Things That Don’t Suck

Posted on the 24 August 2013 by Shewritesalittle @SheWritesALittle

It’s been the kind of week where I have to find some good now, or it’ll just bleed into my weekend. So here’s what I came up with:

* The two Harley dudes in full kit-out, sitting at a Starbucks table, sipping on lattes.

* The tiny Asian man who made my Yakisoba in a cast iron wok, the size of an inter tube, flicking the food and sloshing the sauce around like an Iron Chef pro.

* Eating with chopsticks.

* Finding every single way to get into a compromising position, sexually, on a stage.

* A first glass of red wine in several weeks.

* Potato chips.

* Improving an entire scene, while handcuffed to another human being.

* Finishing my weekly writing exercise on time.

* Nick and Nora Charles, as writ, by Dashiell Hammett, in the original novel. And how they are still so exactly like Powell and Loy from the films.

* Knowing who “Lillian” is, on the dedication page.

* My pillow.

* A fan blowing at night, in the summer time.

* Reading about writing residency programs in other places, and thinking, “what if?”

* It isn’t Monday.

* The invitation for the next wedding I’m going to, and how awesomely creative and hilarious of them it was.

* Ingrid Bergman in “Spellbound.”

* Ingrid Bergman in anything.

* The word “kumquat.”

* There is a place called a “cupcakery.”

* The total and complete non-amusement of a Capybara”

And…

* Capybara’s dressed up like things:






…So it isn’t all just total shit, then. And that’s good to know.

~D