Today is a good day to re-visit that list, presented here as it was:
- late night outdoor basketball
- snow storms
- skyscrapers
- a fine cup of coffee
- driving cross country
- catalog shopping
- liz phair songs
- cedar point
- ayn rand novels
- falling in love in the spring (or any time)
- freshly cut flowers displayed in a vase
- vinyl records
- achievement
- AUDI V8 quattro
- sioux city sarsasparilla
- all you can eat buffets
- Calvin and Hobbes comic strip books
- the smell of burning leaves at dusk on a crisp Autumn night
- seeing a live performance of a band you love
- taking late night walks down the middle of the street in the summer
- doubleheader baseball games that last way into the night
- ice skating on a neighborhood pond
- sipping hot tea on a cold, wet afternoon as you look out the window
- campfires
- boating in Lake Erie, Michigan, or any special lake in the Great Lakes region
- baseball lingo
- Kids In The Hall
- porchin'
- a sudden evening severe thunderstorm to conclude a hot summer day
- a nice car with a nice stereo
- the British Isles
- draining puss
- drinking cold well water from a garden hose
- relaxing with a friend and smoking a cigar
- warm summer days and cool summer nights
- that empty feeling
- femininity
- using a precise scientific measuring device such as a Brunton compass
- a cottage on the lake
- finding money you had forgotten about
- returning home
- home run derby
- riding your bike on deserted streets at night
- your favorite comforter
- chicken and broccoli
- parody and sarcasm
- cute as a button girls
- art, especially architecture, that gives you an esthetically overwhelming feeling and you say "that's so cool!"
- kisses and kissing
- tennis on cool evenings under the lights, the U.S. Open would be an example.
- wood burning stoves
- chocolate
- the sounds a furnace makes between running
- chopping wood
- driving at night with your high beams on when it snows
- bundling up against the cold
- wool pants
- trivia
- the crackling sound of lightning when listening to A.M. radio
- A.M. talk radio
- ice
- the first snow of the year
- hot spiced cider
- potato soup
- table tennis
- making lists
- driving on summer nights with the windows down
- going to the library
- swimming in the rain (especially at night)
- PowerMac
- sitting at a large frosty window of a coffee house with a big bowl of hot cocoa as jumbo flakes of snow fall outside
- natural materials
- reading a quality morning newspaper before starting the day
- watching women's tennis
- daylight savings time
