With inspiration from the most recent book I’ve read, The Book of Awesome, I have created my own list of Top 10 awesome things. I couldn’t resist using some examples from the book because they were just so awesome.
10. Figuring out how to work the hotel shower faucet. You look, tilt your head, scratch your chin fiddle with it until – success! Water starts pouring and you jump into the shower happily and proud of your accomplishment.
9. The sizzling sound of nachos or bacon. You know the sound. The popping of bacon grease or the smell of melting cheese. This is just a reassuring sound that soon the hot, greasy, crunchy, slice of bacon will be touching your lips at any given moment.
8. Victory dances. I am truly grateful for the Nintendo Wii for this reason alone. You hit a home run in baseball on Wii Sports and suddenly you’re doing the Michael Jackson moon-walk crossed with some alternative version of “the sprinkler” across your living room. You don’t laugh at each other, instead you join in.
7. Eating free samples of something you have no intention of buying. One word. Costco.
6. Putting on socks from right out of the dryer. It’s minus 30 degrees Celsius outside and you remember the laundry you did the night before. Put it on a quick touch-up time and in minutes put on toasty warm socks and venture into the frigid outside.
5. Sneezing. That feeling you get when you have to sneeze so bad and then you finally do. It just feels, well, awesome.
4. Remembering what other movie “that guy” is from. I’m really bad for this. You’ve seen them before. But where? Realizing, “Oh! She was an extra in that movie,” or “He was her boyfriend in that show!” It’s a good feeling as though watching movies is not a “complete” waste of time.
3. Writing messages on the mirror after a steamy shower for the next person to read when they come into the bathroom. I do this on my shower doors, windows and mirrors. There’s not really any message, just my name, some smiley faces and doodles. This also works on window frost in the car.
2. Waking up early on Saturday, realizing that it’s Saturday and drifting back off to sleep with a huge smile on your face. Students you really know what I’m talking about. It’s a great feeling.
1. Parallel parking perfectly on the first try. When it’s 2 a.m. and there’s only one spot left and you’re forced to – reverse. Drive. Reverse. Drive. And repeat as necessary until the task is completed. But when you do it on the first try it almost feels as if you want to get out of your car and accept an award for your amazing driving skills. Especially when there’s people around and you shoot them a look of “Yeah, I just did that.” And strut away proudly.
For the full review on The Book of Awesome, see page ___. Next week’s column I’ll tell you the Top 10 Misquoted movie scenes.