100 things I like

[chickenfeet]

I thought the 100 things I like meme via itchyfidget might help with the down-in-the-dumps feeling.

Make a list of 100 things you like in no particular order. Avoid the obvious (significant other, cake...) and be completely honest with yourself. If you try to think of things that you are curious about and inspired by, you'll end up discovering a lot about yourself and in doing so developing a sort of bank of your interests and ideas.

1. Test Match Special
2. Cheesy horror movies
3. Stinky cheese
4. West Penwith, especially outside the tourist season
5. Small lakes on the Canadian Shield
6. Totally manic kittens
7. Beautifully produced books; so much more than just something to read
8. Northumberland
9. Durham Cathedral
10, The river buses in Bangkok
11. Anglican choral music
12. Swimming in the ocean especially if the surf is up
13. Cryptic crosswords
14. Stupid TV shows about armoured vehicles. I have a tank fetish.
15. Fountain pens
16. Jenny Agutter (pant, pant)
17. Fried rice, probably my ultimate comfort food
18. BBC Radio dramatisations, my preferred listening when driving.
19. A bengal pawing to get under the duvet on a cold night
20. Being far enough from the city to see shooting stars (it never gets dark here)
21. Autumn gales
22. Doing really silly things like walking around Seattle in rubber chicken feet
23. Flirtations
24. Thinking about he nature of "intelligence"
25. That first cup of coffee in the morning
26. Coming off a rugby field, utterly exhausted, knowing I've just played the best game I can
27. Interesting old libraries like the one at Llanhydrock
28. Finally grasping a concept that had been eluding me
29. Discovering new music
30. People who appreciate my cooking
31. Michael Vaughan's cover drive
32. Thai street food
33. Kittens on my shoulder
34. English art songs; from Purcell to Walton there is a fantastic tradition of setting English verse. less well known perhap than German Lieder but just as satisfying.
35. Isaac Rosenberg's poetry
36. Proper English breakfasts (Irish ones can be pretty good too)
37. Having a CD player in the car. Such an improvement on tapes.
38. SSRIs, say no more
39. You lot
40. Photoshop

I've been trying for two days and I can't get past 40. So much for helping with feeling depressed.

Comments

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

I've tried not read your list, so as not to influence mine, but I am having a similar problem of getting even half way. Maybe this is a work in progress.

What is an SSRI ?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor

A class of anti-depressant

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a contradiction - I thought serotonin was a happiness inducing chemical and cannot work out why you would want to inhibit it's reuptake (what ever that is). But I guess that's why I'm a project manager and not a doctor!

I find that chillis are a good happiness inductor. Although it only lasts for about 30minutes - this can be extended, if you have to go find some ice cream to cool down your mouth, and then a good cup of coffee to warm you up again!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Everybody produces serotonin. Some people reabsorb it too fast for it to do much. SSRIs block that thus maintaining the level

[misia.livejournal.com]

Who are your favorite English art song composers? I have a major thing for Britten (but then I would, I'm a singer and he's a singer's composer), especially Britten + Auden.... but oh oh oh the songs for tenor, horn, and strings!!!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I love Britten of course and have even been known to essay some of the folk song settings which I can sort of get away with as I'm a fairly high tenor. Vaughan-Wiiliams did some excellent settings of Houseman and Warlock did at least one excellent song cycle.

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

Totally offtopic - but I *love* that icon. Sheer genius.

[ceruleanblue3.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you've been feeling crappy. I don't think I'd manage to find 100 either though. My list would probably be even shorter than yours, in fact. How about travelling, and not being at work, etc?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Right now I would kill to be at work.

No 7

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

yup - I entirely agree with the comment about the beautifully produced books. I am reasonably sure that the reason that Borders and Ottakars can sell books so cheaply is because they have editions that are especially printed for them in poor quality paper and bindings. Sometimes, I find the paper feels "hollow" and I hate to see books produced in an unclear typeface - I can't really describe it really well - but it just looks cheap!!!

[metalana.livejournal.com]

I bet you forgot Scrabble. You like playing scrabble, right? Want to come over for a game sometime in August? (a weekend or a Wednesday)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like Scrabble. That's very kind.

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

I could probably come up with 100 but my list would consist of things like "wild mushrooms", "smoothly textured walls", "taupe stucco". There are so many simple things that I like - I'd even extend this to be a list of things that I not only like but make me happy.

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

I could easily come up with 100 things but list memes isn't one of them so the world will just have to wonder ;)Actually its never much of a mystery to anyone since I'm always running about picking up a really nice red leaf , sticking my hand out of car windows to play with the air current and marveling at all the striations of colour on a single tabby cat hair.

BTW, you forgot black pudding and other big greasy English breakfast components, Cornish spring greens? Freshly caught fish? Picking your own wild berries? Ancient stone circles?You didn't list any painters...where's Shostakovich?
Come on, you know you like lots of things, you just used them up on all those other "List your favourite...." memes. :p

Love you tonnes

[thera-flu.livejournal.com]

Been lurking your journal, but I'd like to add you as a friend in honor of your birthday, if that's ok. Feel free to add back or not.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It's very much OK

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

I shall have to take a crack at this. Good thing to think about, though. (Especially on a Monday.)