My 100th Blog Posting and 100 Favorite Things!

Here I am, just over four months and 100 entries into blogging, and it feels great. I promised myself I’d try it for six months to see if blogging and I are compatible, and though there are two months of this trial-run to go, it seems we are.

For this entry, I’m listing 100 of some of my favorite things. (In compiling this list, it became clear that I have WAY more than 100 favorite things!) Heck, Oprah has her favorite things. Rachael Ray does too. Why not a relatively unknown, largely unread blogger? We have our favorite things too!

Here are mine, in alphabetical order:

1. A book I can’t put down
2. A warm car on a cold morning
3. Asparagus, beyond al dente, hot with butter and salt
4. Baby Boom (Diane Keaton)
5. Birthday dinners for my siblings
6. Blogging
7. Bolton Landing
8. Butternut squash soup
9. Cake pans with straight sides
10. Caribbean cruise
11. Carly Simon
12. Carolyn’s kitchen table with a cup of tea
13. Cheez-its
14. Christmas Eve
15. Clean closets
16. Coconut anything!
17. Coconut-scented shampoo
18. Comfortable shoes
19. Cousins
20. David Letterman
21. Diet Coke (12-step program needed)
22. Dogs, preferably drool-free and well-behaved
23. Down comforter
24. Eddie Bauer outlet
25. Ellie Krieger “The Food You Crave” Cookbook
26. Flannel sheets
27. Focastle Farm, Burnt Hills
28. Funny Farm (Chevy Chase)
29. Going to the movies
30. Gold-toe socks
31. Good sunglasses
32. Google
33. Grammy Eddy’s spaghetti
34. Grandson Henry’s toes
35. Hats on babies
36. Henry, all over
37. HGTV
38. Honey Crisp apples
39. Hot fudge
40. Irish-knit sweaters
41. It’s a Wonderful Life
42. Jake’s Round-up in South Glens Falls
43. James Taylor
44. Jimmy Stewart
45. Katherine Hepburn’s brownies
46. Katie’s Nikon Coolpix camera (I’m coveting it).
47. Knitting just to knit
48. Label maker
49. Lake George
50. Leave it to Beaver
51. Lindt truffles
52. Little Women
53. Longfellow’s, Saratoga Springs
54. Lunch with my sisters
55. Lunch with Sue and Kim
56. Manchester, Vermont
57. Martha Stewart Living magazine
58. Matt Littrell’s chocolate cake
59. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder
60. My electric toothbrush
61. My grandmother’s crocheted coat hangers
62. My kids all together at once
63. My kids, of course
64. My Skidmore class ring
65. No-iron shirts
66. Non-stop flights
67. Old photos
68. Palm trees
69. Papyrus note paper
70. Patsy’s fruit salad
71. Peter, Paul, and Mary
72. Pfaltzgraff Farmer’s Market dishes
73. Reunions
74. Rice pudding
75. Russ
76. Saturday morning breakfast with friends
77. Shops and restaurants in Greenwich, New York
78. Smitten Kitchen
79. Socks as slippers
80. Sun roof
81. Sutton’s Market in Queensbury, NY
82. Sweet-and-sour chicken
83. Taper candles
84. Thank you notes, to send and receive
85. Thanksgiving at my ex-husband’s house
86. The Barefoot Contessa
87. The Beatles
88. The Brooklyn Bridge (singing group, 60s)
89. The Ed Sullivan Show
90. The Food Network
91. The Outer Banks of North Carolina
92. The Today Show
93. Thick, creamy vanilla yogurt
94. Trader Joe’s
95. Traveling anywhere!
96. WAMC
97. Washcloths
98. Wedding cake
99. Wegman’s grocery stores
100. Wiawaka
     
     

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