Warm Fuzzies

Seeing as I have a swimming pool sitting in my backyard, I go swimming quite often. Probably more than the average bear. hahahhaha

anyway. ignoring that. Swimming presents many different feelings, as most people know. Especially during the summer. And after going swimming at a friends pool on Wednesday, something happened and it directed me to something else that deserves a place on this list.

7. The Feeling of Water Coming Out of Your Ear

We have all felt it- the clogged sensation of water being stuck in your ear. It's annoying for one and can get quite painful. It makes it hard to hear and it makes you feel like you have wax or some other equally unhappy feeling thing stuck in your ear canal.

HOWEVER. this unfortunate feeling brings me to number 7 on the list. Water coming out of your ear is delightful for two reasons: 1) The warmth of the water as it passes out of your ear canal is a spine tingling wonderful sensation 2) The relief that the absence of water in your ear brings is almost equally wonderful.

That makes this once again one of those "every cloud has a silver lining" kind of situations.

Sniff Sniff Sniff

So this next one is about food again. I feel really fat talking about all this food. HOWEVER it's something a little different. Explanation:
I went to Silky's last night to gather some delicious custard for me and my family. As I drove up, many many old memories came to fruition in my brain, seeing as a I worked there for a year. The craziness that is a hot night at an ice cream stand, the silly yellow shirts and painful ugly black shoes, the lack of adult supervision, the stupid same 4 songs played on z107 ever three minutes..... But THEN! I remembered that when I had gone to Ted Drewe's a few weeks earlier with that guy named Justin, something happened. Which leads me to....

6. The Smell of Custard/Ice Cream
As the glorious smell of Ted Drewe's wafted at me, I was absolutely stunned by the longing that filled me. That smell that I hardly noticed when I labored hard in the ice cream stand before filled my body with longing. I WANTED that custard. In case you don't know, the smell of custard is this rich, creamy smell that makes your mouth water and your nose expand in an attempt to get more in. It's like eating ice cream, but with your nose.


A little extreme. But still. It is HEAVENLY. And it's something most people don't ever notice or experience, unless you spend hours locked in a small shack surrounded by the stuff. It's actually quite strong then, and permeates everything- you, your clothes, your hair, your BRAIN. However, after working at Silky's for so long, I had began to get used to, and even forget about, the smell. And so when I quit, and never went back, I thought about missing the actually ice cream, and not the smell of it.
So that crazy little trip to Ted Drewe's brought all those memories back. Of course so much has happened since then that I was filled with wonder at the moment, but quickly forgot. Until last night, when I was once again reminded as I pulled up to the drive through at Silky's.
My suggestion to you, is next time you go to an ice cream stand for some frozen treats is to lean in a bit, and take a whiff. It's absolutely grand.

Speaking Words

So I have finally come to admit that I am, in fact, a bit of a nerd. However I embrace this part of me. SOOOOO SO SO SO one thing I like is Words. Which makes me think about what exactly I like about words. I mean, I am a comm major. So an obvious reason is that they allow humans to communicate effectively.... but really. I LOVE finding random new words other people don't know (par exemple: VESTAL. LOL freshman year) or words that sound cool or roll of the tongue. So for my number 5..............................

5. Onomatopoeias

In case you don't know, onomatopoeias are those words that sound like the word it is. Like "achoo" or animal noises. Onomatopoeias never cease to amaze me. I mean seriously how cool is it that we can say ZIP and that's what a zipper sounds like??? orrrr an hoots and it sounds like HOOT????????????????????????????????

My all time favorite onomatopoeia is Boing. Or maybe oof. Or maybe boingoof. Both of those are ridiculously fun to say. Seriously. Just sit there and going BOING BOING BOING BOING and you cannot help but giggle a little. (Giggle is a strange onomatopoeia. Like bark- the noise a dog makes. It counts but I feel like their not real, since that's not exactly a literal sound. So I call them onomats instead.)

PLUS lots of onomatopoeias are different in different languages (especially animal noises). Which is a HYSTERICAL concept to my brain, considering the definition of an onomatopoeia!

Finally another awesome thing about onomatopoeia is that because I have so far typed the word 6 times, I can now spell a strange sounding word that hardly looks at all like how you say it. Once again, just the nerd in me coming out.