
when i was a kid all sorts of delusions about life... i thought if i bounced a basketball everywhere i went i could eventually play in the olympic summer games or if i could only save up enough pennies to attend space camp i could become an astronaut or that somehow i would be discovered as a child genius and be the best at everything... or.... that i could actually be maria from the sound of music. (i even had the hair cut, that's dedication).
(yes, that is a dukes of hazzard tshirt! yeahhh!!!)

well i have a few favorite things too:
• reading all night long. (thanks ruthie)
• sheppie's grin when i return.
• the color green (i made a store dedicated to it)
• chips n' salsa, hot salsa
• sarcasm (stating the opposite of an intended meaning especially in order to jest or mock a person, situation or thing. it is strongly associated with irony, with some definitions classifying it as a type of verbal irony.)
• the smell of new books.
• mini coopers
• apple computers

• good shoes (just got me some green converse yesterday!)
• better socks
• bowling (a sport where the better you are, the more you get to sit and drink soda)
• honest, genuine people
• dr. pepper
• mommie melt-downs (even though it sometimes happens to me)
• heroines...smart & tough chicks
• dada
• lisa loeb
• hootenannies (really loud and obnoxious guitar play singalongs)
• mr. toad's wild ride
• girls' state
• cops the tv show
• salt
• art museums - the louvre - mfa - met - moma - guggenheim
• big cities

• buttercup (middle sister, bad-ass and she's green.)
• bart the dog says do the ska
• when emi makes ella cackle
• the go-to sweater

• gold dollars (want to feel rich? how about a pocket of gold dollars.)
• figuring hard stuff out
• swell people
• the moment just after i force myself to try something new.
• really loud music.
• freedom
• radiohead's "creep"
• sleeping
• a perfectly timed swear
• history

• van gogh's "night cafe"
• pablo picaso, c.s. anderson
• french paper company

• river pheonix
• girls just want to have fun ("i LOVE to dance.")
• 80's hair bands
• skateboarders
• strongbad
• "catcher in the rye" - by jd salinger (bef0re it was cool to like it)
• knowing the right answer
• playing the devil's advocate

• vespas (real vespas...)
• selma
• riding bikes with sheppie
• bingo
• driving through puddles
• art with substance
now there is a lot of stuff in my life that really bugs, only a few things i actually hate. but, i'm hoping the more i think of my favorite things, i'll get to forget about all that other crap.