Things | like: national parks, learning new things, snow that sticks to everything - trees, wires, and mailboxes, coconut almond fudge ice cream, singing harmony, autumn colors, stroking a sleeping dog's cheeks and ears, science fiction, helping people find their calling, buttered homemade biscuits with homegrown tomatoes, falling in love, being in love, being loved, loving people, college basketball, Mary Stewart novels, counted cross stitch, purring cats, concerts, photography, Crosby Stills Nash (sometimes Young), romantic novels, spy novels, mystery novels, wildlife, folk music, spring flowers, hugs, movies, movies, movies.

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Things I dislike: petty people, the glass half empty, loud voices, pity parties, arrogance, setting alarm for p.m. instead of a.m. and vice versa, math, extreme heat, runny noses, dying young, people who ignore me when I'm talking, aggressive drivers, emotional neglect, technology that doesn't work, all abusers, extreme cold, people who think they are better than others, insincerity, insomnia, worthless meetings, jazz, things too complicated for me to figure out, screaming children, bird poop, racists, liars, cheaters, washing dishes by hand, poor acting, setting goals I never reach, mean people.