• cats/kittens
• jive and swing dancing
• burlesque
• faeries
• Kerli Kõiv
• Emilie Autumn
• thunderstorms
• sunshowers
• rainy nights
• vanilla scented candles
• lip balm
• horror movies
• true crime stories
• exploring abandoned buildings
• the paranormal
• autumn
• bookstores
• long walks at night
• 1930's, 40's & early 50's americana
• being in love
• being alone (sometimes)

• censorship
• kids with no respect for their elders
• corrupt government officials
• when my mom was diagnosed with cancer
• attention whores
• hangovers
• being bored
• liking someone that doesn't like you back
• overly dramatic people
• people who can't detect dripping sarcasm when they hear it
• people with no sense of humor
• reality TV "stars" who have done nothing to attain their fame other than pointing cameras at their train wreck of a life
• Fox "News" and the people that support it as a legitimate news source rather than entertainment
• Sarah Palin and her clueless fans
• child molesters

• "Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength." -Dalai Lama
• "Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain." -Lily Tomlin
• "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed." -Mahatma Gandhi
• "Anything too stupid to be said is sung." -Voltaire
• "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -Winston Churchill
• "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gaultier
• "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall." -Mitch Hedberg
• "The budget should be balanced; the treasury should be refilled; public debt should be reduced; and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled." -Cicero
• "When I do good, I feel good; when I do b... -Abraham Lincoln

• parents will love you no matter what
• that there are a lot of bitter, jealous people out there that can't be happy for anyone's good fortune even if they tried
• people who hide behind internet usernames spewing hateful remarks are complete cowards when you come face-to-face with them in real life
• discussing politics or religion with an idiot never ends well
• watching/reading too much news is bad for my health
• never, under any circumstances, read the comments at the bottom of a Yahoo! News article
• I'd rather be too cold than too hot
• never charge something to a credit card if you can't afford to pay it off at the end of the month
• large corporations will always choose profit over people

• fire rainbows
• moonbows
• blue holes
• ghost towns
• the Door To Hell
• the Wave
• Narwhals
• auroras/northern lights
• Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire
• Oak Island Money Pit
• Cahokia
• dead malls
• 1968 Richmond, Indiana explosion (my grandma was 2 blocks away from the explosion working in Knollenberg's at the time)
• Fallingwater
• Kowloon Walled City
• the Magic Roundabout
• Ryugyong Hotel
• spite houses
• star jelly

• banana split Dippin' Dots
• black licorice
• brownies with walnuts
• caramel apples
• carrot cake
• chocolate almond biscotti
• chocolate covered coffee beans
• chocolate covered pretzels
• chocolate Teddy Grahams
• cinnamon rolls/pecan rolls
• cupcakes
• dark chocolate
• eclairs
• Ferrero Rocher
• frozen bananas
• funnel cakes/elephant ears
• Hot Tamales
• Jelly Bellies
• key lime pie
• Krispy Kreme fresh glazed doughnuts
• Marshmallow Peeps

• small talk
• saying yes to social invitations
• staying focused and motivated
• dealing with physical pain
• balancing on one foot
• lighting a match
• slicing a pizza evenly with a pizza cutter
• picking out gifts for people
• keeping up with all my online accounts
• sending out holiday/birthday cards
• shopping for Christmas gifts before December 24th
• sticking to an exercise routine
• having patience in dealing with rude, idiotic people
• forcing myself to be social when I don't want to be
• trying on new clothes and deciding what looks good
• paying bills as soon as I get them

• ✔ graduate high school
• ✔ meet a great guy
• ✔ fall in love
• ✔ get the hell out of Ohio
• ✔ read a classic
• ✔ ride on a roller coaster
• ✔ write a poem
• ✔ receive an email from someone famous
• ✔ have a ridiculous ringtone on your cell phone
• ✔ make a prank phone call
• ✔ be the recipient of a prank call
• ✔ research your family tree
• ✔ experience a white Christmas
• ✔ dye easter eggs
• ✔ attend a music concert
• ✔ ride in a limo
• ✔ get drunk
• ✔ have an oceanfront hotel room
• ✔ donate items to charity
• ✔ go camping in a tent

• beef wellington
• osso buco
• ✔ french macarons
• ✔ ganache
• truffle
• tuna or steak tartare
• ceviche
• ✔ California roll
• ✔ quiche
• ✔ pulled pork sandwich
• polenta
• ✔ tamale
• ✔ tiramisu
• ✔ profiterole
• ✔ New York cheesecake
• caviar
• ✔ eggplant parmesan
• bouillabaisse
• ✔ gumbo
• ✔ jambalaya
• paella

• 11:14
• American Beauty
• Atonement
• Being John Malkovich
• Blazing Saddles
• The Breakfast Club
• Changeling
• A Christmas Story
• Crimson Tide
• Dawn of the Dead
• Desperately Seeking Susan
• Dick
• Dirty Dancing
• Donnie Darko
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
• Fight Club
• Girl Interrupted
• Gone With The Wind
• The Green Mile
• Heavenly Creatures

• why anyone would want to "play by the rules"... rules are meant to be broken
• animal cruelty
• how some people can be on Facebook all day and all night every single day
• people who litter
• the appeal of Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber
• why people like the song "Lips of an Angel" by Hinder
• the hype surrounding the Twilight books and movies (the movie was just okay, nothing to get crazy about)
• bar hopping
• homophobia
• the fashion aspect of award shows
• how anyone can think D.L. Hughley is actually funny
• smoking... how anyone thinks it's a good idea to burn stuff in a paper tube and suck back on the fumes baffles me

• peanut butter and honey on toast
• french fries dipped in ranch dressing
• french fries dipped in a chocolate milkshake
• ketchup on scrambled eggs
• barbecue chicken with blue cheese dressing
• pizza dipped in ranch dressing
• popcorn with lime and salt
• cottage cheese and pineapple
• peanut butter or cream cheese on celery
• grilled cheese sandwiches dipped in tomato soup
• sandwiches with potato chips INSIDE the sandwich
• sugar sandwiches (buttered white bread with sugar sprinkled on the inside)
• peanut butter and banana sandwiches
• fluffernutter sandwiches (peanut butter and marshmallow fluff)
• turkey, pepper jack cheese, salsa and ran...

• being pregnant and giving birth to my son
• my freshman year of college and meeting lots of awesome people
• getting my first car
• Myrtle Beach family vacations
• driving down to Myrtle Beach
• having a beach front hotel room in MB and waking up to a beautiful sunrise every morning
• going to the Ohio State Fair with Mom and watching the horse shows
• the day we got Lady from the pet store
• running out of the house to hug Dad as soon as he pulled into the driveway when I was little
• the entire day of my high school graduation... walking the stage, getting my diploma, realizing I'd never have to set foot in my school ever again and having an awesome dinner with my family at Red Brick T...

• I love to laugh and I'm very easily amused
• I have to have the TV on when I'm cooking, I cannot cook in silence
• I make lists/notes not because I have a bad memory but because if I don't write it down, I end up not getting it done
• I can turn pretty much anything into a sexual reference and often do, then me and my boyfriend will laugh about it
• I love to organize... messy rooms drive me insane
• I always have to be wearing socks, I hate walking around in bare feet
• I like closed captioning on whenever I watch movies
• when I'm done making a sandwich, I always cut it in half
• when eating M&M's, I eat them until one of each of the 6 individual colors are left remaining, then I eat them until the bl...

• had a fake ID
• ridden a horse
• learned how to swim
• learned to ski
• gone ice skating
• ran with scissors
• been in a mosh pit
• been dumped in a relationship
• seen The Godfather
• been able to whistle
• been arrested
• fired a gun
• got a tattoo
• had an out-of-body experience
• done a handstand
• volunteered at a charitable organization
• learned to drive a stick shift
• gone skinny dipping
• had a professional massage
• had silly pictures taken in a photobooth
• found a four-leaf clover

• apple cinnamon oatmeal
• avocados
• banana nut bread
• biscuits and gravy
• blackberry cobbler
• BLTs
• cantaloupe
• celery with cream cheese
• chicago-style hot dogs
• chicken fajitas
• cole slaw
• cornbread
• cottage cheese and pineapple
• crab cakes
• crab rangoon
• cream of mushroom soup
• creamed chipped beef on toast
• deviled eggs
• fettuccine alfredo
• fish and chips
• four cheese ravioli

Non-alcoholic

• Baja Blast Mountain Dew
• banana milkshakes
• chocolate almond milk
• creamsicle floats
• eggnog
• honey lemon tea
• iced coffee
• mango smoothies
• mocha cappuccinos
• root beer floats
• Starbucks Frappuccinos
• super cold iced water
• sweet tea

Alcoholic

• amaretto cranberry
• butterscotch Schnapps
• cosmo
• Heineken
• long island iced tea