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Angela ([personal profile] angledge) wrote2006-03-15 10:28 am

I have been meme-tagged by ataralas.

Name ten of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick ten people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used.

1. Roaring down the interstate in a car by myself, with music blasting from the stereo, singing at the top of my lungs, & driving about 80-90 miles an hour. It's one of the few times I enjoy driving.

2. Being curled up on the sofa with a fire crackling in the fireplace, a good book in one hand, & a mug of tea sitting on the table near my other hand. And then the cat jumps into my lap.

3. Stepping off the plane at the start of a new adventure, or a visit to old friends, or a trip home.

4. Having Des breeze by my desk & say, "Fish Stick, hold all my calls - I'm giving myself a lobotomy. I need a 5/16" drill bit, a two-speed Makita, & a bottle of gin in my office, immediately." (This just happened.)

5. The incredible, soaring, limitless, death-defying, heart-pounding experience of falling in love.

6. Figuring something out: a riddle, a crossword, a bit of code, or the niggling suspicion that I know that person from somewhere. I love the *click* feeling when the pieces of the puzzle fall together.

7. Getting a piece of real mail.

8. Glancing at the clock after being totally engrossed in a conversation with someone, & realizing that time has been flying by completely unnoticed as we were talking.

9. The utterly decadent feeling of eating really good chocolate.

10. Turning off the alarm clock & staying in bed a while longer.

Tag ten people: [livejournal.com profile] hermiston, [profile] vulgarbarbarian, [profile] katieledge, [profile] fanboyextream, [profile] branniejan, [personal profile] captainsblog, [personal profile] carocrow, [profile] aitkendrum, [personal profile] xgreenjudasx, & [profile] spiffington. That’s five Brits/five Americans, as well as five men/five women. Let's hear it.

[identity profile] love2loveher.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Hah! Des just called me, and he was talking about cheap gin. He really has Gin on the mind. I told him yesterday that I'd beat up whoever's harrassing him. I'm just waiting for instructions.

[identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com 2006-03-16 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Your instructions are to turn your timesheets in on time before the deadline on Friday without Des having to call you to remind you. Really, that's all he wants out of ANY of the FEMA people at the moment.

[identity profile] love2loveher.livejournal.com 2006-03-16 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
yes Ma'am!
Now, I need to find some clever way to remind myself when it's FRIDAY. Cause I can't do it early, and I can't seem to keep the days of the week straight around here.

[identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com 2006-03-16 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Set up a weekly reminder on your Outlook. That's what I did.

[identity profile] love2loveher.livejournal.com 2006-03-16 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
yeah... I would... but my outlook doesn't really work. I'll tackle the IT guy next time around.

[identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com 2006-03-16 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I could program MY email program to remind me to call you.....

[identity profile] ataralas.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
1,2,7 and 9, AMEN!

[identity profile] richcsigs.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It all sounds good to me, except for #4 since I have never experienced this.

[identity profile] trishalynn.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You have all the Des dispatches saved, right?

[identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com 2006-03-15 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, try this tag filter:

http://angledge.livejournal.com/tag/des

Also, most of the Dispatches are cross-linked to one another.
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[identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com 2006-03-16 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
They're ten good ones, too!