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Feb. 18th, 2009

  • 11:35 PM
breathinghelium
-Ice cream coughs!
-Biting off the tip of an ice cream cone and sucking the ice cream through
-Google RSS feeds
-Rain or snow hitting a spotlight and turning into steam

Feb. 17th, 2009

  • 2:26 PM
breathinghelium
-White cheddar
-Small family traditions
-Happy couples holding hands on Valentine’s Day. Melts my cold, black heart
-People holding their partners’ elbows
-Scrabble
-How badass grandmothers are at it
-Grilled peanut butter, banana, and honey sandwiches
-Honey and vinegar
-Foods that remind you of home

Feb. 10th, 2009

  • 1:43 AM
breathinghelium
-Authors reading their work aloud
-Audiences laughing at all the funny parts, and going silent at the sad ones
-Reading about famous American authors of the 1970s
-A strange nostalgia for authors and characters you know well
-”A small good thing”
-Literature-inspired tattoos
-Commercials with multiracial couples
-Being able to actually hear snow falling
-Lemony hummus

Jan. 10th, 2009

  • 4:17 AM
breathinghelium
-Eating ice cream right out of the carton!
-Having two pints going at the same time!
-That point in a sleepless night where you have to choose if you are 1) going to sleep, 2) going to take sleeping pills, or 3) going to stay up all night-- even though you always choose wrong

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Oct. 14th, 2008

  • 12:14 AM
breathinghelium
-Shorthand
-How teachers loudly decry Wikipedia but it is actually our first stop when we need a quick answer
-Drinking milk out of the carton

Oct. 1st, 2008

  • 6:31 PM
breathinghelium
-Sisters of Notre Dame
-Complimenting the colour of a garment
-Ruby red and tangerine juice
-Green tortillas

Sep. 26th, 2008

  • 6:04 PM
breathinghelium
-Drinking a big glass of cold milk shortly after eating mints.
-Swirls of cool sour cream in your burrito.

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Aug. 3rd, 2008

  • 7:20 PM
breathinghelium
-Listening
-Remembering things people say
-Referring back to them
-Risotto with mushrooms and charred asparagus
-Figuring out an excellent flavour combination all on your own (even if they are common combinations)
-Allowing your actions to demonstrate your feelings

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Jul. 26th, 2008

  • 9:13 PM
breathinghelium
-When a basketball lodges between the rim and backboard
-Soaking your feet
-Sleeping in a tent in your backyard
-How normally kind people are overtaken by the incredible urge to murder a cricket when it is somewhere in the corner of their bedroom
-Refried beans

Jul. 23rd, 2008

  • 5:09 AM
breathinghelium
-Baking
-Fresh challah
-Bear Grylls

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Jul. 13th, 2008

  • 10:30 AM
breathinghelium
-Good typists
-Large, warm hands
-Vanilla ice cream with cinnamon
-"Pick up the Phone", The Notwist

Jul. 12th, 2008

  • 3:34 AM
breathinghelium
-When listening to a song on headphones makes you notice something you didn't hear before
-Obsessing over weak chins (they're everywhere!)
-Matzoh ball soup with fist-sized matzoh balls and salty broth

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Jul. 12th, 2008

  • 1:42 AM
breathinghelium
-Crawling into bed sore and utterly exhausted after a day of swimming
-Tuna sandwiches with just a pinch of sand and sea spray

Jul. 5th, 2008

  • 5:34 PM
breathinghelium
-Polishing an apple on your shirt
-Eating as much of an apple as possible
-Applesauce
-Salsa
-Taking a bite of an apple that rips off a big piece of the apple flesh around it, creating a sort of delicious apple flap

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Jul. 3rd, 2008

  • 4:29 PM
breathinghelium
-Cup o' Noodles
-Reviewing your search history on Google
-Watching a train of thought develop via searches
-The fact that I performed searches for "28 Days Later" naked hospital or related queries more than once, in different months

Jul. 3rd, 2008

  • 3:19 AM
breathinghelium
-When a dog smells at your calf as you pass her walking down the sidewalk
-The word "milk"
-How the "l" coats the roof of your mouth like heavy cream

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Jul. 2nd, 2008

  • 11:23 PM
breathinghelium
-Not owning a tea kettle and instead boiling water in a saucepan with a tight-fitting lid and swathing it in towels, keeping the water hot and your teacup full all through a long night and good book

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Jun. 18th, 2008

  • 5:12 AM
breathinghelium
-The word "bloke"
-The number 8 bus
-The way your hand feels all tingly and shake-y when you turn off the electric razor
-Being a sponge for accents
-Wraps smeared with a thick layer of avocado
-Baby carrots
-Provolone cheese

Jun. 17th, 2008

  • 12:45 AM
breathinghelium
-Eating avacados with a knife
-A ready laugh
-Finding a clean truckstop toilet when your bladder's so full that cleanliness is just the icing on the cake
-The icing on the cake
-Yellow cake with chocolate frosting

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Jun. 7th, 2008

  • 2:35 AM
breathinghelium
-Whole milk ricotta cheese
-Talking back to horror movies
-Predicting the order of deaths
-Eating sour candy during scary movies