I, Claudius for the win!

  So I cracked open the shrink wrap on the "I Claudius" boxed set and have just surfaced for air after watching the first two episodes. Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, I knew it was marvelous (which is why I grabbed it when I saw it at BB for $35), but I'd forgotten just how marvelous. (Then again, it came out in the US my freshman year of college!)
Sian Phillips, OMG, Sian Phillips!!!! She makes the descriptions of Livia Augusta in Suetonius look tame and dull. Magnificent!

Pleasing things

Because it really isn't always all about WTF moments and refugees from the Land of No Clue.

Candle light. Last Christmas, someone gave me one of those barrel staves with holes in it that holds six votive cups. I lit it tonight and turned off the lamps while watching "I Claudius."

bovil 's cooking. (Was this the pork tenderloin recipe you used? It was incredible.)

One of those conversations with kproche .

A post card from Dad.

Really good sashimi, good sake, and excellent company.

PM-ing about silly shit with gcmadtown81 .

An entirely voluntary cuddle from a nine year old who seems comprised entirely of elbows.

Bing cherries, right out of the refrigerator.

Bottle green Thai silk. (Must do something with it!!!)

syele 's laugh.

Borrowing a book from my father that happened to be his teaching copy, getting bits of his perspective as to what he found significant, as well as trying to puzzle out some of his more cryptic scribbles.(I've finished Galatea 2.2 and am about halfway through Little Dorrit.)

The routine coming-and-going sounds of the other tenants in the house, all of whom I get along with.