Faves:
1. Pumpkin Spice Lattes
2. Harmonica and/or piano in rock and/or folk music
3. When people ask me about my car and I get to tell them how cool it is
4. That Barack Obama takes the time to visit his Grandma
5. Elements Chicago bought 24 of my journals!
6. http://www.slickdeals.net
7. Bobby Dazzler’s pumpkins
8. My pumpkin
9. Headless Horseman Dog Costume
10. When silkscreening works (especially after you promised someone that you’d silkscreen them some stuff)
Unfaves:
1. That California voters can change the state constitution by signatures and popular [uneducated] vote (see #’s 3, 6, 9, and 10).
2. That UPS will deliver a mis-addressed package to your last known address without contacting you or the sender, nevermind that you haven’t received mail there for 4 years.
3. Yes on Prop 8 people
4. People who listen to public radio but don’t contribute during the pledge drives.
5. Spam comments on my blog
6. Yes on Prop 8 people
7. Driving
8. Shorter days (only 53 more until they get longer again!)
9. Yes on Prop 8 people
10. Yes on Prop 8 people
At the risk of coming off as negative, I’ve decided to share some of my unfavorites to go along with my favorites. Hopefully they will be more comical than anything.
Unfaves:
1. People who must have thought the signs say “Slow traffic keep left.” Oh wait, maybe they’re British. My mistake. Whatever. Move over!
2. Not having as much time to spend with my dog as he deserves
3. Inexperienced cheesecake politicians (thank you, Guphy, for coining this term) being selected out of nowhere for VP
4. Shorter and shorter days
5. Pebbles stuck in my car’s wheel
6. Not having enough money to retire tomorrow
7. Marginal ratings for an amazing presidential candidate who deserves the highest ratings ever. C’mon, people!
8. Being stuck indoors on beautiful days
9. Cyclists who disobey traffic laws (riding on the sidewalk is the worst, followed by riding on the wrong side of the road)
10. Internet Explorer and people who use Internet Explorer
Faves:
1. Gleanings part 2
2. 3 day weekends
3. Sun-drying figs and tomatoes
4. The petting zoo at the State Fair
5. Obama stickers
6. Google Apps
7. Winning 2nd place at the State Fair
8. The Mother Hips (as those who know me know, this is an all-time fave, so I thought I had to put it in here at some point)
9. seeing Burning Man cars going down the freeway
10. “…somethin’ fierce”
1. The Kite Runner
2. The Good Earth
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns
4. My House of Memories
5. Born on a Blue Day
6. Freakonomics
7. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
8. Jarhead
9. A Long Way Gone
10. What is the What
11. The Da Vinci Code
1. Propositions’ role in the budget crisis
2. IKEA’s values
3. Michael Pollan enlightening me to the triviality of the Farm Bill successes I celebrated earlier
4. Loretta Lynn’s The Gospel Spirit
5. Tomato gleaning and gleaned tomatoes
6. Dead tree sentiments
7. Converting shapefiles into KMLs and making it work in Google Maps API
8. Book Mooch
9. Delicious Bookmarks
10. Good news for gorillas!
1. A Farm Bill with an extra $1 million in nutrition programs (and of course the fact that Congress will override Bush on anything).
2. The listing of the polar bear (except for this part. I say use the ESA to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions!)
3. Politics like these in California.
4. Politicians telling it like it is.
5. Browsershots
1. Patty Griffin’s Impossible Dreams
2. Yolo County SPCA Thrift Store
3. this article in California Magazine
4. US Postal Service
5. Free Greenies
6. Adobe Illustrator
7. Alpha Stamps
8. Community Supported Agriculture
9. Patagonia Shoes
10. Free watermelon pens