My Top 5 Guilty Pleasures

1. Drinking coffee past 4:00 p.m. I only do this on the rare and glorious days when I can sleep in the following morning, and it is truly decadent.

2. Watching more than one movie in a row. This is even more of a shameful indulgence because when I convince myself it's OK to watch more than one movie in a row, I usually go on a spiral of movies or TV shows lasting for hours and hours and I am a despicable human being.

3. Driving in a car in the fall with all the windows open and the heater on full blast. Yes, it's terribly wasteful to have the heater on like that and all the windows down. I don't care. It's a delicious combination of cozy and brisk and the leaves where I am are gorgeous in the fall and if you turn up the music it's perfection.

4. Pinterest. The infamous time-waster. I indulge in this one probably daily which is admittedly a little disheartening but it gives me the illusion of productivity-like buying new calendars and pens will do-and I like that. Plus, it's such a happy little world and you can make lots of little boxes full of nice things like tea and books and babies and sunshine and poems-where else do you get to do that? Nowhere, that's where.

5. Getting a hotel room instead of driving through the night when on vacation. Curling up on a nice bed with fluffy pillows and watching cooking shows and not feeling a single tinge of responsibility beyond the inherent guilt of spending that much money. Now that is a guilty pleasure.