• I Have Confidence - The Sound Of Music
• Defying Gravity - Wicked
• Vegas - Sara Bareilles
• The Impossible Dream - The Man of La Mancha
• Climbing Uphill - The Last 5 Years
• It Won't Be Long Now - The Heights
• Almost There - The Princess and the Frog
• The Climb - Miley Cyrus
• Prima Donna - Christina Aguilera
• Fingerprints - Katy Perry
• Firework - Katy Perry
• Don't Rain on My Parade - Glee

• technical theatre class in high school
• started following me to the theatre in high school
• his girlfriend years before we dated
• "Have a boyfriend?" "Want One?"

In reverse order, most recent being first.

• Hays E.
• Dan A.
• Blake M.
• Jeff B.
• Stephen S.
• Nick L.

• Heathcliff
• Percy Weasley
• Fred Weasley
• Mr. Darcy

• play piano better
• play guitar
• dance
• sing
• cook
• act
• take better photographs
• understand men

• Hallelujah - Any Version
• Our Farewell - Within Temptation
• Amazing Grace - Various
• I Sang Your Praises - Daisy Chapman
• The Dark I Know Well - Spring Awakening
• Stolen - Julie Moffitt
• Deliver Me - Eva Brightman
• How Can I Not Love You - Joy Enriquez
• Me and A Gun - Tori Amos

• snuggle
• read to them
• fingerpaint
• bake cookies
• build tents from blankets
• teach the Bible stories

• the day I knew I'd been taken as a fool and continued playing it.
• the day I let myself belief I was worse than I am
• the breakdown

• Hallelujah - most varieties
• Symphony - Sarah Brightman
• Take It All - Marion Cotillard
• Be Italian - Fergie
• A Call From The Vatican - Penelope Cruz
• Addicted - Saving Abel
• 21 Guns - Green Day
• The Horror of Our Love - Ludo
• Let It Be (Long Version) - Carol Woods & Timothy T. Mitchum
• Why Don't We Do It In The Road - Dana Fuchs
• I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Across The Universe
• Strawberry Fields Forever - Across The Universe
• Nasty, Naughty Boy - Christina Aquilera
• You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joe Cocker
• Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
• Feel - Marie Digby
• It Had Better Be Tonight - Michael Buble

• "every breath we drew was hallelujah"
• "I look better than ever before and you can't stand it"
• "she's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin and Patsy Cline"
• "And I know, time still exists"
• "you opened the blinds and let the city in"
• "all of my life I was in hiding, wishing there was someone just like you"
• "she's my kind of rain like love from a drunken sky, confetti falling down all night"

• mother
• stage managing opera
• writer
• photographer
• president
• ruler of the world
• vixen

• the first lover
• the other woman
• the long-lost parent
• the monster in the closet

JANUARY

• Everything is Illuminated

FEBRUARY

• Waterworld
• Gone With The Wind
• Toy Story 3

• Looking For Alaska
• Catcher In The Rye-
• Gone With The Wind
• Death of a Salesman
• King Lear
• Alice in Wonderland
• Through the Looking Glass
• The Bell Jar
• We Were Soldiers Once and Young
• Identical
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
• Hattie Big Sky
• The Messenger
• Dracula
• Misery
• Milk In My Coffee
• Angels and Demons
• The Phantom Of The Opera
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• The Hunger Games-
• Atlas Shrugged

• Pyramids of Egypt
• Chichen Itza
• Pompeii
• Mont Saint-Michel
• Great Wall of China
• Petra
• Kashmir Valley
• Topkapi Palace
• Taj Mahal
• Nile River Cruise
• Prague Old Town
• Carnival in Rio
• Serengeti Migration
• Easter Island
• Golden Temple
• Stonehenge
• Galapagos Islands
• Cappadocia
• Amalfi Drive
• Angel Falls
• Grand Canyon

• "if you don't benefit my life, you're out of it"
• "lay it all out. boys are stupid. and hinting is the same as saying nothing at all. and silence kills relationships. no matter how much you love someone."

• The Bible
• Wicked - Gregory Maguire
• Harry Potter - JK Rowling
• The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock - T.S. Eliot (a poem, but still)
• Looking For Alaska

• walking into my employer's class to hand her graded papers as she flips to the slide on stage managers.

• ✔ The Globe
• La Scala
• Broadway
• ✔ West End
• ✔ Westminster Abbey
• ✔ Notre Dame
• ✔ Houses of Parliament
• ✔ Moulin Rouge
• ✔ Kings' Cross
• Barbados

• "metaphors" in song lyrics
• spoons
• meatloaf

• choking
• there is not enough air in the universe to fill my lungs
• the walls are coming down
• crying jags in my bathroom
• stop eating
• nothing matters
• can't focus
• I am everything unlovable.

• sleep in
• daydream
• coffee
• write
• photography
• read
• spend the day in the arms of a lover

• him

• Children
• Love
• La Scala
• Art

Italics are rereads.

January

• The Handmaid's Tale
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Everything is Illuminated
• Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
• Mirror Mirror
• Burned
• Cyrano De Bergerac
• The Poetry Lesson

February

• Asterios Polyp
• Catcher in the Rye
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• Catching Fire
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (play)
• Gathering the Tribes
• Sh*t My Dad Says
• Tremble

JANUARY

• What I Wanted To Say (High School Thespian Festival)
• Anybody for Tea (High School Thespian Festival)
• The Yellow Boat (High School Thespian Festival)
• Emotional Baggage (High School Thespian Festival)

FEBRUARY

• Almost, Maine (Henderson State University)

• photography
• creative writing-
• pottery
• stage management-
• politics in the Middle East
• Advanced Creative Writing

• have a pet hermit crab
• ✔ visit The Globe
• Visit La Scala
• stage manage opera
• write a book
• graduate with my Bachelor of Theatre Arts
• Get into an Opera program
• graduate from a top graduate program with an MFA in Stage Management
• stage manage at The Globe or La Scala
• get published
• pose in the nude
• get married
• dance with my dad at my wedding
• have children
• have grandchildren
• go to Spain
• go to Mexico
• act in a play (as in onstage, not in the booth 0.0)

• Harmony
• Ruth Isabella
• Clara
• Camille

• people who don't understand their politics or know anything about them
• bigots. God loves us all.
• music majors
• people who don't put their conflicts on their audition sheets
• loud cast members
• people with really bad BO
• people who go after my family.
• actors with phones out during rehearsal
• people who fake mental problems for attention (ie. depression, eating disorders)
• people who show up where they are not wanted or needed

• everything is fantastic
• I'm unstoppable
• I'm beautiful, attractive, and sexy
• quick to anger
• creative
• healthy
• hyper
• excited
• restless - gotta keep moving, gotta get outta here
• big things are coming
• I cannot thing fast enough to get all the ideas that flow through it.

• Sharpies
• pencils
• pens
• pencil sharpener
• first aid kit
• stop watch
• inhaler
• tylenol
• hair ties
• feminine hygiene products
• breath mints

• physics
• math
• the left train of thought and I mean that in the nicest way possible
• men
• laziness

• School for myself and my brothers.
• My parents mortgage
• Buy myself a house near the college (no more rent!)
• Graduate School
• My parents' renovations
• Trip to Europe for the entire family
• Go to La Scala
• dream house

• Armageddon
• Titanic
• Lars and The Real Girl

• theatre
• poetry
• photography
• my faith