Things That Make My Heart Go Squish

#155

2010-09-01T04:07:00.001-07:00

Lying in bed in the dark and listening to someone move about in their early morning routine.

#154

2010-08-18T17:05:00.001-07:00

Happening to see 7 shooting stars from your roof unexpectedly at 3am.

#153

2010-08-12T16:26:00.001-07:00

I am so far behind on keeping up with this blog, but I just realized today that nothing is dated, so I COULD technically get away with it except that I'm noting this right now. But oh well. It's not for lack of happiness but because of EXCESS happiness as of late that I've not been posting. So really, there should be oodles and oodles of postables.

But for now:

#153: Having a boy leave you flowers on your stoop.

#152

2010-06-08T04:02:00.000-07:00

Being behind on your Things That Make My Heart Go Squish posts, but having enough joy in your life that you can think of 11 of them in one sitting with ease.

#151

2010-06-07T04:02:00.000-07:00

Catching the bee that everyone else is afraid of and putting it safely outside.

#150

2010-06-06T04:01:00.000-07:00

When someone unexpectedly brings you flowers.

#149

2010-06-05T04:00:00.000-07:00

The art of talking someone down on price at a garage sale, and succeeding.

#148

2010-06-04T03:59:00.000-07:00

Sex dreams about inappropriate people.

#147

2010-06-03T03:58:00.000-07:00

The delicious smell of wet earth.

#146

2010-06-02T03:57:00.000-07:00

Friday morning coffee & a bagel (blueberry w/margarine & peanut butter).

#145

2010-06-01T03:56:00.000-07:00

Wiggling a loose tooth.

#144

2010-05-31T03:54:00.000-07:00

Peeling your thighs off of shitty, sticky, plastic lawn chairs in the summertime.

#143

2010-05-30T03:51:00.000-07:00

When you're on opposite sides of the country and yet STILL have a moment where your wavelengths collide at the exact same moment of missing.

#142

2010-05-29T03:50:00.000-07:00

When people say the exact right thing out of the blue but exactly when you need to hear it.

#141

2010-05-28T03:50:00.000-07:00

When you send someone a funny email and you can hear them laughing at it from across the office.

#140

2010-05-27T04:00:00.001-07:00

Sitting out on the edge of my roof late at night, legs dangling over the side, smoking and watching the city.

#139

2010-05-26T03:59:00.000-07:00

Returning home from work to find that the plants in your garden have doubled in size since the previous day.

#138

2010-05-25T03:57:00.000-07:00

When people look UNCANNILY like their dogs.

#137

2010-05-24T03:56:00.000-07:00

When someone's humming/whistling/singing some weird obscure song to themselves out in public and you actually recognize it as a song you super-love.

#136

2010-05-23T03:52:00.000-07:00

Sleeping topless beneath a breezy window on a hot summer's night.

#135

2010-05-22T03:50:00.000-07:00

When a boy makes you a mix, and there's love songs on it, and they kind of make your stomach flip-flop 'cause you're not sure if they're intended to be a message to you. (And even if they're totally totally not, the flip-flopping stomach is the best part anyways.)

#134

2010-05-21T03:49:00.000-07:00

When you hope and hope and hope one of your magazine subscriptions will show up in the mail when you get home, and it actually does.

#133

2010-05-20T04:13:00.000-07:00

Watching the Cleveland Marathon and giggling at the vastly different variety of ways that people run.

#132

2010-05-19T04:06:00.001-07:00

When the beat of the music your listening to matches up perfectly with someone jogging or the flapping wings of geese or the back and forth of your windshield wipers.

#131

2010-05-18T04:07:00.000-07:00

Gardening.

#130

2010-05-17T04:08:00.000-07:00

Redesigning your blog or website and then looking at it over and over just because it makes your eyes go squish.

#129

2010-05-16T04:10:00.000-07:00

Eating or smelling something that immediately reminds you of being little.

#128

2010-05-15T04:11:00.000-07:00

That song that gets stuck in your head all day for no apparent reason.

#127

2010-05-14T04:12:00.000-07:00

Dancing around the kitchen with your cats.

#126

2010-05-13T04:07:00.000-07:00

Being immature with my siblings.

#125

2010-05-12T04:02:00.000-07:00

Earthworms.

#124

2010-05-11T04:02:00.000-07:00

The sexy deliciousness of avocados.

#123

2010-05-10T04:01:00.000-07:00

Beautiful sunrises that make the drive to work remarkable instead of painful.

#122

2010-05-09T04:01:00.000-07:00

That favorite item of deliciously overworn, super snuggly clothing.

#121

2010-05-08T05:54:00.000-07:00

Friends who are touchy-feely.

#120

2010-05-07T05:51:00.000-07:00

People who are really good storytellers.

#119

2010-05-06T03:36:00.001-07:00

Falling asleep to thunderstorms.

#118

2010-05-05T03:36:00.000-07:00

Mental telepathy moments with friends.

#117

2010-05-04T10:35:00.001-07:00

The amazingness of airplanes.

#116

2010-05-03T04:36:00.000-07:00

The weird amazingness of nature.

#115

2010-05-02T04:36:00.000-07:00

The galaxy of stars on my bedroom ceiling.

#114

2010-05-01T13:00:00.001-07:00

Sitting out on my roof late at night with the city thrumming quietly all around me.

#113

2010-04-30T12:59:00.000-07:00

The look from across the room.

#112

2010-04-29T12:57:00.000-07:00

Happening to catch sight of unkempt, half-sleepy neighbors first thing in the morning before they've had a chance to tidy themselves up for the day.

#111

2010-04-28T12:55:00.001-07:00

Watching birds on windy days playing and enjoying the air beneath their wings.

#110

2010-04-27T12:54:00.001-07:00

That single poof of weird cloud in an otherwise bright blue sky.

#109

2010-04-26T11:42:00.001-07:00

Strange moustaches.

#108

2010-04-25T11:41:00.000-07:00

Michfest.

#107

2010-04-24T14:05:00.000-07:00

Spending time outside in the rain and not worrying about getting soaking wet.

#106

2010-04-23T14:04:00.000-07:00

Watching my cats meticulously clean their faces.

#105

2010-04-22T07:47:00.000-07:00

The little things that people say that end up making your day without them even realizing it.

#104

2010-04-21T03:26:00.001-07:00

Changing nouns & proper nouns into verbs. I.e. I MacGyvered the SHIT outta my car yesterday.

#103

2010-04-20T04:02:00.000-07:00

Laughing so hard that you cry/squirt something out your nose/pee your pants just a little.

#102

2010-04-19T04:03:00.000-07:00

Rollerskating.

#101

2010-04-18T07:40:00.000-07:00

The longevity of my love for Tom Waits. (I remember playing "Murder in the Red Barn" for my freshman or sophomore high school poetry class as an example of a ballad.)

#100

2010-04-17T07:39:00.000-07:00

Seeing pictures of people you know when they were little.

#99

2010-04-16T06:25:00.000-07:00

The beautiful spirit of Muhammad Ali.

#98

2010-04-15T04:20:00.000-07:00

Dr. Seuss's One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

#97

2010-04-14T03:42:00.001-07:00

Driving with the windows down on a really nice day.

#96

2010-04-13T00:35:00.000-07:00

That first kiss.

#95

2010-04-12T04:23:00.001-07:00

Epiphanies.

#94

2010-04-11T04:23:00.000-07:00

Pickles.

#93

2010-04-10T04:22:00.000-07:00

Finding things you wrote a long time ago and reading them with new eyes.

#92

2010-04-09T08:18:00.001-07:00

People who are really good whistlers.

#91

2010-04-08T04:23:00.001-07:00

That the hollow below the base of your thumb is called your "snuff box."

#90

2010-04-07T03:40:00.001-07:00

The wind up your skirt.

#89

2010-04-06T13:02:00.001-07:00

The warm summer disharmony of ice cream trucks jingling their way down the street.

#88

2010-04-05T18:17:00.000-07:00

Squeegeeing really filthy car windows back to spotless.

#87

2010-04-04T04:09:00.000-07:00

Inside jokes.

(Smp smp!)

("Sands a Million.")

#86

2010-04-03T04:08:00.000-07:00

Hearing someone you only just met use your name as though they know you intimately.

#85

2010-04-02T04:06:00.000-07:00

When a person's imitations of various different people all sound exactly the same.

#84

2010-04-01T04:06:00.000-07:00

When you put your boots on the heater to dry out and everything starts to suddenly smell like warm feet.

#83

2010-03-31T04:23:00.000-07:00

Visiting New York City.

#82

2010-03-30T04:05:00.001-07:00

Meeting your friends' parents.

#81

2010-03-29T03:43:00.001-07:00

Spencer Tunick photos.

(I'm in this one!)

#80

2010-03-28T03:41:00.000-07:00

The sound of geese honking as they fly through the air in the early hours of the morning.

#79

2010-03-27T12:45:00.000-07:00

When people you don't know (especially people younger than you) address you with terms of endearment like hon or sweetie or darling.

#78

2010-03-26T10:06:00.000-07:00

Adults who get milk- or ice-cream-moustaches.

#77

2010-03-25T04:46:00.001-07:00

Getting unexpected packages in the mail.

#76

2010-03-24T05:53:00.000-07:00

Finally finding out the actual lyrics to a song that you've been mis-singing for a long time.

#75

2010-03-23T05:52:00.000-07:00

Random things that remind you very vividly of your childhood. Such as Funyuns.

#74

2010-03-22T06:23:00.000-07:00

The amazingness of the human body.

i.e. The heart is magnificent.

#73

2010-03-21T20:09:00.000-07:00

The way my muscles feel right after lifting weights.

#72

2010-03-20T08:14:00.000-07:00

The smells of an elaborate breakfast being cooked.

#71

2010-03-19T07:43:00.000-07:00

The clear tolling of church bells on a Sunday morning.

#70

2010-03-18T05:59:00.001-07:00

Bare feet in lush grass.

#69

2010-03-17T04:14:00.000-07:00

Working from home.

#68

2010-03-16T04:55:00.000-07:00

Witnessing all the streetlights blink off in the morning or on at night.

#67

2010-03-15T10:52:00.001-07:00

Waking up really early in the fall and the way the air smells like school.

#66

2010-03-14T07:48:00.001-07:00

The divine laziness of sundays.

#65

2010-03-13T03:44:00.000-08:00

Resolve.

#64

2010-03-12T06:56:00.000-08:00

The sound of trains rumbling in the distance at night.

#63

2010-03-11T03:29:00.001-08:00

Those first warm days.

#62

2010-03-10T03:32:00.000-08:00

The moon.

#61

2010-03-09T05:21:00.000-08:00

When people blush.

#60

2010-03-08T06:28:00.000-08:00

The remarkable tininess of babies' fingernails.

#59

2010-03-07T07:26:00.000-08:00

Walking home by myself at 2:30am with a cigarette in hand and no one else around.

#58

2010-03-06T09:12:00.000-08:00

Libraries.

#57

2010-03-05T06:05:00.001-08:00

The smell of basement.

#56

2010-03-04T04:20:00.001-08:00

The familiarity of home.