{"id":37896,"date":"2013-11-04T23:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37896"},"modified":"2020-07-08T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T03:30:20","slug":"a-few-things-id-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37896","title":{"rendered":"A few things I\u2019d like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">At first notion, this might seem like kind of a fluff post, but the thing is if anyone ever asks me \u201c<em>what would you like<\/em>?\u201d often times, I don\u2019t necessarily have an answer for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s not that things I want are all exorbitantly expensive, although most are, like more championship belts, a larger home in a better neighborhood, camera equipment, but when it comes to little things that are more like trinkets, or along the caliber of birthday or holiday gifts, I typically don\u2019t have the slightest clue to what to ask for.\u00a0 Typically, I\u2019m a fairly anti-clutter kind of person, and I have to imagine that if I lived by myself completely, my entire residence would be considered \u201cminimalist\u201d bordering along the lines of appearing like a somewhat abandoned home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The point is, I\u2019m not someone with a lot of materialistic wants.\u00a0 Lately, I\u2019ve been thinking about things I\u2019d want, and missing the point, the following are (mostly) things that aren\u2019t necessarily in the \u201cgift\u201d class either, but whatever, I want them anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>A nice coat<\/strong>.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t had a particularly nice coat in quite some time.\u00a0 Throughout the years, I\u2019ve worn big, oversized coats of my past, or hooded sweatshirts that aren\u2019t necessarily bad garments for warmth in cooler weather, but as my aesthetic preferences have gradually changed throughout the years, I\u2019m finding that I wouldn\u2019t mind something that looked a little nicer and more fitted.\u00a0Something versatile too, like something that I could wear to the typical family dinner, or when simply going out to a somewhat fancy occasion.\u00a0 Maybe I need more than one coat, but the bottom line is that I wouldn\u2019t mind having some nicer outerwear, especially as the fall is beginning to settle in and the temperatures are dropping again.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>A necklace with intrinsic or personal value<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yeah, it might sound kind of lame or sissy-ish to some, but I like jewelry.\u00a0 But the thing is that I don\u2019t really want something that I can go to the mall and pick up at a wagon kiosk, as I said, I\u2019d like to have something to wear around my neck that has meaning to me.\u00a0 Obviously, this isn\u2019t something that can easily be acquired, but from an aesthetic perspective, I\u2019d like to have something to wear around my neck.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Another tattoo<\/strong>.\u00a0 Not everyone might know it, but I\u2019ve got five tattoos.\u00a0 Four of them are dorkily anime-related, and all gotten before I was even legal, and they\u2019re there til the end of time, regardless of how I may feel about them today.\u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t matter, lately, I\u2019ve been thinking about the possibility of getting another one.\u00a0 What and where it would go, I don\u2019t have the really have much clue, but hopefully I\u2019ll make a decision on something that I\u2019ll be happy with.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And there you have it, things I want.\u00a0 Obviously, these aren\u2019t things that are going to be of any help if there are people out there that are into gift giving, but I needed something to write about, and this felt like something as good as any to do such with.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first notion, this might seem like kind of a fluff post, but the thing is if anyone ever asks me \u201cwhat would you like?\u201d often times, I don\u2019t necessarily have an answer for them. 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