By Gini Dietrich
I was trolling through Google+ the other day, when I saw an interesting update from Kaarina Dillabough.
It was a link from Judy Dunn’s blog post called, “Can You Name 99 Things You Love in 10 Minutes?”
Because this is my last post before Thanksgiving (we have our normal guest bloggers tomorrow and then we’re taking the rest of the week off), I thought I’d try it today.
I’m going to set my timer for 10 minutes and just write. Let’s see how I do.
The 82 Things I Love
- Kelly Dietrich
- Jack Bauer (my dog, not the TV character)
- My momma
- Freshly baked bread
- Making bread in my self-constructed steam oven
- Tulips
- My bike
- My iPhone
- My iPad
- A pair of James jeans that I wear nearly every day
- My “I’m not a player, I just blog a lot” t-shirt
- Movies
- Reading
- Riding the lakefront as the sun rises
- Snow!
- Downhill skiing
- All of the little faces that call me Aunt Gini
- All of the siblings that call me older (but not bigger) sister
- My friends (if I get desperate, I’ll list them out)
- Taking Jack Bauer for walks
- My team
- Waking up on Christmas morning to little voices asking if it’s time yet
- Nieces piling in bed with me when they visit
- Law & Order SVU
- Wine
- Almond croissants
- Chili con queso
- Freshly painted fingernails
- Lipgloss
- Chalkboard paint
- Cooking
- Just sharpened knives
- Decorating my house for Christmas
- My birthday
- The Rocky Mountains
- Ice skating
- Cross country skiing
- Writing
- Crystal stemware
- Will Ferrell in “Tight Pants”
- Jimmy Fallon
- Robert Downey, Jr.
- The Nova Scotia weatherman
- The relationship I’ve rebuilt with my dad
- Grandma Dietrich
- My “new” sisters (aka Kelly’s sisters)
- Pop and EMIL
- Boots
- Hats (aka toques)
- Shirts that have thumbholes in the sleeves
- Lululemon
- Barney’s
- Barnes & Noble
- When Jack Bauer won’t go outside with anyone but me
- Sephora
- Taking bubble baths
- Winter
- Wind chill
- Brushing my teeth
- Competing in the UP steps program at work
- Having everyone over for Thanksgiving
- The quiet in the pre-dawn hours
- High heels
- Cashmere
- Super Hero t-shirts
- Kelly’s Indian accent
- The community at Spin Sucks
- Building a company
- Taking some entrepreneurial risk
- Candy
- Meeting social media friends when I speak
- When Jack Bauer thinks he’s a lap dog
- Eavesdropping to make up stories about people
- The smell of the salted caramel Glade plugins
- Salted caramels
- Sharpie pens
- Winning
- Really bad storms
- Canadians
- Making Kelly laugh a good belly laugh
- Black licorice
- Going to the movies
Wow. That was harder than I expected. It’s hard not to edit it to put in order of the way you love them versus how you wrote them…or to keep going after the 10 minutes is up.
So there you have it. I couldn’t get all the way to 99 in 10 minutes. If you try it, start thinking about it before you write it and see if you can succeed.
And, have a very happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!