1. spinning tops
2. the season premiere of ANTM
3. being so stubborn that I refused to give up on eating diary even though it made me sick, and my perseverance means I can finally eat ice cream.
4. red shoes
5. High Fidelity (both the book and the movie)

 

1. cornbread
2. oatmeal cookies
3. roasted yam salad
4. ham and cheese croissants
5. mini eggs

 

1. ex-boyfriends who have provided great material for anecdotes.
2. bunny shaped gummy candy.
3. board games.
4. weekly art meetings.
5. the glorious moment when you realize that it’s too warm to wear a jacket.

       

1. not having to pay library fines even though your books were a day late.
2. the smell of lilacs that catches you while you walk down the street.
3. cuddling with someone on the couch while the sun pours through the windows.
4. getting homemade soup from a friend when you are feeling sick.
5. friends who check up on you to make sure you aren’t dead, because when they left you four hours ago you weren’t looking so good. 

 

1. finally reaching the end of a 6 day work week.
2. going for supper with a friend who you haven’t seen in a week even though she lives three floors down in your apartment building, and catching up on everything you’ve missed.
3. free dessert because someone messed up your order.
4. inside jokes with friends that come from conversations where one or both parties are very, very tired.
5. having a friend who helps you try and come up with a fifth thing to put on your ‘grace in small things’ list because all you can think about is the Hamburglar.

 

1. getting pre-sale tickets to leonard cohen.
2. qualifying for pre-sale tickets because I was coerced into becoming a best buy rewards member by a pushy cashier a year and a half ago. 
3. being too lazy to unsubscribe to the mildly annoying best buy rewards emails.
4. having a subconscious that KNEW I’d desperately want to go see leonard cohen, and therefore tapped into my inner sloth to prevent me from dealing with the annoying emails.
5. receiving an email (of the previously annoying variety) that said I qualify for the tickets.
6. leonard cohen.  dude.

 

1. the homeless man who said ‘take me home, beautiful’ instead of asking me for spare change.
2. snorting involuntarily and then giggling to myself on a busy street because a homeless man asked me to take him home and no one else heard it.
3. tearing down paper that was covering windows and then stomping on it.
4. wasabi peas.
5. knowing that the only things I have to do tonight are take a hot bath and go to bed.

 

1. listening to tom petty while my fish moves in time with the music.
2. a fridge full of food after not having time to buy groceries for two weeks.
3. the smell of roasting veggies.
4. receiving a copy of the newspaper that featured my mom’s artwork on the front.
5. my foggy windows.

 

1.  bookshelves filled with my favourite books.

2. handmade things that were created by people I know.

3. knowing that everything I have collected over the years is now part of my life in my little apartment in my big city.

4. the feeling of home.

5. my new blog.