<p>Judge Judy – just love her slapping those young 'uns around and feeling like my kids are actually doing okay in the whole scheme of things</p>
<p>I Love Lucy, the Hollywood shows</p>
<p>Trashy paperbacks bought at the airport before a beach vacation</p>
<p>detective novels for the beach…can buy one I have read before and not realize it until chapter 3! (I call it “potato chip reading,”)</p>
<p>I don’t think I Love Lucys should be a guilty pleasure. Those are classics. Of course, I did say I watch a lot of crappy TV.</p>
<p>^^you got some s’plainin’ to do!</p>
<p>^^Waaaa! Why can’t I be in the show?</p>
<p>Crappy TV could be its own thread. H & I call it “comfort TV” for him it’s Twilight Zone for me it’s pretty much any sit-com prior to the '80s.</p>
<p>^^You can be! Remember? You get inside the TV cabinet without the TV tube…</p>
<p>A couple of weeks ago we saw some ILL reruns from when Ricky’s band was touring Europe. I love the one where the guys have “designer” dresses made from potato sacks and hats made from a feedbag and an ice bucket. I also saw the one where they got trapped in the Swiss chalet while hiking. Good times.</p>
<p>VeryHappy (what a nice user name): remember that Pacific NW rains are not spectacularly heavy, more sort of a continuous drizzle, so your mileage may very. I wear pants made from a technical fabric (from the brand Lucy) that insulates a bit even when wet, and I wear a fleece jacket over a cycling base layer that wicks sweat in one direction. Thus I am reasonably warm even though wet. Back when I used to run in east coast rains, I wore goretex. But east coast rains can be warm in the summer; in the PNW, it doesn’t rain much in the summer and when it does rain it’s the cool/cold season. (Growing up on the east coast, I LOVED walking in warm rain.)</p>
<p>My Top 20 Secret Pleasures (in no particular order):</p>
<p>“Easy Listening” AKA “Beautiful” music
Naps
Spider Solitaire
Browsing thrift stores for books and records
Petting zoos
Murder mysteries
Coin laundries
Eclipses and meteor showers<br>
Alan Rickman’s and Rosalind Russell’s voices
Peanut butter (right from the jar)
Internet quizzes
Charlie Chan movies
Trains, subways, and trolleys
Puzzles (Sudoku, logic, crossword, jigsaw, other)
Sage-filled canyons on warm summer nights
Thermal underwear
Swing sets
Eavesdropping on public conversations
Classic films and old sitcom reruns
Walking alone in the wind, rain, fog, or snow</p>
<p>Oatmeal… and Maury.</p>
<p>Thanks, dmd77. I need to prepare better for my walks in the rain. The dogs insist on being exercised, even on rainy days. The nerve.</p>
<p>And to whoever mentioned afternoon naps as a secret pleasure – yes, yes! The best!!!</p>
<p>I love In Touch magazine, which I pour over front to back. I have no idea who 99% of the “celebrities” are, but I am completely fascinated anyway.</p>
<p>I also love self help books, on any subject. It’s sort of a hobby— reading about self improvement but not actually doing any of it. Particularly the how-to-organize ones.</p>
<p>Ninja Warrior would be at the top of my list. Numbingly fascinating.</p>
<p>Two things only:</p>
<p>1) RuneScape
2) Anime, mainly Naruto</p>
<p>I love ice cream with wine.
Listening to the rain dropping on the skylight.
The smell of the soil when it’s wet.
I could spend endless hours listening to Charles Aznavour and Mireille Mathieu.
I love Sat. because no matter how the weather is I go out for a few hours. That’s my “me time”. I really believe that’s one of the reason I am still sane. 
No kids in tow and I go places that I want to go to.</p>
<p>Wedding shows. Can’t stay away from them. Drives my husband nuts.</p>
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<p>I think my only disappointment with being married is that I feel I can no longer purchase the Martha Stewart Weddings magazines with impunity.</p>
<p>Bad “B” Movies</p>
<p>I am always amazed that they could find the financing to make them.</p>
<p>zoosermom- I have only caught it a couple of times when flipping through the channels but I found myself watching and enjoying the show where they go shopping for the wedding dress in NYC. Don’t know the name of it or even what channel.</p>
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By the powers vested in me by absolutely no one, I hereby grant you impunity.</p>