Things I Like and Don't Like

If you remember, I had a list of 'things I like' in an earlier blog entry. This list, as I said before, was born from the womb of one of my favorite books, 'Naive. Super' by Erlend Loe. I have made some ammendments/additions to the 'I like' list and have created an 'I don't like' list below it. (Note: Without even attempting to do so, when I finished my lists, I realized that they both contained exactly the same number of items. :)

I LIKE:

1. Large quantities of small, identical things (paperclips, post-it-note pads, pens, beans, small boxes…)
2. orderly stacks of things
3. Clever packaging/marketing
4. Seeing people genuinely happy with their children
5. babies/children
6. helping a stranger
7. helping someone who I’m close to
8. Being in the middle of a really great book and knowing that there is still a lot to go
9. Walking around at night and looking at the lit up windows in tall apartment buildings
10. Chihuahuas and other naked, tiny dogs
11. Good hair-days
12. Chocolate
13. Reading/writing in a room at night with a dim light and candles.
14. Candles/candleholders (melon-scented candles)
15. Office supplies
16. Starting a new notebook
17. Picturing my life as a movie
18. Writing
19. Will power (in myself and in others)
20. Coziness
21. Looking up words I don’t know in the dictionary and learning them
22. Seeing or hearing a word that I just learned
23. Dictionaries
24. Learning new languages
25. Shiny things/lights
26. When it’s cold enough to be cold, but not so cold that you have to wear a coat.
27. tap/dancing
28. roller skating
29. Old or cultural/ethnic music
30. Cleaning out my room/apartment and waking up to it the next day
31. waking up and thinking that its time to go to work and then realizing that it is still the middle of the night
32. Losing weight
33. Eating
34. bright colored walls
35. getting flowers
36. rain
37. finding something I thought was long-lost
38. doing the right thing
39. doodling
40. watching couples in restaurants/cafés/etc. and trying to figure out how long they’ve been together
41. honesty
42. stability
43. trust
44. sincerity
45. Erlend Loe
46. Catcher in the Rye
47. Master and Margarita
48. whales
49. Uzbekistan
50. therapy
51. when my muscles hurt after working out
52. listening to a song that I really like over and over
53. Ella Fitzgerald
54. my birthday
55. pigtails
56. tank tops and underwear
57. jasmine green tea
58. roaming the streets of Moscow while listening to my MP3 player
59. long, dangling earrings
60. Amelie/Yann Tiersen (movie/soundtrack)
61. tradition
62. Men

I DON'T LIKE:

1. fanaticism (of any kind)
2. closed mindedness
3. superficial conversations/people/relationships
4. mushrooms
5. judging and being judged
6. prejudice/ignorance
7. helplessness
8. denial
9. loneliness
10. war
11. paintball
12. pain
13. disrespect of the elderly
14. colored contacts
15. gaining weight (not fitting into my favorite jeans)
16. losing important things (i.e. passport/debit card/license)
17. the initial blister period accompanying new shoes/flip-flops
18. visits to the dentist
19. overly ripe fruit
20. addiction
21. drunkenness/intoxication
22. disappointing others and being disappointed
23. lying/deception
24. being late/keeping people waiting
25. busting my knee while rollerblading
26. finishing a good book
    
27. having too much stuff
28. clutter
29. movies/books that become the object of a cult-like following
30. celebrities
31. girly magazines
32. when people wear sunglasses where there is no sun (i.e. at night or indoors)
33. anti-Semitism
34. change
35. swimming
36. pimples
37. a bad haircut
38. procrastination
39. injustice
40. when people litter
    
41. supermodels
42. vulgarity
43. heavy metal music
44. blood
45. medical procedures
46. subservience
47. snobbism
48. social disparity
49. greed/stinginess
50. when guys are cheap
51. mosquitoes
52. roaches/grasshoppers
53. clubbing
54. infidelity/cheating
55. stupid movies
56. reality TV
57. MTV
58. when people yell at their kids
59. breaking up
60. loving someone and not being loved back
61. nostalgia
62. Men