No particular order, of course, though I get decreasingly verbose because nursing cuts into the blogging time...
9. Fishies. I have far too much undersea decor in my house. The baby bedroom blanket set (with matching lamp and mobile) was an undersea theme. We have a tropical fish shower curtain in the bathroom. In the kitchen, I have four small collages that I made from hand painted cards I bought in Fiji. In the dining room, we have a charcoal/pencil picture of a diving helmet with sharks and a moray eel designed by Bullshark and drawn by an artist friend of ours. There's more elsewhere --two watercolors I painted myself, a print of dolphins we bought at an art show, undersea puzzles we completed and framed. Plus we have photo collages from our diving days. Yeah. So I didn't pull the "Butterflyfish" designation out of thin air.
8. Coloring with crayons. Having kids is awesome in this regard, because they give you a socially acceptable reason to be obsessed with Crayola crayons and old-school coloring books. I visit my nieces and color My Little Pony. Clownfish and I color dinosaurs and super heroes. I'm not picky. Crayons make me happy.
7. Television sci fi/ fantasy dramas. I loved anything Joss Whedon has ever touched (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible). The X-Files was must-see appointment television for most of its run -- and I eventually watched all of even the bad seasons and the movies. My current sci fi needs are fulfilled by Fringe. If you're not watching Fringe, you are missing out on some of the best acting, story arc and character development on television right now.
6. Hot showers. Probably terrible for my skin, but a hot shower can fix almost anything that ails me. Too tired to get going in the morning? Wound up so much I can't sleep? Aches, pains, feeling slightly flu-ish, asthma acting up, the baby covered my hair in spit-up again? The answer is always hot shower. I hate that we have a really small hot water heater in our house as it severely limits my ability to indulge in long hot showers. But then, its probably better for the environment that this is so.
5. Irish music. Not what my mom calls the "diddleee diddlee" music -- the instrumental jigs and reels. (Though I'll listen to some of that too if there is dancing and drinking involved.) No, I like the old folk songs and the newer rock songs. Those songs take me back to my childhood good times and my parents at their happiest, even when the songs are the saddest.
4. Popular fiction, usually designed for guys. Though I've read the entire Maeve Binchy catalog, most of my fiction purchases in airports etc. are of the Baldacci/Grisham/Clancy/Deaver persuasion and not the chick lit persuasion.
3. The internet. Facebook, Twitter, blogs, my online network of MILPs, news, humor, webcomics. Yeah. I love it. Maybe a little too much sometimes.
2. Italian food. Any and all, though I've only ever had the Italian-American iteration.
1. Dark chocolate. I love the mildly bittersweet and the darkest, richest most decadent.
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