Never Wait

Way to go, Islands. Your song is absolutely stuck in my head. It's a good thing you write good music or I would be livid with you.

It's 9:45pm on a Thursday night and I'm lying in bed...well, I guess technically it's Thanksgiving, which accounts for the fact that I'm tired and no one is in town. But I'm in the mood just just be alone and contemplative right now anyway, so that's just fine with me.
I'm perfectly happy lying in bed right now. I took all of my bedding off of my bed before I went home and washed them at my parents house while I was there. One of my favorite things growing up was when my mom would hang my sheets on our clothes line in our yard and then I would get to crawl into these cool, fresh sheets that smelled like outside. I helped her hang them on the line like I always used to do and in order to do it, I put on my dad's huge boots to go outside because my Chucks were tied up and I was too lazy to put them on all the way. Immediately, I was thrown back to being 6 years old and playing in the clothes that blew around on the line. We would play hide and seek in them and the breezes would push the sheets against my face. Then later that night, I would lie in those sheets and sleep the best sleep that I'm sure I will ever have.
It's all part of that idea of "simple pleasures," I suppose. There are so many of them though. In light of Thanksgiving, I think I will make a list of as many that I can think of. (I have no idea why this logic would follow. I guess I am thankful for them?)

1. Sheets hung on the line and then put immediate on my bed
2. Dictionaries
3. Minor Chords
4. Hoodies
5. Cold cheeks
6. Fat Squirrels
7. Ducks
8. Veins in a leaf
9. Street lights shining through trees on foggy nights
10. Finding old notes from Erin and Carolyn from 6th grade
11. Mittens
12. Dad's hugs
13. Friends that you don't see for 2 years but nothing has changed except the world around you
14. Lindy with Jon
15. Pens that write smoothly and don't smear
16. Post it notes
17. Driving backroads on warm nights with the windows down
18. Smelling like a campfire
19. Old Spice True Sport
20. Fresh apples
21. Buttercup flowers on the side of a road
22. Dragging your hand through the water out the back of a boat
23. Weighted keys
24. The red glow of Dark rooms
25. Dissonance -- In tastes, sounds and smells
26. Thinking hard
27. Cards with the Gillen Girls
28. Tracks in the snow
29. Bear Mound Park
30. Pealing sunburned skin
31. Mandolins, banjos and an upright bass
32. The sound of shoes on a wood floor

I guess I can add to this later. I'm going to go read my dictionary for a while.

Weird? Yeah.
Welcome to me.