Driving home from work Sunday night, one of my favorite things happened.  The train was running through downtown Easley, a moving wall of metal which can give you a bit of a start when it’s dark out, but nonetheless results in all green lights for through traffic.  Yesss!  This made me think of other random favorite things:

• the smell of freshly washed laundry
• blank notebooks and a sharp pencil
• new calendars
• humorous poetry (aka silly rhymes)
• laughing for no apparent reason for an inappropriate amount of time with friends
• the feel of a baby asleep on your chest
• bacon
• a real, honest-to-goodness, in the mail, note from a friend
• sitting in my spotless house (so yeah, RARE) in my favorite chair reading a book and sipping tea
• the sound of wind rushing through the trees
• the little ripples in the pool
• when something strikes me funny when I’m out by myself and try sharing it with a stranger who doesn’t get it AT ALL
• deep conversations with strangers on planes
• making homemade soup
• eating homemade soup
• Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie dough
• organized drawers
• randomly bumping into a friend while running errands
• silence
• the smell of books
• the ocean and all that goes with it:  sand, surf, salt, seagulls, sounds of conversations, sun glistening off the water, shells
• walking barefoot in the rain

The list could be longer, but you get the idea.  What are a few of your favorite things?