...singing "Ain't this life so sweet?"

{C'est Les Choses Favorites de RéBienAimée, deuxieme partie!}

What? Did someone say Kirsten's Favorite Things List??? Start screeching and jumping and look under your chairs for free Egyptian Cotton sheets and MAC brushes and Rachael Ray crap! Except Oprah don't got SH*T on moi!

Anyway, here's the list as of right now. It is subject to change as things are subject to piss me off out of the blue and dismantle themselves from The List.

1. Using real mail, with stamps and everything
2. When blog readers call me "Kir" even if I haven't met them in person 
3. When big black dogs sniff the ground on a snowy day, and look back up at you and there's snow all over their faces. It has the same "funny factor" as someone with pudding smeared down their chin going "Is there something on my face?" mixed with the cuteness of Labs' need to be ever-and-always retrieving something because they're genetically engineered to want to do that, but not knowing what they're trying to find.
4. Afrin (this is like La Lohan talking about a few lines of really good blow being HER favorite thing. I should just quit the habit, not embrace it, but what's the regirlfriend blog without a little gratuitous honesty?)
5. A new celebrity gossip magazine - either about some character flaw Saint Earth Mother Jolie might have, or Heidi Montag's addiction to plastic surgery.
6. Running the blowdryer for 5 seconds under my quilt before getting in bed
7. When Meems comes back for the weekends...and the family takes up a whole row in church, and we be irreverent and loud the entire time, but we're all there and worshiping something together.
8. Fruit bites, those ones you can get at Costco. MMM.
9. CCI Dogs. VERY little in this world is as heartwarming as these creatures.
10. The Visual Voicemail app on my Android phone.
11. In fact, the entire Android OS (G1 = meh, except did I ever mention how much I hate the word "meh?" Sorry, but I didn't know how else to spell my near-apathy toward the G1. I don't like Apple, but wow is the iPhone sex-in-a-handset. Sorry G1. I like you in a you're-cute-in-an-Original-Nintendo-Controller-retro kind of way, not taking yourself too seriously or trying to be flashy in any way. My Zune is cute in this way too.) Why am I always trying to be the CNET of the bitchosphere? I have one genre, and it's not tech. Sorry. Oh, and I know I already talked about Android anyway, OkI'mShuttingUpNowSorry.
12. Surprised kitty (You have to click it...it's 15 seconds and I mean it)
13. Athleta catalogs, even though I will never have a need for any of the stuff in there because techically, I don't hike up onto a rocky crag in a khaki cargo-style miniskirt and sassy logging boots with my yoga mat and Hindu-y shirt. But I dog-ear those mags to their demises, with the best of yogic intentions.
14. Kirkland ice cream in root beer. Again, this is another Costco product. The Kirkland vanilla is unbeatable. Don't ask me why.
15. Just booking the damn flight already.
16. And good friends that get you go to Brazil with them already, Geez!
17. Fleur de lis textured wallpaper
18. When ReBF's friends still take care of me in their little ways, because they know he wants them to.
19. When my aunt Jennifer comes to family dinner
20. Calls from ReBF's nieces and sisters
21. My Zune passport (changed my life. For real).
22. That picture of ReBF's casket where you can see my dried tears (and a little smudged lip gloss) dripping down the side. They buried the casket with my tears and kisses still on it.
23. Romping through snowy Utah streets undaunted in my trusty Warthog.
24. Playing with my aunt's D300
25. Signs from ReBF that say hello (obviously, this transcends anything on this list and probably doesn't even belong...but a Favorite Thing is a Favorite Thing).
26. Jeans
27. Spending 40 minutes looking for a greeting card at Target, because I can.
28. Eyelash extensions (Helped when makeup efforts were futile due to of all the crying upon crying)
29. Old school hatboxes to keep underwear and jammie pants in
30. Registering my car before it expires
31. Jedidiah Clothing Co.
32. French music
33. Wearing ReBFs old beanies and shirts
34. Having a AAA membership
35. MadGab and Cranium
36. Playing TV-God with shows on DVD. You're not over till I say you're over, and you're going to play the next episode and you're going to LIKE it. Except that's not how God says anything to you. So really I just play TV-AbusivePartner.
37. Hands down, the most unconventionally pretty song I've ever heard in my life, Animals Of The World by the Great Lake Swimmers. It has a haunting, content helplessness to it. We are moths around a porch light, We're covered in jars, Or pinned to the wall. Dried out and displayed, tired out and dismayed.
38. Frozen custard
39. When an old memory resurfaces, and you can write it down so it never leaves you again.
40. My quilt club
41. The Urban Outfitters gift section
42. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory caramel apples
43. New razor heads
44. The first time you know what you're hungry for in your career. It's the only hunger pain that ever satisfied me.
45. When kids can't say "except..." so they say "but sepp..."


If making your own list is not something you find healing in the grips of bitterness, you must be made of stone. Or just prehistoric petrified feces. Thank you all for sharing the glory list with me, and now it's your turn. Amen.