• Fated - Alysson Noel
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (unfinished)
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
• Cold Days - Jim Butcher
• Shadowhunters and Downworlders - Various
• The Natural History of the Romance Novel - Pamela Regis (ongoing)
• A Civil Contract - Georgette Heyer
• A Conspiracy of Alchemists - (just started)
• Empty Sky - (just started)
• Nine Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart

• Felicia Day
• Chris Hardwick
• The Thoughtbombs lady
• Grechen Rubin
• Neil Gaiman
• Robin McKinley
• Cara McGee
• Shelley Adina
• ..I don't really keep heros...

• Ninjakitty comics
• A Thousand Words
• Superhero comic that directly addresses and works around the ten cliches of superhero movies
• professional fangirl
• commentary comics of more and sundry things
• an actual ongoing series
• multiple short series in a year
• a fan comic that is entirely within cannon and with no marysues
• illustrated art for someone else's fanfic
• an epic fantasy story
• a space opera story
• lobbygirls in the real world (dealing with lobby things like art, tea, love, small budgets, randomness)
• us in real life (illustrating things we've actually said and actual conversations ...

• a collage of women with wings and flowers
• art journals, where I make the books then fill them with art
• weekly photo walks, where I go somewhere new and take pictures just to figure out how to do it better
• one thousand paper cranes, where I cut the pages myself and then fold them and string them
• hand painted shelves in gypsy colors and designs
• cloches with little strange specimens inside
• glow jars
• a lambskin-shaped latch-hook rug
• crazy quilt
• geeky embroidery samplers

• Plant a garden
• Keep onion ends and regrow them
• Make the whole house boho
• Have a crafting center
• Compost with milk crates

• A set of kitchen knives and a sharpener for them
• A set of nice dishes, not too heavy, mostly smaller plates and bowls
• A set of silverware, light and delicate, probably mismatched
• A cheese grater
• A toaster oven
• A microwave
• A breadbox, if I can find one
• A nice big pitcher for tea in the summer--maybe more than one (thai tea, iced tea, mugicha)
• Magnets for the fridge
• A canister set
• A couple vases so I can keep flowers in the house (this is more kitchen-adjacent)
• Kitchen scissors
• Measuring spoons, maybe measuring cups, too
• Bakewear--cakepans, muffin pans, casserol...

• in the shower
• washing dishes, because I hate it so much I go somewhere else in my head
• cleaning the room
• when I'm supposed to be doing something else
• while reading science books (they're the best place to pick up seed-facts that become big ideas, too!)
• cooking, especially of the sort that requires a lot of stirring or a lot of slow cooking
• right before bed, or moments before really falling asleep
• when the internet is out
• on long walks, especially to places I don't care for, like work
• on long car rides
• waiting for planes when there's no one to talk to nearby
• dozing, and pretending I'm sleeping

• a glass of water
• a chance to read a book that hasn't been assigned to me
• a job that won't stop me from having a career writing
• a backscratcher
• a way to calm the cat down, since yelling at him doesn't seem to be working
• a boyfriend, preferably one who can edit well, or who writes his own stuff, too
• a pot of tea
• a million dollars
• really, a hundred dollars would be nice
• some meat, or other savory protein
• bright green finger nails
• a warmer bed so I can sleep better at night

• The 9" Diet (works if you don't go for seconds)
• Vegetarianism (starving all the time)
• Spirituality (turns out it's not that high on my radar)
• Tattoos (love them; get inside and outside on better terms)
• Seasonal Eating (really enjoyed it; want to do it again)
• Seasonal Living (hard in FL where there's only 1.5 seasons)
• Daily Writing (can only maintain for a short while)
• Journaling (get tired of navel-gazing)
• School (love it, never want to deal with real world full-time again)
• Travel (wish I was richer so I could do this more often)
• Bravery (to get past shyness; pretty effective)
• Public Speaking (also to get past shyness...

• A is for AGE: Not polite to ask
• B is for BIRTHDAY: May 28--in less than 2 days!
• C is for CAR: I like the Prius and the totally-mini electric cars; don't own one
• D is for DAD'S NAME: David
• E is for EYE COLOR: Green
• F is for FAVORITES: Color - green, Food - the edible kind, Drink - tea, Animal - cat
• G is for GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL: 1998
• H is for HAIR COLOR: usually red
• I is for INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: Some Piano, not much penny whistle, almost no guitar
• J is for JOB: Foodtail right now; freelance writer by the end of the year, or else
• K is for KIDS: None yet, hope for three or so
• L is for LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English and a ...

• write at least 4 pages a day
• work up to at least 10 pages a day
• get a writing desk that's only for writing, in a room where I can shut the door
• start writing a short story a week and sending it out the next week
• find work where I can control the timing and the frequency so I have time to write for myself
• start writing a poem a week and sending them out the next week
• get back to work on my screenplay
• get back to work on my movie script
• set aside a goodly chunk of time to write and make it immutable: do not leave the desk until it is done
• get to where I can write a whole novel in three months so I can start a new one in the next quarter and edit and send off the done one
• go back to devoting more time to academic...

• When I was two, I was concerned that someone would invent a car with square wheels that could go up stairs and get us.
• When I was just learning to talk, I looked at the plane we'd just gotten off of and the one we were about to board and declared them "similar", a word no one knew I knew.
• Apparently, one time I smeared poop on the walls.
• I went shopping with my mom and had a tiny shopping cart for myself. My dad put a watermelon in it and it fell over, and I cried until he took the watermelon away and righted my cart.
• During one of the festival days in Turkey, they were slaughtering lambs on the porch across the street and I kept getting to the window to watch.
• I used to call my mom Little Mommy and my dad Daddy Honey.

I sort of live in this brain space where most world events just sort of annoy me or feel unreal, but here's a few I remember clearly:

• The Challenger Explosion: My dad wanted to be one of those teachers; my best friend in high school's mom was on the backup list. They sent us home from school. It was scary.
• The Fall of the Berlin Wall: We got to watch it live because it happened conveniently right after school, and the BBC is fine with letting kids understand history, so we had it all explained.
• The Salman Rushdie Scandal: All the talk of the fourth grade. What other fourth grade class would care about an adult writer (who was not just adult, but literary and magical-realist and post-colonial, and therefore way over our heads) who'd gotten himself in trouble with religious grou...

• I wish I wasn't so poor
• I wish I had more of an inheritance so I had a little leeway about finding a better work situation
• I wish I had time to go find my one true love
• I wish I could just get up and live in another country for a few months every year, and just work my way around the world
• I wish I had more time
• I wish I had more control over my life
• I wish I could see my parents and sibs more often
• I wish someone would 'discover' me and just hand me good work
• I wish it wasn't so blazingly, demoralizingly hot here all the time
• I wish being an adult was easier

• Get involved in an experimental cyborg-limb program
• Tattoo around the nub so the scarring is remade as something beautiful
• Immediately get on disability
• Start a blog about suddenly finding yourself disabled
• Go on talking tours about making peace with losing a part
• Get one of those really cool gazelle legs
• Keep a journal about the experience and write books after the emotional fallout has been processed
• Trick out my sweet new wheelchair
• Get really good at crutches like when I was a kid and used to get hurt a lot
• Make it my mission to live better than I did when I was two-legged
• Let kids touch the nub (once it doesn't hurt anymore) so they won't be afraid of d...

• Married to the Wind
• Beacon
• Birdsong
• Ember
• Song of the Drae 1: The Sound of Distant Thunder
• Folded World
• Marginalia
• Self-Saving Princess
• Never
• House Wife / Flamekin
• The Seas King's Daughter
• Proof
• A Cacophony of Gods
• After the Fyre: A Mosaic
• From the Road to the Sea To The Sky
• Zombies Love Your For Your Brains
• The Fantastic Deathwish
• (Unnamed Doctor Who academic book)
• A Year of Living Seasonally

• Pinocchio Place Preschool (there were murals of Pinocchio and freinds; someone brought in baby ducks; we had to sing "We Are The World"; it snowed once and we got to catch the flakes on our tongues)
• Bob Hope Elementary (there was an eclipse once and they wouldn't let us look out the windows; the art teacher taught us ceramics; there were stairs that seemed impossibly high)
• Kadeena Elementary School (my teacher stole my shoes once; no one told me where my class was and I sat in the playground and cried; it puddled up badly when it rained)
• Kirn Primary (it looked like the horrible school in the video for The Wall; half the school was from the 1700s, half from the 70s; lunch was always bad)
• Dunnon Primary (we each had a hook in the cloak room; we had singing and dancing l...

It's rare that I ever actually like a whole album, so we'll see if there are actually ten:

• Sixteen Stone - Bush
• Youth Novels - Lykke Li
• Mixing the Angel - Depeche Mode / Glezpic
• Tom Petty's Greatest Hits
• Depeche Mode's Greatest Hits (especially the second and third disks)
• The Twilight soundtracks (horrible, violently bad movies, annoying books, but unusually good soundtracks)
• Lungs - Florence + the Machine
• How We Quit the Forest (or any of the others) - Rasputina
• Hours (or any of the others, but especially his more recent stuff)- David Bowie
• ...

So I almost made it!

• London, again and for longer
• Scotland-- A real tour, now that I'm an adult. Starting in Dunoon and wandering from there.
• Paris, because they say everyone should.
• Tuscany, all of it
• Australia
• Wales, to stalk the BBC set there
• The Moon
• Richard Branson's proposed space hotel
• Sweden, to visit friends and to wander
• Canada, somewhere other than Niagara Falls, which hardly counts.

• Mount St Helen's erupted
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back came out
• Ordinary People won the Best Picture Oscar
• The Covenant by Michner was the #1 Best Seller
• The president of Sicily, Piersanti Mattarella, is assassinated by the Mafia
• Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
• The Silver Thursday market crash occurs
• The Dominican embassy siege ends with all hostages released and the guerrillas flying to Cuba
• Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game of all time, is released
• U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs Proclamation 4771, requiring 18- to 25-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasi...

• Being Human (SyFy version)
• Being Human (BBC version - I think watching them in parallel would be nice, and there's a new season now)
• Torchwood US
• Spartacus
• Rome
• Farscape
• Supernatural (I really like this one, even have season 1 on DVD, but I never seem to have time for it, and it always conflicts with other shows)
• Human Target

• Vodka and Cran (my go-to when I don't have time to think about it)
• Mai Tai
• Miami Vice (a mai tai blended with a pina colada)
• Lolly Holloway
• Mojito (I especially like the Berry-Guava one at, I think, Ruby Tuesdays)
• That blended peach thing they used to sell at Johnny Carrino's
• Peanutbutter and Jelly (Frangelico and Chambord over ice with cream)
• Caucasians (usually made with soy so I can drink alot of them. would be good with almond-milk, I think.)
• Amaretto and Soy
• Mt Fuji (Midori, coconut cream, vanilla vodka, other stuff I can't remember)
• Purple Geisha (a boozy purple soda, basically)
• That delicious plum-wine and green tea dr...

• Sonic booms when the shuttles came home
• My gramma
• Grandpa, MaryLou, Jason, Alicia
• The nearness of Whole Foods Market
• Disney in February when no one's there
• Public Transportation
• Cuban bread and guava pastries at every Publix
• Ethnic Food restaurants

• Finishing my Exel Sheets
• Reading -Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology-
• Cleaning the kitchen
• Writing my TV reviews I didn't get to last week
• Balancing the checkbook
• Drinking tea
• Taking a nap in the sunspot before it moves away from the window

• whatever the next dresden book is
• the ocean at the end of the lane - neil gaiman
• three parts dead
• the rest of nk jemisin's inheritance trilogy
• 101 stories from ray bradbury
• zen and the art of writing - neil gaiman
• the year's best science fiction
• shadow on the sun - david mcinnis gill
• clockwork princess - cassandra clare
• scarlett - marissa meyer
• curse of the kings - victoria holt
• the sherlock homes cannon

• Chris Hardwick
• Felicia Day
• Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer
• Wil Wheaton
• Patrick Stewart
• George Takei
• Eddie Izzard
• Stephen Frye
• Anne Hathaway
• Cara McGee
• Robin McKinley
• Nathan Fillion
• Joss Whedon
• JJ Abrams
• The guy from the Idea Channel
• The guy from the movie reviews channel
• Sillysparrowness
• Harto

• I was hit by a car when I was sixteen, over Christmas break (dislocated hip, lost tooth, broken nose, huge scratch down from top of forehead to bottom of chin, lost glasses, both sides of left elbow, left upper arm, left side of chest)
• I was bounced around my boyfriend's car in community college when someone slammed into us diagonal on my side of the car (severe whiplash, maybe a slight concussion; the car had a bent axel and wouldn't drive straight)
• I was hit by a car on the way to work when I was riding my bike (slammed into the side door and side mirror, went over the handlebars, hit my head pretty hard on the pavement)
• When I was six years old, my friend jumped off the see-saw when I was at the top and I came down on top of my own foot (compression fracture just above my left big ...

• there's more to the universe than meets the eye
• intelligence exists so that we can experience the universe for whatever force created us
• intelligence also exists so we can learn as much as possible about the universe, because that shows the art and subtlety of its creation
• there's probably some form of reincarnation
• there's probably some form of an afterlife
• every memory ever is saved by the universe
• original sin is a horrible and hate-centered idea and needs to be abolished
• the universe will give you what you need if you look for it and ask for it
• meaning in life comes from you, not something outside you

• buy a dollhouse, and start collecting miniatures again, especially Re-Ment and those ones people actually make)
• shop for stuff on J-List, and fill my house with nice things from Japan
• get useful kitchen items from asian markets--rice cooker, rice paddles, chopping board, pretty bowls and tea cups, a selection of chopsticks, one of those fryer-strainer things...
• find a good thrift store on the edge of a nice area to get furniture and household supplies
• see if WalMart still has those low bookselves for 25$, and if they do, get lots of them and use them for all storage needs, as well as for the books
• arrange the books by color, white-pink-red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple-black-brown AND the special books by collection, elsewhere

• Vases for real flowers
• Picture frames (+hammer, nails, hanging stuff)
• Coffee table of some sort, preferably with storage
• Bookshelves
• Chairs--kitchen table, and living room
• Maybe a kitchen table, depending on how the little one works
• Lamps, different shapes and sizes
• Throw rugs
• Throw pillows and floor pillows
• Fans, to minimize AC costs
• Planting stuff--pots, planters, windowboxes, dirt, cutters, trowel, watering can
• Tool set
• Shelves for knicknacks
• Shadowboxes (for rock collection, for graduation stuff, for pencil collection, etc)
• Step stool

• i procrastinate when I feel brain-tired more than when I'm fine
• cleaning the room, which I generally hate doing
• writing poems when I should be writing homework
• reading when I should be working
• sleeping
• talking showers when I don't really need to
• washing dishes
• cooking full meals when I'm the only one eating
• catching up on TV shows
• the internet--especially tumblr and pinterest, lately
• updating my blog or my website
• making lists
• planning my next steps so I don't actually have to work them
• calling my mom

• butternut squash blended soup (with lots of garlic and rosemary, or else curried)
• bean with bacon
• minestrone with a good beefy broth and tortelini to make a meal of it
• loaded baked potato soup
• broccoli and cheese in a bread bowl
• african stew in a bread bowl
• italian wedding soup, the more meatballs, the better
• slow-cooked french onion, with a good thick layer of toast and cheese on top
• minorcan clam chowder
• curried carrot and sweet potato blended soup

• A choose-your-own-adventure novel for adults (possibly as an online thing)
• A fully open book-- write it online and let fans comment and drive the plot
• Emotobooks (look 'em up, they're great)
• Cozy Mysteries about weird things not usually in Cozies
• A Noir detective piece
• A book about seasonal eating
• An Academic book about Doctor Who
• An academic book about Firefly
• An academic book about the underappreciated SciFi floating around the tv-sphere
• A 100% multimedia book
• Cellphone novels
• A Twitter novel
• Comic books of various stories and sorts
• An academic book on the Fantastic Deathwish
• A travel book with my Dad
• Three different autobiographies

• Rabbit: Cottontail (made crazy by neighbor-girl, ate herself to death)
• Rabbit: Peter (made crazy by neighbor-girl, ate himself to death)
• Cat: Rhiannon (feline leukemia)
• Fish: Chaucer (tank too small)
• Fish: Voltaire (tank too small)
• Fish: Geoffrey, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Voltaire the Younger (power went off without backup)
• Cat: Weensie (ran away)
• Cat: Woodgie (moved to another house)
• Fish: Grisham, Anh and Unh, Lovecraft (mysterious deaths)
• Cat: Ninja (still here, round and prosperous)
• Cat: Mouka (moved out with Cynny)
• Cat: Archie (moved out with Dereck)
• Dog: Gou (got too big for our house; lives in Tallahassee now)
• Fish: Matt Smiff, Amy Fishpond, Turlough ...

• mentalism tricks like reading minds and telling when someone's lying
• handwriting analysis
• juggling
• aiming-things, like knife-throwing
• bow and arrow, and making my own of both
• carpentry--the kind that makes furniture, not framing houses
• walking on stilts, and making my own
• how to fall into a roll like an action star
• how to go into bridge pose in yoga without help
• fire-breathing
• playing stringed instruments like guitar and ukulele
• how to play the doctor who theme on penny whistle

• .. but like anyway.
• Rollerskating
• Flute
• Piano
• Video games
• Balancing

• Story of an Hour
• The Yellow Wallpaper
• Hell Is The Absence of God
• Anything ever written by Peter S Beagle, but especially Salt Wine and the one about the rhino
• MS Found in a Bottle
• Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• ..

• Crispix
• Chocolate Cheerios
• Basic Four
• Honey Bunches of Oats
• Home-made granola
• Rice Crispies
• Golden Grams
• Chex
• Special K With Strawberries
• Instant Oatmeal
• Cream of Wheat

• Tracy - the first best friend I remember, and the first to point out that white and black are different. I still don't believe her.
• Yuka - Held responsible for breaking my leg on the seesaw, but we were awesome friends anyway.
• Dorie - Best six-year-old swimming buddy ever.
• Katie - Taught me how to understand Scottish one day in the playground when I had no idea what anyone was saying to me.
• Theresa - Her dad was American, so she knew what it was like being foreign.
• Jackie - Sweetest girl I ever knew.
• Michael - First guy friend I remember. Very daring.
• Heather - Picky eater, but went out to eat with us anyway.
• Laura - Her mom was a hairdresser, so she always had new haircuts. Her mom also ma...

• get back to the gym that I've been paying for
• spend more time planning healthy food
• find ways to reduce my stress
• sleep better and more consistently
• move away from Allergy Land
• get a better job to fix finances so I can go to the doctor before it's an emergency
• laugh more
• drink more wine
• get more sunlight

• machismo
• cheating
• lying
• never admitting to being wrong
• lack of ambition
• victim mentality
• indecision
• unwillingness to learn / willful ignorance
• willfully poor memory
• argumentativeness
• picky eaters
• fear of adventure
• closed-mindedness
• extreme selfishness
• clingyness
• unreliability
• douchiness
• lack of respect for others, especially women and children
• extremism of any form

• Being jerks just because they're away from home
• Cutting funding to public works of the educational and horizon-broadening variety
• Being prudes
• Driving like idiots
• Playing to lowest-common denominators
• Deciding they don't like food without even trying it
• Making rules that have nothing to do with practical applications
• Pounding on the house across the street and the apartment upstairs
• Paying so low for every job while charging so high for every need

• Make money without working a normal job ever again
• Take silversmithing lessons
• Already have a book finished so I can start sending it to publishers
• Plant the garden without worrying about cost
• Get the cats to get along
• Go back to Scotland
• Marry David Tennant
• Win the lottery
• Get a new computer that's above the basic level of quality
• Get my phone that I've been waiting on
• Have more time to read

There were parties when I was really young, and then I ruined it for about eight years by being a jerk and had no parties until I was 16. So...

• My first co-ed party, which was also a scifi party because it was ST:TNG's last day
• Ethipoian food
• Indian food
• Thai food
• Japanese food
• Portuguese food

• I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like (did not like at all)
• Patient Zero (pretty good, even with the thriller-aspects annoying me)
• Leaves of Grass (can you believe I got through a whole English Major without reading this?)
• Discovery of Witches (pretty good; almost a new take on vampire-love-stories)
• Out Lady of Weight Loss (a fresh, creative healthy-eating book)
• Dawn Light (one of my fav poets writing prose)
• Spin (really nifty)
• Stormfront (reread-- still fab)
• I'm American and So Can You! (great)
• Wise Man's Fear (amazingly good)
• Selected Poems: John Keats (lovely)
• Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (weird; unsure of my liking or not)

I don't really watch reality TV much, but the ones I like are the ones with more of a point:

• The Colony
• Sister Wives
• Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory
• Life After People (does future-reality count?)
• Taboo
• Those weird-mystery-illness shows on Discovery Health
• That series of BBC documentaries with the reporter who gets really thin or botoxed-up or whatever
• ..this list was really hard to make, because I don't watch much reality.

• Depeche Mode
• Rasputina
• David Bowie
• VAST (again)
• Ladytron
• Lykke Li
• The Rolling Stones

• Fringe
• Farscape
• Firefly
• Stargate SG1
• X-Files (even though it's only sometimes SF)
• First Wave
• Star Trek
• Doctor Horrible's Singalong Blog (semi-SF again)
• Doctor Who
• Primeval

• tea
• chocolate
• sunshine in spring, when it's warm but not enough to make me burst into flame
• the light through green trees that wave in the wind
• daffodylls
• roses
• Emily Bronte's poems
• Robin McKinley's books
• Anything written by Neil Gaiman
• The Dresden Files
• home made cake
• 50s pyrex glassware
• t-strap vintage shoes
• shimmery nail polish
• icecream in unusual flavors
• washi tape
• instagram
• Doctor Who (especially Ten, but really all)

• the Louvre
• back to the British Museum with enough time to look at everything instead of just the things we're meant to be looking at
• back to the Smithsonian, same
• more local cultural reenactment places
• some highly specialize museums--the new england whaling museum, a museum of some town's local history, the sewing museum, stuff like that
• all the science museums!

• tea
• chocolate
• sadness that leads to art
• sideways action
• wanting to be alone
• the internet
• pen, paper, and stories
• creativity
• a comfy place to sleep
• kitties
• baking
• tea again
• potatoes
• travel
• books
• new information
• existential loneliness
• trail mix
• pillows
• british tv shows
• david tennant

• kindness, above all else, but not a sap
• sexiness to me--I don't care if anyone else thinks he's sexy
• emotional availability--not to be confused with neediness
• good hands
• a good brain with good thoughts
• some sort of useful skill would be nice
• ambition to not spend his whole life in a dead-end job
• funniness
• charm
• whatever the opposite of macho is--not wimpy, but masculine in that way where it doesn't have to always be proven, it's just obvious and uncommented on
• a reader
• creative in some capacity
• a good kisser
• a romantic, especially in a quirky way that shows that he knows me personally, not...

• Baking basics (flour, white sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, yeast)
• Vanilla extract, and maybe a few others--almond, mint, etc
• Dairy basics (butter, margarine, cheese, yogurt, sour cream)
• Bread (sandwich bread, fancy rolls, frozen bread dough, bread machine mixes, muffin mixes, pancake / waffle mix, cornbread mix)
• Tortillas, flatbread, pretzels
• Canned beans, veggies, sauces
• Dried fruits and nuts
• Some snacks and candies
• Fresh fruits and vegetables
• Peanut butter, jam, preserves, sunbutter, nutella
• Chicken, beef, pork, fish (in freezable packages)
• Rice, pasta, noodle bake things, ramen (f...

• That I could afford new glasses and I can see again
• That we're finally getting the rain we need, so nothing will catch fire
• That I'm not homeless yet
• That I finally have a plan
• That I think I might actually be able to accomplish my plan
• That this week's homework wasn't as bad as I feared
• That Ninja likes the outside
• That I've made a little progress

• castle
• hawaii five-0
• how i met your mother
• 2 broke girls
• suburgatory
• bones
• person of interest
• the mentalist
• fringe

and otherwise:

• remington steele that reruns late at night on the high-number cable channels
• wonders of the universe, because professor brian cox is adorable
• just finished season 2 of sherlock
• need to finish season 1 of downton abbey
• numerous cooking shows
• working my way through whatever is on on-demand for supernatural (with gaps because they update it faster than i can watch ...

• Olives on the table at all times and ready for snacking
• Home-made bread and butter every day (or at least every few days)
• A four poster bed with a canopy
• Food growing in my garden--on plants and trees both
• Good weather
• A nice bottle of wine always available
• Enough money that I don't have to worry
• A whole room just for the books
• Roses
• Music all the time in all sorts of different ways
• Places to go every evening if I want to
• Home made cheese
• Cats
• Tea and pastries in the morning
• Good sleep every night
• Meetings with friends in the evenings to talk about writing and to support each ot...

• Italy: House with terraza floors right by the artichoke field. There was a wall around the yard that I could walk on, a mud pit behind it, a porch that had a fire on it at one time, a big wall between us and the next-door neighbors, little red bugs on the stones, venus flytraps at the bottom of the yard, and a hotel with a rabbit hutch up the road. We were protected by the Mafia there.
• Japan: Third-story apartment. The ceiling cracked during a typhoon, the porches overflowed into the house during storms, we were right next to a sugarcane field that burned off twice a year and smelled like melting cheese, there were flying ants or termites that would swarm, we would play in the parking lot downstairs, the landlord's wife would pack extra yogurt drinks in his lunch for us.
• Japan: On-base, the green townhouse. Bedr...

girls:

• Amelia Rose ("come along, Pond")
• Evelyn
• Paisley Sagan
• Chloe and Tegan (if twin girls)
• Aeryn
• Brennan
• Olivia (even though it's overused right now)
• Lucy

boys:

• Owen
• Blue
• Jono Leander
• Lucas Alexander
• Jack
• Fallon
• Fisher

• laser-like
• talented
• hard-working
• stubborn
• authority-phobic
• original
• weird
• a frigid bitch
• silly
• squirrelly
• cagey
• a dreamer
• an idealist
• ambitious
• hard to live with
• restless
• always a little off-kilter
• overworked
• short-tempered
• cute

In no particular order, except that Doctor Who is at the top...

• Doctor Who
• Game of Thrones
• Fringe (even though sometimes it's really not right for this list)
• The Mentalist
• Community
• 30 Rock
• Bones (even though it's taking for frikken ever to get anywhere this season)
• Castle
• How I Met Your Mother
• (soon) True Blood

• I roamed the countryside like a wild thing for a lot of my early childhood, despite landmines in Asia where we were.
• I was convinced there were fairies in the little creek just past the edge of town in Scotland.
• I never wore shoes if I could help it.
• I never brushed my hair if I could help it.
• I was sure there were dragons in Japan.
• I don't remember a lot of supervision-- I'm sure mom would say differently, but as far as I'm concerned, I basically raised myself. I never felt ignored or unwanted, though. I always felt loved-- I just assumed I was trusted enough to take care of myself.
• I spent almost all of my early years in this weird limbo: too American to be local, too foreign to be American; American citizenship, but I didn't remember ever liv...

• Get a book published already
• Quit my job and go freelance full-time, and consequences be damned
• Sell embroidery online
• Get a degree in Jewelry Design and start selling my designs online and in quirky, awesome shops.
• Sell plasma
• Sell eggs
• Write and self-publish and ebook through Amazon
• Blanket the whole city with queries and such until I find work

• Sticky floors that steal my shoes
• Seats that don't allow for leaning back
• People blocking the view
• Old ladies who won't stop talking (if there's no one in the theatre, that's fine, but in a crowded one, you need to shut it)
• Seats too close to see the screen
• Sound problems
• Rude staff
• Expensive tickets

• Going to college instead of marrying my first boyfriend
• Getting three credit cards when I was 18 and out of work
• Writing my own books because I couldn't find the ones I wanted to read
• Moving out of my parents' house
• Going to study abroad in London
• Dying my hair red the first time
• Drinking tea without milk
• Going back to school even though it's been so long since I graduated

Assuming a big win, in no particular order:

• Get it all at once, even though that means less
• Put 1 mil in a high-interest savings account
• put 1 mil in a CD or something for 25 years
• Pay off all my student loans and put aside enough to keep going to school indefinitely
• Go to tall the doctors and fix everything wrong with me
• Send some to my parents and my sibs
• Put aside enough that I don't have to work ever again if I don't want to
• Set up a trust fund for my kids (who aren't born yet, so it should be a good one)
• Start traveling, and see everywhere I want to see
• Make a big donation to something I really...

• Fuzzy kittens
• Days where I can sleep as much as I want
• Writing, when the story's flowing
• Chocolate
• A new pot of tea
• Sami-Hayden Days
• Songs with good drumlines
• David Tennant
• My gadgets
• Good books that still have lots of pages left to read
• Dinner with friends
• Rainy Days
• Flowers in the garden
• When people on TV fall in love
• Going to the movies
• Finding story-bits I'd forgotten I wrote, and they're good
• Having lots of options
• Roses
• Lists

I'm not a big fan of straight romances, because they tend to be upsetting, but I love a good romcom:

• Houseboat
• Father Goose
• Bring Up Baby
• African Queen
• Princess Bride
• You've Got Mail
• French Kiss
• Amelie
• Charade
• Sabrina (both versions, for different reasons)
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Knight's Tale
• About a Boy
• Bride and Prejudice
• The Cutting Edge
• Greencard

• a writing career I can live off and enjoy
• at least one and as many as three good men to have healthy, smart babies with
• a nice house built to my specifications on land I own in a place with four seasons
• a well-filled garden with roses, tea plants, fruit trees, a greenhouse, herbs, sunflowers, lilies, irises...
• a mantle full of awards for my stories
• enough money to not have to worry about money
• time for friends, yoga, dancing, music lessons, travel, cooking, naps
• lots of good reading
• lots of good friends
• far less stress than I have now
• a legacy-- something to let people remember me long after I'm gone
• smiles

• Castle (Examiner)
• How I Met Your Mother (TVKing)
• Hawaii Five-0 (Examiner - way behind on this one)
• The Event (Examiner)
• American Idol (TVGA - play-by-play on Examiner)
• Bones (Examiner)
• The Mentalist (Examiner)
• 30 Rock (TVKing)
• Community (TVKing)
• Fringe (TVGA and Examiner)
• Primeval (Examiner - way behind on this one, too)
• Sister Wives (TVGA - need to see when this comes back)
• Doctor Who (Examiner)
• True Blood (Examiner)
• Game of Thrones (Examiner - when it comes out in April!)
• Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory (TVGA)

• Swedish
• Irish
• Scotts Gaelic
• Hindi
• Swahili
• Japanese
• Welsh
• French
• Cantonese

You know, the people you're allowed to totally dump your significant other for?

• David Tennant
• Nathan Fillion
• James MacEvoy
• Alexander Skarsgard
• Johnathan Rhys Meyers