Jo Malone, Michael Stipe and the Pioneer Woman (and Sinead too)

loving

• a drawer full of Jo Malone testers - today i smell like peonies (pale pink ones, obviously) and blush suede (i'm not sure how blush suede and pale pink peonies smell different to other colors....????)
• fixing the little knicks and scuffs on the baseboards (which were totally screaming at me and now... there's silence)
• sweet milky coffee
• thermal tops and sweatpants all day long
• tall boots and feeling amazonian because i can actually reach things
• shiny yellow rainboots when it's not even raining
• making lists of British things to do, see, buy, wear, eat, etc etc.  if i wasn't officially British to the core, i'd be SO disappointed
• browsing airbnb - i love LOVE seeing how people around the world live: their furniture, linens, kitchens, bathrooms - it's a nosey parker's dream :) 
• Michael Stipe's dusky all-telling deeply amazing voice

hating

• selfies 
• flashmobs 
• open letters to anyone
• being called mama by anyone but my children (and ONLY when they were babies - argh).  
• girl scout cookies
• the Pioneer Woman - not her, but just her putting up with her husband (is everyone else focusing on the cooking while i just can't get past what a macho jerk he is...?)
• blue and gold 
• Hershey - seriously, i haaaaaaaate Hershey!         
• Frozen
• buffering (more than Hershey and Frozen - OK, it's not THAT unbearably awful)
• Taylor Swift and all her celebrity friends (huge eye roll)  seriously: just quit being someone's media robot

listening to

• a playlist called 2013. i don't know who made it, if it just accidentally fell together that year, but it's soooooo totally that year's movie soundtrack

wishing

• Sinead O'Connor would make me Universal Mother part two for the next leg of the journey