1. A fresh shave

2. A hot shower (a really hot shower)

3. Brand new socks

4. Listening to someone hum a little tune to themselves

5. Hearing someone eat dorritos on the phone

6. Scuffed up boots

7. Clean sheets and a nice shower

8. Sleeping in a pile of warm laundry, fresh from the dryer

9. Flood doing his “swimmy” dance for me when I get home

10. Chocolate milk

11. Waffles

12. A great haircut that makes you feel like a new man

13. A Benton Quest goatee (Johnny Quest’s father)

14. James Brown at 8:30 in the morning

15. Talking Heads at any hour

16. A great Christopher Walken impersonation

17. Call me snake

18. Playing pool with out the pool cues

19. A nice suit

20. Your own theme music

21. Changing a stranger’s flat tire

22. Giving someone a jump, then refusing the money they want to give you

23. Finishing a painting (better than sex)

24. Reading

25. Setting down to write and loosing 4 hours of time

26. Playing frisbee 500 (not that ultimate hippy crap!)

27. Hide and go seek

28. Fake crying

29. Chocolate Cake

30. Key Lime Pie

31. Clunky Boots

32. Making up stories on the fly

33. Wind through the pine trees

34. Blowing through a stop sign and saying, “This is for you Tito!”*

35. A laugh that makes your sides hurt with a best friend

36. Going gray

37. My super smart godson Ethan

38. Being silly with Heather

39. Heather pretending to be asleep

40. Heather’s smile

41. Watching Heather turn to mush when I tell her a cute turtle story

42. Goaty and his GoatClub

43. Sunday movie night

44. Mix cds from a friend

45. Singing Faith No More songs with Vikki

46. Having Heather in my arms

47. Giving it up for the shopping cart (clapping for inanimate objects)

48. Banana pudding

49. Cartoon Network

50. Hal Hartley movies

51. Driving Boris through a thick fog and listening to spooky music

52. Crazy people at the library, especially if they are scheming

53. Goats!

54. Turtles!

55. Western shirts

56. Old western songs

57. Death spaghetti (the flavor)

58. Zombie movies

59. Doing the (flavor) dance before the zombie movie

60. Getting the (stare-ies) from the death spaghetti

61. Tunafish everyday

62. Domokun

63. Ducks, or Freds, as Heather calls them.

64. Giant mutant fish that eat too much duck (fred) food

65. Jason’s carlton dance

66. Robots

67. John Spencer Blues Explosion!

68. Courtney’s demon dip

69. The art of Zdzislaw Beksinski

70. The brothers Quay

71. Southern Culture on the Skids

72. Heather’s “Fred” call

73. Cashews

74. MSG buzz from Chinese food

75. Ms. G’s Deli

76. Pizza Den (best ham sandwich in the world)

77. The art of Wayne Barlowe

78. My weirdo family

79. Mark Leyner

80. Andrew Vachss

81. Noir

82. Saturday nights

83. Sunday mornings

84. Being inspired

85. Rescuing abandoned toys

86. Dancing your ass off

87. Dancing like a fiend

88. Getting the iron man award for staying on the dance floor the longest

89. Running like you could run forever

90. Throwing every punch with all the strength you have

91. Not knowing why I do things

92. Talking out my ass

93. Taking a hot bath

94. Putting myself in a cramped space (like my trunk)

95. Eddie Izzard’s makeup

96. Ron White’s humor

97. Bill Hick’s Rage

98. Screaming

99. Crying

100. Infatuation