brown paper packages tied up with string

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!!!)



oh...the sound of music. my favorite musical (annie being a close second). i loved singing and re-enacting every scene.... the love, the laughter.... birds chirping, the hills are alive!... good triumphs over evil. down with the evil nazis, true love always wins. maria had a lot of heady things to deal with in her life.. to be a nun or not a nun. all the other nuns thought she was such a problem. how do you solve a problem like maria? new play clothes, how to make friends with liesl and teach the children to sing. that captain von trapp, sooooo stern, soooo hot. but, despite had all, maria was able to make herself feel better during those times of distress and anxiety...all she had to do was think about her favorite things... raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...



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.