• Live in Paris for a year
• Buy a new car
• Buy a house
• Furnish my house
• Help my family with whatever's needed
• Buy an insane amount of beads, and really kickstart my jewelry business
• Invest what's left

• Big Bird
• Miss Piggy
• Cinderella
• Ballet dancer/ winter princess
• Tiger
• Belly dancer
• Greek Goddess
• Devil
• Witch
• Vampire
• Lady of Death bird thing

• Jacqueline Carey
• Elizabeth Hayden
• Juliet Marillier
• Marge Piercy
• George R.R. Martin
• Douglas Adams
• A. Lee Martinez
• Neil Gaiman
• Terry Pratchett
• Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Dean Koontz
• Mercedes Lackey
• J.K. Rowling

• A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. - Sidney Sheldon
• There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. - Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
• You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. - Ray Bradbury
• I try to leave out the parts that people skip. - Elmore Leonard
• If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. - Toni Morrison
• Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. - Anton Chekhov
• Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

If a poem is untitled I've used the first line.

• You took a little - D. E. Stewart
• Just to sit - D. E. Stewart
• I can't recall - D. E. Stewart
• Skimming quiet rains - D. E. Stewart
• And if there were something left to say - D. E. Stewart

• Catherine Zeta Jones
• Lauren Graham
• Angelina Jolie
• Stephen Lynch
• George Carlin
• Johnny Depp
• Orlando Bloom
• Brad Pitt
• The guy from the Scrubs episode My Lucky Charm

• One day you're going to make a pedophile very happy. - TJ
• Tard muffin - Nani
• Grow a spine, bitch! - Moi
• I was offended; I wanted a pony! - Moi

• Dead Poet's Society
• Penelope
• Repo: The Gentic Opera
• Stardust
• Boondock Saints
• Grandma's Boy

• Tool - Aenima
• Jack Off Jill - Clear Hearts Grey Flowers
• A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms

• Silver Dollar City
• Disney World
• Wild River Country
• Oceans of Fun
• World of Fun

• Our freedoms are slowly being leeched away under the guise of "protection." Worse, we're letting them go.
• Our public education system is a terrible abomination that focuses more on obedience and teamwork than on educating our children.
• Many atrocities that our country commits are done for "democracy" and people buy that line. AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. AMERICA IS A REPUBLIC. Please, pay attention to basic definitions.

• Tool
• Lollapalooza
• A Perfect Circle
• Ani DiFranco

• Susan Seddon Boulet
• Talantbek Chekirov
• Jonathon Earl Bowser
• Luis Royo
• Kinuko y Craft

• "Fuck your opinion. Fuck your lack of spine. When you are miserable know that I'm just fine." Jack Off Jill - Nazi Halo
• "There's no price tag on my conscience. Here's your answer - it's still fuck you!" Jack Off Jill - Author Unknown
• "No surprise there, only lies there. That's where the colors don't go. That's where the colors don't show." Sam Phillips - Where the Colors Don't Go
• "Life is unfair. Kill yourself or get over it." Black Box Recorder - Child Psychology
• "She moves through moonbeams slowly. She knows just how to hold me. And when her edges soften, her body is my coffin." Ludo - Love Me Dead
• "There's just one thing that's getting in the way. When we go up to bed you're just no good - it's such a shame." Lily Allen - Not Fair

I need to name my new cat. He's a stray that I couldn't help but adopt after he jumped into my lap unprompted, being all sweet and adorable. He's white with yellow-green eyes & long limbs. He's friendly, very affectionate, vocal, and slightly skittish around other cats.

• Odysseus
• John Coffey
• Egon
• Venkman
• Gulliver
• Fievel
• Bunny
• Sergeant Pepper
• Mr. Miyagi
• (Jim) Morrison
• Constantine
• Leopold

Update: His name is Leopold Eugene. It was first said as a joke, and it stuck.

• Switzerland
• France
• Germany
• Austria
• Mexico

• Tool (again)
• A Perfect Circle (again)
• Dresden Dolls
• Ani DiFranco (again)
• Modest Mouse
• Ludo
• Vienna Teng
• Poe
• Nine Inch Nails
• The Eagles

• Honesty
• Intelligence
• Sense of humor
• A spine
• Sense of personal responsibility
• Kindness
• Spontaneity (at least a little)
• Goals and dreams

• Casablanca
• The Golden Compass

• Author
• Journalist
• Editor
• Interior Decorating
• Fashion Design
• Jewelry Designer

• People tend to be very stupid.
• Vowels are going extinct. Save the vowels!
• There are a great many people, men especially, who sit around trolling for ass, and they often decide to message me such tempting lines as "nice tits."
• There are some people who are starting to view blogging as a valid literary art form.
• People seem to think that being polite isn't important over the internet.

• Death to Smoochy
• Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
• Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanomo Bay
• Half Baked
• Grandma's Boy
• Saved

• My roommate's cat is smarter than most human beings.
• Cloud watching, often considered childish and whimsical, can take a sinister turn when you see a cloud that looks like a bunny being tortured. Of course, that poor bunny quickly became a submarine, so all was well again.
• Karma had my back, and I will never doubt its existence again.
• I enjoy craft projects. If that means that one day I will be an old woman with a booth at a craft fair, selling truly hideous objects for exorbitant prices, I can live with that.

• Dorothy Parker
• Zelda Fitzgerald
• Scott Fitzgerald
• Shakespeare
• Socrates
• Jim Morrison
• George Orwell
• Thomas Jefferson
• Emily Dickinson
• Marilyn Monroe

• Arcanum
• The Sims 2
• Soul Caliber III
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted
• Guitar Hero
• Rock Band
• Morrowind
• The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Neverwinter Nights
• Divine Divinity
• Warcraft 2
• The Sims 3
• American McGee's Alice

• The Vampire Effect
• Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown
• Eragon

• Dorothy Parker
• Ani DiFranco
• My father
• Lorelai Gilmore (Fictional)

• Cats
• Charlotte's Web
• The Emperor's New Clothes
• A Member of the Wedding
• The Complete History of America (Abridged)
• Death Trap

• Stupidity
• Hypocrisy
• Poor hygiene
• Dishonesty
• Spinelessness

• Honesty
• Strength
• Loyalty
• Kindness
• Sense of personal responsibility