All the Favorite Things

The draft folder is down to 4 drafts, which only one is worth keeping, in my opinion. That one draft is entitled, ‘Notes in drafts’, so instead of starting a new post every time inspiration strikes, I make a note on one, continuous page and note the date.

I didn’t intend on changing the template of my WP site, but looking through the templates this one caught my eye. That photo of the woman sitting on a mat on the porch of a hut has been one of my favorite photos for years, so I couldn’t resist. Change is so much sweeter when we’re in charge of the buttons.

WordPress is counting down the days I have left to renew my paid plan and they remind me often of how many are left. It’s like a game between us where they try to instill panic and I just watch how close it comes to expiring before I renew. If you’re familiar with my world you’ll know, it takes very little to entertain me, but there’s zero doubt in my mind that I will eventually renew.

Why renew? Because I want you to have a distraction free environment while visiting. The expanded media storage is cake.

I mentioned the header photo of this site being one of my favorites, but I have many favorite photos. I’ll probably choose one from my media library for this post instead of uploading another one, because I love them all. This template was designed to advertise a yoga studio, which I am not, so I’ll need to go into settings and do some tweaking, but for now it works.

The main idea behind this post is…we can have more than one favorite and don’t allow anyone to take that away.

I was in a relationship once where he thought I could only have one favorite thing, but for me, I have many favorites in various categories. Books…an entire row of them and they are all my favorites. Wax seals, I probably have around 10 of them, but each one has meaning. So far I’ve used 13 different colors of yarn to make scarves, but these are my favorite colors.

I’ll stop there, but you get the idea.

While in this relationship. I started feeling guilty for having more than one favorite, so I stopped sharing my excitement with him. Needless to say, that relationship didn’t last.

It’s been raining here for a couple of days and I felt the need to get out of the house for a minute, so I drove to the local Texaco. I didn’t need anything, but the people who work there are a few of my favorites. I walked in and noticed a full row of my favorite chips, white cheddar PopCorners. I don’t eat chips very often, but these are my kryptonite and on this rainy day, I squealed with delight!

One of the guys who works there knows I’m forever running out of bananas for my midday smoothie, so he started carrying bananas and the basket was filled with perfectly ripened ones. He also knows those are my favorite chips and asks his vendor for them. I grabbed a banana and a bag of chips to lay them on the counter and I was thrilled to have decided to make this quick trip.

He knew I was happy by the smile on my face, but before I left I wanted to make sure he knew he’s appreciated. Standing at the double glass doors I flashed him one more smile and said, “Thank you for having all my favorite things!” He nodded and said, “Yes, ma’am”…so, now you know, we can have all the favorite things.

Feature Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

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