Dancing Down the Moon

Ten Things I Love, Second Edition

It's been a long, arduous day at work and I'm about to fall over, a frazzled ball of stress wishing to the gods I could still have caffeine. 

As such, I don't feel like writing anything serious, so rather than frazz myself further, let's talk about some things that make me smile.

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1 ~ The container of fresh pineapple, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries I have waiting in my refrigerator at home.

2 ~ Rachel Weisz.  Those eyes!  Those lips!  Brad can have Angelina as far as I'm concerned. 

3 ~ Minced ginger in a jar, which is the greatest culinary invention since minced garlic in a jar.

4 ~ PostSecret.

5 ~ Cut/Copy/Paste.  One of those little things most people don't take the time to appreciate, but being able to move text and images all over the place with a couple of keystrokes is a small miracle that gets me every time.

6 ~ Potato gnocchi with mushrooms and marinara.  (Next cooking adventure: making them from scratch.)

7 ~ Witches' Brew Eye of Newt incense.  Most people prefer the Original scent, but I'm allergic to it.  The Eye of Newt is made of the unlikely-sounding combination of sandalwood, sage, and peppermint.

8 ~ The Firefly episode "Out of Gas."  Easily one of the best hours of television ever made.  Screw the Sopranos.

9 ~ Waking up on a Sunday morning to pouring rain and distant thunder, with the blankets all warm and snuggly and Cosmo snoring at the small of my back.

10 ~ Maroon 5's new CD, It Won't Be Soon Before Long.

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BONUS #11:  This:

(from icanhascheezburger)

Ten Things I Love - Pagan Edition

Inspired partially by Hecate - here's a list of ten things I love about practicing my religion, from the big to the not-so.  I didn't include "I love Deity," because that's kind of a given...besides, "love" in the context of a list like this seems like much too small a word for how I actually feel.

That being said:

1 ~ I love that we have things like the Chocolate Ritual, the Fraggle Rock Ritual, and the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Casserole.  Self-parody is pretty much nonexistent in mainstream religion.

2 ~ I love the sweat-socks/marijuana/desert smell of burning white sage.

3 ~ Along the same lines, I love how most Witches' homes all have that underlying "50 Kinds of Incense" smell that permeates everything from our clothes to our curtains.

4 ~ I love the sensation of being gently but firmly pushed to the back of my own mind that occurs at the onset of Drawing Down the Moon.

5 ~ I love the fact that even though I don't speak their language, trees talk to me and I understand perfectly.

6 ~ I love that we don't have blasphemy.  Otherwise I'd be in sooooo much trouble.

7 ~ I love that when my friends and I talk, I can say things like, "Her energy was all crispy and had all these green tentacles like a hentai sex monster, and it felt like she was poking me in the third chakra," and they know exactly what I mean.

8 ~ I love that having a vagina doesn't render me inferior or less "in God's image" than someone with a penis, and that I can teach, lead, and affect the evolution of my religion regardless of biology, sexuality, or race.

9 ~ I love my athame. (The picture doesn't do it justice.)

10 ~ I love when I'm doing a Rune casting for someone who previously didn't really believe in silly things like divination, and they give me the wide-eyed "holy fuck!" look that means not only am I right, I'm scary. 

Ten Small Things I Love for No Big Reason

1 ~ I love when my turn signal syncs up with the beat of the song on my car stereo, just for a second.

2 ~ I love the way my insides tingle when I hold blue kyanite.

3 ~ I love orzo pasta.

4 ~ I love natural redheads.  For hours at a time, if I can.

5 ~ I love how every time I get a really weird song stuck in my head, I turn on the radio and it's playing.

6 ~ I love when Cosmo gets the Kitty Zooms and runs at breakneck speed from one end of my apartment to the other, then screeches to a halt and looks at me as if to say, "Quoi?" before returning to his butt-licking regimen as if nothing interesting had just happened.

7 ~ I love how on some people's skin, tattoos are raised just slightly as if they were drawn in Braille; but on others, they're smooth, just part of the skin itself.  (Mine are the Braille variety, just FYI.)

8 ~ I love my shoulders, especially the picture they create when teamed with the Epic Adventure that is my cleavage. 

9 ~ I love that I kick so much ass at Trivial Pursuit.

10 ~ I love the tiny white pencils they give you at IKEA.

Now, it's your turn--go forth to your own blog and make a list of Ten Small Things You Love for No Big Reason.