thing as enough coffee).
Buying magazines when I should be paying the phone bill (see above). Gourmet, Marie Clare Idees, Blueprint, Cook’s Illustrated, BH&G Quilting…
A night alone, with any combination of: Expensive cheese. Very cold Budweiser. Reading “Go fug yourself.” Expensive chocolate. Expensive wine. Cheap potato chips. “My Boys” on TBS.
Picking the chocolate fudge bits out of the tub of ice cream while I cool off in front of the open freezer door (in the event of the collision between a hot summer day and a long day at work).
Buying a new notebook before I’ve finished the last one.
August 29th, 2007 at 8:25 am
With infant twins I don’t get to indulge my guilty pleasures as often as I’d like. I also have found that they are much simpler than they once were.
1. dairy-free cookies
2. reading in the almost-dark after the kids have fallen asleep
3. online fabric shopping while nursing
4. an extra-long shower when my husband is watching the kids
5. sewing for me, or my kids, instead of for my shop
August 29th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Petting a cat (I don’t own one of my own). The neighbors cats visit fairly often.
Chocolate ice cream with tons of brownie bits in it, and hot fudge on top! (Eddy’s Loaded brand is really good btw!)
Riding my bike around town with no where to really be
Visiting thrift shops, especially if I find fabric or cute kitchen supplies
Reading and laughing at LOLCat sites, I don’t mind admitting it. It’s funny stuff :)
August 29th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Making lists
Journals
Reality TV
Silly online games
Craft supplies
August 29th, 2007 at 8:52 am
1. afternoon naps on the couch with the dog
2. buying expensive trainers every time I’m in Tokyo (and I live in Japan, so this happens WAY more frequently than it should)
3. not sharing good chocolate, expensive champagne or the weekend newspapers
4. Facebook
5. wearing perfume to work
August 29th, 2007 at 9:17 am
5. day without children
4. manicure and spa pedicure
3. reading craft blogs or actually crafting way too long while my husband does the household and kid thing
2. sleeping late
1. buying stuff i don’t really need online–LOVE this, thankfully I don’t do it very often!
August 29th, 2007 at 9:39 am
1) Making lists simply to cross things off of them.
2) Listening to Green Day really loud on the stereo in my Mini Cooper.
3) Whipped cream from aeresol cans squirted directly into my mouth.
4) Watching “you’ve got mail” just to see Meg Ryan’s facial expressions at the end when she realizes Tom Hanks is her internet love. I think I’ve seen it 100 times.
5) Taking Google tours of the internet.
August 29th, 2007 at 9:45 am
guilty pleasures
xena on the ipod while i exercise on ellipticle
chick lit books
hot glue gunning things to magnets
tamigotchi (her name is rita)
smoked oysters
August 29th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Howdy , just five of my guilty pleasures are
making yummy cakes
going to op shops and discovering things you don’t really need but would like to give a new home!
girlie craft nights once a month
bruschetta, yum yum yum the taste of summer!
starting lovely little notebooks all over the house, in my bag, in the car etc… to assist me with my sieve brain disorder!
August 29th, 2007 at 10:10 am
1. Making elaborate illustrations on post-it notes using only office supplies (white out, highlighters different colored pens)
2. Naps
3. Gossip ( My best friend and I swear we will stay out of it but then we end up discussing what we are staying out of and at the end we realize we were sucked in again!)
4. Long detailed daydreams of becoming a full time illustrator
5. Peaking at my wedding registry–only month away!
August 29th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Top 5 guilty pleasures:
(i) lying in bed until after midday, curled under the duvet with a good book.
(ii) sneaking a spoonful, or two, of the uncooked cookie mixture.
(iii) taking an afternoon off to go to a matinee at the cinema on my own.
(iv) daytime TV - I hate that I love this every once in a while.
(v) buying wool and fabric for things I’ll never have time to make.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:52 am
1. I get home from work and stretch out on the sofa, and when my husband comes over to massage my feet, I should say, “wait a second, I need to wash my stinky feet first”. But I don’t - I just relax and enjoy every bit of it.
2. Runescape. I am too old to play this game, but my teenage sons often want me to play it with them. How can I say no?
3. Pajamas all weekend long sometimes. We should be out rushing around doing important things, but I love my family and love to stay home with them.
4. Crochet and knitting club is one of my “duties” as a public librarian. I just can’t believe I get paid to do something that I enjoy so much.
5. Using the first 30 minutes of the day to read or knit with a cup of tea, when I know that I will spend the last 15 minutes before I leave for work in a hurried scramble to get out the door on time.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Hmmm…top 5 guilty pleasures:
Drinking Coca-cola…I need to stop!
Being able to commute from my bedroom to my studio everyday…it’s just a few steps down the hall…(I guess this isn’t guilty because I’m conserving)
Taking a day off mid-week because I can (Once deadlines are met!)
Doing what I love as work
Watching re-runs of Charmed on TNT (Yes, it’s cheesy, but there’s something to be said for that!)
August 29th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Guilty Pleasures:
Chocolate Pudding
GoFugYourself
Murder Mystery TV Shows
Reading Too Late at Night
Sewing–when I should be doing just about anything else
August 29th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
The show “Supernatural”
exceedingly immature movies like “Superbad”
Spending wayyyyy too much time online
Sitting in the café at Barnes and Noble, reading all the crafting magazines I would never actually *buy* there
the free rolls that come with food at Bertuccis
August 29th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Here are my five guiltiest pleasures!
1. Singing along to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode soundtrack, fastforwarding to the good parts and then rewinding to hear them again
2. Taking naps in the morning, when I haven’t quite earned a rest yet . . . so delicious
3. Taking a cab home from a nice night out, when I could take the subway instead
4. Checking the mailbox about 5 times a day — even after I’ve picked up the mail that day — just in case someone delivered a present in my mailbox for no reason
5. Purchasing decorative objects with no function that will barely fit in my apartment. My favorite objects to purchase: small vinyl figurines of strange creatures
August 29th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
1. cracking my knuckles
2. fast food
3. buying plastic junk from quarter machines
4. tickling myself till I laugh
5. daydreaming about wealth and fame
August 29th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
An excuse to make a list. To win a book about lists. Ideal :)
1. Project Runway marathons
2. Creative Wanders Brown Suggah Buddha Body Scrub
3. The Sims 2
4. Novelty yarn
5. Stephen King novels
August 30th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Cookies (or cake) for breakfast.
Listening to really bad music, or really bad talk radio, by myself in the car.
Reading the occasional issue of Glamour/Cosmo/RedBook.
Playing mindless mini-games on the internets.
My daily comic reads: Mary Worth & For Better or For Worse
August 30th, 2007 at 1:21 am
this day: slow morning at a coastal town, early to get a huge decaf americano, visual journaling & people watching; then a walk along the ocean with my digital camera
thrift store and garage sale searching
this day: a basket to fill as i browse powell’s books; taking the filled to overflowing basket to the cafe in the store, buying a scone and a decaf latte and pouring through the books to pick out a maximum of $100 worth.
buying fabulous paper and pens
spontaneous favorite people gatherings. sitting out on our deck, nibbles in the center of the table, beverages of choice on hand, candles and lighting from our fig tree overhead. catching up, telling stories that make us laugh and cry and just breathing in all the love.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:44 am
dark chocolate
hitting snooze way too many times which leads to oversleeping virtually on purpose
ice cream
coffee (well, caffeine - but maybe this one is more like an addiction)
scraping off some of the nail polish (preferably brightly coloured so that the ugly rests of it really shows)
August 30th, 2007 at 2:13 am
1 keeping tv’s sound down to hearing limit
2 buying something expensive and unhealthy to eat on a hard day’s night
3 need for a scapegoat
4 chocolate
5 making lists
August 30th, 2007 at 2:58 am
–browsing through the remnant bin at the fabric store
–re-reading my favorite Jane Austen novels, and snickering loudly at the wickedly sarcastic bits
–sleeping in while my husband goes to fetch the wide-awake toddler from her crib
–magazines - almost any kind, but particularly women’s mags and gossip/celebrity ones
–my newest favorite: caramel ice cream, with chocolate sauce
August 30th, 2007 at 3:28 am
1. Guns ‘n’ Roses (circa “Paradise City”)
2. Motley Crue (circa “Dr. Feelgood”)
3. Journey (no specific qualification here)
4. Bon Jovi (circa “Livin’ on a Prayer”)
5. Def Leppard (circa “Photograph”)
Hmmm, I feel oddly un-guilty about these, actually…
August 30th, 2007 at 4:22 am
-buying chicken-related knick knacks
-getting mani pedis
-downloading anime to watch
-going to Target and buying things I don’t necessarily need
-fancy gourmet coffee
August 30th, 2007 at 4:36 am
1. Reading a trashy, trampy romance novel while curled on the couch with a blanket and soundly ignoring the laundry.
2. Sneaking a few M&Ms when the husband isn’t looking.
3. Going back to bed for 45 minutes after the husband leaves for work.
4. Breakfast for dinner. It just feels so naughty.
5. Eating the cake batter left on the bowl and spoon after mixing…and maybe a little extra.
August 30th, 2007 at 5:21 am
-orange tootsie pops
-johnny cash music
-an hour to myself to read
-chocolate milk
-blogs
August 30th, 2007 at 7:32 am
ok, here goes:
***white chocolate, macadamian nut cookies
***watching ‘big brother’
***flea market hunting
***spending hours in a fabric store
***spending hours online, reading blogs as a spectator
August 30th, 2007 at 8:30 am
My most fabulous (and guilty) pleasures
–watching a full season of an HBO series in a week
–a pedi/mani every two weeks
–a blood mary in an airport bar
–online shoe shopping
–my iPhone!
mmmmmm . . . .
August 30th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Making a pan of brownies and being the only one that licks the spoon and/or bowl (even with 3 kids and a hungry husband who I just don’t tell until they’re done)
Googling every ex-boyfriend I can think of to see what kind of lives they’re leading now
Down with Love (I mean, have you ever seen this movie? Guilty, very guilty)
Picking stray hairs off my husband’s shoulders, then pretending I didn’t know it was actually growing out of his skin, but that I thought it was just sitting there (gotta get rid of those–yecchhhh)
Going off to put my baby to sleep so that I can get a few quiet moments to nod off in the rocking chair (”he just wouldn’t go to sleep…really”)
Why do lists control my life anyway? If I don’t take one to the grocery store I spend twice as much and if I do my baby chews it up and I can’t make it out, so I forget everything. If I list things I wish I’d done, I feel incomplete, and if I list things I have done, I feel embarassed. If I write a list of chores, I do laundry just so I can draw a line through it on the list, but I keep checking to see if anything else gets crossed off by anyone else. It never does, and I just rip up the list to get even. What would I do without lists? 1. Go crazy 2. OOPS there I go again….
August 30th, 2007 at 10:44 am
5 guilty pleasures:
letting myself fall asleep when I get really drowsy and start dozing off
midnight sewing (i live in an apartment..)
getting the cat to sit in my lap rather than my partners’
hiding my favorite cookies in my desk drawer at work (I usually share..)
starting new projects without finishing old ones
August 30th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
My top five guilty pleasures (in no particular order) are:
Cutting out of work early to see an afternoon movie
A day walking from Central Park to Chinatown and back
Starbucks Iced Coffee
Reality TV (Project Runway, America’s Next Top Model, and Top Chef especially)
An entire day outdoors!
August 30th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Gardening in my bathrobe
Hoarding paperproducts and office supplies
Swiggng a Bloody Mary while hanging out the wash
Biking without a helmet
Licking the bowl
August 30th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Snacking In bed beside my husband as He sleeps watching TV.
Being on my computer without interruptions …….
Walking outdoors and talking to God looking at the nature surrounding me. Giving HIM thanks for the good and the bad in the world, teaching me daily to appreciate what I have and to give whenever I can.
Vacations ….. I haven’t had one in over 4 years.
Whenever my sewing-machine thread doesn’t screw up while I’m sewing.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:22 am
1. Quilting fabric! I have more than I can make quilts with but it’s so seductive.
2. Swing /big band music, played loudly, while I dance, badly.
3.”So you think you can dance” - the only “reality” TV show I have ever watched .
4. Staying in bed to cuddle with my toy poodle when I should be working
5. Black tea with Madagascar vanilla. Pricey, but soooo worth it!
August 31st, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Eating violet creams or Bendicks mints in the front room with the door closed, flipping through the unread mags that are collecting…
A quick kip on the couch on the porch after dinner, hidden by the Dutchman’s pipe vines that are out of control…
Riding my bicycle around my neighbourhood after midnight…
Using up all the leftover bits of cheese to make cheese’n'onion popovers, then gorging…
Sneaking writing time…
September 1st, 2007 at 10:43 pm
It’s too late, but I like writing lists anyway.
1) Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies. Soooo bad for me. Sooo tasty.
2) Walrus Ice Cream. Local ice cream joint (www.walrusicecream.com), best in the world. Chocolate cake batter with oreos and chocolate chip cookie dough mixed in in a chocolate dipped waffle cone.
3) Going to the library and coming home with a stack of books I wouldn’t ever buy (and would likely have difficulty admitting I’ve read) and churning through them.
4) Eating aforementioned oatmeal cream pies while enthroned on a pile of pillows on my bed reading said books I would never buy.
5) Chilly sunrises on the back porch with a cup of hot chocolate and a totally unfair amount of marshmellows.
September 7th, 2007 at 6:36 am
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