- Her smell...probs more than anything else.
- The way she giggles, & the way she laughs when she REALLY thinks something is funny.
- Her farts [she would KILL me if she knew that was on this list].
- The way she tries to be modest about her farting.
- Her love for cheese.
- Her hands.
- Her flowers & watching her water her flowers.
- The way she cleans EVERY SINGLE DAY.
- The way she mixes words up & says things backwards sometimes.
- Watching her put on her make-up when I was little.
- Crying for her in kindergarten instead of my mom.
- Listening to the stories she had about growing up.
- The way she wishes I could've met her mother.
- Speaking Polish & pierogis.
- The way every inch of her house was decorated for Christmas.
- Sleeping on the pull-out-couch in my Papa's TV room.
- Watching that karaoke show on Chicago public access TV.
- Cheesy spaghetti.
- Jeopardy.
- The way she smelled like her perfume, beer, & fish after working at Steve's.
- Going out to dinner with her & Papa every Friday night.
- The way she never had her driver's license.
- The way she learned that bleach and dish soap don't go together.
- Her washing my hair in the tub & swishing her hand around so that the bubbles would get really big.
- Making her video tape me doing various things like playing the keyboard, singing, dressing up, modeling, etc.
- Chips & onion dip.
- Sitting on the front porch with her in the summer when she still lived in Chicago, & talking & laughing & telling her stories.
- Playing Super Nintendo with her & beating entire games.
- Asking her for advice about cleaning/cooking.
- The way her & my brother get along even though they haven't had much of a relationship.
- The fact that she's a fighter & one of the strongest women I've ever met.
- Her interior decoration style.
- Waging war on the neighbors cats.
- "Wake up, little Courtney, wake up."
- When she calls me bunny rabbit.
- Trying to give me random things she doesn't want before I go back to Muncie (food, pillows, clothes, random items).
- The way she calls Steven "Stevie" without any prompting from me.
- Her bald-chemo-head & her bandanas.
- The day she had surgery & bringing her home from the hospital.
- Her skill at decorating objects with twinkle lights.
- Asking her to take out her dentures all the time.
- The way she used to make me cover up my eyes if there was a nudey scene in a movie.
- She buys all of the movies she watches instead of just renting them...she has to have over 100 DVDs.
- Matching bedroom sets.
- Rubbing my forehead every night before we went to bed.
- Carmel apples during the fall, & the way she used to cut them up for me.
- Christmas music and the Christmas season in general
- making lots of desserts when I was younger...always sugar cookies & then a lemon merangue pie for Papa
- Christmas mornings at her house, & then all the cousins coming over
- Holiday meals at her house, in general
- GREAT food
- so many snacks & appetizers
feb 25 2009 ∞
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