• Hello, My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
• And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper.
• Strange things are afoot at the Circle K
• "You despise me, don't you?" "If I gave you any thought I would."
• Oh my Go
  
  Karen! You can't just ask people why they're white!
• That's their fighting walk!
• There's no crying in baseball!
• I've quit better jobs than this!
• That's not a moon; it's a space station!
• I think we're not in Kansas anymore
• Minnie don't burn no fried chicken!
• I'm 6'5", 220, and there's two of me!

These are hours of life I'm not getting back!!!

• Open Water
• Labor Pains
• Blair Witch Project
• Mission Impossible sequels
  • can you say Deus Ex Machina?
• Transformers 2
• Fern Gully
• All Dogs Go to Heaven (1&2)
• We're Back
• Brave Little Toaster (1&2)
• Eragon
• Dungeons and Dragons
• Old School
• Bloodlines
• Apocalypto
• Passion of the Christ
• Anaconda

• Night Gallery
• I went to kindergarten at Alexander Hamilton Elementary
• I wet my pants in kindergarten--more than once.
  • There were styrofoam half shells for sitting and spinning. My friend Pamela put me in between two shells and I got very frightened closed in in the dark.
• Nanny and the Professor
• The Brady Bunch
• The Partridge Family
• We moved from Detroit to Wisconsin

• I'd be higher up on the compensation food chain
• I'd be more marketable in Wisconsin
• We could get out of Arizona
• I'd have a modicum of job security
• I need one before I can get my PhD.
• I'm too smart not to.
• To prove to myself, the world at large, my kids and my ex-husband that I am smart enough.
• Because I want to be the best.

I'm sure this has been done to death, but hey, it's my list... I've checked the ones I've seen and added my own rating system.

• $$$$=pay full price, see it on the big screen/buy it on DVD
• $$$=matinee/Cheap rack at Wal-mart
• $$=budget cinema or rent it/thrift store VHS
• $=wait for it to show up on cable
• @~*=BOMB...two hours of my life I'm not getting back!

While I realize that most of these movies were released when FDR was in office, I still like my rating system. It makes sense to me. And hey, it's my list.

• ✔ 1.CITIZEN KANE (1941)$$$$
  • I love the camera angles... and the shrieking opera singing second wife.

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• Juno
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Transformers (just the 1st one!)
• Dogma
• Master and Commander
• Pirates of the Carribbean (just the 1st one)
• Practical Magic
• Enchanted
• Bruce Almighty (not Evan!)

• How common was it drop children at orphanages when one or both parents were still alive?
• What was the deal with my mother and Catholic boarding school?
• What orphanage were Grandma and her sisters sent to?
• How many times did her father marry?
• Did my maternal grandparents ever become naturalized citizens?
• Why was my m.grandfather so secretive?
  • Was he?
  • Is that just my perception?
  • Is that just my mother's perception?
• How many generations of divorce are there?
• Are there any letters or diaries?
• Who were the Carpens?
• Why did my mom say that Aunt V did not have a happy life?

• The Kitchen God's Wife--Amy Tan
• Portrait of a Killer:Jack the Ripper Case Closed--Patricia Cornwell
• The Lovely Bones--Alice Sebold
• The Year of Magical Thinking--Joan Didion
• The Kite Runner--Khaled Hosseini

• Detroit, Michigan 1965-1972
  • Robinson
  • Manistique
• Algoma, Wisconsin 1972-1983
• Provo, Utah 1983-1984
  • BYU Dorms
  • Apartment with the girls
  • "Bomb shelter"
• Orem, Utah 1984-1985
• Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 1985
• Forestville, Wisconsin 1985
• San Antonio, Texas 1985-1986
  • First apartment
  • Second apartment
• San Angelo, Texas 1986-1987
• Berlin, Germany 1987-1990
  • On the economy

• $$$$=pay full price, see it on the big screen/buy it on DVD
• $$$=matinee/Cheap rack at Wal-mart
• $$=budget cinema or rent it/thrift store VHS
• $=wait for it to show up on cable
• @~*=BOMB...two hours of my life I'm not getting back!

• Dogs
• Elephants
• Wild Birds
• Deer
• Gorillas
• Giraffes
• Hedgehogs
• Pronghorns
• Otters
• Black Leopards

• Supercilious
• Puffin
• Aardvark
• Abyssinian
• Groovy
• Underwear
• Blubber
• Persimmon
• Chintz
• Blurb
• Flan

• Early Release days
• The prospect of a tax return and how to spend it.
  • MacBook
  • iPod
  • iPod dock
  • iFamily
  • Finale (maybe?)
  • Car insurance
  • registration
  • repairs
  • Clothes and shoes
  • New contact lenses
  • Debt reduction
  • Dinner out with the family
• Feeling like we'll be ok.
• Quiet Classroom
• Time to myself--on the clock
• Spring Break is coming
• I feel stronger than I ever have

• Neil Armstrong landing on the moon
• My Auntie Ada making me laugh wearing my baby bonnet and making faces--was I in my crib?
• Miss Black America Pageant
• The Jackson 5
• The Monkees
  • I had a baby crush on Davy Jones
  • Mom made me a tambourine out of paper plates and pop bottle tops.
  • Later Dad bought me a real tambourine at the music store.
• Dark Shadows
  • My brother and I would play Dark Shadows
  • He had stick-on sideburns, vampire teeth and a cape
• Peggy Fleming
  • We had the same name

• Lake Michigan
• Seasons
• the color GREEN
• Black and white spotted holstein cows
• My Mom
• My brother and his family
• Friends
• Christmas at Lakeland
• Writing group at the Z-spot
• festivals all summer
• the accent
• drinking fountains that are called bubblers
• high quality educational system
• Mead Public Library
• the Sheboygan Ward
• cheese
• bratwurst
• feeling that I belong
• Kohler-Andrae state park
• my state park sticker

• First period prep
• Mickey Mouse Watch
• Unexpected Company!!!
• 87.5% of my children under my roof
• 40% of my grandchildren under my roof
• I get to make a living in a most enjoyable way
• Time spent in the scriptures to start my day
• New insights into ways I can use my creativity and my talents to distinguish myself in my career.
• Quiet and a cup of Vanilla Rooibos tea
• Really good sneezes