Guilty Pleasures

Some years back I attended the National Ceramic Conference when it was hosted by Las Vegas (UNLV, actually), and the theme was Guilty Pleasures. Our conference tags therefore read: "NCECA 1997, Guilty Pleasures", and then the participants name and either college affiliation or town. There were over 4000 participants, chubby hippie college ceramics teachers, hot neo-hippie college co-eds, artists, collectors, writers, etc. Everyone wearing jeans and t-shirts, all ages. A very odd looking conference. On the last day, as I am loading up my plate with fried shrimp at the all-you-can-eat buffet, this man sidles up to me and asks, quietly,

"Excuse me, can I ask you a question?"

I was startled, but said, "Sure, what?"

"Well, I keep seeing all these people with tags that say 'Guilty Pleasures' on them, is it a club or somehing? How could I join?"

I looked down at my own tag, and said as brightly as I could, "Its a ceramics conference!"

I have rarely seen anyone look so disappointed.

Your Guilty Pleasures

So what are my guilty pleasures?

• Funyuns, cheap White Zinfandel, and chocolate fudge pop-tarts. I rarely eat them, because I don't want Arabella to catch the Funyun habit.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer tv show. Thanks to Pat, I have seen every single episode. Thanks to my husband, twice. But bringing this up with other moms is very chancy.
• Holding a sleeping baby, though I know I should be putting her in her crib.
• Buying yarn (or fabric) I don't have a plan for using. I've got alot of this purposeless yarn. I could probably make a purposeless yarn sweater or two.
• Spider Solitaire and Civilization 3 computer games.

I know, my life is pretty boring, if this is as bad as my guilty pleasures get. How about you, readers? What are your Guilty Pleasures?

ps, more Sabine pics later this week.