Simple pleasures

Today has been quite wonderful. I keep finding reasons to be happy, like discovering favorite candy bars in your Halloween or Easter basket, one right after the other. Waking up at 7am, calling you groggily and going downstairs to surprise my mom like you suggested, then going back to sleep. Dreaming about being with you again. 19mph SSW winds that rustled the treeleaves in the backyard, making them dance and whisper secrets and murmur excitedly. Peeling one side of a banana, forgetting about it because I was getting stuff out of the fridge, and then biting it. Sillypants! Discovering frozen strawberries in the freezer, covered with a thin layer of frost, just waiting, tantalizingly, to be eaten, and popping one in my mouth, savoring their cold freshness. Reading a vivid, delicious line in a good book: A warm wind stroked Tristran's face: it smelled like peppermint, and blackcurrant leaves, and red, ripe plums... Reviving my love for French en écoutant et en lisant l'actualité sur le web. 练习中文。 Innocently sexy phone conversation. Making a treat out of a square 100% wheat bagel half, strawberry jam, and 3 slices of folded honey-roasted cured turkey breast. Eating lowfat turkey pepperoni slices like chips. Finding out that, even though I can't roll my r's using the tip of my tongue (yet), I can, in fact, do a dry gurgle/gargle and the back of my tongue will vibrate. The shy rumble of the clouds before dinner...I get my rainstorm after all...I walk onto the deck and inhale the scent of summerrain...Then it pours, dashes of white rain, thunder, the breeze wafting through the screen, smelling of grass and wetness, filling my lungs and spirit...then the sky cleared up and sunlight streamed down into the yard, illuminating the trees in a bright green veil. Being just the right amount of hungry to scarf everything down with relish during dinner. Goodnight call from you. The promise of tomorrow, the weekend, Monday, and beyond.

Look! What time it is... You would bow your head and make a wish. I remember once, after watching Scrubs, you looked lovingly into my eyes. A couple of minutes passed, and you closed your eyes and made a wish, and I was so amazed that you somehow knew it was the right time. Even after you told me that you had actually counted exactly two minutes from when you first gazed at me, at 11:09, I was even more in awe. And in love. You make it easy to be sweet to you... ./swoon

./wish