Our chat this evening infused me with energy - As they always do. I love you, thank you for staying up late to talk.
Soo...
There is a book kicking around my brother's apartment that is somewhat cheesy and somewhat bang-on. It's called "The Book of Awesome." Maybe you've heard of it, maybe you have not? He basically lists and describes things that are awesome - sometimes they take up one paragraph, sometimes 3 pages. 'Nuff said, you get the story - I need to share a few of the "Awesomes" with you.
These are the ones that made me think of you instantaneously....
1. Squeezing through a door while it's shutting without touching it. Tiny squirts of adrenaline pump through your bloodstream when you pull this classic move. Yes, suddenly you morph from Guy Walking to Subway After Work into Indiana Jones in That Scene Where He Slides Under the Wall at the Last Second. Your hands stay clean, your strut stays mean, and you zip through that closing door and don't look back, hoping it doesn't nail anybody in the face behind you. Awesome.
2. Getting off an airplane after a long flight. B.O. clouds dissipate and float away, wailing babies quit wailing at the luggage bay, your cell phone works, so you call friends up, say hey, and all your scrunched up, bunched up, hunched-up muscles relax as you stretch them out now, feeling A-OK. You're out of the window seat, out of the aisle, you're back on two feet, so just walk away and smile. Awesome.
Side Note: I find his rhyming a little uncomfortable and I would prefer this description sans rhyme.
3. The smell of rain on a hot sidewalk. There's just something about the smell of rain on a hot sidewalk. It's sort of like the rain cleans the air - completely hammering all the dirt and grime particles down to the ground and releasing some hot baked-in chemicals from the pavement. It smells best if it hasn't rained in while and the sidewalk is scalding hot. The it sort of sizzles and steam up into a big, hot, intoxicating whiff. Awesome.
4. Scraping all the lint off an overflowing lint trap. There's something therapeutic about finger-peeling that dark-grey-with-red-flecks fuzz path off the trap, rolling it into a ball, and tossing it in the trash. Yes, after you ditch that hot, furry blanket, both you and you dryer can finally breathe again. Awesome.
5. Fixing Electronics by Smacking them. (no explanation needed). Awesome.
Although his descriptions border on douchy, I like his list and I think he definitely nails a few of these. Things that you just love but forget you love them until they happen. These are the simple pleasures, the ones that make the world tick at a slight wonky but better pace. The things that you always notice - and we can always laugh about. We notice the same things and we find the same things funny. Fact.
I hope you're dreaming only the best dreams there ever were.
love, kendra
(italian gelato - true to form)
(go pig out on life). 
