Simple Pleasures

[pellegrino]

The exhilaration of standing on the summit of a mountain catching the breeze on your face.

Floating through fresh powder while skiing.

Reading a good book on the beach.

Catching a wave and riding it to the sand only to be its final disbursement of energy.

But there's nothing like coming home from a crappy day at the office and being welcomed by my daughters with hugs, kisses and shouts of joy. I know that will end some day and I already miss it.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Lying in the corner of our sectional couch with 1-4 of our kids watching The Simpson's.

[Tim]

Riding my scooter through Tokyo. It always cut through my stress immediately and brought instant joy into my life.

[kccougar]

Going for a drive in a spotlessly clean car.

[MarkGrace]

The exhilaration of standing on the summit of a mountain catching the breeze on your face.

Floating through fresh powder while skiing.

Reading a good book on the beach.

Catching a wave and riding it to the sand only to be its final disbursement of energy.

A nice dinner with Grace and Space Ghost.

But there's nothing like coming home from a crappy day at the office and being welcomed by my daughters with hugs, kisses and shouts of joy. I know that will end some day and I already miss it.

Good list.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

When your ears are clogged when you have a cold and some random yawn or swallow releases the pressure. The cold sucks, but the release of pressure feels good.

[pellegrino]

Good list.

so I missed one, you got me on that.

[UtahDan]

When my siblings and I were little, we used to fight for the privilege of taking my Dad's boots and socks off when he got home.

Last night reminded me of a couple more - watching a lightning storm over the Great Salt Lake and to quote Rubert Holmes - getting caught in the rain

When Gabers and I were first married we lived in an attic apartment on 13th east at about 2nd south that had access to a large roof area. From where that house stands it is more or less all down hill until you reach the valley floor so there was nothing obstructing our view of the entire city, the airport, the lake, etc. I live in a place now that has many more thunder storms, but there is nothing I have seen that compares to watching a lightning storm cross the lak from that vantage point. Just incredible.

[Levin]

Cuddling with my kids when they wake up.

Any act of creation -- sex, writing, gardening, etc. (And Uchtdorf totally deflated this for me and has made it now cliche to say (kind of like "tender mercies"), but it's always been one of my keenest senses, the feeling I get when I'm being creative).

[FN Phat]

When Gabers and I were first married we lived in an attic apartment on 13th east at about 2nd south that had access to a large roof area. From where that house stands it is more or less all down hill until you reach the valley floor so there was nothing obstructing our view of the entire city, the airport, the lake, etc. I live in a place now that has many more thunder storms, but there is nothing I have seen that compares to watching a lightning storm cross the lak from that vantage point. Just incredible.

I lived in an apartment in the Warehouse District in Cleveland for about a year. I spent my evenings at the sitting area on the roof top. I witnessed the best/mot impressive storms and lightning shows I had seen since a kid in the Sierra Nevadas.

[Tim]

I lived in an apartment in the Warehouse District in Cleveland for about a year. I spent my evenings at the sitting area on the roof top. I witnessed the best/mot impressive storms and lightning shows I had seen since a kid in the Sierra Nevadas.

Where were you in the Sierras?

[Surfah]

Where were you in the Sierras?

The Nevadas.

[SeattleUte]

midnight snack of cashew butter and strawberry rhubarb jam on a triscuit. Cold milk.

[FN Phat]

Where were you in the Sierras?

My maternal grandfather was a rancher that homesteaded in Smith, Nevada. He would take his cattle to the BLM land that he leased that was nestled in the Sierras. Great childhood memories of cattle drives, brandings, sweet breads with over easy eggs and Rocky Mountain oysters.

[landpoke]

Mowing the lawn

Among all the (real) doctors I know this seems to be a big one.

"It's quiet."