It seems that there are a lot of guilty pleasures out there – please take a moment to revel in reading these – and feel a little less guilty about your own. Thank you everyone for your fantastic lists – oh and just for fun – some of my faves were

* sappy girly movies, the ones that require a box of Kleenex
* a craft project binge from beginning to end
* Going into bookstores for hours and hours, without the need to rush or feel harried
* Checking whip up for the one hundreth time (in ten minutes)
* Escaping into a book.
* shoe shopping on the internet
* wearing fancy head scarves when biking (you feel so vivien leigh)
* Flea market/garage sale/junking trips
* picking my nose and wiping it under the driver’s seat in my car
* Doing two yoga classes in a row in order to avoid being home at the kids’ bedtime.
* Making elaborate illustrations on post-it notes using only office supplies (white out, highlighters different colored pens)
* Taking a day off mid-week because I can (Once deadlines are met!)
* Gardening in my bathrobe

the winners of a listography note book are: – you will be contacted by email using the email address that you used to comment – if you are not contacted and you are one of the winners please email whipup[@]gmail.com

Allison Hoffman

1. 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)
2. Googling every ex-boyfriend I can think of to see what kind of lives they’’re leading now
3. Down with Love (I mean, have you ever seen this movie? Guilty, very guilty)
4. 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)
5. 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”)

talya

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

Nikki

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

Chase

1. Buying all that’s left of an amazing dollar-a-yard fabric, leaving not a single scrap for anyone else.
2. Letting the kitten get into a huge bag of yarn and unwind every ball around the entire house. I, personally, think it’s adorable.
3. Going to the ridiculously expensive chocolate shop and buying just one for me, and not telling my boyfriend I went there without getting him one.
4. 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.
5. 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.

Rosemary

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!

Also – 2 of the winners of the yarn and pattern from Hipknits have not been able to be contacted. If you were one of the winners and you have not received your yarn – can you please contact Kerrie at Hipknits. If no-one comes forward Kerrie will pick 2 more winners.