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.
8 comments:
Such A happy blog... I too Had that same hair cut.... And i guess I sort of do now???hmmm? and the pic. of the girls was priceless you did not even have to but a black box over their eyes.
I too had the maria Hair cut but I ended up looking like the little brother on Swiss Family Robinson. THose were difficult years for me. I love this blog. these are very good things.
I need help with Photoshop and sending you my logo. I have anger and frustration with it and want to perfectly place some swears...
rachel this is a rockin list! i loved learning some of the stuff you love! let's plan another trip to mesquite sometime. i want in on that crazy bingo action!
Perfectly timed swears are some treasured times in my life. For example: I remember in ceremonial group, after Teri had been blabbing for approximately 17 hours on how tragic it was that everyone was against her and Alison, and we were all bored to death, and you just interrupted and said that not you or anyone else in the room gave a rat's ass about them! Oh that was beautiful and the perfectly timed swear to end all perfectly timed swears.
Anyway, I'm proud of you for being all grownup and therapeutic about the sucky stuff in life, and I think your favorite things kick ass and take names. Is this about killing the goat?
Loved the blog Rachel - thanks for sharing. Keep adding to the list.....
I miss you, racher.
Ok, I have officially visited guacomole lives and enjoyed your list immensely. Can we please watch Girls Just Wanna Have Fun together???? One of my favorite movies EVER! All the other stuff on your favorites list was pretty damn cool too, I must say. Now I'm going to go post my once every 2 month post on my blog just for you. :)
Was River Phoenix always on the list...well if he was, today I just noticed and he is definitely deserving of his placement here.
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