lots of little things i’ve been in love with lately

A shade of green that looks like matcha tea and mint ice cream.

People that will dance to the music playing in a store, unashamed.

Those heart-shaped golden lockets with special people in them.

Songs with soft guitar, that sound like a close friend wrote it for you.

Chocolate-covered stawberries.

Used books with a past reader’s address and name written in them.

The way that Audrey Hepburn sounds when she’s happy.

The people at grocery stores that used to hand out little samples.

Eating on the patio of a restaurant while it’s raining.

The fact that Winnie the Pooh only ate his favorite food, and wore no pants.

How bad most people are at bowling, and how awkward it is to miss all the pins.

Brownies. I am dangerously in love with brownies.

How any place looks so much better with Christmas lights.

People with sideways or crooked smiles.

Calvin and Hobbes.

Water fountains with coins in them.

The crisp sound that children’s books make when opened.

The fact that the French phrase for ‘bookworm’ is ‘inkdrinker’.

Rain on those see-through plastic umbrellas.

When adults swing on swing sets.

Watching dogs meet eachother at a dog park and bounce up and down.

Overly friendly coffee shop baristas.

Stangers that smile for no reason as they pass you.

Sleeping while its raining.

The way muffins smell.

Singing Bohemian Rhapsody as loud as possible.

Syrupy flat soda.

Lipstick, and the way it gets taller when you twist it.

Having a favorite t-shirt.

Discovering a new song and playing it over and over, never getting enough of it.

Middle-of-the-night reckless fast food runs.

Reading a new book that explains something that is 100% you, that you were never able to explain before.

When you first step into a mall and hear the echoey mall sound and the pretzel smell.

Learning really cool fun facts and getting to share them with somebody.

How fast soap makes bubbles.

A really good sandwhich, probably on ciabatta with turkey, pesto, and tomatoes.

Feeling good in an outfit.

The way babies laugh.

Simple vanilla icecream with rainbow sprinkles.

Bottomless rootbeer floats.

Playing classic video games like Zelda or Mario Kart or Dig Dug or Pacman.

When the Peanuts characters dance.

Pirates of the Carribean.

Blowing bubbles.

The way Christmas trees look when you unfocus your eyes.

The gasoline/oil smell of old cars and their rumbly engines.

The way that toddlers/babies and dogs interact together.

When toddlers read to their stuffed animals.

The happy onion man.

Cannolis.