2T Repeat Performance

In December 2016, the lovely Magical Musings crew decided it was time to close down their blogging shop. I had three wonderful years with them. This is another of those posts.

Taking up the (Unreasonable Obsession) Challenge--my Cool Stuff--originally posted August 29, 2015.

Leisha began this, and Zoe challenged us to continue it--whether it's a '68 Mustang or the perfect summer day, we all get a twinkle of delight at really cool stuff. Here are a few of mine.

1. GEMSTONES. Yeah, the shinier the better. Diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds...we toured the gems room at the Natural History Museum and I might have drooled a time or two. Strangely, I don't wear a lot of jewelry. I think I like to look at it more than I like to be weighed down by it.


2. MYSTERIES. Detective books like Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, a seventh-of-a-ton, orchid-growing, beer-swilling genius, and Elizabeth Peters's feisty 1900s archeologist Amelia Peabody; smart crime dramas with great characters like NCIS and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Sherlock (Holmes), who is so popular, he is in books, television, movies, and more!

3. SCENTS. Good smells, like roses, lilacs, perfume, soap, author Leigh Morgan's candles. New-mown grass and hay. Incense. Bakeries. Ooh, donuts...mmm. Bacon sizzling, even though I'm a vegetarian. Coffee...hmm, must be dinner time, lol.

4. PUZZLES. I do CrossSums every day and enjoy variety puzzles so much I bought a box of 40. The trick is getting the mechanical pencil to run out of lead at the same time the eraser is worn away to nothing.

5. Whose Line Is It Anyway? Scenes from a Hat. Colin doing his dinosaur imitation. Wayne singing anything. Other humor too, Stephanie Plum, DragonBall Z Abridged, Weird Al, Marx Brothers, Simon's Cat, xkcd.

6. SCIENCE FICTION. Again, from books to television to movies: Asimov, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Marvel's Avengers. Many science fiction stories are about friendship and solid teamwork, which I adore. Others rejoice in grand adventure. Some have both! Who doesn't love the way Sarah Jane and the Doctor constantly rescued each other?

My niece knitted her own Tom Baker scarf and I'm just tickled every time I see it.

7. VISTAS. Not just on earth, but anything I can gaze at and breathe freer. Lakes, fields, forests, mountains. Even a big backyard satisfies something deep inside.

8. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. If it bangs, blows, or bows, I love it! My earliest memories are of banging on a toy piano, and I loved visiting my aunt, thinking she was the coolest because she had a real one!

What's your coolest stuff?