76. I own hooker boots. Black shiny leather, stiletto heel, pointy toe. Pretty much Cruella de Vil.
77. The only R-rated movie I've ever seen unedited is Schindler's List, which I actually own. I've had people tell me I'm just rationalizing when I say it's ok for me to watch that one, and to that I really don't have anything to say. I don't think R-rated movies are okay, but if you know me and you don't see why this is different... well, I don't feel like I need to explain myself. To each his own.
78. I love Disney movies! Especially the older ones.
Beauty and the Beast is my favorite, and then
Sleeping Beauty and
Aladdin. It's not animated, but
Mary Poppins is one of my favorite movies ever.
79. I can't write with markers without getting them all over my fingers.
80. I really love bright colors-- in my clothes, my bedroom, giant journal pages, pictures, etc. I don't wear bright colors as much as I used to, but still a lot.
81. I own three pairs of Chucks: pink, green, and black. The pink ones were my first, the black ones are my favorite, and the green ones are hi-tops and therefore awesome. But the pink and green are a size bigger than the black because I discovered that I actually fit into 4's after I'd already bought the first two.
82. My next Chucks are going to be brown, and then maybe red or blue.
83. I love buying shoes. They are my favorite article of clothing to buy now.
84. I can't balance on a skateboard to save my life. I told Mike he can try to teach me, but I have terrible balance anyway, so I'm not foreseeing a successful endeavor.
85. I took five years of Spanish, from seventh grade through my junior year of high school. I can't speak it conversationally, but I remember enough to mess me up when I'm trying to learn Hebrew.
86. My mom's stepfather was in Auschwitz, and her mother's family was hidden in a convent in Italy during the Holocaust.
87. My dad's sister Angela is an opera singer and--within the past few years--a really amazing sculptor. Her website's in my list of links, and you should look at them because they are really incredible sculptures. They're all of Christ and you won't believe that she had never even thought of sculpting before like five years ago or whenever it was, when she just... started.
88. My uncle Warner actually got a 36 on the ACT. Scary.
89. I got a 36 in the two English sections on the ACT, which I can't remember the names of right now, but then my score in the math section killed my composite. Sigh.
90. I took Music Theory in high school and loved it. I wanted to take it here, but when I looked at the courses you had to take three separate ones (9 credits) all at once, and if you're not a Music major that's basically impossible.
91. The first time I saw Monty Python was in a high school English class, but thank goodness that didn't ruin it for me.
92. When I was in fifth grade, my best friend was Manuel Quiles. He used to bring a Calvin and Hobbes comic book to school, and we'd sit and read it together before class started. Then, when we were saying the pledge of allegiance, we'd mouth "watermelon" instead. Don't ask why.
93. I don't think the singing hamburger part of
Better Off Dead is funny.
94. "Moonlight Sonata" is one of my favorite pieces to play on the piano, especially when I'm upset about something. It's one of the first two classical pieces I learned to play (the other is "Fur Elise") and it's one of the ones I can play the best. It always makes me feel better.
95. I don't like taking baths, but I sometimes do when I'm really super hysterically upset about something. Then I get the water really hot, turn off the lights, and listen to Beethoven until I'm about to fall asleep or the water gets cold.
96. My aunt Miki and I are really alike in our interests. One of my good memories from the summer between my sophomore and junior years up here was when we went to Half-Priced Books together and just shopped around for a while. I love talking about books and classes and things with her, and it's really cool to get her perspective on them.
97. No offense to anyone who reads this one, but I am very bitter about money. I hate it with a passion, and I get really angry when I see people who just have everything handed to them. I've had a job since my junior year in high school, and I've had problems with money since I started college. I can't get scholarships or grants, like pretty much everyone I know here does. My dad has a really good job, and my parents help me as much as they can, but they can't afford to pay for my college and buy me a laptop and an iPod and a car and a digital camera and a cell phone and my groceries and pay my rent and my insurance and take me shopping just for kicks every time I go home. Sometimes they cover things like insurance for me when I can't, but I'm supposed to pay for all this myself. Maybe it's because I happen to know a lot of people who are the youngest in their families, but it's still really hard for me to see them like that when I'm always stressed about money and I know I'm probably going to be paying for this education for the next 40 years of my life.
98. I have scoliosis. Most people don't notice, but you can tell if you know to look. My spine curves at the bottom, so my left shoulder is higher than my right.
99. One day I'd like to get Lasik, but I'm a little scared to do it. All I know is I hate both contacts and glasses, and it'd be so nice to not have to deal with them.
100. The "n" key is completely rubbed out on my keyboard. I'm not sure why that is, because I know "n" isn't used the most, but I think it's because I touch that key with the index finger of my right hand, which is pretty much the strongest of all my fingers.
So the scootering was fantastic. I've been writing this post for like an hour while I'm watching an episode of Gilmore girls, and apparently I don't have as much to say as I thought I did because I can't focus. I think I'm done writing now. Yay for scooter pictures.
, because that's when we met. As part of this celebration, we watch the movie that we watched that night. It's called My Man Godfrey, and it was very late the first time we watched it and the movie was very funny. Especially my favorite line:
Jennie kept commenting on how Lindsey would have loved our silliness and how we missed her. And then we decided to create a Facebook group of our insanity so that we could share it with her, after which Megan and I spent over an hour finding old pictures of scandalisticness to put in the photo album for the group. Then I looked at Lindsey's Facebook profile and saw her giant journal pages and they made me miss her even more. It's very sad, and I thought I should write about it because that is what blogs were made for.
talk about some of the bigger questions, where being the biggest one. And then he tells me that he's not actually ready to get married in December, there are things he wants to do first, he doesn't want a winter wedding, he thinks we should wait until spring, he wants to live by himself first, he wants to turn 21, blah blah freakin' blah. Awesome. So why did we start talking about it to begin with? I mean, that's the whole reason I brought it up last night. I felt like we needed to have a more specific time that we were shooting for because that'll make things easier. So he agreed with me, and then the next day promptly changed his mind. Grr.
I love the Dallas skyline. It symbolizes home to me, even though I live 40 minutes from it.
I've always loved Jack Vettriano paintings, and this is one of my favorites.
I definitely need to figure out what's going on with myself, because all I want to do lately is be at home, listen to music, read, giant journal, watch movies, and be with Mike. I keep thinking there are only a couple more weeks until school is out and then everything will be better, but I'll be taking classes and working again in the summer, and for the next year at least until I'm done with school. And then after school there's just more work for the rest of my life. So it's not like I can tell myself I just need to hang on for (x amount of time) longer and then I'll get a break, because I won't. Pretty much no more breaks for the rest of my life. Because the only time when I won't have to work will be once I have kids, and then-- well, I don't even need to talk about how much work kids are, and being pregnant is not at the top of my list of relaxing things. What is it that I think I'm looking for? I don't even know.
I like pretty colors.
And also mountains. I love love love mountains, especially when they're green like this.
These poppies look like they should be made of plastic. Also, the word poppies makes me think of the Wizard of Oz. Which is a really weird movie. I watched it a week or so ago for the first time in years and I don't know how much I like it now, to be honest.
I pretty much love this picture.
