• silhouette
• fluoroscope
• mellifluous
• acquiesce
• conundrum

books first, movies at the bottom

• Custom-Made Bride by Kurt Vonnegut

"You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants."

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut...

1. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
2. Iron & Wine and Calexico - Sixteen, Maybe Less
3. DeYarmond Edison - Silent Signs
4. Cranes & Crows - Royalty Red
5. Rocky Votolato - Silent
6. Carissa's Wierd - All Apologies and Smiles, Yours Truly, Ugly Valentine
7. Iron & Wine - Fever Dream
8. The Decemberists - Of Angels and Angles
9. Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
10. Chris Garneau - We Don't Try
11. Lovedrug - Candy
12. The Good Life - A Golden Exit
13. The Fever...

• winter
• living things
• weekend
• spring
• summer
• age
• sea
• xmas
• horn
• clothes

1. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
2. Iron & Wine - Resurrection Fern
3. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
5. Great Lake Swimmers - Various Stages
6. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - When Your Mind's Made Up
7. Maria Taylor with Andy LeMaster - Leap Year
8. Gregory and the Hawk - Fin Song 8 (Orange River Remix)
9. Joshua Radin - Sky (feat. Meiko)
10. matt pond PA - New Hampshire
11. Sparrow House - ...

• Of Montreal - The Repudiated Immortals

I like to sit and listen to the sound/ Of the snowflakes landing on the trees/ But I can't get used to feeling cold/ I can't get used to what has happened here to you and me / There's no escaping so I won’t try/ It's just the heaviness that comes with knowing you will never die

• Bright Eyes - Lime Tree

it comes to me in fragments, even those still split in two,...

• a good photograph
• the rain
• the sky
• swinging
• clean sheets & a freshly made bed
• the stillness of autumn and winter
• autumn in general
• winter clothes
• morning light
• lakes, oceans, creeks
• parks and playgrounds
• cafes

• brisk weather
• layered clothes
• winter hats and scarves come out
• leaves change
• drinking cider and more teas

Read

• The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Vurt by Jeff Noon
• Automated Alice by Jeff Noon
• Plain City by Virginia Hamilton
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger
• Nine Stories by J.D.Salinger
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Skellig by David Almond
• The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody...

• More Than Just a House

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

• First Blood

But the first stars were out over Lake Shore Drive, and all about her she could feel Chicago swinging around its circle at a hundred miles an hour, and Josephine knew that she only wanted to want such wants for her soul's s...

• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• How I Met Your Mother
• The Office
• The Big Bang Theory
• Two and a Half Men
• Scrubs
• Kid Nation
• Flight of the Conchords
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Family Guy
• Lingo
• The Price Is Right
• Chain Reaction
• Dharma and Greg
• One Tree Hill
• Gilmore Girls
• Everwood

• Once
• About A Boy
• Garden State
• Empire Records
• Pirates of the Caribbean 1&2
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Science of Sleep
• Juno
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Grandma's Boy
• Music and Lyrics
• Sliding Doors
• Elf
• The Emperors New Groove
• Fern Gully
• Dumbo
• Peter Pan
• Robin Hood
• Mary Poppins
• Finding Nemo
• Ice Age 1&2
• The Princess Bride
• I <3 Huckabees
• The Squid and the Whale
• Thank You for Smoking
• Coffee and Cigar...

me: (trivial pursuit question) "what does a meteorologist study?" Allie: a neurologist? me: no, meteorologist Allie: meteors? me: A METEOROLOGIST?!

• "Hey! Ditch-Witch!" -Papa Wolfe
• "I'm sending my kids to school in tie-dyed sweatsuits." -Allie
• "Well I was pressing the go button but nothing was happening!" -Allie, while driving.
• "Cheers to the Y swimmers." -Greg, with beer in hand.
• Taija and I via AIM:

T:...

• laughing until it hurts and still not being able to stop
• making my niece and nephew laugh
• sleeping in cold rooms under lots of blankets
• sleeping at the "wrong" end of the bed
• being slightly unkempt and then taking a much needed shower
• finding that one line in a book, song, or movie that I can relate to
• listening to my cousin sarah talk my ear off about everything a 6th grader has to talk about
• counting h...

• roadtrips:
• state park
• rock city
• sculpture park
• beach!
• concerts
• shopping
• stay-ins:
• movie marathons:
• Pirates/Johnny Depp
• Disney classics
• 10th Kingdom
• Medieval movies
• Sappiest movies
• classics
• tv show marathons:
• The Office
• Flight of the Conchords
• Everwood
• Gilmore Girls
• games:
• phase10
• uno
• scattergories
• mario kart
• wii sports

• Coffees
• Teas
• Thai Tea
• Arizona Red Apple tea
• Raspberry Iced Tea
• Hot Cocoa
• Strawberry or Chocolate milk made with Nesquik syrup
• Cream Soda, Root Beer, Ginger Ale &other sodas.. Dr Pepper but not Coke or Pepsi
• Kool-Aid (especially watermelon kiwi)
• Homemade Lemonade
• Apple Juice/Cider

1. koolaid
2. popsicles (the fla-vor-ice kind. i've always called them popsicles but some people call them other things)
3. fudgesicles
4. milkshakes
5. junior caramels
6. caramel apple pops
7. peanut butter m&ms
8. cheese ritz bits
9. nutter butters
10. oreos
11. chocolate (my mom is basically a chocoholic so it's very hard to avoid at home)

• missing people
• self-righteousness
• the fact that i never got to know my grandpa
• how far away my cousins live- not getting to be in their lives and watch them grow up
• angsty/antsy feelings
• misconceptions
• the really bad feeling i get at the pit of my stomach when somethings bad and i don't know how to fix it.
• thinking excessively
• not being able to fall asleep or wake up when i want to
• when the heels of my jea...

• BFD on The Daily Show
• "in a bath? in a bath? in a bath?"
• "bloood-uh!"
• "i was robbed by two men"
• harder better finger stronger
• kids dance to soulja boy
• fun wedding dance
• batty rap
• Mr. Lube commercial
• Aussie boy throws party while parents ar...