The WONDERFUL things in life

[Mary Ann]

A teenaged daughter who bakes awesome cakes. She's wonderful for many other reasons (and also drives me around the freaking bend, but that's part of a teenager's job description), but the cake thing is what she's doing right now.

 

[trekkiedane]

comfy pajamas

Absolutely!, evenings are getting a bit chilly around here; right now I'm in my (blue) TOS pajama and robe.

• Making coffee (not just drinking it).
• Eiswein.
• Gin.
• Candle season (as of today we've lost 5 hours 35 minutes of daylight).
• Freshly ground black pepper on your food.
• Travelling by train.
• Realising you can go beck to sleep after awaking with a shock thinking you're late for something.

 

[Captain Kathryn]

Putting copious amounts of cayenne pepper on my food.

Star Trek Voyager podcasts.

Sleeping.

Daydreaming.

Comfy pillows!!!

Smiling.

 

[Captain Kathryn]

Realising you can go beck to sleep after awaking with a shock thinking you're late for something.

GOOD ONE.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Lie-ins in bed. I love those days.

 

[SPCTRE]

My crippling Destiny-addiction. <3

 

[Mary Ann]

Access to meds for short-and long-term conditions. Thank you, NHS.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Access to meds for short-and long-term conditions. Thank you, NHS.

Absolutely so.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

cream-coloured ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that flie with the moon on their wings ...
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPncuS0E1yc[/yt]

 

[Melakon]

...these are a few of my least fav'rite things.

My cat comes over to me when wanting attention. Though in this case, "attention" usually means "treats", even if there's food in the bowl.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

another wonderful thing: listening to the rain while lying in bed.
Watching the snow fall outside from a warm comfortable sofa is also pretty nice.
Any one of my favourite things ever: those 5 minutes between evening and night when everything is submerged with this beautiful velvety blue light.

 

[KimMH]

a blazing fire in the fireplace with hot cocoa and teeny marshmallows

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I'd swap the marshmallows for hot chestnuts, but else I totally agree

 

[Melakon]

Hot chestnuts floating in hot cocoa is not my idea of wonderful.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Why not? In the stomach they come together anyway

 

[KimMH]

It'd be kind of like hazelnut hot cocoa, eh? Must find chestnuts now!

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I doubt it'd be tasty, But you can puree roasted chestnuts and mix them with sugar and cocoa powder, roll them into cherry-sized balls and cover them with chocolate. Very yummy but you have to eat them at once - they keep only for 2 days in the fridge (1 day outside of it).
Frankly, I had all forgotten about the foreign habit of putting marshmallows into cocoa. When I was a kid we didn't have any marshmallows and when I tried them as an adult I found they were like sweetened rubber - not really my thing. Also, it's not a custom here to put anything into a hot beverage but sugar, milk or cream and perhaps a sprinkle of chocolate or cinnamon. Hence the concept of having sweets floating in a cup of hot chocolate is a little difficult to grasp.
Here, you usually get your cocoa served with a shortbread or chocolate cookie.

 

[auntiehill]

Strolling through the mall, on my day off, being frugal and only buying a few practical things for which I have coupons, and then discovering Supernatural and Doctor Who merchandise...and buying it.

Because I wanted it.

 

[Davros]

my kitties

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

cream-coloured ponies and crisp apple strudels, doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles, wild geese that flie with the moon on their wings ...

I prefer the Southern version:

Doe, a deer I shot last month
Ray, a guy who pumps my gas
Me and him got in a fight
Fa is where I kicked his ass...