A New Favorite

Summer is here which is a wonderful thing. And as spring was ending and summer was starting I found myself a new favorite. I know, I’m the girl who claims to not have favorites for a variety of reasons. And for the most part I stand by that. I don’t have set favorites. I don’t have one favorite book or one favorite movie or one favorite color. A lot of that depends on my mood and what’s going on in my life and all the rest of it. But I do have groups of favorites. Favorite books. Favorite colors. Favorite TV shows and/or channels.

Lately, my new favorite is HGTV. And to be completely honest, I’m about as likely to take on a home renovation or decoration project as I am to take on a big cooking project. And yet two of my favorite TV channels are HGTV and Food Network. I get completely sucked in. I love watching people cook. I love watching homes get renovated. It inspires me for what I might do in the future. I get just as sucked in to these shows as I do to my mystery shows and sitcoms and teenage dramas.

It helps that these shows, the HGTV and the Food Network shows, make for good background noise. They’re what I listen to while I clean my room or while I blog or while I color in the awesome new coloring book my dad bought me. I grew up in a house where we used TV as background noise, and these channels make good background nose.

What are some of your favorites? Let me know!

BrittanyM

My New Favorite Thing

I have a lot of “favorite things”. I can’t help it. I see something. I get really excited about it. And I proclaim it my favorite. I have favorite books, movies, pens, Post-Its, shirts. You name it and there’s a definite chance that it’s been my “favorite” at one point.

Lately my “favorite” is this really cool pen that I have. I know, I know, I love all pens, right? And yeah, I kind of do. But this one is really great. Let me explain why.

I’m really busy with grad school work right now. My class actually ends on Monday, so I’m finishing up a lot of projects right now. And since starting the class there’s been a lot of reading, note-taking and highlighting. A lot a lot. And that’s where this pen comes in.

It’s a pen on one end and a highlighter on the other.

I’m not even joking.

This is a pen that I picked up for free at college. (Side note: I’m a sucker for free pens. I love them and a lot of the time they write really really well.) But this is a pen that I picked up for free and didn’t even necessarily plan on using. I’m really particular about the pens I use to take notes, and I normally use black Bic ballpoint pens. I used this pen on a whim a couple of weeks ago. And i fell in love with it.

I love not having to put my pen down to use my highlighter. I love how well the pen writes. I love that the highlighter is green, but not too dark. I just really love this pen. I wish I had more of them.

How about all of you? Do you have something that you just love to write with? Or a random favorite? Let me know!

BrittanyM