TOPIC OF THE DAY FOR 10/16/2002

What are some of your favorite things. In the O magazine and I think sometimes on her show, Oprah likes to list her favorite things?? What are yours??

1) Hot chocolate on a cold day
2) Being in bed when it's raining and hearing it on the window
3) Leaving for a trip
4) Warm weather
5) Long drives
6) A good book, that you can't put down
7) New shoes
8) The smell of grass when it has just been cut
9) A nice thick milkshake
10) Clean sheets
11) Clothes dried on a line
12) A good workout at the gym
13) The smell of a clean baby
14) A good joke, where you laugh til you cry
15) I will not go on
16) Lying in bed on a Saturday with hubby doing absolutely nothing.
17) A good game of scrabble in bed
18) Shopping for new workout clothes LOL

I will pause here and see what you ladies have to say

some of my fav things
are not having to work and just resting :)
Coconut froz fruit bars and sorbet, have such a weakness for that!!
have to think of more later

Hot chocolate or soup on a cold day
A good book
A good sale/shopping
Girls night out
Hanging w/ my mom and aunts
Vacation
Dinning out
Frozen drinks
Experiencing/enjoying my caribbean culture
Being in bed on a rainny day (especially with my husband )
Laying my head on my husband's chest
Dancing with my husband (he's really good)

1. when my 9 year old doesn't think he's too cool
to snuggle up near his mom

2. the smell of red sauce simmering on a Sunday
afternoon

3. thunderstorms

4. laying in bed with my husband and realizing
we don't have to get up just yet

5. sheets that smeel like downy fabric softener

6 the endorphin high after a great workout

7. newborn babies

8. snow before anyone has walked or driven in
it

Sunday morning in bed with DH and the sunday paper!
Thunderstorms
Rainy sunday mornings (when I have nothing to do)
a brand new pair of Soft comforable pajammas and no where to go on a friday night.
Christmas time when it gets dark early and everyone has there lights on!
Saturday night at home alone with DH and a good scary movie!!!
When my puppies curl up on the couch and its all four of us and no one else!!!

WHEN THE PHONE DOESNT RING DURING ANYONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS!! (this one never happens!)

A great cd

A lovely bunch of flowers

A pants that fit loose in the waist

Helping a friend

The feeling of fulfilment I get after volunteering

No ringing phone...

Me reading my novel to my hubby as he drives

Him reading the paper to me as I drive

A moving service at church

Just being in each other's company in silence.

Natasha, I love the lying on hubby's chest too

(I'm humming the song from Sound of Music while I type this .. raindrops on roses, and bright colored mittens -- or whatever they are -- )

These are a few of my favorite things....

1. Not having to get out of bed on a dark, rainy day (unlike today )
2. Snuggling w/my hubby
3. Hubby pulling me close as he's sleeping and cuddling w/me
4. Playing with my niece and nephew (I love when they get on the phone with me and say 'Aunt Dabbie' -- not Debbie!!!)
5. The smell of a baby
6. Having a free weekend when I can do absolutely nothing (yeah, like that EVER happens!)
7. Untouched snow
8. Thunderstorms -- especially when it's the middle of the day and it gets all dark -- love staying under the covers, reading or watching a movie!
9. Meeting my friends for the once-every-blue-moon dinner (gets harder & harder w/everyone's busy schedules )
10. When my hubby takes my hand as he's driving and kisses it!!

There are plenty more but I'm brain dead at the moment and can't think!

Oh Michelle, I totally agree -- freshly washed clothes w/Mountain Fresh Downey is the BEST smell!!!!

Hey Shamma, you beat me to it today -- I actually had a Topic of the Day!!!! I'll try and remember it for tomorrow!!!! LOL

Gotta join the Mountain fresh Downey bandwagon... love it too!

what happened to my post

Woman you are too funny, now you have me singing that song...I love the sound of music. I think I am going to go home today and I am going to snuggle with my honey.

For you, Debbie... Why? Just 'cause you now have ME singing this to myself too!

Raindrops on roses,
And whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles,
And warm woollen mittens,
Brown paper packages,
Tied up with strings,
These are a few of my favorite things . . .

Cream colored ponies,
An' crisp apple strudels,
Doorbells an' sleigh bells,
An' schnitzel with noodles,
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings,
These are a few of my favorite things . . .

Girls in white dresses,
With blue satin sashes,
Snow flakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,
Silver white winters,
That melt into springs,
These are a few of my favorite things . . .

When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feelin' sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad . . .

Roses....hmmm kittens...
Kettles.......mittens....
La dee da, la dee da,
La dee da, da,
These are a few of my favorite things . . .

When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feelin' sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And little by little my heavy heart sings . . .

And then I don't feel so bad . . .

Me too,



Too bad my singing sounds more like cats mating than Julie Andrews

JENN, YOU HAVE ME PEEING OVER HERE!!!!!!
(I just let out this great big cackle and my boss is wondering WTF is wrong w/her!!!)

Michelle, you're KILLING ME ALSO!!!!!

OK, EVERYBODY, ON THE COUNT OF THREE, SING ALONG......

ONE
TWO
THREE

RAINDROPS ON ROSES...

Wait, can I tell you how hysterical I really am over here!!! I thought it was bright colored mittens and it was rose something or other mittens!!!!

HEY, Karioke (sp?) anybody????

Michelle, I think we could do a 'Cat Mating' duet!!!

STOP IT, I REALLY AM GOING TO PEE IN MY PANTS!!!!!

You ladies are just too much I am crying my eyes out, the guy that sits in front of me is used to my bad singing, so he did not even move when I started singing it

I have never been Karioking, unless you count what I do in the office every day along with the radio

I love to sing, on and off key

My friend used to call me the 'singing secretary' because I'm always singing away to the radio.

Real quick funny story before I leave: about 2 years ago (right before we got engaged and around my b'day), we went out to a bar with our friends and his cousin and his date. Turns out it was karioke night. Well, I grab the big looseleaf filled w/songs and start leafing through figuring out what I want to sing. JOE WAS MORTIFIED and took the book away from me and said I was being rude because I wasn't paying attention to everyone!!! He never saw me like that before and when I got up and started singing away with his cousin (who's in Stuttering John's band), he was totally flabbergasted!!!! My best friend told him 'oh that's Deb, always has been and always will' -- he thought I was drunk -- I wasn't even half-way there yet. I was drunk when I got up and started singing 'From This Moment' to him -- HELLO, I couldn't hit those notes if you paid me!!!! But the best part was my friend asked me if I was practicing in the bathroom before I sang -- YES I WAS -- what a nerd!!! People would be asking me to join them and then I would get up and sing w/people who were having trouble, grab the mike from them and take over!! I was famous that night, I tell ya!!! It was hysterical and poor Joe was floored by me that night!!!!!

Ok -- being that we're in the Sound of Music theme -- I'm now singing

So Long Farewell
Aveidsein (no clue how to spell that)
Good Night.........

lol
you are all too funny
people are going to wonder who walk by why I am smiling/laughing at the screen too!!


DEB
by the way
saw you and Joe finally today, you guys look cute!

lol
I know have both fav things
schnitzel w/ noodles... that is what I am up to in my head along w/

I would like to teach the world to sing.... in perfect harmony
coca cola song in my head!!! LOL