Favorite Things

It's Friday here and I am having one of those "appreciate all my favorite things" kind of a day. (It's primarily because I am reading Hayashi Mariko's Wedding Diaries (林真理子、『ウェディング日記』) and I am reminded of just how much I like her writing...in a different way from liking Ueno Chizuko's chip-on-the-shoulder style.)

These are a few of my favorite things: good books, good music, good people. Wine—white, rosé, sparkling (sometimes red). All wrapped up in good conversation.

Food, good food: chocolate, ice cream, flan, panna cotta, crème brûlée. Mango, watermelon, Asian pear, pineapple. Fried rice, ochazuke, and lots and lots of chicken karaage.

If I have nothing else, I can be happy being alone with a candle and some flowers. And then I won't feel so bad.