As an adult, what seemingly childish things do you get excited about?
I love bridges. If I see a cool looking bridge, I want to cross it, especially if it goes somewhere that I’m not familiar with. Same with stairs outdoors. They feel like an adventure to me.
Honestly so much stuff I don’t even know where to start. The world is amazing!
Blankets, bubblebaths, colouring in, making a mess, making stuff out of mess, chocolate, jigsaws, road trips, snowy days, macaroni cheese, exploring new places, playing games, giving and receiving hugs, dancing just because, wearing big whooshy skirts and making them go whoosh, cuddling dogs, cake, rollercoasters, ok you probably get the idea.
Also I got to go on a reeeeally big boat this year, that was awesome.
I used to babysit a little girl who, if she saw someone in a skirt or dress, would run up to them and say, “Hey! Hey! Um. Does your dress spin?” And of course, even strangers knew the only correct response was to perform the most elaborate twirl and make that dress spin. Now, over a decade later, when I’m shopping for dresses, I always give them a test spin to make sure they’re wooshy enough.
Thank you for reminding me of that memory this morning, it sparked joy :)
I love going to the toy aisles in stores or to toy stores with my daughter. I don’t even have the excuse of looking to buy something for her anymore because she’s 13. We both just love looking at toys. There are so many cool toys. Also, so many toys to make fun of.
Inclement weather. Any kind really but the bigger, the better. Snow flurries, a really big thunderstorm, howling wind - I turn 5 years old again every time. Just overcome with excitement and fear and awe.
I feel that. I bought one of those gel bead shooters the other day, just on a lark.
It is glow in the dark. The gel beads it shoots are also glow in the dark. It’s got a pair of UV LED’s in the magazine that charge them up before it fires them. It’s great; like your own little stormtrooper laser blaster.
It was only $40. I would have shoveled so many driveways and mowed so many lawns to be able to afford that as a kid.
I used to be into Nerf blasters when I was younger, into my teens I would remove the air restrictors and change out the springs, other various performance modifications.
I recently discovered the Adventure Force Aeon Pro, which is an off brand blaster that seems to be marketed for that demographic, and it certainly delivers. Playing with it practically makes me giggle.
Birds and wildlife in my neighborhood. I’m technically in suburbia, but enough old growth patches have been maintained that we have a surprising amount of wild animals that live in or travel through the neighborhood (Massachusetts, US)
Merlin app is amazing for identifying birds at the feeder I put on my back deck. And the rest of the animals, I mentally collect like Pokemon.
Thank you for this! I’ve found myself getting more interested in birds just this past year, and that app looks great. I got a set of binoculars for stargazing but been finding myself using them more to look at birds lol
BOOOOO I’m so sorry! That absolutely sucks. My car was at 200k+ miles and just kept truckin. Til 220k. When it died very hard. I wonder if the water contributed to that. I didn’t know it was so deep.
Metro. Train go underground, yay! Probably helps that where I’m from they’re pretty tidy.
Mechanical items being repaired. It didn’t work as it was supposed to, now it does, magical, you healed it! (Sometimes it’s even me being the magician.)
Add comment