• Importance of communication
• Letter to my younger self
• Letter to my future daughter
• Relaxation
• Mindset
• Why I left social services
• Coping skills
• What's helped during ED recovery
• ER for SI
• Radical acceptance
• Keys/tips for recovery
• Signs of an abusive relationship
• Coping with SI
• Life's little pleasures
• Fear of failure
• Why I share my story
• Feminism
• "What don't you just say 'no'"
• Daily makeup routine
• Skincare routine
• Things to know if your 20s

• Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer
• Im Going to Find Another You by John Mayer
• Second hand News by Fleetwood Mac
• Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac
• Loving, Touching, Squeezing by Journey
• Heartbreak Warfare by John Mayer
• Breakeven by The Script
• The War by Wale
• Someone Like You by Adele
• U N I by Ed Sheeran
• Bell Bottom Blues by Eric Clapton
• Postcards by With the Punches
• If It Means A Lot To You by A Day to Remember

this also includes covers the band or Eddie have done, as well as solo songs by Eddie.

• Just Breathe
• I'm Still Here - this song breaks by heart.
• The Fixer
• Last Kiss
• Yellow Ledbetter
• I Won't Back Down
• Black
• Corduroy
• Forever Young
• Guaranteed
• Even Flow
• Rearviewmirror
• Alive
• Come Back

• Liam
• Noah
• Finley - Fin
• Maddox - Maddy
• Mateo
• Harrison
• Holden

• Art Institute of Chicago (Birthday '08 w/ Adam; Summer '12 with sister and nephew)
• Shedd Aquarium (Summer '08 w/ Adam, his brother, and niece) I absolutely love it there. The otters were, by far, my favorite.
• Ditka's (Birthday '07 w/ Willy and Genaro) AWESOME atmosphere and so wouldn't mind going back!
• Millenium Park
• Navy Pier (2 year anniversary w/ Genaro, April '06; Sept. '07 w/ Carlos and Johnny Bacon after Carlos came home from Iraq; Memorial Day '12 with Charlie; Summer '12 with sister and nephew).
  • Ferris Wheel (2 year anniversary w/ Genaro April of '06; Summer '12 with sister and nephew) The view is AMAZING at night.
  • Build-a-Bear Workshop (April '06)
  • Wave Swinger (Summer '12 with nephew)
  • Massa (Summer '12 with nephew and sister)

• The Busy World of Richard Scarry
• Laverne and Shirley
• I Love Lucy
• PB & J Otter
• The Adventures of the Gummi Bears
• Power Rangers
• The Magic School Bus
• Arthur
• Pokemon
• Rocko's Modern Life
• The Angry Beavers
• Rugrats
• Clarissa Explains it All
• Boy Meets World
• Global Guts
• Legends of the Hidden Temple
• All That
• Keenan and Kel
• Salute Your Shorts
• The Adventures of Pete and Pete
• Kablaam

• Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1
• Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton
• From the Ground Up by Dan and Shay
• Time In A Bottle by Jim Croce

• The AP Tour feat. The Rocket Summer @ the House of Blues Chicago - April 3rd 2008
• John Mayer @ the First Midwest Amphitheater - July 18th 2008
• Justin Nozuka @ Park West Chicago - November 12th 2009
• Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival @ Toyota Park - June 26th 2010
• Boyce Avenue @ The Riviera Theatre - October 21st 2011
• LIGHTS @ The Bottom Lounge - October 25th 2011
• LIGHTS @ The Castle Theatre - April 29th 2012
• The Rocket Summer @ Mojoe's - November 11th 2012
• With the Punches, A Loss for Words, and Hit the Lights @ Mojoe's - December 22nd 2012

• "Just Breathe" on my inner forearm.
• Cherry blossom tree down the left side.
• Hummingbird
• "So it goes." from Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• "Keep me where the light is." from Gravity by John Mayer
• Moose
• ✔ "and you’ll do it despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything else you can imagine." from Roll the Dice by Charles Bukowski
• Sugar skull, possibly on my shoulder
• Soot sprite
• My mom, Dawn, and my gramma's birth date, left shoulder.
• "Tonight she's out to lose herself."
• The Catcher in the Rye carousel horse (cover art)
• Brave New World cover art
• "Fight on"

• From the Ground Up by Dan and Shay
• I Met a Girl by William Michael Morgan
• You by Chris Young
• God Gave Me You by Blake Shelton
• Amazed by Lonestar
• Mind Reader by Dustin Lynch
• Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts

• Covered in Rain
• Your Body is a Wonderland
• Neon
• Why Did You Mess with Forever
• Wheel
• Hummingbird
• 83
• 3x5
• Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
• Gravity
• Love Song for No One
• Georgia
• St. Patrick's Day
• Comfortable
• Vultures
• Home Life
• Edge of Desire
• Stop this Train
• War of my Life
• Heartbreak Warfare

• Social Psychology
• Psychopathology
• Elementary Geometry
• Intro to Human Heredity
• Psychology of Personality
• News Editing
• Intro to Film Study
• College Algebra
• English 102
• First Year Japanese
• Reasoning in Psychology using Statistics (I hated it while I was taking it, but I miss it now.)
• Physiological Psychology
• Intro to Behavioral Psychopharmacology

• Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb
• Burberry Brit
• Chance by Chanel
• Princess by Vera Wang
• With Love by Hilary Duff

• Roll the Dice - This is FOREVER my favorite poem of his, hands down.
• For Jane
• A Sickness?
• A Fine Night
• The Weirdest Day
• Found Poems
• A Wise Ass
• Excuses
• Nobody But You
• Displaced
• The Popularity Kid
• Buddha Chinaski Says
• Bluebird
• Raw With Love
• Some Notes on Bach and Haydn
• Too Soon
• lifedance
• When the violets roar at the sun
• Snake eyes?
• Sloppy Love

• The way she smelled. It's hard to describe but not hard to recognize.
• The way she would dab lipstick on her cheeks and rub it in for blush.
• Doing word searches.
• The layout of her old apartment.
• The day she came over, sat on our porch, and ate a whole tomato. Her attempt at trying to get me to eat it was unsuccessful.
• Her odd interest in ice skating.
• My love for orange juice came from her.
• That I was her favorite.
• Her sassiness.
• The time she took my to my allergy shot appointment... gum got stuck to the wheel of her car so she stood there and tried to pick it off.

• Vienna
• Gaia
• Veta
• Sophie/Sofie
• Layla
• Greta
• Winnie
• Allegra
• Adelaide
• Anais
• Ariel
• Madeline/Madeleine
• Leia
• Atalaya
• Melanie
• Genevieve

full names

• Vienna Adelaide
• Vienna Sinclaire
• Winnie Ariel

from 1000 Awesome Things

• That last, crumby triangle in a bag of potato chips.
• Locking people out of the car and pretending to drive away
• Finding money you didn’t even know you lost
• Blowing your nose in the shower
• Picking the perfect nacho off someone else’s plate
• When you pull up to a red light and the guy in front of you nudges up a bit so you can make a right turn
• Old, dangerous playground equipment
• The smell of gasoline
• High tens
• Sleeping in new bed sheets
• Any food that requires Wet-Naps and a stack of napkins to eat
• Illegal naps
• Yellow teeth

• Bulgaria's Abandoned Children
• I'm A Child Anorexic
• Very Young Girls
• Dana: The 8 Year Old Anorexic
• Nazi Pop Twins
• The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
• China's Stolen Children
• My Fake Baby
• Prostitution Behind the Veil
• The Moscow Theatre Siege
• Invisible Children
• Boy Interrupted
• Bulgaria's Abandoned Children Revisited
• Dreamworld 3