For thetenspot: Ten things that make your day better!

[control_issues]

1. The day’s first cup of coffee. Objectively, I get that it’s not about the taste. No way is it about the taste. I always overfill my pot, and it winds up coming out bitter and grainy. Cream and sugar are a waste of time, because they never help, so I just suck it up and drink my homemade sludge. But five minutes after I’m done, the caffeine is going through my system, and I feel like I might be able to get through a day of murders and personal pineapples.

2. Those rare moments where Crews is quiet. Not the crazy, frenzied kind of quiet like I.A.D. was moving in on him. That silence was worse than Crews’ longest rants all put together. No, I’m talking about the mornings where Charlie declares that it’s “Contemplation Day”. Contemplation apparently involves silence, sometimes with low-level humming.

I wonder what exactly Crews is contemplating (the wife dead on a staircase, a man in the trunk of his car, dig a hole, fill it up, or maybe just the price of oranges), but it’s probably best for the both of us that I don’t know.

3. I’d say arresting someone guilty, but these days I wonder about that. He makes me wonder about that.

4. Yeah-

All I’ve got is the three.

Comments

[wolfwithaguitar.livejournal.com]

I think we need to get you a couple more.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it. I'm good with three. Anyway, I'm betting there aren't a lot of people who could fill up a whole list and mean it.

[wolfwithaguitar.livejournal.com]

You're probably right, but I can recommend a great sushi bar.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

*smirks* You might want to be careful. In some circles, that could be mistaken as a dinner invite

[wolfwithaguitar.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

Point taken, but how is that a bad thing in this situation, exactly?

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

In this exact situation? I'm a vegetarian. In general?

*hesitates*

I'm just not too great at the dinner thing.

[wolfwithaguitar.livejournal.com]

They have good salads. Don't ask me how those two things go together but they do.

*shrugs*

Neither am I, but it's not like there's a scorecard.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

It's L.A. Most people subside on lettuce and diet coke. Everywhere has to have good salads.

In my experience, there's always a scorecard. Even if no one think they're keeping it.

[wolfwithaguitar.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

For me, it's Pop-Tarts and SoBe.

Who knows? Someone might manage to surprise you.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

Maybe. The other day, I had to write up a report charging a boa constrictor with aiding and abetting. Homemade spaghetti sauce was involved. Some things can still surprise me.

[wolfwithaguitar.livejournal.com]

Wow. I think that actually beats my guitar story.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

...there's a guitar story?

[wolfwithaguitar.livejournal.com]

I, um...

...in an emergency situation was forced to sacrifice my guitar to save my best friend.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

That...sounds just a bit implausible.

[wolfwithaguitar.livejournal.com]

*as if expecting to get smacked with a ruler*

He hit my best friend so I hit him. With my guitar.

[laura-muse.livejournal.com]

All of a sudden, I find myself appreciating my own coffee-making skills a lot more.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I used to just buy it from this food cart down the street, but then the guy shut it down and went to Tibet to become a monk.

Only in L.A.