• you can grow up without drinking, but it's harder - my grandmother
• all I'm saying is that if you get held hostage for $50, you better hope you brought a snack - my cousin
• Sarah, we said you could come visit, not ruin everything - my sister
• "Are you excited to go Bubby?" "I'm 88-years-old no matter where I am. You find me a place where I'm your age and then I'll be excited."
• "How old did people live when you were a kid Bubby?" "they all died before I could ask them."

• People I've macked on
• People I want to mack on
• the reasons why I wouldn't want to date myself
• all my insecurities and random neuroses
• favorite things to think about
• favorite kinds of books to read in barnes and noble
• business ideas (but I wouldn't want you to steal them)
• ideas in general (I don't think listography can handle it)
• goals
• places where I've macked it
• places where I'd like to mack it
• most fun days ever

• really funny
• courage
• a sense of where they came from
• an ability to both be ok with who they are and yet a desire to always be better
• the ability to say the shit that I feel weird about saying and then to make me realize that I'm actually ridiculous for not feeling like I can say stuff
• they must totally love to mack it

• 2/22 Swanky night at Charm City Swing
• 2/23 Karaoke with Abby, Michael, and Nina. Songs: Anyway you want it - with Nina, That don't impress me much - with Abby, and I want you back - with Abby and Nina.

• Check my bathroom, bedroom, and everything in between for robbers before I went to bed
• touched doorknobs a lot
• had empathy for inanimate objects and felt like I was hurting them when I touched them too hard or scratched them
• look out my window to where my cat was buried every night after dinner (that's so sad and creepy)
• apologized OBSESSIVELY
• only did things in certain numbers (three or five usually)
• had a whole line of things that I would yell to my brother and sister before falling asleep. It started with, "good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite..." but went on forever
• slept with my horse's horse shoe under my pillow and kissed it before I went to bed because I only saw her once or twice a ...

• My Little Pony
• My imaginary horses that lived under my back porch
• Katie Monter
• My babysitter wiping pudding off my face while I was still in a high chair and trying to wipe my freckle off
• The school bus
• Our sailboat breaking and having to drive it backwards with the motor to get away from the storm

• Uncle: "You see, my wife's Dad was a veterinarian - "

Cousin: "So you got free health care?"

• French revolution...I guess that's kind of a weird thing to want to be at
• King Leopold's home pre-him hooking up with Stanley so that I could kill him
• Savoy Ballroom back in the day
• All of Sam Cooke's shows

• Back to all the places I have been
• Democratic Republic of Congo
• Greece
• So many sail boats
• Hawaii
• Costa Rica (they don't have an army AND they have good surfing!)
• The homes of all my good friends so that I can see where they grew up
• Plum Village
• Wales
• ...This will have to be a work in progress