Life's cheap but special pleasures

[mike311gd]

Playing a really good game of NBA Jam TE.

 

[zebracoy]

Playing a really good game of NBA Jam TE.

Pippen and Armstrong every day. Unbeatable.

 

[mike311gd]

Playing a really good game of NBA Jam TE.

Pippen and Armstrong every day. Unbeatable.

They were good. But it's tough to top Mourning and Johnson. Sprewell and Gugliotta with the Warriors were a good underdog combo. Ewing, Oakley and Starks were pretty damn good, too. Then there were Robinson, Rodman and Elliot, which might be the best team.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Sitting in a hot tub outdoors when it's about 20 degrees outside. Absolute heaven

How do you pull THAT off?

Well, first off you have a hot tub on your deck. Then, when it's winter, you go out and sit in it.

Thanks, wiseass.

But how do you even get in? You go out in your skivvies and freeze your nuts/tits off for a few brutal seconds? And as IJAG wonders, how the heck do you GET OUT without a.) dying of exposure and b.) losing all the fuzzies?

If you can't make it from you door to the hot tub without freezing to death, you're a wuss who shouldn't be allowed to live, let alone get into a hot tub with the awesomeness that is me, dammit!

Party at sportschick's house!!!!!!!

In Japan, there is a particular onsen (hot spring) I had the opportunity to visit when I was in the country a few years ago. In the city of Hanamaki in the northern part of the country, we went to an outdoor onsen (a rotenburo) where literally the snow was coming down as we enjoyed the absolute delight that is the Japanese hot spring resort.

The downside of course is that you have to be completely sans clothing and it wasn't co-ed. But it was cheap . . . ish.

So yeah, that's one of those simple pleasures in life that is pretty awesome.

 

[mike311gd]

Going for a walk in the afternoon during the summer or playing catch with my friends always got me through the days when I lived near my friends.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Standing ankle-deep in a Rocky Mountain stream on a late summer evening without a soul in sight; a fly-rod in my right hand, trout nibbling at the bugs on the water, a small pale evening dun on the end of my line — no bigger than the fingernail on a 2-year-old's pinky.

A perfect cast, no drag on the water, a subtle rise and... a strike. The intricate dance of leading the fish to my net. Upstream. Downstream. Net.

Taking a picture; holding the trophy in the water, facing upstream to let it get over the shock... and the trout jumping back to life, swimming out of my fingers ready to nibble on the surface again tomorrow.

(Edit: spelling)

(Disclaimer: This is actually the outline for a new Coors commercial).

 

[I'll never tell]

Reese's peanut butter Easter eggs ... I get misty eyed just thinking about them. Full disclosure: I just ate four.

And while they're not better than the actually act of having sex, what I have to go through to get sex (you're so pretty, nibble, nibble, have you lost weight, nibble, nibble, you know the dogs are outside), taking all that effort into consideration, I'd probably take a six-pack of the eggs.

 

[snuffy2]

Clearing marker #1, trimming sails, and pouring a cup of tea and sit back to enjoy a shimmering moonlit horizon that is all mine.

 

[Angola!]

Is marker #1 a sailing term?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

1. A hug or kiss from your children

2. Standing outside and feeling the calm, right before the summer thunderstorm hits.

3. When you're a kid, waking up and seeing snow outside and listening to the radio and finding out your school is closed.

 

[mike311gd]

Reese's peanut butter Easter eggs ... I get misty eyed just thinking about them. Full disclosure: I just ate four.

And while they're not better than the actually act of having sex, what I have to go through to get sex (you're so pretty, nibble, nibble, have you lost weight, nibble, nibble, you know the dogs are outside), taking all that effort into consideration, I'd probably take a six-pack of the eggs.

I like Cadbury eggs, too. But the Reese's are pretty much intoxicating.

 

[Ace]

- Typing in the last word of a rewarding story.
- Waking up and knowing it's going to be a great day.
- Laying on the couch with a special someone in your arms while not having a care in the world about what else is happening in your life at that very moment.

If this were a novel, those things would set the reader up for some huge catastrophe, rumple.