My Pleasures: Healthy, Basic, and Guilty

Healthy Pleasures – What I like that makes me feel good and like a good person/ Potentially self-righteous interests/Stuff I talk about doing but don’t always do:

1. Healthy foods like arugula, whole wheat, almonds, and berries

2. Watering the plants

3. Reading Pulitzer Prize-winning literature

4. Faith

5. Cooking for people

6. Performing classical music

7. Public speaking

8. Serving others

9. Sewing

10. Writing in my journal

Basic Pleasures – What I like that provides simple feel-good status, not necessarily in a moral sense:

1. Brushing my teeth/Washing my hair

2. Practicing the bass

3. Keeping a clean home

4. Teaching young people how to play music

5. Watching people/babies/puppies sleeping

6. Sun warmth

7. Not feeling fat

8. Soaking my own beans

9. Tweezing my eyebrows

10. Doing dance aerobics like I’m Troy Bolton

Guilty Pleasures – What I like that is inconsistent with my “front”/Pleasures that may bring me shame or mild self-loathing/Possible indications of my true character/Stuff that’s not really that bad, but makes me feel less than good in one way or another:

1. Justin Timberlake

2. Wearing really high heels

3. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese

4. Excessive internet use, such as obsessive blogging/Facebook activity

5. Passive aggression

6. Staying in bed until noon

7. Sorrow

8. Vanity (clothing, bangles, earrings for my un-pierced ears, etc.)

9. Expensive massages and spa treatment

10. Flirting with radio personalities (lesson learned)