49 of Life’s Most Under-Rated Pleasures

This morning I boiled an egg. I do this many mornings, but today when I peeled the egg, after a firm crack against the counter, the shell easily peeled off in 3-4 pieces leaving only the glistening white behind. Gorgeous!

The experience reminded me of dog efficiently shaking water off his coat; it was a joy to watch.

I stopped and showed my husband the egg and, since he often peels eggs and takes chunks of white off in the process, he properly admired the accomplishment.

Perhaps this sounds odd. Maybe you’re more difficult to impress, but after some thought, I realize there’s oodles of under-rated pleasures in life. In fact, with little effort, I’ve started a list of my own.

This list isn’t the major, obvious things for which I am grateful (my family, health, or home) or even the “duh” things for which everyone is grateful (warm cookies, the cool side of the pillow, or broken-in cowboy boots), but the more random things which put a little pep in my step.

See if any of these are on YOUR list:

  1. A deep, head-to-toe, stretching yawn
  2. Cinnamon & Sugar evenly melting into toast
  3. A clean golf ball
  4. Knowing the answer to a question
  5. A ripe avocado
  6. Freeing a popcorn kernel from between your teeth
  7. Finding a match for every sock in the laundry
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  8. An accurate map
  9. A new bra
  10. Freshly cleaned teeth
  11. A great analogy
  12. Fluffy scrambled eggs
  13. Seeing a perfect double play
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  14. A preheated charcoal grill (or egg!) that someone OTHER than me has prepared
  15. Finding a geo-cache
  16. A deep, loud burp
  17. Pens whose ink flows evenly
  18. Crisp chicken skin
  19. The person in front of you NOT putting their seat back
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  20. Cleaning the hair from your brush and having it all come out in one piece
  21. And the corollary of the one above, having the dryer lint come out in one piece
  22. Camp fire smoke blowing away from you
  23. White pants that are still white at the end of the day
  24. Hearing your kids say please and/or thank you without a reminder
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  25. “Butterfly kisses”
  26. Slivers of basil on anything
  27. Breaking a pocket on a starched shirt
  28. Having enough grocery bags when you go shopping
  29. A lasting pedicure
  30. Tide pens
  31. An apt word picture
  32. Having a gate ready when the plane arrives
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  33. Balloons
  34. A non-stick pan that lives up to its name
  35. Having enough shampoo to finish the job when the bottle runs out
  36. Fresh butter
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  37. Sorting Lego pieces
  38. A satisfying book ending
  39. Cracking open a peanut and dropping the shell on the ground
  40. A well-timed phone call
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  41. When you peel a “cutie” in one piece
  42. An email that says, "disregard my earlier request, it’s been handled"
  43. Finding the “missing” puzzle piece
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  44. A dog that plays “fetch”
  45. When there’s no mistake in your/you’re, it/it’s, there/their in what I’m reading
  46. Watermelon Jolly Ranchers
  47. Stretching
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  48. A fully charged cell phone
  49. When the middle of the book is the end of the middle chapter and the middle page numbers (I really like when this happens! Am I alone?)

I realize my list is uneven, so what should be #50?

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