Up and down

I love the notion of #lazysunday. Even if I am busy with work or study (like today), I still love escaping for an hour or so in search of coffee and the Sunday papers. A regular feature that I enjoy in the Sunday magazine is Up and Down, where a list of random things is categorised as either going up or down. Like most people's opinions, it changes weekly and I always say to myself I should collate a similar list sometime so I've taken a short break in my study to share my list for this week.

Up

• Water glasses kept in the fridge at cafés. Nice.
• Cheese scones. I still can't get enough of them.
• Ginger crunch. It smells so good in the oven and tastes even better.
• iPod shuffle. I love how my iPod is so random that I can go from listening to AC/DC to Los Bravos to The Muppets to Paul Simon to Amy Winehouse all within five songs.
• Noise cancelling headphones. It's amazing just how many irritations can be replaced by my favourite music (albeit temporarily).
• Good friends and long, leisurely weekend brunches. One can never have enough. 
• Missing Pieces. Never fails to produce a tear or two.

Down

• The price of movie tickets. $17 to sit in a dark room for an hour and a half with a bunch of strangers?
• Micromanagement. You know it's true.
• TV or radio ads that shout at me. No, Harvey Norman, No!
• Stress related insomnia. It wouldn't be so bad if I I could actually achieve something useful during those wee small hours.
•  Junk mail and circulars cluttering up letterboxes. Some weeks, my recycling bin can barely keep up.
• The impending end of daylight savings time. The mornings sure are getting darker (and colder)!

What's up and down for you this week?