First of all, I would like to thank Chris Brogan for the idea for this blog. You can see what he's up to at http://chrisbrogan.com
Anyway, I am going to write about guilty pleasures. Why? Because, maybe we share some, maybe we don't, maybe you need some new ones, or maybe you just might want to share yours as well. Either way, this is my list! I hope you enjoy and again, feel free to share your list if you wanna!
1) This one goes to Red Bull! I love the stuff and I'd drink them one after the other, if only that was a good idea. I'm going on a Red Bull starvation of about...3, maybe 4 days without. I'm doing very well and haven't even thought about it once until just now! Hmmm...now, I want!
2) This has to go to movies! I love movies. I have several movie channels through my cable service. I have Netflix through the Wii. I have also realized I can't rent movies anymore. I've paid Redbox so much money for movies I haven't returned that I should probably own my own box by now. I wish they'd just hand it over! But, I'm a huge fan! I get annoyed when I can't think of a movie to watch and I end up having to put the TV on LMN. I've seen most of those numerous times. It's ridiculous! That doesn't even count my DVD collection or the movies I've bought from iTunes! Ridiculous!
3) Cheeseburgers! Oh, how I LOVE cheeseburgers! If I could, I'd eat one for every meal. But, the reality is, they're just not healthy. So, I don't eat them near as often as I'd like to. I try to keep it to once a week or less when I can help it. I don't want to BE a cow! So, I really have to restrict myself!
4) French fries! French fries could probably, fairly be my number 1! I am such a fan! I like steak fries, shoestrings, you name it! I like them salty and with ketchup or ranch dressing. But, my all time favorite has to be to dip them in a chocolate shake or something like that. YUMMY! But, the reason this one can't be number one is, because like the cheeseburgers, I have to ration myself. I'll be honest though. I do eat fries more than I allow myself to eat a cheeseburger. I know it's not good. But, fries seem to be a side dish for so many dishes. Ha ha! Ok, seriously, I'm a fiend for potatoes in general. Not healthy, I know. But, what can I do?
5) This one goes to driving. I love to go for drives with no real destination in mind. Lately, however, it seems that's just a stupid move, considering gas prices. I still sneak out and burn off some gallons every now and then. But, for the most part, I'm annoyed that gas companies report record profits and still I have to pay out the wazoo for the stuff. It seems to me that if they are reporting record profits, then they could surely lower the cost at the pump. It's just my logic though.
6) Gotta give this one to music! I listen to many different kinds of music. I like rock, reggae, punk, alternative, country, blues, jazz, classical, religious and just about anything in between. I'm very open minded when it comes to music. I believe every one of us has a purpose on this earth. If I listen to a song that speaks to me in some way, I relate it to a good sermon in church. I think we get messages in many different ways. If we like a song, there is a reason. So, I just let my ears hear what they hear and if I like it, then I just do and I don't apologize to anyone for any of it. I can listen to something hardcore and turn around and listen to a tear jerker. I don't limit myself to one specific genre. There's so much good stuff out there! And, for those of you who have ever suffered hearing the song over and over again, because I refuse to let it go, thank you for your patience! That's one of my signature moves right there! Repeating the song, or burning it multiple times on the same cd. It's just how I roll. Some of you know all too well. Again, thank you!
7) Candles take the cake here. I love candles, but I'm picky. I like candles that are packed with fragrance from beginning to end. I like the smell as they burn and I also like when a room smells like the candle does when it's "cold." So, I will frequently find a fragrance I like and buy multiples of it so I can have the room smelling like that candle rather it's burning or not. For example, when you go into a craft store - such as where you buy finished goods - they usually smell like cinnamon. It doesn't matter if it's Christmas time or not. I love that smell. I love how you can buy a quilt or something cloth from the store and it smells of cinnamon when you get it home. I had a throw that was given to me as a gift once. I didn't wash that throw for the longest time because it smelled like cinnamon for quite a while. I loved it! Anyway, candles are a guilty pleasure. I love to have things that smell good!
8) Surfing the internet is another of my guilty pleasures. It's one of those things where you sit down with the intention of looking for one specific thing and I look at 80 billion other things in the process. I love how I can look up anything I want and I can move to anything else, with finishing up on one something entirely different. I love the convenience! I like that there is no late fees. I think it's cool that I have yet to research anything I couldn't find something about. I try to stump my browser sometimes, and every time, it comes back with results and it even boasts about how many point seconds it found the results in. Very fun to me! So, I have to limit myself or I could easily burn up all my days just surfing and learning.
9) Watching people is probably another guilty pleasure. I am very psychologically minded. I am fascinated by the things people do. I like to sit and watch them exist in their world. Not in a stalker type of way. I just sit on patios and watch people as they pass. I try to figure out what they do for a living. I wonder if they have kids. I wonder if I would have anything in common with them. Then, when they do something peculiar, I wonder what inspired them to do it. One fun "experiment" for me was sitting in a hotel lobby where they had glass tiles on the floor. These were like windows and there was a fountain below the glass floor with a little stream/creek running under it. This was really fun to see how various people reacted to this floor. I used to dream of having a house with a floor like this one. I have since decided against it. It turns out, even though it's not a big drop to the ground below, people don't like walking across this floor. People would go out of their way to walk on solid flooring, rather than jaunting across the glass floor. Some people would accidentally happen onto the glass floor while talking to a companion. Almost every time, they would gasp in fear and jump from the, obviously, stable transparent floor to the regular marble beside the glass. I found this very entertaining. And, oddly enough, I was surprised that I, myself, didn't like walking on the glass any more than the others. But, it was very entertaining just the same.
10) I saved this one for last because I could talk about this forever. But, I'll spare you and try to limit my examples. But, I LOVE pretty things. I like things that make me feel pretty. I like things that make my home look pretty. I just like pretty! Bows, lace, frills, embroider, sparkly, shiny, colorful, black and white. It doesn't matter! I find beauty in so many things. Sometimes it's a trinket. Sometimes, it's a photograph. It may be a vase. I have collected images from magazines because they were pretty. I also find beauty in human beings. Sometimes, unfortunately, it's superficial. But, it's often a thing of people become more beautiful to me the better I get to know them. So, I guess it's fair to say I like beautiful people. This is not limited to a gender or an age group. This is humanity! I have looked at a total stranger and thought, "He's so beautiful!" and I've looked at women and thought, "I so wish I was her! She's so pretty!" I love flowers. I love touching sentiments. I have cried over beauty. I can watch a dance and I can get teary over how beautiful the dance was. I can look at a look 2 people share and see how beautiful it is. I can watch a mother and her child and I see the beauty. I just love beautiful things and there's so many in this world. I love this life and I love the beauty that it's filled with. I can find splendor in a forest - completely untouched by mankind. I can find beauty in the art in the park in a metropolitan area. There is no limit and trust! I am always looking! Butterflies, birds, cars, trees, paintings, pictures, lights, bubbles, eyes, facial features, sculptures, greeting cards, facial expressions, human movement, water, sand, nature, no matter where I go, I see beauty. So, I put this one last because, truly, this one has to be last because it could ramble forever!
Again, I'd like to thank Chris Brogan for this idea for a blog. Feel free to visit him at http://chrisbrogan.com
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