Pleasures

a semi-comprehensive list

• when I catch something and someone says “nice catch”

• one dollar day-old pastries at the french bakery near my apartment

• that phase when I finally stop caring whether my shoes stay clean

• asymmetrical smiles

• that scrunched look on musicians faces when they play their instruments and I can tell that, for them, the rest of the world has fallen away

• the sound of horses chewing hay on cold mornings

• finding lost jewelry

• an open seat on the train

• the automatic sisterhood of drunk girls in a club bathroom

• bacon egg and cheese

• linen bedsheets

• learning new words

• a dresser drawer that is stuffed too full but still closes anyways

• retiring my winter jacket for the season

• making clay animals

• facetiming Charlie and doing chores together on the phone

• putting my hands in warm water

• anyone with green eyes

• finding free furniture on the side of the road

• watching live stream swim meets while I eat chips and revel in the fact that I am not the one in the water

• wood inlay on anything

• keeping track of punch cards for free coffee

• having enough quarters to do laundry

• holding my cat’s paw while we fall asleep

• the smokey smell after you blow out a candle

• when you kiss someone and then later you can smell them in your hair

• when it stays light out until 9

• receiving or writing hand written letters

• finding a piece of furniture that I own on display in Ikea

• highlighting books

• a full water bottle

• not having to pee

• plugging my phone in right before it dies

• sending a picture of myself laughing to my friend when they text something really funny

• the pasta pot I own that has a built-in strainer

• organizing books by color

• realizing I have one trader joes microwave meal left on a day where I really don’t want to cook

• tofu

• rice cookers

• sleeping diagonally in bed

• the crush phase

• never wanting to end a list