• to live in a small town
• to buy and old, fixer-upper, starter home for a cheap price
• to have a large yard included with the above mentioned house
• to adopt a second and possibly third dog when i move into above mentioned house
• to find love
• to live somewhere where i can fish somewhere relatively close
• to live in the mountains, at one time or another
• to have a room in my house where i can sit in a big comfy chair with my books and tea, and watch the birds through a window

• being stuck in an elevator during a power outage
• being stuck on the subway in the darkness of a tunnel
• being in a transit (subway) crash
• getting caught in a strong under-toe while swimming in the ocean
• finding out that i'm unable to get pregnant when i want to have kids
• being in a coma
• losing my memory
• losing my vision
• having my hair get thinner
• dying too young
• being in a car crash where the car gets submerged in deep water

• if i were a month, i’d be october
• if i were a day of the week, i’d be thursday
• if i were a time of day, i’d be 7:30am
• if i were a sea animal, i’d be a shark
• if i were a direction, i’d be east
• if i were a piece of furniture, i’d be an antique chair
• if i were a liquid, i’d be water
• if i were a flower, i’d be lavendar
• if i were a kind of weather, i'd be a sunny, crisp, dry, fall day
• if i were a musical instrument, i’d be a flute
• if i were a color, i’d be purple
• if i were an emotion, i’d be calm
• if i were a fruit, i’d be a watermelon
• if i were a food, i’d be casserole
• if i were a place, i’d be a small ocean bay
• if i were a material, i’d be flannel

• ✔ swim with sharks
• ✔ go ziplining
• go skydiving
• swim in the pacific ocean
• ✔ swim in the mediterranean sea
• pet a hippo
• own a great dane
• ✔ see the rocky mountains
• see the grand canyon
• visit new mexico
• visit texas
• go kayaking in sea caves
• go to green bow, alabama (just because that's where forest gump was from)
• have an encounter with a wild wolf... hopefully not one that will put me in the hospital
• ✔ stand beneath a waterfall
• see stonehenge
• go surfing
• learn to snowboard

• my favourite song: summer nights rascal flatts
• your least favourite song: bad romance lady gaga
• a song that makes you happy: beautiful girls sean kingston
• a song that makes you sad: seasons in the sun terry jacks
• a song that reminds you of someone: somewhere with you kenny chesney
• a song that reminds you of somewhere: salt water joys buddy wasisname
• a song that reminds you of a certain event: friends forever vitamin c
• a song you know all the words to:
• a song that you can dance to: stereo love edward maya feat alicia
• a song that you can fall asleep to: shelter birdy
• s song from your favourite band: swing life away rise against
• a song from a band you hate: hate my life theory of a dead man
• a song that is a guilty pleasure: super bass nikki manaj
• a song that no one would expect you to love: down with the sickness disturbed
• a song that describes you: house that built me miranda lambert
• a song that you used to love but now hate: russian roulette rihanna
• a song you hear often on the radio: someone like you adele
• a song that you wish you heard on the rad...

• ♥ dozer
• ♥ wizard
• ♥ ozzy
• ♥ stewie
• ♥ oliver
• ♥ pint
• ♥ guss
• ♥ nugget

female:

• opal
• vivian
• donna
• isabella
• vivianna
• annabella
• arabella
• hayden
• ellery

male:

• gordon
• conner
• malachy
• zachary
• michael
• aiden
• gavin
• gabbon
• william

- bread pan - muffin pan - cookie sheet - vanity - bookshelf - desk - shelves for bathroom - coffee table

• The Giver - Lois Lowry
• Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
• Tay John - Howard O'Hagan
• The Fire Dwellers - Margaret Laurence
• Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
• The Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

• Loving Mr.Darcy - Sharon Lathan
• Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
• Mocking Jay - Suzanne Collins
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
• Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo - Zlata Filipovic
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson

• "whatever satisfies the soul is truth" -Walt Whitman
• "moving fast is not the same as going somewhere" -Robert Anthony
• "ships in a harbor are safe, but that's not what ships are made for" -John Shedd
• "these violent delights have violent ends/and in their triumph die, like fire and powder,/which as they kiss consume" -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.3
• "alas, so all things now do hold their peace: heaven and earth disturbed no thing: the beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease; the nightes car the stars about doth bring. calm is the sea, the waves work less and less: so am I not, whom love, alas, doth wring, bringing before my face the great increase of my desires, whereat i weep and sing in joy and woe, as in a doubtful ease. for my sweet thoughts sometime do pleasure bring, but, by and ...

read:

• anthony and cleopatra
• henry iv part one
• henry iv part two
• henry v
• julius caesar
• king lear
• macbeth
• midsummer night's dream
• much ado about nothing
• richard ii
• richard iii
• romeo and juliet
• taming of the shrew
• the tempest
• twelfth night
• winter's tale

to read:

• all's well that ends well
• as you like it