Five Things Friday: Five Small Things

Towards the end of college I hung out in a sun room with a friend who I always thought was infinitely cooler than me.  She went to RIT in New York and I went to a college in VA that was smaller than my high school.  We would meet up over breaks and swap amazing stories.  She would tell me about skateboarding through a nearby campus, wondering why it was so quiet and then discovering afterwards it was a school for the deaf, and I would tell her about... well, I don't remember what I swapped for that story because I was so in awe thinking about A) an entire college campus that was silent and B) if deaf people feel what "noisy" feels like in a crowd afire with sign language.  We were watching Vanilla Sky, which quickly became my favorite movie despite starring the awful Tom Cruise.  This movie is littered with so many of my now favorite quotes and lines.   One of them is, "I'll see you in another life when we are both cats."  Another one is, "The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?"  Here are my five favorite little things in life.

1.  Dove soap:  I inexplicably need this smell in my life.  When I shower, I don't fully rinse off parts of my body so that throughout the day I'll get a quick shot of it.  I put bars of Dove in my dresser drawers.  I wash my cheaper earrings with it so that when I move my head I smell it.  It sounds absolutely psycho, I know, but it makes me incredibly happy.

2.  Stranger babies:  Babies are pure souls protected by leg rolls and chubby cheeks.  One thing I've discovered about myself is that babies are drawn to my face- probably because of my dark eyes.  I remember reading an article when I had my oldest son that said babies can tell when another child is behaving badly by six months.  Naturally, this has morphed in my mind to mean that babies can sense evil.  When I see a stranger baby watching me and smiling, I can't help but think that I must not be all that evil of a person, or that maybe our souls were twin flames in another life.  

3.  Music: I would wither up and die from the inside out without music.  I wish with my entire being that I never go deaf.  I have the playlist for my funeral/memorial already created.  The greatest gift anyone could ever give me is a well thought out mixed tape or CD.  

4.  A well put together outfit:  I don't mean this in the materialistic sense- I really don't care about brands and prices.  I simply have a newfound appreciation for an outfit where the little pieces match and pull it together.  Shoes that match the slight coloring of flowers on a shirt, an overly dressy skirt dressed down with a denim jacket,  a bright scarf teamed with a grey dress, an outfit built on a pair of earrings.  I have recently started dressing up a little more for work because I love the small success of putting something cohesive together.

5.  People with tattoos: I know it's not good to generalize and stereotype, but I have discovered that despite themselves being heavily judged, the least judgemental and most interesting people  have tattoos.  When I see someone with a tattoo, I feel like I've found someone that "gets me" by default.  When I see someone with a tattoo, I automatically want to hear their story and to watch their face as they tell it.

Love,

A