Sounds Like Bubblegum.

Seven years passed since I created my blog. Feels like it was only yesterday when I sat down in my old office to write that first post. I didn't know where I was heading. I remember when people discovered I have a blog, two months after. Good old funny days. On my 2nd anniversary I posted this and on my 3rd anniversary I posted this. Don't know why I stopped this 'ritual'. I decided to write a list of 100 things today; 50 of which I love, and the other 50 of things I miss. The things I will post are not the obvious stuff everybody knows I love. Things vary from people, places, ideas, etc. The things I miss do not include people I know who passed away, because those are missed day and night.

In no specific order:

1. I love how music sounds better when I am alone

2. I love leaving the house to find no one in my street

3. I love helping people

4. I love praying

5. I love matching my socks with my underwear

6. I love going to the movies

7. I love daydreaming of myself playing some guitar solos

8. I love the smell of fresh laundry

9. I love when my feet touches soft wet grass and hot tender sand

10. I love writing, whenever, wherever and whatever

11. I love watching old people

12. I love gazing into a baby’s eyes

13. I love washing my car

14. I love pepper, especially on eggs

15. I love opening conversations with barbers and taxi drivers

16. I love the sun

17. I love fresh smelling perfumes

18. I love hugging my nieces

19. I love how a fresh bar of soap smells

20. I love naps during weekends

21. I love handwritten letters

22. I love people who wear glasses (eye glasses that is)

23. I love black and white photography

24. I love drinking hot chocolate

25. I love cemeteries

26. I love watching random acts of kindness

27. I love cartoons

28. I love when things magically fall into place

29. I love photo albums and scrapbooks

30. I love making silly faces, silly voices and silly sounds

31. I love BootCamp

32. I love getting pedicures

33. I love fresh baked bread

34. I love trains

35. I love numbers

36. I love framed pictures

37. I love massages

38. I love cold showers right after hot ones

39. I love my neighbours, who no longer live with me

40. I love sneakers

41. I love reading the papers

42. I love hotel beds 

43. I love facial scrubs

44. I love tissues

45. I love theme parks

46. I love toothbrushes 

47. I love horror movies

48. I love silver

49. I love water

50. I love Angie Kafafi

51. I miss Dr Martens shoes

52. I miss MTV Europe's Top Twenty

53. I miss Arby's Blaze Burgers

54. I miss Abdou Saleh El Wahsh, the best football analyst ever

55. I miss my neighbours, the Shorafas; especially Mohamed, Fahd, Sarah and Maha

56. I miss Mohamed Abou Shady  

57. I miss Khaled Moussa  

58. I miss Mr. Richard Woffenden

59. I miss Ayman Sadek

60. I miss Tante Nadoush; her son Sherif and her daughter Kandy, Tante Nahed; her son Mohamed, her daughter Nevine, and their cousin Perry Samir

61. I miss Karim Hassan  

62. I miss Sherif Boghdady

63. I miss Slush Puppie

64. I miss my cousins; Peki, Seif and Dina. The rest, I haven't really known to miss

65. I miss my brother living with us

66. I miss the random talks in school with Dorotea Youssef

67. I miss Mai Kotb

68. I miss Hatem Saleh and Sherif Ramzy 

69. I miss Omar Bary

70. I miss football debates with Amr Fahmy 

71. I miss Omar Akl, 8 years now :(

72. I miss Ahmed El Bishri 

73. I miss Youssef Fakhry   

74. I miss reviewing the Smashing Pumpkins music with Rana Fahmy

75. I miss Jaillan Ahmed aka Julie Bibo

76. I miss playing 5-aside football 

77. I miss Mohamed Hedayet, Omar Bakir, Ihab Abd El Moneim and Hassan Ghorab  

78. I miss Rhodes   

79. I miss the American dude Yehia who was with me in university who called himself Adam

80. I miss video games 

81. I miss Maxiems sandwiches

82. I miss Maamoura, Montazah, El Nasr Cabins and Kouta Park

83. I miss Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Oasis and Blur

84. I miss my leg pre the operation 

85. I miss Yasmin Barakat, Dina Dali and Salma El Shorafa 

86. I miss singing the Egyptian national anthem 

87. I miss buying music CD's  

88. I miss sleepovers with my guys

89. I miss the old man who used to sit at the ahwa and talk about football. We called him 'El Gohary' 

90. I miss A&W burgers and root beer    

91. I miss Weber Shandwick

92. I miss how cheap life was

93. I miss Oman 

94. I miss my football mentor, Captain Amr Atata

95. I miss Ramadan in February   

96. I miss VH1's Weekend music

97. I miss bowling

98. I miss dog tags 

99. I miss Annalisa T. Supetran

100. I miss Angie Kafafi