Day 10: Your
guilty pleasure (or pleasures)
I can just see this post getting
lots of views…right alongside the ‘what are your top five pet peeves’. Well, don’t get too excited there, I’m not
about to give away all my secrets. But, here are a few of my favorite things:
I have a huge sweet tooth. I find it entirely impossible keeping sweets
out of the house…seeming as I’m the one to shop for groceries. It’s not to say that everything in my house
is junk food, but I must admit, I always have at least one of my favorite
things in the pantry. My favorite cookies
or chocolate or strawberry liquorish—just to reward myself after a long day
filled with things I often don’t enjoy doing.
The good news is whatever I get tends to last a while because I do have
some means of restraint in how many I’ll allow myself to have. This seems to lead right into my second
guilty pleasure.
Coffee. Not house coffee. Lattes.
Starbucks will suffice, but I really enjoy a good ‘mom and pop’ coffee
store—you know, the ones with every flavor imaginable, soft quiet couches, a
book case full of games and books, a warm atmosphere that beckons you to stay
just a moment longer and that delicious taste of you new concoction of your
favorite flavors with the smell of quality fresh espresso all put into a large
round white mug with the foam shaped as a leaf.
And what’s more but to then have one of my favorite books to get lost
in? Which leads to my third guilty
pleasure.
Books. I have this sort of admiring love for the
smell of an old book found in some lonely corner of a library. And the older the book, the more character
and adventure it has to offer. I’ll take
an old ratty book over the newest ipad or nook any day. Reading has always been my escape in
life. Ever since I could piece together
words with meaning, I’ve devoured books and if I couldn’t read them, I begged
my dad to stay just one more story and read to me until I fell asleep—though I
rarely ever did. And as I think back, I
often favored books with talking animals…which leads me to my last guilty
pleasure.
Animals. You might be wondering how animals pose as a
guilty pleasure. Well…the problem is, I
can’t ever seem to have enough of them.
One bird turns into, “Oh, but he’ll get lonely! He needs a friend!” Which will turn into, “But maybe they’d like
to have some other entertainment like a guinea pig!” And before I know it my one bird turns into
three birds and two guinea pigs. Yes,
yes, I know…it’s bad. The truth is I
just can’t help myself. I always kind of
had this secret goal of mine to own as many different animals as I could in a
life time. Not all at once of
course. But then again, who knows?
Well, so there you have it. This was actually unusually hard to
write. Thanks to my husband though for
helping me with this one. I think I’d still
be sitting here scratching my head if it weren’t for him. I was stuck on the fact that a guilty
pleasure was something that pleased you in secret. I guess I just like to share the things that
make me happy with others so I don’t lead a life of secretive pleasures. Guess I just can’t keep my mouth shut. I bring you good news of great joy! LoL
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