My 50 things I love...

My sisters blog had a "tag your it" next to her list of 50 things she loves, so here's my list:

Other than #1 always being #1, 2-50 are in no particular order:

1) Rae

2) Carving turns in deep powder on a snowboard
3) Scoring a goal (especially on a break-away)
4) Delivering a killer body check
5) Coffee (I drink decaf but it still counts darn it!)
6) Sitting in the shaft of light that streams in through our living room window reading
7) Hemmingway's novels
8) A cold beer on a hot day
9) A roaring fire
10) The feeling of sore muscles the day after a really good workout
11) My family
12) Comfy socks
13) Good conversations
14) Really good muscat
15) The Oilers
16) The 1980's Oilers games I have on DVD
17) Being debt free (it's a very new feeling, but i like it a lot!)
18) Driving faster than I should
19) That feeling you get once you pass "the wall" when jogging
20) Being drawn into a book so much you can't put it down
21) Saying what you mean, not what you think you should say
22) Gin and Tonic, with lime, Bombay Sapphire gin
23) Jazz by Miles Davis
24) Original musical artists, as in those who write their own songs
25) Eating too much (I try not to, but sometimes...man it's good!)
26) A hot shower
27) Those first lazy, huge snowflakes of the first snow of the year
28) Building snowmen
29) Hiking
30) Swimming around the breakwaters in Spain (haven't done it in a long time....)
31) Winning
32) Crusty, grainy bread
33) Peanut butter and jam on hot toast so the peanut butter melts a little
34) Good red wine
35) Writing
36) Playing the guitar
37) Painting
38) Napping on the couch
39) Snuggling on the couch
40) Cigars
41) The sound of bagpipes playing when just the right distance away
42) Strong rivers and the sound the water makes
43) The feel salt spray rising from breaking waves
44) Hot porridge on cold mornings
45) The feeling of your nostril hairs crackling on a really cold day
46) Whole days with nothing to do but loaf and think
47) Doing something for the first time
48) The butterflies that come just before the adrenaline kicks in
49) Port and stilton (thanks for my Dad for that one!)
50) Being alive....

If you read it and don't have a list, tag you're it now!

Later....