Life's Simple Pleasures

I enjoy...

• blasting the heat in my car on high after a long run/track workout. It's the only time I can do it without gettting sleepy and I love the warmth!
• freshly fallen snow, the way it makes everything look so clean and beautiful and the air smell so crisp.
• getting out of the ocean and laying on the burning hot sand under the warmth of the sun.
• sunsets on the beach.
• clear, blue water.
• catching fireflies on a summer night.
• thunderstorms.
• splish-splashing through puddles in rainboots.
• having deep conversations with friends until the wee hours of the morning.
• bonfires.
• handwritten letters.
• road trips.
• traveling.
• exploring new cities.
• trying new foods/hobbies.
• hearing new songs...and rediscovering old ones.
• reminiscing, usually accompanied by looking through old photos.
• star-gazing.
• cloud-watching.
• experiencing the "runner's high."
• challenges.
• snowboarding.
• parks, picnics, and bbq's.
• British accents =). Aussie accents are nice too.
• reading a good book, the ones you simply can't put down and are worth losing sleep over to finish.
• laughing til it hurts.
• football Sundays, March Madness, World Cup, and the Olympics (I seriously have withdrawal when any of these end).
• the smell of something baking.
• the smell of warm, fresh laundry.
• french fries.
• having weird food obsessions.
• ice-cold, refreshing lemonade or iced tea on a hot summer's day.
• sugar rushes.
• roller coasters.
• spontaneity and surprises.

Perfectly Lonely

I am in no way John Mayer's #1 fan. In fact, I usually find his music/concerts too mellow for my mood and let's not even talk about his fixture in the tabloids. However, I will admit that John Mayer is an excellent songwriter. He has a talent of stringing a few, simple words together that expresses so clearly everything you've been feeling but couldn't find the words to describe.

For example, when I went through a rough breakup in 2006, his song "The Heart of Life" told me:

Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
No, it won't all go the way it should
But I know the heart of life is good

Three and a half years later, John Mayer once again so clearly expresses my current sentiments on love:

Nothing to do
Nowhere to be
A simple little a kind of free
Nothing to do
No one but me
And that's is all I need

I'm perfectly lonely
I'm perfectly lonely
I'm perfectly lonely (Yeah)
'Cause I don't belong to anyone
And nobody belongs to me

...

And this is not to say
There never comes a day
I'll take my chances and start again
And when I look behind
On all my younger times
I have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong



Michael Buble also does a fine job of expressing my sentiments on love in his song, "Haven't Met You Yet":