Oh, joy!

• Sleeping
• Breakfast with the Beatles
• Mad Men and Bored to Death Sundays with Suzy Q
• Painting
• Peeling oranges
• Pajamas
• Cold weather days
• The Autumn of Grilled Cheese
• It's national pizza month and I've had pizza twice (as of 28/10)
• Cardigans
• Ibarra hot chocolate
• The IT Crowd
• My spinning wheel for my presentation in Debbie's class
• My California raisin and other thrifting/antiquing treasures
• Getting an A+ on Grenfell's midterm!
• Chelsea and Cherry and Ingrid and Emily and Rosie
• Eric Forman
• Ivan from my internship!
• Canned pumpkin
• My new silk vintage blouse
• Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Etta James, Chet Baker, Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones, Paris Combo (I've been listening to them all month)
• Homemade honey cornbread
• Warm pretzels whilst sitting on white benches
• My ginormous jack-o-lantern for the kiddos
• Vodka and cranberry juice (and cherry vodka. And peach margaritas)
• Orson Welles
• Defined eyebrows
• Rainnnnnnnnn
• Cooking
• Getting asked to dance by three classy guys in one night
• Cute socks
• Macaroni and cheese
• Discovering my long lost nutella in the back of the cabinet
• Tracy Jordan on Cash Cab
• Stripper junk... in my friends' faces (especially Christina's)
• Bubble gum
• Mozzarella sticks
• My guitar
• Drawing with Bee
• I have the loveliest voice in the dinosaur classroom
• On the first day of my new, new internship, the bears sat all around me, hugging me and holding my hands and telling me stories about vampires
• Maribel is on the "bad list" haha
• Derek Fernando Martin and his teeny butt
• Rediscovering my lost gum in Maribel's car
• Skalloween with the Skeletones
• Keytars
• Dancing with complete strangers
• Superhero capes
• Horchata and good burritos
• Ivan, his worm Troy, saber toothed tigers, sitting in the grass under a tree and hand-holding (I think he's my favorite, even though we're forbidden as teachers to have favorites)
• When Bee reads me chapters from my old books (like Sideways Stories from Wayside School)
• Granola bars
• Old re-runs of Treehouse of Horror leading up to Halloween
• Halloween
• Velma Dinkley
• "The Velma Dinkley" (one part orange soda, one part vodka and a splash of peach schnapps)
• Leftover candy
• Colin

Oh, fudge!

• Debbie Downer things on television (Ray and Leah breaking up AND Stella and Johnathan. Don Draper being a handsome slut AND dumping Faye for his secretary)
• I miss Thomas
• I need a new coat and I have no money!
• I forgot to let Mia do her patterning
• Cold, foggy mornings and super warm afternoons
• Wearing stupid pants!
• Texts from Brandon
• Andrew is mad at me because he says I've been listening to too much bluesy crap lately
• Being a priss and texting Thomas
• Slicing my hand open with a box cutter whilst crafting
• Getting paint and glue on the carpet again
• That stupid biznatch all up on my Twitter, with him all up on her Facebook. Eugh she's such a big, FAT meanie and a piece of poop.
• Wearing stupid pants... makes me feel boyish
• Stripper junk... in my face
• Stripper strobelights and LAME jokes
• Leaving the bears for the dinosaurs (internship)
• My shark week! It sucks this month. I feel like crapola (Oct 24th)
• I feel cynical and extra sarcastic lately...
• Andrew ruined everything. What a creep-o
• I miss Thomas a lot. There are too many reminders all over the place.
• They don't sell classy mary janes anywhere anymore (especially red ones)
• My lesson plan was lost in my lab teachers box. What kind of karma is that???
• Power outtages. That was lame!
• Karl Krimmery and Kristy Burgerface dissed Maribel at Ross
• I'm tired all of the time
• I have a zillion papers due in the next two weeks
• I probably failed that last math quiz
• Debbie Cazares' classes suck! She's super boring and I want to drop
• I have a stupid sinus cold! My face hurts and I keep sneezing
• Stupid lab teacher Emily is a super fink
• Anthony keeps calling me Miss Maria on accident and I flipping hate stupid Miss Maria
• That Tiger guy is flirty. He's lucky I'm friendly.