Why Dallas rules, from D Magazine:

• #1 Because We Have Manners
• #6 Because we protect the rights of humans
• #8-47 Because These People Once Called Dallas Home
• #49 Because the quarterback for America’s Team is also the world’s greatest $30,000 millionaire
• #51 Because We Invented the Perfect Summer Drink: The Frozen Margarita
• #52 Because Making $47,000 a Year Here Is Like Making $143,269 in Manhattan
• #54 Because we get things done
• #55-59 Because one of these girls could one day be an Olympic medalist
• #60-62 Because We Have the Most Interesting Sports Owners in the Country
• #64 Because we’re a hotbed for Puritanism but we do love our sin
• #67 Because Jack Kilby invented the future

• Sit rink-side
  • Completed March 1, 2009: Stars vs Penguins
• Hear the goal horn
  • Completed March 1, 2009: Stars vs Penguins
  • Loui Eriksson in Period 3 at 6:02
    • 28th goal of the season
• Watch (from the opposite side) the Stars come out before the first period
• Shout "Star" and "Stars" during the anthem
  • Completed March 1, 2009: Stars vs Penguins
• Watch James Neal score a goal
  • Completed March 24, 2009: Stars vs Canuck...

Anberlin, Misearbile Visu (Ex Malo Bonum)

• What disasters may come, Whatever it may be, At the end of the age, It will land you and me, What tragedy may bring, Whatever may fall, At the end of the world, You'll still belong

Arcade Fire, Wake Up

• If the children don't grow up, Our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up, We're just a million little gods causing rain storms, Turning every good thing to rust, I guess we'll just have to adjust

Death Cab For Cutie, Marching Bands Of Manhattan

• Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole, Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound, But while you debate half empty or half full, It slowly rises, your love is gonna drown

Eisley, Lost At Sea

In reverse chronological order:

2011

• Tyson Chandler

2010

• Good Charlotte
  • CCRDFW Lounge Performance

2009

• Owl City
  • CCRDFW Lounge Performance
  • Wednesday, 10/28/09
• The Ting Tings
  • CCRDFW Lounge Performance
  • Wednesday, 9/23/09
• Ingrid Michaelson
  • CCRDFW Lounge Performance

• Abstract City
• First We Feast
• Indexed
• The Kitchn
• Marc Johns
• passiveaggressivenotes.com

• Arrested Development
• Battlestar Galactica
• Game Of Thrones
• How I Met Your Mother
• Lost
• Veronica Mars
• The Walking Dead

Honorable Mentions

• Chuck
• Felicity
• True Blood

• Arachnids
• Drowning
• Growing old alone
• Insects
• Pretty much anything with more than four legs
• Thunder/thunderstorms
• Traveling to a foreign country on vacation and dying there by some crazy psycho who chops me up into bits (read: the plot of any really crappy horror movie such as Hostel)
• Not finding that someone that I mean the world to

• Mia, Female Chihuahua
• Macy, Female Chihuahua
• Ollie, Female Chihuahua Mix

Past

• Holy (pronounced Holly), Male Dachshund
• Bob, Male White German Shepherd
• Holly, Female White German Shepherd
• Jessica, Female Chihuahua Mix
• Nibbles, Female Syrian Hamster RIP
• Samus, Female Syrian Hamster RIP
• Nefarian, Male Roborovski Hamster RIP
• Ness, Male Roborovski Hamster RIP
• Monty, Male Chihuahua RIP

The Black List Films

2005

• 21
• A GOOD OLD FASHIONED ORGY
• A VERY PRIVATE GENTLEMAN (AKA The American)
• ARMORED
• BABEL
• BLACK SNAKE MOAN
• BLADES OF GLORY
• BLOOD DIAMOND
• BREACH
• CHAPTER 27
• CHARLIE BARTLET
• CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
• DAN IN REAL LIFE
• DANGEROUS PARKING
• DEATH AT A FUNERAL
• DEXTER
• ENDER'S GAME
• FACTORY GIRL

• I do my laundry in this order, always: sheets and towels; jeans; delicates; colors; whites; underwear and socks
• I love real bananas, but I hate anything banana flavored. Same thing with grapes.
• I do not own a pair of white socks and refuse to ever do so.
• I like it when people call me Tina but I always introduce myself as Christina. Consequently, only my close friends call me Tina.
• I am a media pack-rat. I have a long, incredibly extensive backlog of TV shows (some spanning multiple seasons), movies, albums and books to watch, listen to and read. I actually believe that once I find the time I'll be able to burn through all these things, but it doesn't stop me from finding new ones to add to my lists.
• I love vacationing and traveling but I absolutely hate packing. I usually wait un...

• Sit court-side
• Go to a playoff game
  • Completed May 20, 2005 - Mavs vs Phoenix: Western Conference Semifinals, Game 3
• Watch a game from the suites
• See a Mavs player have his number retired
• Watch a playoff game that wins the series
• See a Mavs player set either a franchise and/or league record
• Go to a home opener
• Go to a home closer
• See an overtime win
• Watch the players warm-up before a game
  • Completed January 5, 2010 - Mavs vs Pistons

The Little Prince , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• And the Little Prince said to the Man, "Grownups never understand anything for themselves and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them."

Sweet Thursday , John Steinbeck

• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

The Scarlett Letter , Nathaniel Hawthorne

• No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

East Of Eden , John Steinbeck

• It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or acti...

• Loving, pursuing, chasing after God continuously. I want to be loved (deserve to be loved) as Christ loves the church and refuse to settle for less.
• Talking about music and/or books. I think these are one of the best ways to connect with another person.
• Remembering the small details.
• Intelligent. Not necessarily a genius, but the ability to carry on a reasonably intelligent conversation is crucial.
• Witty. Being able to banter is hot. And sexy. And it's pretty much verbal foreplay.
• The ability to make me laugh. (But since I easily giggle at everything, this isn't really hard to achieve.)
• Willing to get rid of and kill any creature with more than four legs.
• Must love dogs. Like is also good.

• Meet Switchfoot
  • Completed April 3, 2004
• See Les Misérables on Broadway
  • Completed December 2011
• Find the other seven planets and three dwarf planets of the solar system in the sky (aided or otherwise)
• Watch a meteor shower
• Sit outside and listen to the rain on a warm (summer) night
• See an opera in Italy
• Attend the Olympic Games
• Read all of Kurt Vonnegut's novels
• Learn to swing dance
• Visit all fifty states
• Put an army of lawn gnomes in a neighbor’s yard
• Learn Latin
• Play at Carnegie Hall

• Washington DC (x2)
• San Francisco, CA
• Hartford, CT (x2 for work)
• Orlando, FL
• Chicago, IL (x9 for work)
• Las Vegas, NV
• New York City, NY
• Austin, TX
• Corpus Christi, TX
• Houston, TX
• San Antonio, TX
• Newport News, VA

American Cities I Will Visit

• Breckinridge, CO (January 2014)
• Washington DC (May 2014)

American Cities I Still Need To Visit

• Los Angeles, CA
• Atlanta, GA
• Chicago, IL

• A Fine Frenzy
• Arcade Fire
• Death Cab For Cutie
• Eisley
• Jimmy Eat World
• Of Monsters and Men
• The Postal Service
• Damien Rice
• Rilo Kiley
• Stars
• Pete Yorn

• I can pop my big toe on my left foot. I honestly don't know how I found this out.
• When I was younger, I used to have a fear of extraterrestrials. It was an absolutely absurd and ridiculous fear, and I'm not sure what it stemmed from, but I do know watching X-Files only fueled it some more.
• I slept with a lamp on up until middle school. This may have tied into the item above.
• I'm sort of a pack rat, kind of
• I have three Mongolian spots: a blue one on my back, a small one on my right pinky finger and faint brown one on my stomach
• There have only been three men in my life who have meant something important to me in a romantic sense.
• I sometimes talk to myself. The embarrassing thing is that when I do, I have a habit of referring to myself in third person.

• 21 Grams
• Almost Famous
• Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
• Garden State
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Lion King
• The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
• Moulin Rouge!
• Inception
• The Princess Bride
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• WALL-E

Honorable Mentions

• The Harry Potter Series
• Pride And Prejudice (2005)

This is a lot!

• #1 Coffee
• #8 Barak Obama
• #10 Wes Anderson movies
• #13 Tea
• #19 Traveling
• #23 Microbreweries
• #25 David Sedaris
• #26 Manhattan
• #34 Architecture
• #36 Breakfast places
• #38 Arrested Development
• #40 Apple products
• #41 Indie music
• #42 Sushi
• #43 Plays
• #50 Irony
• #53 Dogs
• #54 Kitchen gadgets
• #65 Co-ed sports
• #68 Michael Gondry

• Talked my way out of a speeding ticket (I am currently 0 for 3)
• Swam in the deep end of a pool
• Written/received a love letter
• Touched a stingray
  • Completed November 13, 2009: Virginia Aquarium
• Fed otters
• Used an old-fashioned typewriter
• Eaten a live squid
• Mailed a postcard from a foreign country
• Gone horseback riding
• Change the tire on my car
• Ordered room service

Anthropolgie

• Anything and everything

James Avery

• Avery Remembrance Ring with Alexandrite
• Forever Band
• Hammered Wires Ear Hooks
• Open Sorrento Ring
• Stacked Hammered Ring
• Vintage Pearl Ring

Marc Johns (artist, not the designer)

• reach
• What to focus on
• you stole my thunder

Williams-Sonoma

• Nordic Ware Waffle Pancake Pan
• Pancake Pen

• Pay off my student loans
• Hire a nutritionist and a personal trainer to personally kick my butt into shape
• Go back to Australia and visit family
• Invest a portion of my winnings into a high interest savings account that my future self will use as downpayment on a home
• Pay off my parents' mortgage
• Buy my dad the H3 he wants
  • Invest a portion of the winnings to pay for the gas that this car will inevitably guzzle
• Buy the front loading washer and dryer set I've always wanted
• Furnish the new apartment I would inevitably move into
• Go to aquariums outside the US
• Become a Cowboys season ticket holder

• Ahi Tuna Steak
• Chicken Curry Fried Rice
• Com Ga Nuong Sa (Rice With Lemon Grass Chicken)
• Cheese Fries
• Flan
• French Toast
• Lobster
• Nuoc Mia (Sugarcane Juice)
• Passionfruit Slush With Bubbles
• Peach Cobbler With Vanilla Ice Cream
• Spinach Artichoke Dip
• Sushi
• Vodka
• Vodka Tonic
• Vodka + Anything
• Waffles

• The Afters/Blisse
• Anberlin
• Ben Folds
• Brighten
• Cold War Kids
• Coldplay
• Dashboard Confessional
• David Crowder Band
• Death Cab For Cutie
• Eisley (x4)
• The Elms (x2)
• Incubus
• Jason Mraz
• Jenny Lewis
• Jimmy Eat World
• Lisa Hannigan
• Mae
• Muse
• Mute Math
• The Myriad (x2)
• Sara Bareilles

• Mia and Macy and Ollie
• MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone (and chargers!!)
• 1.5 TB Seagate exeternal hard drive
• Penguin army
• Massive book collection
• Cookbooks
• Accounting books
• TV

• A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
• Bluebeard
• The Catcher In The Rye
• Cat's Cradle
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• Wuthering Heights

Honorable Mentions

• Pride And Prejudice
• To Kill A Mockingbird

• Senior Accountant II, June 2012 - Present

Past Jobs

• Senior Accountant I, September 2010 - June 2012
• Senior Accountant, June 2008 - September 2010
• Accounting Clerk, July 2007 - June 2008
• Accounts Payable, January 2006 - July 2007
• Accounting Assistant, October 2005 - January 2006
• Administrative Assistant, December 2004 - October 2005
• Transcriptionist, November 2003 - December 2004