These are a few of my favorite things...

I have a serious case of the blahs. With mom being basically put on pallative care, trying to buy a house, and starting with a new surgeon this week, my brain has turned to barely functional. So yesterday afternoon before leaving work I confirmed a breakfast with a good girlfriend and arranged to follow it with a deep tissue massage.

I'm home now from all of that, I have taken a little nap and am contemplating cleaning my house. instead, i'm going to make a list of my favorite things. I haven't done that since starting my blog so I thought I would give it a try. i was trying very hard during my massage to think of them in my head. So, without further ado, here is a list of my 100 favorite things, in no particular order.

1. Big loud thunderstorms with pouring rain
2. Flannel sheets and down comforters
3. My mom's molassess cookies
4. " " potato salad
5. " " homemade dinner rolls
6. Montana sunsets after a big thunderstorm
7. The sound of Avlanche Gorge, in Glacier National Park
8. The smell of a thick, green forest in the morning dew
9. Cheesesticks and movie nights with my best friend Heather
10. A good microbrewed beer...particularly a Miner's Gold from the Lewis and Clark Brewery or Beltian White from Harvest Moon
11. Sleeping in on Saturday mornings
12. A surprise letter in the mailbox from a friend
13. Grandma's beef barley stew
14. the smell of a warm apple pie but the taste of a cold piece
15. Plain old vanilla ice cream
16. A night on the living room floor lit by candles and the fireplace
17. Snowflakes
18. My friend Laura's spaghetti sauce
19. Hanging out with my uncle's grandson, Toby, who is 11 now
20. Hiking in the Rockie Mountains
21. Soft wool sweaters
22. Silk camisoles
23. My sherling wool Land's End slippers
24. A big fluffy robe
25. Laughing with friends around a home cooked meal
26. Crunching in thick trails of fall leaves
27. The excitement of a high school football game on a cold winter night
28. Denver Broncos Football!
29. That feeling after a really good workout when initially you just didn't feel like doing it
30. Curling up on my boyfriend's shoulder and falling to sleep
31. Watching babies sleep
32. Long naps
33. Scary Movie: Silence of the Lambs
34. Chic Flick: Beaches and Under the Tuscan Sun
35. Girl Power movie: GI Jane
36. Classic: the original One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
37. Favorite book: The Alienist by Caleb Carr
38. Favorite author: Patricia Cornwell
39. TV Show: CSI (the original)
40. Peaches and heavy cream
41. Listening to my cats purr
42. taking pictures
43. A good scary movie
44. The smell of a rose garden
45. Yellow roses and white tulips
46. the color orange
47. lying in the sun
48. shoveling snow
49. Sipping hot tea and watching the snow fall
50. Thanksgiving
51. Fall colors
52. The feeling of freshly harvested wheat running through your fingers
53. Hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps, wrapped up in a blanket
54. Rain on a tent
55. The smell of fresh cut alfalfa
56. Walks on the beach at dusk
57. Watching movies with a big blanket and pillows all over the floor on a stormy day
58. Leather bound journals and planners
59. Big heavy pens and pencils
60. Giving gifts
61. Reading
62. The brisk feeling of a early fall morning on your face
63. Dark Chocolate
64. Strawberries and champagne
65. A warm cozy house
66. Dress pants from The Limited
67. Hidden Lake outside of Helena, MT
68. Long dinners with candlelight and music with a loved one
69. Any Harry Connick, Jr CD (yes, I have them all...thanks to Os)
70. Alison Kraus and Union Station
71. My boys...reggie and romeo
72. my first dog...Smutter
73. Making snow forts
74. The smell of a freshly cleaned house
75. Thick cotton socks
76. A good brandy sour
77. A night out on the dance floor until closing time
78. Bluegrass music
79. A good back massage...either giving on OR getting one
80. Getting a pedicure
81. My black hills gold ring that has my great grandmother's wedding band diamonds in it
82. The cross my grandfather gave grandma when he left for world war II
83. Summer's at gifted camp when I was growing up
84. That feeling on a plane ride you get as you land at "home"
85. Smore's...without the chocolate
86. Flannel pajama pants
87. Kissing
88. ...and being kissed, on the neck
89. Hugs
90. Holding hands
91. Getting a thank you for something unexpected
92. Baby giggles
93. Pear candles
94. Drafting floor plans on a drafting board for fun...always to big or elaborate to really build
95. Suturing (I know, morbid, but I really enjoy it...it appeals to the perfectionist in me)
96. Making jewelry
97. the taste of water from a glacier cold mountain stream
98. My old reading tree in my back yard when I was a kid...it had the perfect nook to sit in
99. Traveling...to wherever
100. Robert Frost's poem...The Road Less Traveled