Listmaker Collective

15 minute assignments

2009-12-02T14:52:00.004-05:00

1. send maggie a list
2. exquisite corpse drawing
3. design the ultimate chair.
4. watch someone try to count to 1,000
5. give yourself cornrows
6. write a love letter
7. paint your toenails
8. pick flowers and make a flower arrangement
9. make a to do list
10. make fresh juice
11. wash all of the dishes
12. write a song
13. watch a feature movie in fast-forward
14. run a mile
15. contribute to this list
16. trim your bangs
17. get ben on the phone and order a portrait
18. read tongue-twisters aloud (source text available upon request)
19. wrap dates in bacon and throw in 450 degree oven for 10 minutes
20. make your lunch for tomorrow
21. embroider initials or a cluster of flowers on a hanky, napkin, pillowcase, etc
22. do most of a crossword puzzle
23. take out everything in the refrigerator, wipe it down, and put everything back in
24. buy something you don’t need online
25. watch 1/10 of a harry potter movie
26. reorganize your entire living room
27. organize stereo or computer cables with zip ties
28. start reading a new book
29. talk on the phone with someone far away
30. read the lovely love notes at www.iloveyoumorethanblank.com. write your own and send them to everyone you love
31. run a couple miles (haha)
32. create a set of color coded labels in your gmail settings and start using them!
33. dig out and turn over my compost (volunteers very welcome!)
34. draw portrait of everyone in your immediate family
35. pay your bills
36. re-order your closet by color
37. eat a hamburger
38. meditate
39. decide if you like somebody
40. make a postcard
41. make cookie ice cream sandwiches and eat them all by yourself
42. pimp your internet browser with add-ons and user scripts (e.g. helvetireader, or icon-only permatabs)
43. make a stovetop dinner
44. fold that clean laundry
45. make your own peanut butter: process 1 cup peanuts (salted or unsalted, or even honey roasted!) with a little bit of vegetable oil and some honey. whiz it in the processor and eat on a ripe banana. or stir chocolate chips into it and eat with a spoon.
46. listen to the bizarre message a crazy woman left on my voicemail
47. run as far as you can from your front door in 7.5 minutes, turn around and go back
48. stitch a handmade book
49. cook a lobster
50. eat a pint of ice cream
51. make a cute pillowcase for your travel pillow
52. tie dye everything
53. make and drink a cup of tea.
54. walk downtown
55. clean out your car
56. walk a mile
57. draw a bird; on a tree; dwarfed by a dinosaur...
58. call your best friend
59. clean the outside of your counter top appliances, or trash can
60. enjoy successful sex
61. make a super-short film
62. do as many handstands as your body will allow
63. clean the studio before someone stops in
64. brush everyone’s hair - the cats, the dogs, your own
65. take a short walk to enjoy the sun
66. spray paint something gold (preferably a kitschy item from the thrift store)
67. write a letter to your grandparents
68. watch so many previews in the theater that you forget what movie you are waiting to see
69. re-pot your plants
70. walk a labyrinth
71. make a 15 minute portrait
72. take a bath
73. make some dessert

list by: ben, david, emily, jeff, jennie, jess, maggie, michela, mom and sara
photo by maggie

sweet

2009-09-02T15:03:00.002-04:00

1. sweat
2. sweet tarts
3. green converse all-stars
4. the roast beef sandwich and goldfish snack pack bram made me today
5. everything in the garden, especially snap peas on the vine
6. opening the door for a women
7. curls
8. cheeks
9. candy candy candy
10. fritter’s fur
11. my studio
12. seeing your baby in a 4d ultrasound sucking it’s thumb
13. baby teeth
14. sweet dreams!
15. awww... aren’t you sweet
16. the jingle of change in a pocket
17. father helping child scan items on the grocery self-checkout with no one in line behind them
18. sweet peas
19. muffin tops (the edible kind)
20. handfuls of cottony sheets
21. babies
22. summer breezes
23. flowers on your birthday
24. milkshakes
25. watermelon
26. parker jo
27. chewing on clover
28. rum and coke
29. frosting
30. watching people hug hello
31. my man
32. baby toes
33. sour patch kids
34. falling asleep with a breeze
35. my dog’s cuddles
36. ice cream
37. watching your 2 year old sleep soundly
38. maple syrup lemonade
39. www.peoplespops.com
40. feijoas (try them!)
41. puppies
42. how sweet it is to be loved by you!
43. sunsets and windy hair
44. soft kisses
45. vodka tonic
46. sweet caroline
47. leaving notes behind
48. dean’s chocolates
49. freckles
50. ice cream
51. little girl hugging me in the subway for no reason
52. maple syrup on ice cream
53. summer watermelon
54. tying a bow
55. kisses in the sun
56. strawberries that are just a day away from going by
57. vegan cupcakes take over the world by isa chandra moskowitz
58. nostalgia
59. chocolate
60. my nephews’ hugs
61. home
63. delicious wheat beer with oranges!
64. getting the list topic from maggie
65. flowers for no reason
66. gifts from friends
67. mudslides (the drink - the natural disaster is not sweet at all)
68. new boyfriend letting me read his entire journal
69. braiding hair
70. taking a couple minutes out of my day to clear my head and free-associate
71. sugar sugar!
72. when people call you sugar pie
73. walking and talking
74. maraschino cherries
75. things that are awesome
76. there’s always chocolate
77. i like you by sandol stoddard warburg
78. holga cameras

list by: ashley, becky, ben, emily, jan, jeff, jennie, karrie, maggie, megan, mom and sara
photo by maggie

black

2009-07-20T08:39:00.004-04:00

1. the color of my rhombus
2. fritter’s paws
3. plastic spiders on halloween
4. sheep
5. murky water
6. feeling desolate
7. and blue
8. my favorite jeans used to be
9. what i want to paint a red door that i see
10. my fingernails in high school
11. black is black, i want my baby back…
12. the threat of coal in a stocking
12. holes
13. depression
14. the clouds of june 2009
15. is beautiful
16. onyx
17. my eyebrows
18. my cake pans
19. feelings
20. my favorite clothing color
21. out
22. the spaces between things
23. licorice
24. color or non-color?
25. licorice, yuck
26. zoolander’s coal miner face
27. night sky
28. coal
29. the dried up shriveled remains of my ex-boyfriend’s heart
30. silhouettes
31. half of my wardrobe
32. oil
33. black eyes
34. this shirt i’m wearing right now - merino wool baselayer = awesome
35. chic
36. the majority of my clothes
37. the opium den in the bbc production of sherlock holmes
38. things that are sexy
39. night time
40. chimney sweeps
41. night
42. sleeping
43. black out
44. what amy winehouse is going back to
45. is beautiful
46. daffy duck
47. black is the new black
48. kanye west
49. the mold that makes me sneeze
50. truffles...mmmmm
51. black hole suns
52. poop when you eat too many blueberries
53. i see a red door and i want to paint it
54. some people’s hearts
55. clothing worn by a cat burgler
56. gothic
58. victorian mourning jewelry
59. ravens
60. charcol on my fingers after art class
61. darkroom
62. and tan
63. what i’m back in

list by: becky, emily, jamie, jennie, katie, leah, maggie, maura, megan, michela and mom
photo by maura

hot

2009-06-22T12:43:00.003-04:00

1. dogs
2. cute guys with cute glasses
3. the center of my compost heap
4. toasted marshmallows
5. forearms
6. beards
7. drag queens that work at the karaoke bar around the corner from my apartment
8. hell
9. sexy time
10. pink
11. fire
12. 5 o’clock shadows
13. chuck bass + blair waldorf
14. digging five years’ worth of sediment out of my gutters
15. eco-talk
16. i always burn the roof of my mouth with pizza
17. texas in the summer
18. attics
19. hot toddies
20. tea
21. vanilla latte
22. mexico in the summer
23. jalapenos
24. hot, hot, hot (the song)
25. panang curry
26. tiger
27. lava!
28. tom from tom’s shoes (the commercial makes me swoon)
29. august
30. the best way to feel just before your body hits the cool lake water
31. the stove
32. spicy food
33. sun
34. indian soup (mulligatawney)
35. sand on your bare feet in the summer
36. the first sunburn of the season
37. being comfortable in your own skin
38. a tin roof
39. st. louis
40. maggie drinking a bottle of wine by herself at the bar
41. korean bbq
42. running across gravel with barefeet in july/aug
43. boiling pasta water
44. pavement in summer
45. you
46. steering wheels in the dead of summer
47. the sun
48. being burnt
49. gold accessories
50. hot towels in japanese restaurants/planes
51. jalapeno peppers
52. sex
53. boyfriends who cook dinner and do dishes and laundry
54. summer
55. sizzling cinnamon jelly bellies
56. richard gere
57. jamie’s friends and bridesmaids dancin’ at da club
58. hot mama
59. like a hot tub (huh!)
60. stove
61. salsa
62. tofu tomato rice soup
63. bedhead
64. my man
65. a woodstove
66. johnny depp

list by: ashley, emily, gillian, hanna, jamie, jeff, maggie, maura and mom
photo by maggie

red

2009-06-08T08:47:00.004-04:00

1. bloodshot eyes
2. what is the history of us calling the russians “reds”?
3. in the face
4. blood
5. the turban in my favorite vaneyck
6. anne of green gables’ hair (really)
7. pepperoni
8. hawaiian punch
9. old canvas boat shoes
10. coral
11. sass
12. passionate love
13. cowboy bandanas
14. fucking delicious summer tomatoes
15. gmail label for “work”
16. my beloved vintage bicycle
17. my cheeks when i blush or drink red wine
18. racy
19. my favorite tulips when i was a little kid
20. roses
21. fire trucks
22. dorothy’s shoes
23. spitting cherry pits out the car window while driving around in summertime
24. every file folder in the office
25. cheeks
26. cinnamon toothpaste
27. thunderwear
28. most valentine’s day cards
29. secret crush bandanna
30. a baboon’s bottom
31. balloons
32. kitchen rug
33. “red light special” by tlc
34. flag
35. cocktail cherries
36. matching open-toe heels and toenail polish
37. the juice i threw up on the airplane
38. beets
39. hot anger
40. curry ketchup!
41. hearts
42. my allergy-eyes
43. happy
44. milk crates
45. peppers
46. cranberries
47. wagon
48. the binding of the book jacket of marley and me
49. other people’s lipsticks
50. the only color of wine
51. squirrels
52. my cousin’s nickname
53. stop signs
54. strawberries
55. favorite snowball flavors [that’s sno-cone or shave ice for y’all up north]
56. garbage can
57. october
58. coca cola
59. fall leaves
60. a ceramic strawberry
61. stop lights
62. herring
63. that stuff that drips out of me every time i injure myself
64. fire hydrants
65. construction paper (the red kind)
66. my face
67. my winter coat
68. foxes
69. campfires
70. the ‘tent’
71. morgan freeman’s character in the shawshank redemption
72. my cheeks, very often
73. my face when secret crush comes around
74. raspberries
75. my hair
76. walls at the downtown lounge
77. phonebooths in london
78. tomatoes
79. a worn victorian chair sitting in mom’s garage
80. apples
81. this nice fleece blanket my sister made my mom
82. the dresses at the phoenix award show
83. a sweet heart
84. those teeny tiny little bugs that you find outside sometimes. they’re bright red and almost invisible. they don’t scare me one bit.
85. favorite new coat, made by lou freitzel of milwaukee
86. very few things that i own
87. the blush on a ripe bosc pear
88. playground balls
89. firemen’s hats
90. cherries
91. my bank balance
92. lobsters
93. my fingernails last week
94. blazing sunset
95. conference room chairs
96. freckles
97. red wine (gives me headaches, but i drink it anyway)
98. aunt flo
99. curry
100. the back of my business cards (emily’s too)
101. licorice
102. tomato sauce
103. wine
104. brake lights
105. marinara
106. red velvet cake
107. is my favorite color
108. strawberry picking
109. commies
110. cinnamon hearts
111. my favorite cereal bowl
112. put on your red dress
113. that okkervil river song
114. letter days
115. i picked red as my favorite color when i was six because i liked how the red crayon (moreso than any other color) felt against the paper when i was drawing balloons
116. twizzlers
117. lobster and crab

list by: allie, amanda, ashley, becky, ben, deirdre, emily, jan, jennie, jess, katie, leah, maggie, megan, other megan, mom, sara
photo by maggie

tricks you've played (or dream of playing)

2008-11-19T15:32:00.004-05:00

1. convinced mother i was jewish
2. had someone smell some food and then shove their face in it (often)
3. put fake ants on my mom's pillow for april fool's day
4. tricked sister into eating hand
5. faux roach inside a shoe
6. stacked all of a friend's belongings on her desk after she went to bed
7. threw a surprise party (does that even count?)
8. convinced brother I voted for McCain
9. rearranged furniture while someone was in the bathroom
10. bucket of confetti atop a cracked open door
11. made most of world believe harry connick, jr. is my cousin
12. sleeping person + hand in warm water = pee!
13. put staplers placed in jello
14. faux ice cubes with "flies" in them
15. put clothes hangers under the fitted sheet on a friend's bed
16. filled top of toothpaste tube with peanut butter
17. a couple bart simpson-esque prank phone calls (when i was younger)
18. switched my roommates drawers so you couldnt find her clothes before her early morning classes
19. hysterical fake pregnancy
20. hid in the closet and jumped out to scare my mom (constantly)
21. convinced my sister that i threw weighted pillows at the gym for exercise
22. used my compromised toothbrush to scrub toilet and then let my roommate's boyfriend (who was wiping snot on the walls and exhibiting other odd behavior that disgusted me) use it for several days.
22. that thing that peppermint patty did to charlie brown over and over again with the football, only with food instead of a football and a baby instead of charlie brown
23. say things like "i have bad news..." to preface banal things
24. rubber band around the kitchen sink sprayer
25. fortune cookies with oddly accurate messages inserted
26. told my sister that her dolls were coming alive as an april fool's joke. she believed me, but only because she was 5
27. snappy joke gum pack
28. hid outside in the snow and surprised my brother with a snowball right in the gut (it might have even been the face)
29. put a hairball in a water bottle
30. short-sheeted bed
31. stealing mattress and hiding it
32. regularly pretended to be someone else on the phone when i call home (usually someone with a really bad british accent)
33. joy buzzer
34. moved friend's car to across parking lot when they leave keys in it (dumbass!)
35. when my brother answers the phone at home, i love to pretend that he's my mom because he gets so mad
36. blue food coloring in milk carton
37. tricked people into eating something gross by saying it was delicious (it will never get old)
38. paged a woman I don't like to come over to my desk for a made up reason after I've let a really stinky fart go

list by: amanda, becky, deirdre, evan, jan, jennie, jess, karrie, katherine, maggie, megan and rebecca
photo by stefanie frances

dream jobs

2008-10-27T12:08:00.003-04:00

1. explorer
2. party planner
3. professional project participant
4. college placement professional
5. essayist
6. couch potato
7. framer
8. english teacher
9. second-hand store owner
10. professional movie-watcher
11. blogger for pay
12. stay-at-home mom
13. travel photographer
14. designer of cd coverart
15. bakery owner
16. eat, read, sleep
17. job placement professional
18. cartographer of border regions
19. trophy wife
20. worker at the appalshop in whitesburg, ky.
21. avocado rancher
22. sea world animal handler
23. book collector
24. naturalist
25. graphic designer
26. independent freelance contractor
27. interior designer
28. independent scholar
29. woodsman
30. philanthropist
31. actress (stage)
32. working for google – in maine!
33. art/rare book buyer for a museum/library with an unlimited budget
34. kitten rescuer/caretaker
35. working for the aclu
36. artist with rich patron
37. product tester
38. someone who gets paid to read design and food blogs all day
39. color collector
40. family photograph detective
41. fiction writer
42. social worker
43. my job- because i’ve dreamt about it
44. bassist to all grrl punk band
45. food critic
46. bowdoin english professor with the office in mass hall with the dutch door
47. assignment photographer
48. cupcake maker
49. rare book conservator
50. professor
51. veronica mars
52. train traveler
53. café / bookstore owner
54. farmer
55. video game tester
56. personal shopper for someone who i respect- like zooey deshanel
57. artist mentor at spindleworks
58. art collector
59. baker
60.product tester for g3 skis
61. librarian
62. professional donator for a philanthropic endowment with unlimited funds
63. sailor
64. independently wealthy person
65. working for the coalition for woman
66. rock singer (successful)
67. private detective
68. resident babe
69. cartographer of border regions
70. kindergarten teacher
71. student activities advisor (at a college)
72. gallery owner
73. elementary school librarian at a school for smart kids
74. outdoor instructor of some kind
75. ski bunny
76. a television detective or fbi agent (real life ones would be too scary)

list by: alyce, amanda, becky, ben, deirdre, emily, karrie, katherine, maggie, megan, and mom

photo by becky

favorite adjectives

2008-10-03T10:43:00.002-04:00

1. squishy
2. opinionated
3. cynical
4. sketchy
5. bicameral
6. moist
7. festering
8. scrumptious
9. french
10. spiky
11. unfreebootable
12. haughty
13. gluttonous
14. plaid
15. spicy
16. vivacious
17. ongepotchket (yiddish!)
18. blustery
19. passionate
20. pale
21. mellifluous
22. buttery
23. unacceptable
24. slippery
25. hollered
26. admired
27. enchanted
28. ebullient
29. luminous
30. smoky
31. wicked
32. shiny
33. cozy
34. ignominious
35. ridiculous
36. abandoned
37. scary
38. killer
39. rapacious
40. boring
41. beautiful
42. crunchy
43. perspicacious
44. boisterous
45. delirious
46. poufy
47. bomber (meaning a very good hold in climbing)
48. fair
49. hazy
50. insane
51. sincere
52. solo
53. translucent
54. delightful
55. hot potato
56. salubrious
57. flakey
58. indulgent
59. excruciating
60. snuggly
61. territorial
62. smart
63. juicy
64. criminal
65. facetious
66. triumphant
67. foggy
68. fugly
69. halloweeney
70. lethargic
71. quizical
72. zippy
73. hysterical
74. smitten
75. essential
76. problematic
77. whipped
78. clean
79. delicious
80. vibrant
81. hilarious
82. delicate
83. cantankerous
84. melodious
85. spontaneous
86. dirty
87. colorful (esp. when describing a personality)
88. lackadaisical
89. skeezy
90. sad
91. grandiose
92. broken
93. mossy
94. crafty
95. zesty
96. salty
97. tapered
98. crispy
100. cuddly
101. irrational
102. spiraled
103. cavalier
104. sharp
105. malfunctioning
106. chubby
107. languid
108. tender
109. sleepy
110. pompus
111. irreverent
112. disdainful
113. delectable
114. elegant
115. callous
116. variable
117. awesome
118. creamy
119. infantile
120. green
121. serious
122. modest
123. ovoid
124. unbelievable
125. stripped
126. cloudy
127. rad!
128. luscious
129. unmade
130. luminescent
131. earthy
132. succulent
133. adorable
134. worn
135. hectic
136. monumental
137. foreboding
138. murky
139. swarthy
140. funny
141. joyous
142. chocolatey
143. morose
144. steamy
145. aloof
146. west
147. flippant
148. subtle
149. wild
150. flat
151. lofty
152. quotidian
153. downy
154. simple
155. loquacious
156. amiable
157. complex
158. biased
159. f’kacht (it’s yiddish, and i don’t know how you’d spell it)
160. elusive
161. raw
162. soaked
163. fluffy
164. earthy
165. holy
166. icy
167. brindled
168. virile
169. totally
170. involved
171. leviathanic
172. angled
173. yucky
174. snowy
175. silky
176. complecated
177. slick
178. naked
179. creamed
180. stable
181. haunting
182. fresh
183. lucious
184. transparent
185. jumpy
186. asinine
187. clogged
188. parallel
189. gelatinous
190. zany
191. rustley
192. weird
193. paisley
194. daring
195. ill-fated
196. jacked
197. clustered
198. smooth
199. raunchy
200. odd
201. whole
202. unfortunate
203. sugary
204. generous
205. sardonic
206. diverting
207. crusty
208. radiant
209. clear
210. creative
211. magical
212. misty
213. bizarre
214. explosive

list by: abby, allie, alyson, amanda, ashley, becky, ben, chris, deirdre, emily, hanna, jennie, jess, karrie, leah, maggie, maura, michela and mom

photo by ashley

embarassing moments

2008-09-10T21:36:00.003-04:00

1. waving to the wrong person from across the street
2. not being allowed to shave my legs in the 6th grade and getting made fun of
3. falling and twisting ankles in front of people
4. mispronouncing a word
5. my sister snorting chocolate milk out her nose in front of a boy she liked
6. getting stuck on a water slide at aquaboggan
7. dropping a jar of carmex in the lunchroom in 9th grade and it rolled under a table of upperclassmen, i was mortified and pretended i didn’t see it
8. anytime i blush (which is often)
9. spelling “carson city” “c-a-r-s-o-n s-i-t-y” in the 5th-6th grade states & capitals spelling bee when everyone knew i was the best speller (i’m just really bad at spelling out loud!)
10. when my uncle and aunt came to visit and i had a box of condoms hanging on the wall in the kitchen called “low-riders” (complete with ‘70s girl + bikini)
11. not knowing how to rollerskate and therefore “skating” by myself in the kids’ rink at happy wheels during a childhood friend’s birthday party and then not being able to stop and running into the carpeted wall and getting rug burn on my face right before birthday cake
12. spilling a glass of wine over my new boyfriend’s parent’s picnic table the second night i met them (at least i missed the laptop)
13. laughing so hard that i fart
14. forgetting to bring a spare camera battery to my uncle’s wedding, which i was shooting, and making the whole wedding party wait ten minutes while my dad retrieved it
15. vomiting on a boyfriend after he broke my camera by picking me up and knocking us both over coming out of a cab after a party
16. my period bleeding through my jeans in the 8th or 9th grade and nancy hong, who i wasn’t even friends with, having to tell me, which was actually really really nice of her
17. not being able to fix the slide projector on the 17. first day of class last semester in front of 22 students
18.using a houseplant or two as toilets when roommates have spent too long in the shower
19. throwing up during sex, that was pretty bad
20. calling my ex by the name of my previous ex
21. throwing up right in front of the 7th grade lockers after getting off the bus, though to be honest this wasn’t really that embarrassing because i felt too sick to be embarrassed
22. my stepdad recently walking into the room where i was watching tv with my mom and wearing only see through underwear (it was hot out)

list by: allie, becky, jennie, michela and maggie
photo by stef!

things that i have broken

2008-08-06T08:50:00.001-04:00

1. a perfectly good guitar
2. necklace chains
3. lots of lightbulbs
4. various tools in the bakery
5. two hearts (hello, cliché!)
6. my first camera
7. a tiffany’s lamp
8. a rusted U-Lock
9. promises to loved ones
10. cell phones (i drop them too)
11. my glasses, sort of on purpose so i could get contacts
12. an antique mirror of my mother’s
13. glass bottles, by climbing up tall ladders and throwing them into giant dumpsters at the recycling center (cherished childhood pleasure)
14. my cousin's window (when i threw him through it)
15. the speed limit
16. a church window
17. two drinking glasses with drawings of fruit smiling on them
18. my own heart
19. eggs! eggs! eggs!
20. at least 3 good 35mm SLRs
21. many, many needles
22. my second camera
23. my mom’s eskimo doll thing. (i was just a kid)
34. no world records (as far as i know)
35. diets
36. promises to god
37. many, many wine glasses
38. a really beautiful china sugar bowl shaped like a clump of fruits and vegetables 39. given to me by my mom (I did save the creamer pitcher though)
40. every pinky promise i've ever made
41. pairs (i always lose one earring)
42. several pairs of shoes
43. screen door- on many occasions
44. the bank
45. bottle of olive oil (eek!)
46. (some) bad habits
57. favorite 80's Mtv video countdown homemade compilation videos
58. a bat
59. computer (i tend to drop them)
60. friendships, some i regret and some i don’t
61. three toes
62. pencil lead
63. lamp in the living room
64. a few flowerpots
65. a thirteen year old relationship
66. a mask of myself that i made in 3rd grade
67. my walkman
68. promises to myself
69. one of my worst habits
70. various cameras and mechanical objects
71. my wheaton mug (thankfully i gave my mom an identical one that i took back)
72. my left fibula
73. my favorite bottle (http://www.proofofbeing.com/?m=20080528)
74. a necklace i made when i was 9
75. glass (usually champagne or some other fancy glass)
76. my leg
77. the bindings of books
78. a chunk off of my front right tooth with a corona bottle at a poker game (classy)
79. dreams/hopes/aspirations
80. my face on the pavement
81. my favorite michael jackson tape
82. the table/bed in the camper
83. plates and glasses that i really liked and have yet to replace
84. a lease or two
85. rhubarb stalks
86. a bone in the bottom of my foot
87. my marriage vow to d.b. stafford in kindergarten
88. a piece of that… (as in, break me off a piece of that)
89. the seams of many vintage dresses
90. a croquet set
91. a beautiful ceramic dish from a friend's boyfriend
92. a glass pipe
93. hummels
94. a window in the door of my last apartment
95. my first powerbook
96. that swinging branch in the forest that I thought could tell time
97. promises and hearts, baby, wherever i go
98. ties with a difficult friendship
99. plans with people, because i didn’t feel like going
100. my left pinky toe
101. my voice

list by: ashley, other ashley, becky, ben, jennie, lauren, maura, michela, and sara
photo by ashley

best things about summer

2008-07-18T16:30:00.003-04:00

sorry about the delay.
we were on vacation.

1. the beach
2. lilacs + fresh cut grass
3. weekends in san francisco
4. jumping in the waves
5. the smell of tanned skin
6. mirages
7. music… summer songs
8. fans
9. tomatoes
10. s'mores
11. hot dogs and hamburgers
12. how everything seems a bit slower
13. making out with cute boys
14. eating food from roadside stands
15. the smell the ocean
16. open windows
17. my flowers and my garden
18. being tan
19. iron and wine and joanna newsom
20. dandelions
21. birthdays of the family
22. yard sales
23. walking walking walking
24. fireflies
25. grilled dinners on the patio
26. sunsets
27. truck shows
28. watermelon with salt
29. astro-pops
30. flip flops
31. my first pair of prescription sunglasses
32. not having to wear socks to bed
33. smell of suntan lotion
34. peaches and nectarines
35. campfire songs
36. sweat
37. lobsters
38. wildflowers
39. fields of green and blue skies
40. sundresses
41. gardening (when I actually have one)
42. keithman’s boat
43. summer reading lists
44. vacations
45. mango in a cup with lime juice, salt and hot pepper
46. shorts and tanks
47. coming home and taking off your shirt immediately because it’s so damn hot
48. portland's decks
49. going to coronado
50. frisbee
51. tanned feet in the sand
52. dresses and skirts, only!
53. how the heat makes me move slower
54. leaving the siding door and windows open through dinner
55. frog ponds and dragonflies
56. sidewalk chalk
57. roadside attractions such as giant dinosaurs
58. baseball
59. the y
60. bbq’s
61. bon fires
62. the sound of crickets in the night
63. long nights with cool breezes
64. collecting shells
65. hot hot weather
66. golf
67. picnics
68. camping
69. everyone wearing just a little less clothing
70. diving boards
71. orchata or cantaloupe juice on chicago and wolcott
72. anything at the beach really
73. long days
74. skinny dipping
75. fried clams
76. avocados all the time
77. tanquery and tonics
78. sweaty sex
79. drinking sweet tea on the porch
80. watermelon
81. corn on the cob
82. going to the movies because it’s too hot outside
83. junebugs
84. iced cold beer straight from a cooler
85. summer camp
86. tasti d-lite (applies to new york only)
87. my hair and its amazing highlights
88. looking at the stars from the driveway i grew up in and seeing orion very bright
89. my birthday!
90. long walks on the beach
91. berries
92. dogs and cats in windows sniffing at the street
93. the 4th of july
94. homemade lemonade from the tree in my backyard
95. outdoor concerts
96. not being cold when you get out of the shower
97. store bought ice cream
98. waves
99. camping
100. bare legs
101. saratoga springs
102. eating ice cream from places i’ve never been
103. driving the coast
104. sleeping naked
105. summer nights
106. fishing
107. sleeping outside
108. daylight until 9pm
109. the smell
110. school’s out!
111. cookouts
112. short skirts
113. warm breezes
114. body surfing
115. bike rides
116. beach reading (fun books)
117. painted toenails and sandals
118. fireworks
119. sand castles
120. vitamin d
121. muumuus
122. sunglasses
123. eating outside
124. riding my bike while eating gelato on a cone
125. gazpacho
126. boogie boards
127. swimming in lakes, rivers, and oceans
128. homemade ice cream
129. late, light nights

list by: ashley, becky, gillian, jennie, karrie, maggie, marcia, maura, michela, rebecca
photo by maggie

things I'd like to see in the world

2008-05-21T14:11:00.005-04:00

1. the dead sea
2. peace amongst nations
3. the scottish highlands
4. taking trains around mali, africa
5. graceland
6. women receiving equal pay as men
7. the northern lights
8. the pyramids (egypt and mexico)
9. the amalfi coast
10. all of my clients being successful in life
11. middle america via cross country bike trip
12. iceland
13. greater tolerance
14. twin peaks
15. one of the remaining 500 snow leopards in nepal
16. wooden toymakers of seiffen, germany
17. penguins in antarctica
18. france (for the bread and the countryside)
19. dominican rebublic
20. the huge heads on easter island
21. polar bears in the arctic
22. greece
23. all of the national parks in america
24. spain
25. the south pole
26. atlantis
27. milan, italy
28. taj mahal
29. alaska
30. all of the landmarks featured in the oregon trail computer game
31. puerto rico (the caves)
32. the chilean coast and the home of pablo neruda
33. selling everything & travelling nowhere particular
34. an excellent education system, affordable (or free!) college for all!
35. mount fuji
36. the creation of time machines
37. the forest bridge of the americas
38. all the parts of new zealand that are in the lord of the rings movies
39. france
40. russia (trans-siberian railroad)
41. the great wall of china
42. victoria falls
43. tibet
44. the mother river in china
45. mongolia
46. middle america via cross country bike trip
47. the north pole
48. cuba
49. stevie wonder's living room
50. slovenia
51. bollywood
52. tahiti
53. that wax museum in london
54. abandoned farms in north dakota
55. the great white spirit bear
56. brazil
57. happiness and a good life for the future generations
58. north wales
59. a cheetah
60. cape town
61. brazil
62. the amausement park on top of the mountain outside barcelona
63. architecture in uruguay
64. whales in the wild
65. himalayas
66. thailand
67. new england
68. my great grandchildren
69. anti hangover medicine
70. mt shasta from closer
71. a turquoise wall in india
72. a reform of the us school system
73. china (hong kong, temples, great wall)
74. the south pole
75. bill murray at a barbeque in new jersey
76. japan
77. a stone circle in a forest somewhere
78. elimination of the death penalty
79. excellent healthcare for everyone. access to medicine and treatments, no matter your salary, race, ethnicity
80. istanbul
81. a female president of the united states
82. the north pole
83. a reform of the catholic church
84. gaudi's architecture
85. morocco
86. prague
87. whales in the wild
88. germany
89. norway
90. austin, tx
91. tokyo
92. all of the national parks in canada
93. the toilets in australia... to see if they really flush backwards
94. the yukon
95. the sundial bridge in california
96. hybrids becoming cooler than hummers
97. a redwood tree
98. peru
99. a love of reading
100. people marrying the people they love, no matter their sexuality, race, gender, religion
101. india
102. the underground rivers of the yukatan
103. rome (pope mobile!)
104. an actual island where you can deport your ex-boyfriends
105. helsinki in the summertime
106. the grand canyon
107. petra, jordan
108. crete
109. israel
110. pizza machines
111. a shift towards renewable energies
112. the amazon
113. good education for all
114. the modern wonders
115. a jaguar from less than 3 feet
116. the ancient egyptian ruins/artifacts
117. maccu picchu
118. wrigley field
119. turkey
120. the south pacific
121. hovercraft
122. red flowers on fiji
123. the grand canyon
124. rural alaska in mid-winter
125. where my grandparents grew up in russia and poland
126. the spice road
127. africa

list by: alyson, amanda, ashley, becky, darcy, deirdre, jamie, other jamie, jan marie, katie, lauren, maggie, maura, and mom
photo by maggie

favorite movies

2008-05-05T15:04:00.007-04:00

1. the wizard of oz
2. the lives of others
3. stand by me
4. what about bob?
5. science of sleep
6. places in the heart
7. manchurian candidate (both of them)
8. indiana jones (all 3)
9. le circle rouge
10. days of heaven
11. casablanca
12. band of outsiders
13. anchorman: the legend of ron burgundy
14. a league of their own
15. e.t.
16. how green was my valley
17. jungle book
18. adam’s rib
19. pretty woman
20. wedding crashers
21. zelig
22. two for the road
23. 10 things i hate about you
24. bonnie and clyde
25. the incredible mr. limpet
26. l’eclisse
27. written on the wind
28. mermaids
29. knocked up
30. all that heaven allows
31. devil and daniel johnston
32. little women (the christian bale one)
33. young guns
34. the searchers
35. batman
36. the color of pomegranates
37. vertigo
38. the wedding party
39. the last temptation of christ
40. spartacus
41. aliens but not alien, not alien3 and not alien resurrection and not aliens vs. predator (that was a huge disappointment...how could a movie with aliens and predator be that bad?)
42. strangers on a train
43. when harry met sally
44. better off dead
45. amores perros
46. the life aquatic
47. princess bride
48. rocky
49. love actually
50. the hours
51. toy story, toy story 2
52. annie hall
53. 16 candles
54. o brother where art thou?
55. reservoir dogs
56. the jerk
57. thomas crowne affair
58. the reckless moment
59. don’t look now
60. breathless
61. grease
62. home movies
63. midnight cowboy
64. the good, the bad and the ugly
65. bull durham
66. la confidential...11 years later, i’m still bitter titanic won over that movie...seriously, you knew what was going to happen
67. a tree grows in brooklyn
68. you can count on me
69. the goonies
70. klute
71. finding nemo
72. all about eve
73. city of lost children
74. in the realms of the unreal
75. harold & maude
76. straw dogs
77. sleeping beauty (disney)
78. the usual suspects
79. basquiat
80. touch of evil
81. reality bites
82. mash
83. anne of green gables
84. wayne’s world
84. the lady of shanghai
85. heathers
86. fire walk with me
87. aladdin
88. point blank
89. the music man
90. swing time
91. women in love
92. little miss sunshine
93. dangerous beauty
94. sophie’s choice
95. rosemary’s baby
96. almost famous
97. marathon man
98. goodfellas
99. beauty and the beast
100. the thin man
101. splendor in the grass
102. waiting for guffman
103. pulp fiction
104. high fidelity
105. breakfast at tiffany’s
106. guess who’s coming to dinner (old version)
107. a little princess
108. empire records
109. sex and lucia
110. cq
111. the best years of our lives
112. they live by night
113. second hand lions
114. lilies of the field
115. oklahoma
116. bunny lake is missing
117. duck, you sucker
118. pee-wee’s big adventure
119. stealing home
120. untamed heart
121. mccabe and mrs. miller
122. je chanterai pour toi
123. five easy pieces
124. amelie
125. charade
126. love film
127. girl interrupted
128. the incredibles
129. star wars: the empire strikes back
130. rushmore
131. pride and prejudice (bbc version)
132. greetings
133. dark victory
134. the mirror (tarkovsky)
135. shop girl
136. harry and tonto
137. cinderella
138. airplane
139. manhattan
140. his girl friday
141. some kind of wonderful
142. the dirty dozen
143. lost in translation
144. alice in wonderland (disney)
145. hi, mom! (aka blue mahattan)
146. the big chill
147. thelma and louise
148. once upon a time in the west
149. badlands
150. monty python and the holy grail
151. singin’ in the rain
152. st. elmo’s fire
153. raising arizona
154. flashdance
155. au revoir les enfants
156. lord of the rings trilogy
157. romance (catherine breillat)
158. the philadelphia story
159. superbad
160. out of africa
161. last of the mohicans
162. bring it on
163. my mother’s castle
164. the holiday
165. rambo
166. ed wood
167. alice
168. snow white and the seven dwarfs
169. dirty harry
170. once
171. cinema paradiso
172. the little mermaid
173. truly, madly, deeply
174. saving private ryan
175. laura
176. ferris bueller’s day off (which got old after seeing it at every high-school sanctioned event)
177. any sherlock holmes with basil rathbone
178. napoleon dynamite
179. sleepless in seattle
180. the wild bunch
181. persona
182. heaven can wait
183. beach blanket bingo
184. holes
185. night of the hunter
186. school of rock
187. the shop around the corner
188. rififi
189. love and basketball
190. spinal tap
191. good will hunting
192. bringing up baby
193. rope
194. stealing beauty
195. dazed and confused
196. back to the future
197. songcatcher
198. pretty in pink
199. say anything
200. harold & kumar
201. blade runner
202. the royal tennenbaums
203. life is beautiful
204. heaven’s gate
205. roman holiday
206. labyrinth
207. dirty dancing

list by: amanda, ashley, becky, deirdre, emily, jan, jennie, karrie, lauren, maggie, marcia, megan, mom, pete, and rebecca
photo by becky

things that keep getting better

2008-04-07T14:14:00.007-04:00

1. old things
2. my squirrel infestation (finally!)
3. my boyfriend and how wonderful he is
4. passion
5. securities and insecurities
6. robots
7. slasher flicks
8. ciao bella's gelato flavors!
9. love (i'm talking about the philia kind, i haven't figured out eros yet)
10. plants
11. my new love with the boy who knows the latin names of trees
12. the photographs of Alec Soth
13. this list
14. rachel
15. my "pigeon pose" in yoga
16. the look of the stars from country roads
17. vacations and not being at work, the longer you are gone
18. brussel sprouts
19. riding bikes
20 my domestic skills
21. my twenties
22. my salt and pepper shaker collection (and my container collection)
23. the springtime weather
24. my camera
25. writing a song
26. my sewing and knitting skills
27. library dvd collections
28. maggie (seriously)
29. anticipating trips and other things as they get closer and closer
30. cuddling
31. my cat's ability to know when she needs to blow her nose
32. mom and dad
33. my understanding of natural physics
34. project runway
35. long distance friendships
36. portland
37. my cousins' baby, Marissa
38. my winter blues
39. the growing scent of orange blossoms each morning when i go outside to my car
40. music (especially rediscovering old music)
41. my students
42. growing up43. wine, whiskey and cheese44. my laugh lines
45. summertime
46. soy products47. making out
48. the combination of granola bars (plain) and chocolate (dark) or granola bars (cashew) and yogurt (maple)
49. my relationship with my kids
50. sleeping
51. my wardrobe
52. dad's temper
53. hugs (unless they break ribs)
54. my view of the world via photography
55. the environment - NOT!
56. these new jeans
57. flirting
58. the wire (at least so far)
59. my apartment
60. my relationship! (i still get giddy)
61. the feel of sunshine
62. leah
63. learning skills
64. the vegetable selection at the co-op
65. my little sister
66. our communication skills
67. adventures
68. my ever-expanding extended family
69. cracked walls and vintage wallpaper
70. my cooking abilities
71. motivation
72. real handwriting, physical penmanship
73. my ability to hide my dislike of new foods that i'm trying (really, it's not so obvious that i'm disgusted now!)
74. friendships
75. vodka
76. camaraderie during snowstorms
77. fun dates
78. marriage
79. his whittling skills
80. my life
81. my taste in music
82. the chiropractor visits (fewer and farther between)
83. free time
84. these projects
85. the concise-ness of my daily calendar
86. vegan cupcakes
87. wheat thins

list by: allie, becky, chad, emily, jamie, jennie, jess, maggie, megan, mom, sammie, and susan
photo by jennie

ways to beat insomnia

2008-03-19T23:14:00.005-04:00

1. drink lots of tea
2. read non-fiction
3. facebook-stalk
4. take calms forte (a homeopathic combination remedy)
5. picture a blank sheet of white paper
6. smoke a massive amount of pot
7. (think of) a lover's snuggle
8. read a boring book (people wish me good night when i say i'm going to read)
9. drink warm milk
10. masturbate
11. read Jane Austen books
12. progressively tighten all of the muscles in your body and hold them tight for 10 seconds, then let them all go all at once. this always elicits a yawn for me, and if I do it a few times I always fall asleep
13. try and recite the ABCs over and over and over, to stop thinking about all of the things that might be keeping me awake
14. watch old episodes of 90210
15. write lists
16. take two gulps of nyquil
17. use breathing exercises from yoga
18. eat, eat, eat, and eat. eat way too much
19. take whatever pills are available (excluding uppers)
20. execute post-electoral analysis
21. make it as cold as possible and get under the covers
22. cuddle
23. cry over your lost lenore
24. take ambien, tylenol pm, simply sleep
25. worry (this isn't effective)
26. type a blog or write in a journal
27. read young adult classics (Witch of Blackbird Pond, etc.)
28. go on a five star haitian rum
29. drink, although sometimes it has the reverse effect
30. think of colors in rainbow order from red to lavender, picturing things that are that color if I can't imagine the color by itself
31. window shop via the internet (going to websites and picking out all the clothes you would buy if it were not 12:30am, you were out shopping, and you had more than a few pennies in your wallet)
32. stream the O.C. online until your brain shuts off
33. watch banal television programming
34. try and keep eyes open… the ole reverse psychology
35. rub your feet together
36. have sex
37. three words: "have a baby"
38. work your ass off at the gym every day
39. think about your future wedding
40. take a train ride or a plane ride - two favorite sleeping places
41. count sheep, cows…anything
42. read collection development policies
43. have a one sided conversation
44. eat a giant plate of pasta
45. give in and just watch tv
46. think about who is going on your fantasy baseball team
47. open a window, walk around, sip of something - a reset of sorts
48. watch a tv-series marathon
49. do crossword puzzles
50. watch Jim Jarmusch movies
51. touch your goody box
52. take a shower
53. read a non-boring book, preferably a childhood favorite
54. drink yogi bedtime tea
55. maker's mark
56. lay out the furniture in a to-be-bought house
57. drink a hot toddy
58. do homework
59. write lists of things to do the next day
60. count backwards from twenty
61. sleep, what the hell for? stay awake long enough and it'll come
62. roll your eyes in circles, counting how many times you can make the circle
63. watch a movie
64. watch something boring on tv
65. lie as still as possible and repeat "go to sleep" as a mantra
66. go outside on the balcony and smell the air- take deep breaths
67. listen to your favorite slow songs (yes, this sometimes includes monster eighties ballads)

list by: amanda, ashley, becky, ben, chris, cranky librarian, dierdre, hannah, jess, jon, karrie, katie, maggie, mom, sammie, and rebecca
photo by ashley

things you are proud of

2008-02-27T21:34:00.002-05:00

1. my credit score
2. fritter has the softest fur coat of any cat ever, just like a rabbit
3. learning lessons
4. becoming vegetarian and not looking back
5. being a good mom
6. marrying mike
7. growing up into a better, more fun person
8. my kids’ creativity
9. anyone who can knit more than a scarf
10. when my high school vice principal-mr. z sent me a letter my freshman year of college saying how proud he was of me…(we spent a lot of time together)
11. my assertiveness
12. my mom got her master’s degree at 56!
13. my three and a half friends
14. learning to love beans
15. i won the school spelling bee in 5th grade, over all the 6th graders
16. keeping in touch
17. jumping off a chairlift at sugarloaf
18. learning to let go
19. my family
20. all of my disgustingly talented friends
21. my neat handwriting
22. the seagull imitation i do at summer barbecues
23. my family’s commitment to making the world a better place
24. surviving love
25. my vegan chocolate cupcakes are internationally famous
26. being a mom
27. my creativity
28. my husband overcoming paralysis
29. graduating from uconn
30. i can make something delicious out of near-empty refrigerators and pantries
31. making a living as non-wedding photographer
32. surfing in maui
33. being proactive and having it pay off
34. remembering my twin brothers birthday :)
35. being an avid cook
36. i have moments of great patience
37. my book collection
38. those few things i do well
39. almost every one of my above-the-fold cover publications
40. never asking my parents for money after college (not that they would’ve given it to me anyway)
41. my ability to connect with people
42. i’m a damn good editor
43. my husband
44. the day i quit my job at northeast test consultants (crooks) without a new one, poverty!
45. my photography learning trajectory
46. second chances
47. my kids’ ability to connect with people
48. the cappuccino foam i so masterfully craft for unappreciative customers
49. being alive
50. learning to be myself and comfortable in my own skin
51. my sisters, brother and father
52. chasing down thieves in a car while riding my bike and then lecturing them
53. helping friends and strangers – poor, sick, cranky, etc
54. the day (two weeks before i quit ntc) when i told my boss i wouldn’t falsify a client’s report (crooks and liars)
55. following through on resolutions
56. my sister, all the time, even when she fails
57. having quit my corporate job
58. how amazingly far parker has come in a short 7 months
59. being a pisces
60. my family, for being so talented and caring, even if they are all nuts
61. an a+ on my 6th grade science project on anorexia & bulimia
62. my studio
63. that i can tap my head and rub my belly simultaneously
64. catching the first striped bass of the year, out of all my friends-nantucket, summer 1996
65. the length of time i can stand on one foot
66. the day i reported a sick, perverted man of sexual harassment
67. my new york times publications

list by: ben, becky, hanna, jennie, karrie, maggie, marcia, megan and mom
photo by jennie

things to love about valentine's day

2008-02-18T06:46:00.004-05:00

1. hallmark love slogans
2. girly glitter on everything
3. smiling the entire day just because your facial muscles will not do anything else.
4. the anonymous portland hearts
5. thinking of fun things to make my husband from my daughter
6. “will you be my valentine?”
7. my dad always sends me flowers
8. an excuse to go out to dinner on a week night
9. heart shaped cookies with frosting and sprinkles
10. turning it into valentine’s week
11. love is in the air!
12. leaving secret chocolates for your fellow cube farmers
13. if you’re single you get to bitch about how stupid the holiday is and if you’re with someone (finally) you get to realize how stupid the holiday is in relation to the rest of the time you spend with your love
14. goosebumps
15. people dressed in black (hysterical)
16. candy, especially those cinnamon hearts
17. unexpected, really, really generous gifts from family members
18. being in love
19. champagne/wine with cheese/chocolate decadence
20. blankets
21. not wearing red on the day just to be ornery
22. that there’s a day devoted to love, even if it’s commercialized
23. handmade valentines especially when they’re from little kids
24. sugar sugar sugar
25. all the chocolate you can stand
26. the beauty in simplicity and lack of grandeuor... good earth restaurant, froyo, and funny face
27. ribbons
28. (i’m not a bitter person at all, but) it’s kind of fun to be bitter about valentine’s day
29. surprises and thoughtfulness
30. gettin’ some carnal knowledge later that night
31. giving chocolates to waitresses, checkout clerks, etc...the people who least expect it
32. constant spooning
33. presents!
34. the hope that maybe, just once, this year jon will do something romantic. that hope doesn’t usually last long
35. the carnations we used to buy each other in high school
36. hugs and kisses
37. the rush i would get from writing “love becky” instead of “from becky” on the cards that i put into jason and kirk’s box in grade school
38. nougat
39. kids exchanging valentines (i hope they still do… please don’t ever tell me they don’t)
40. unconventional gifts
41. candy and flowers
42. love, love, love
43. pink! purple! red!
44. planning what to wear out on a v-day date
45. being totally sappy about how much you love them to your friends who really hate valentine’s day
46. making delicious heart-shaped chocolatey things
47. you have an excuse to get really dolled up and girly and pink, even when you’re just making a trip to whole foods and not going out until way later...and you’re not even going anywhere fancy
48. handmade cards from my niece and nephew
49. the 20 or so dollars my grandmother sticks in with our cards
50. cupid’s butt
51. slave labor diamond trades
52. it only comes once a year
53. the bamboo plant my husband gave me, when he was my boyfriend, for the our 1st valentine’s day
54. being excited about love when it hasn’t been this exciting in years
55. the fact that it’s not just about romantic love, but ALL the love in your life
56. permission to draw hearts on everything
57. half price chocolate the next day
58. red tulips
59. it’s a day that involves chocolate and cupcakes and sweet things in the middle of february... the dreariest month ever
60. blushing smiles
61. having a sweet, romantic, homemade meal with your main squeeze including candles and brunello and some freaking amazing dessert that you share
62. thinking back on dating people who "didn't believe in valentine's day" and realizing what jerks they were
63. cookie decorating (food coloring, cookie cutters, sprinkles why oh why is my icing always too runny?)
64. dropping off a card at a favorite aunt’s house whose daughter is away at college and cannot be with her on v-day, and getting a great reaction
65. that 73% of men buy flowers
66. sweet tart brand candy hearts
67. telling people i love them and why
68. those little valentine’s you used to get in 3rd grade
69. being “those people” that can’t stop kissing and hugging in the middle of a major street
70. making fun valentines cards for people you love and sending them without a note so they’re not quite sure it was you
71. heart shaped boxes wrapped in cellophane filled with chocolate

list by: ashley, becky, cranky librarian, hannah, joe, jon, karrie, katie, lauren, maggie, marcia and rebecca
photo by miss bliss

things you'll never tell your parents

2008-02-05T14:19:00.000-05:00

1. i eat ice cream for dinner more often that i will ever ever tell you
2. there is a dove tattoo on my right lower hip
3. i wish i had tried more in school so i couldve actually done something with my life
4. i went to the mall high once and it was awesome
5. i hated those girls that you wanted me to be friends with- they were mean people
6. i had an affair with hallucinogens
7. i used to binge eat the cookie dough in the outside refrigerator while i watched cartoons after school
8. how i really met my boyfriend (online dating)
9. how far in debt i am
10. i am a really good liar
11. your girlfriend doesn't have very good taste and i returned nearly all of my christmas presents this year
12. my first kiss was drunken
13. when we used to say we were bowling we were usually drinking in the bushes downtown
14. i hit someone else's parked car in the parking lot when i drove your station wagon to school during finals and just pretended that someone else hit me
15. anything related to sex
16. tj was the same person as the james
17. i stole stuff in high school
18. i heard them having sex one time
19. i really dont like anyone outside of my immediate family
20. i am a better driver than you
21. that time you called and asked if i wanted to have brunch and i said i was in the car, running to the store to buy milk - yeah, i was actually driving home from a boy's house at 10 in the morning
22. my friends and i were the ones who drank away the wall of liquor in the basement
how righteously stoned i was that day they made me go test drive a new used car with them (after i hit the guard rail)
23. i got arrested
24. i went to health class drunk almost every week
25. i didn't really go on birth control because the doctor said it would help my skin
26. that boy up the street was growing marijuana in his closet and was not a good influence even though he was pretty
27. the bizarre sexual fetish my ex has (though it would be so satisfying to tell)
28. i have performed sex acts that you think are repulsive
29. i've kissed a boy
30. i was a smoker for about 8 years
31. I want to get married and have babies right now (with my boyfriend...even though I am not technically divorced from my (ex)-husband yet. eek.)
32. i think i walked in on you having sex when i was like 8
33. when my mom knocked on my bedroom door at 3:30 in the morning when i was 18 years old and my boyfriend was in there with me.... i told her not to worry, we were just kissing. riiiiiight mom.
34. it wasn't water that i spilled on that desk chair
35. anything related to masturbation
36. i only pretended not to understand the mulva episode of seinfeld because i was embarrassed to be watching something like that with my dad
37. the age when i lost virginity
38. i look through her mail to understand her finances better
39. i have driven slightly drunk
40. i can forge your signature like nobody's business
41. i have never seen that tommy lee jones movie that you think I saw 5 times
42. i lost the ring you made in high school jewelry class but i didn't want to tell you
43. certain interracial relationships I've had- it's not worth the fighting, he's old and I want to enjoy him
44. my first huge crush was on fred post even though i told you it wasn't
45. i actually think you are really great parents even though you were so strict
46. i fault my dad for leaving two marriages
47. i drove into a snowbank the first week I had my car
48. i think you need counseling because you can be really unstable and mean
49. i was really mean to that boy in college because he deserved it
50. my neck was not sore just because i slept funny, but because i slept funny on a boy's arm
51. that cigarette burn in my car wasnt someone leaning in. it was tyler but I didnt want you to know because I liked him
52. in high school I accidentally burned down a building
53. i never sent a thank you note after i bought my car
54. the only reason I liked DMB was because I was stoned and pretending I was in the rainforest
55. when i was 19 i rammed into a guardrail on the highway with my car. it kept me from being able to open either of the doors on the driver's side of my car and caused multiple other hilarious issues. i told my parents it was because a tractor trailer came REALLY close to swerving into my lane on the highway and hitting me. but the REAL truth is that i was trying to stabilize a can of cheeseballs in between my seat and the passenger seat and i was just totally not paying attention.
56. when you asked if r. and i were platonic friends and i said yes, i was lying
57. i think i will find a great sense of relief when my mother dies
58. I skipped most of my senior year
59. I had two abortions
60. sometimes i pretend to be at work when i'm really at home pretending to be sick and i don't want you to be mad at me for taking a sick day

list by: ashley, amanda, becky, hannah, maggie, maura, rebecca, sammie and stef
photo by stefanoodle frances-face

great winter activities

2008-01-28T12:48:00.000-05:00

1. drink beers while shoveling out your car
2. clomp your feet to get the snow off before you go inside
3. wear scarves, multiple ones, layered and twisted around your neck
4. construct fleets of snowmen or snow penguins
5. think about buying snowshoes
6. make and drink hot toddies
7. wear wool socks, wool slippers, wool sweaters
8. watch football (and puppy bowl!)
9. make snow forts outdoors and blanket forts indoors
10. bake vegan delights (sneak chocolate chips in everything)
11. enjoy hot chocolating (which i just made into a verb)
12. shop for cute sweaters, gloves, scarves, and other fun winter garb
13. transform winter clothing into new spring outfits
14. bake bake bake
15. ice skate
16. wear long underwear under everything
17. snuggle to stay warm
18. hibernate
19. put a coat on your dog
20. pack on the pounds for warmth
21. stomp in puddles (frozen and otherwise)
22. make paper snowflakes
23. read, read, read
24. (learn to) snowboard (if you need to learn, have your very cute boyfriend/neighbor/friend teach you)
25. have potluck sundays
26. listen to the fire in the fireplace crackle
27. watch tv for entire weekend days because "it's too cold to go outside"
28. take pictures of icicles hanging like teeth from gutters
29. drink apple cider and whiskey
30. make pies while wearing mittens
31. have many, many movie nights
32. sit in front of the window with the sun pouring in and imagine hawaii
33. take photos of the beauty
34. hate your cold feet because you like wearing rainboots even though they're uninsulated
35. go to bed early
36. build fires
37. have rosy cold-kissed cheeks
38. curse the weather and wish it was summer and that you were tan
39. wear sweaters and boots
40. spend a somewhat mild day with one other person at popham beach
41. go hot tubbing (as long as there is many a towel nearby for when you have to, terrifyingly, JUMP out)
42. clean out old memorie
43. enjoy scarf-wrapping and jacket-wearing
44. weat puffy coats full of down... as if you've never left my bed
45. order matzoh ball soup from jerry's deli
46. slide around outside when it's icy
47. listen to music in a car by the shore
48. pay high heating bills
49. make art
50. write about your family
51. get used to rainy days (because this is southern california)
52. attend a knitting group with friends (stitch and bitch)
53. watch movies
54. throw snowballs at strangers (GENTLY)
55. walk through snow in the woods
56. take long winter naps
57. sled with friends, and get all chilly and rosy-cheeked and so your jeans are stiff with frozen snow and then come inside, put on really warm, dry, cozy clothes, and have hot chocolate by the fire and laugh
58. enjoy mid-afternoon beer and frites at an empty bar in montreal
59. shovel and shovel and shovel and SHOVEL
60. have dinner parties
61. make fires in the fireplace and then gazing into the flames, lost in thought
62. plan a wedding
63. enjoy spiced cider, blanket, and a book while it's storming outside
64. blow bubbles that freeze when they land
65. wear pajamas inside out in the hope for a snow-day from school (even though I work in a school!)
66. organize... "spring cleaning"? who wants to clean in spring when it's finally nice outside
67. make stews and soups and meatballs
68. knit until the skein is gone, then bind off and stuff whatever i've knit onto my head. it could be a scarf, it could be a mitten, it could be an ipod cozy. doesn't matter. in winter it's going on my head.
69. write letters curled up in bed
70. do hot yoga
71. pretend that the snow is mashed potatoes. especially driving in it when it's all sloppy and splashy
72. join a polar bear club
73. make snow angels
74. snowshoe

list by: alyson, ashley, becky, deirdre, gillian, hannah, jamie, jan, kathy (mom), katie, maggie, maura stef, and susan
photo by maggie

new years resolutions

2008-01-14T19:59:00.000-05:00

1. let it go
2. make more things with my hands
3. read at least one book a month
4. chill OUT
5. drink less coffee
6. eat healthier (iron, protein, vegetables)
7. save money
8. clean up my dad's old darkroom and learn to use it
9. participate in some sort of extra-curricular activity, i.e. find a hobby!
10. take initiative instead of waiting for things to happen on their own
11. exercise 3-4 times a week and to make that a priority
12. be more ambitious in the kitchen
13. not be shy about experimenting with taking pictures of people
14. spend more time with cute nephews
15. be outgoing about asking coworkers to lunch and coffee
16. lose weight!!!
17. not be so jealous of friends
18. keep my apartment clean because it looks so nice and it makes me feel good!
19. try all the foods I had previously decided I didn't like for some reason with the mindset that I'll most likely love them
20. take deep breaths
21. read war and peace
22. find new ways to tell my family about itself
23. enjoy life more
24. really clean and organize my apartment throughout the year- one room a month and keep cycling them so that everything gets this "deep clean" every 3 months
25. stop drinking soda
26. swim more
27. start drinking lots of water
28. lessen my carbon footprint
29. take better care of my body - drink more water and watch how much junk I eat
30. make sure my relationship doesn't implode
31. set a weight that I feel comfortable with and to not pass it (add gym days and dieting if I get close, but just enjoy my weight the rest of the time).
32. watch more movies
33. floss daily
34. spend more time with friends, and less time on couch watching shit television
35. live within my means
36. buy nicer clothes for myself
37. drink less (except for water)
38. quit smoking
39. not get so annoyed so easily
40. put a little more time into my appearance this year. Put on a bit of make up in the morning or style my hair... just take the extra 5 minutes to make myself feel better all day.
41. get a haircut
42. laugh more
43. draw regularly
44. get fat ass to gym
45. eat less meat
46. make more of the right kind of friends and pull away from the harder friends
47. get new job
48. try all new foods available to me, and to try new food with the mindset that I'll most likely love it
49. look into grad schools
50. no more fried foods

list by: allie, ashley, becky, darcy, deirdre, emily, maggie and susan
photo by miss bliss

what you want for christmas

2007-12-29T12:09:00.000-05:00

1. a bucket of diamonds
2. warm socks
3. electric guitar
tickets to see “stars on ice”
4. chandelier
5. great quality olive oil
6. this summer house
7. the peace of mind to know that although none of these things will be under the tree for me, i will be happy for the time, thought and effort that was put into the gifts i actually received
8. perfume
9. pajamas
10. new windows
11. a jade plant in a pot
12. a high quality underwater camera
13. a transmission for my car.
14. “what i learned from television” this american life commerative screenprint poster
15. tickets to somewhere warm
16. a ring
17. books
18. gift certificate to borders
19. movies
20. snowshoes
21. park planter (omg!)
22. someone to pay my student loans off (or just down)
23. ipod touch
24. interchangable work table
25. tj maxx gift card so that i can feel less guilty about shopping this year
26. typography doormat
27. the ability to sleep
28. aveda products
29. bocce set
30. lipstick
31. a trip to india for six weeks
32. a new baby in my life (but not my belly)
33. amazon gift cards
34. aretha franklin boxed set
35. nickelodeon gift certificates
36. frank gehry for tiffany’s torque bangle
37. a trip across all non-english speaking countries
38. converse high-tops
39. tiddly winks
40. the coat of my dreams: brown wool with a hood and beautiful collar
41. car repair and an oil change
42. a journal
43. turtleneck sweaters
44. the new american girl doll, although i doubt this will happen, considering i am 21 years of age.
45. massages
46. a baggage-free new year
47. everything on my LLBean wishlist
48. mixed salted nuts
49. headbands
50. manicures and pedicures
51. warm socks
52. my mom not to stress out
53. books
54. plasma tv
55. winter boots
56. cross country skis
57. new running shoes
58. a house on the cape for two weeks in the summer, and private jet to pick up all my friends and have them come hang out
59. free people cozy slim wrap (available at www.urbanoutfitters.com)
60. long underwear
61. red sox season tickets
62. really nice, soft, cozy, warm bedding
63. an alarm clock
64. gift certificates to whole foods and trader joe’s
65. gift certificate to target
66. amelie on dvd
67. anything that comes in a little blue box
68. a hug... or a few hugs
69. plane tickets to travel to far away places
70. the devil wears prada on dvd
71. to feel fabulous about myself
72. a twelve layer cake
73. starbucks coffee
74. a new acting gig
75. pots & pans
76. a west coast vacation seeing llama and billy, and then down to valley village to visit becky
77. ribbon candy
78. someone to vacuum my carpet for me!
79. digicam
80. an old flame to reappear in my life (a metaphorical old flame, not a literal one. this ain’t passover)
81. movie theater passes

list by: allie, amanda, darcy, gillian, katie, maggie, maura, rebecca, and susan
photo by maggie

gifts you'd give if money was no problem

2007-12-17T11:50:00.000-05:00

1. a bakery, a house on the seashore, and lifelong health insurance (for my mother)
2. madame x (for my pop)
3. an aquarium (for jeff)
4. tons of plane tickets to portland (for everyone i know that does not live in portland)
5. record players (for people who dont have them)
6. 12 months of orchids delivered! (for my 85-year old grandmother who just retired from her full-time job as head cafeteria lady at madison high school madison, maine, where she worked for almost 50 years!!)
7. back surgery and a 1970 pontiac lemans convertible (for my father)a plane ticket home (for laura and courtney)
8. all of the onesies at ferdinand (for parker)
9. u2 memorabilia (for jeff)
10. a private jet (for ezra lizard so that she can always visit the transcontinental family she’s built)
11. building permits (for my contractor friends)
12. tiny tumbleweed houses (for my friends who would like to join me on my utopian community somewhere in an old apple orchard/near the ocean/in the mountains)
13. everything from the nova naturals catalog (for my sister as she gets ready for babies)
14. alaskan klee klei (for jeff)
15. tooth candy holder (for anguela)
16. rhythm (for joe)
17. a house (for us)
18. pay off student loans (all of my friends)
19. die electric wares (for the excessive in all of us)
20. the complete catalogs of important jazz musicians (for my brother)
21. tons of plane tickets (for me and everyone)
22. a house in malibu (for my parents)
22. a grill because all men should have a grill and i think he feels a little left out (for my honey)
23. gun vase (for kellyface)
24. a new couch that is better than the old couch (for chris)
25. new golf clubs (for dad)
26. plane tickets to exciting places (for my family)
27. a boat (for jeff and keith)
28. nice diamond jewelry (for mom)
29. maple syrup farm (for nicole)
30. my mom’s house and land and form a trust that makes enough money that they never have to worry about taxes or how to keep the house (for my mom and john)
31. a new job (for me, becky and kelly)
32. a really expensive nice pair of shoes (for mom)
33. season tickets to the hollywood bowl (for other-becky)
34. bass cab (for keith)
35. the latke who wouldn’t stop screaming by lemony snicket (for all the jewish people i know)
36. a nintendo hand held game thing because he is worried that he will go senile and they have a game that is supposed to build your memory (for my dad)
37. designer clothes (for my sister)
38. a dagguerotype collection (for erin)
39. a giant closet to put her things in, with maybe a few pairs of new shoes to go in it (for mandy)
40. heat (for the cold everywhere)
41. beatles memorabilia (for my sister)
42. the camera of his choice and a frame shop (for jon)
43. victoria “ghost” side chair (for jay who has impeccable taste)
44. an adorable doggie bed (for lola)
45. little diamond earrings because she’s a little jealous of mine (for my sister)
46. move llama and billy back east (for them and me)
47. coe and waito owl lamps (for my mom)
48. visa gift cards! (for everyone)
49. a trip to india to study yoga (for my sister)
50. money to charity and to buy clothes, etc (for shelters)
51. tiffany “legacy” drop diamond earrings (for my mother, to whom i would give the world if i could)
52. real estate (for me)
53. infinite ski lift tickets (for my family... those who ski, anyway)
54. seventy pounds of “sports gear” (for abby)
55. house add ons (for my parents)
56. a recording studio (for charlie)
57. an awesome lawn sport! (for my friends with lawns)
58. airplane (for max vgh)
59. a trip to camp cobbossee (for my grandpa)
60. avocado tree (for eric)
61. a new car (for my sister)
62. a house (for sara)
63. a trip across all non-english speaking countries (for me and keith)
64. the most amazing menorah ever (for all my jewish and fake jewish friends)
65. upgraded technology including ipods and such (for all my friends)
66. squirrel bank (for stef obviously)
67. something beautifully tacky made out of gold with a lot of conflict free gems on it just to make him both love (the look) and hate (the social aspect) it at the same time (for my brother who is a shameless materialist)
68. a puppy with a years worth of doggie day care (for maggie)
69. a personal buddha’s delight (for kathryn)
70. sno-cone makers (for everyone)
71. arctic expedition toy (for eamon and me)
72. good art for her beautiful condo (for darcy)
73. this summer house (for us)
74. a csa share (for kirsten and rick)
75. a whole bunch of wolferman’s english muffins (for my impossible brother-in-law who doesn’t consume carbs, and yet won’t be able to resist these incredible muffins)
76. the ability to sleep (for everyone with carey genes)
77. food (for the hungry everywhere)
78. an antique a black forest bear coatrack (for my stepdad)
79. land and homes (for everyone)
80. some decision making skills and romance without idealism (for who know who)
81. a room just for guitars with plenty of storage (for my dad)
82. hog island camp scholarship (for my brother’s family)
83. the leather couch of his dreams, with a matching chaise, recliner and coffee table (for josh)
84. alarm clock (for keith who is not a morning person)
85. enough for good food and clean water (for everyone in the world for the whole year)
86. something to be proud of (for my youngest brother)
87. prints of my friend dan’s photographs (for my dad)
88. a 6-week long trip to italy, staying in a villa in tuscany, visiting many other places, lots of great food and wine and olive oil etc (for my sister and her hubby and my sweetie and i)
89. a baby (for merry)
90. education (for everyone)
91. a trip to prince edward island (for erin)
92. educational financing (for offspring)
93. redecorate family/ living room, the one we never go in (for my parents)
100. this bag (for jess)
101. jellybeans for breakfast (for merry, hannah and their mom)
102. bikes (for everyone)
103. j. crew cashmere “schoolgirl” cardigan (for maggie)
104. good-paying jobs (for everyone)
105. magic stress relieving pills (for my other brother)
106. a new computer and a puppy (for me and heather)
107. a trip to europe because he’s never been there (for my brother)
108. world peace
109. a total kitchen makeover complete with awesome appliances and equipment, partly for her and partly because i know that i would eat really well (for my mom)
110. water (for the thirsty everywhere)
111. a condo in st. mathews (for mom)
112. gift certificates for infinite yarn, pet food and trips to hawaii (for ashley)
113. health care (for everyone)
114. millions of the crazy mice (for pants)
115. some really expensive out of print record (for ryan)
116. titantic bank (for my darling brother)
117. a house near cherokee park (for dad)
118. a life-sized man made of chocolate (for my roommate)
119. the most amazing bathtub ever (for my parents)
120. a hair and wardrobe makeover (for mom)
121. year round card stock (for maura)
122. my nephew a college education (for my nephew)
123. pay off all the bills and mortgages and stuff (for my parents)a loft in new york (for katie)
124. nose cups (for jacob)
125. scott conley guitars (one for me, one for my brother, one for jon)
126. tea mug that looks like a button (for my mom who loves both tea and crafts)
127. a digital slr (for each of the oatmeal girls)
128. a farm (for me and merry)
129. jeff gordon ultimate dream package (for my stepmom, my aunt, my cousin and me 'cause that would be SO MUCH FUN!)
130. student loan debt forgiveness to all my friends!!
131. red sox season tickets for four. (a little present for me and my girls!)
132. covering all expenses while she completes her degree, and getting her in (for my sister)
133. a bucket of diamonds (for me and all my friends)
134. a lifetime supply of veuve clicquot champagne (for all my friends)
135. a dinner with mike lowell and jacoby ellsbury (for maggie and maura)
136. house, money, a reliable car good health care... all the things to take care of her that will bring me peace of mind (for my mom)

list by: allie, alyson, amanda, ashley, other ashley, becky, deirdre, hannah, jamie, maggie, maura, pete, rebecca and susan
photo by maura

favorite foods

2007-12-06T11:42:00.000-05:00

1. denny's french toast slam
2. lobster
3. applesauce
4. kashi go lean crunch
5. chocolate all by itself
6. pad thai
7. squash
8. thanksgiving dinner all smashed up together
9. sweet potatoes
10. saffron panna cotta
11. tomato, basil and mozzarella salad (aka caprese)
12. plantains
13. walnuts
14. scrambled eggs and cheese
15. pizza from flatbread
16. black and white cookies
17. cheese
18. really good chocolate (like the kind stephen buys for merry)
19. lactaid cottage cheese
20. tiramisu
21. creme brulee
22. canoli
23. navel oranges
24. nachos
25. raspberries
26. sandwiches generally
27. scallops wrapped in bacon
28. carrots
29. saag (any and all)
30. cheese enchiladas with mole sauce
31. pomegranates
32. pizza
33. capers
34. cereal
35. beans and rice
36. bbq bacon cheeseburgers
37. spinach
38. chocolate mixed with nearly anything
39. palak paneer
40. chocolate chip cookies
41. fruit: cherimoya, lychee, mango, papaya, clementines, all berries, watermelon... everything!
42. vegetarian burritos
43. carraway seeds
44. uni
45. almost every sandwich from artemisia
46. croissants
47. escargot
48. warm cornbread slathered with lots of melty butter and honey
49. pumpkin pie
50. mangoes
51. twizzlers
52. black beans
53. french fries with mayonnaise!
54. baked brie in a puff pastry crust
55. baked manicotti/ziti
56. chocolate cake
57. raisins
58. marzipan
59. veggie bacon
60. montreal bagels
61. toasted bread and butter
62. sliced tomatoes and mozzarella and basil and olive oil
63. lasagna
64. atomic fireballs
65. tortilla chips
66. carrot cake with orange-cream cheese frosting... the really good homemade kind
67. jello
68. grapes (literally i just tacked that on to feel healthier)
69. macaroni and cheese with garlic salt and peas
70. lobster roll, grilled cheese, onion rings and a mocha frappe (ideal fat boy's meal)
71. un-chicken/turkey salad sandwiches (premade)
72. hot dogs
73. avocados
74. peanut butter
75. anything with hot pepper
76. quiche (of all kinds, most especially when my roommate makes it with a nice buttery crust)
77. gnocchi
78. coconut curries
79. sour cream
80. flatbread's sweet potato pizza
81. strawberry-rhubarb jam
82. summer/spring rolls
83. rhubarb crisp with vanilla sauce
84. broccoli with garlic sauce
85. guacamole
86. grilled cheese w/tomato slices and tomato soup (mmmmm good!)
87. bread and olive oil
88. eclairs (and basically anything cream-filled)
89. pasta of any sort
90. apple pie
91. spicy red curry with seafood
92. honey crisp apples
93. water chesnuts
94. beef gravy
95. coleslaw
96. malai kofta
97. wheat thins
98. tomatoes
99. marshmallows (if you think this is a waste of a favorite food, you should try them again...it really isn't.)
100. dim sum
101. bread. any kind.
102. kielbasa
103. butternut squash soup
104. olives
105. roasted red peppers
106. holy heck. definitely braised short ribs with that parsley-lemon zest-horseradish remolata.
107. fried calamari
108. chex mix
109. pumpkin ravioli with butter-sage sauce
110. 158 bagels (salt with herbalizer)
111. rebecca's derby pie
112. egg and cheese sandwich on an english muffin
113. eggplant
114. chickpeas
115. un-turkey club sandwiches
116. these plum dumplings that my grandma makes, they're called grechiknedles or something
117. eggs
118. vegetarian sushi (especially the eggplant or sweet potato roll from Sakura in Providence)
119. fried (pork) dumplings from seng thai
120. tofu

list by: allie, alyson, amanda, ashley, darcy, deirdre, hannah, jess, lauren, leah, maggie and susan
photo by maggie

things to be thankful for

2007-11-26T15:01:00.000-05:00

1. cookbooks
2. hot baths when i feel sick or run down
3. my unwavering sense of self, even if the world sometimes acts like it wants me to forget it
4. eclairs
5. being in america
6. newly shaved legs (they just feel nice)
7. the first snow
8. creamy coffee
9. the time i had to spend with my dad
10. cuddles
11. spring
12. nonfat frozen yogurt (this is a big one)
13. my senses
14. my health and your health too
15. the right to vote
16. being able to travel
17. my vocal training and ability
18. the u.s. postal service
19. family
20. running water
21. the fireplace on a cold night
22. not having to worry about getting blown up when i walk out the door
23. dark chocolate!
24. postcards
25. maple syrup... thank you sweet trees!
26. the east coast in the fall- the bright colors of the leaves
27. musicmusicmusic
28. my pets- they keep me happy and sane and make me laugh
29. love
30. being born in a first world country... it ain’t always perfect, but we’ve got a 31. lot to be thankful for
32. the ocean
33. ice cream
34. opportunity
35. you
36. books - its the only way i can fall asleep at night
37. my strong legs...they take me from point a to point b, allow me to run like the wind, spin like i invented the damn class, jump rope without tripping, dance the best i can...among other things that are probably not appropriate for a public forum such as this
38. growing up in the mountains
39. not having to have back surgery
40. feeling the sand between my toes
41. my doggies, and the fact my mother did not give the younger of the two back after a week, like she threatened to do (bella was a bit of a difficult pup).
42. post-its
43. clean water, green trees
44. my cousin becky
45. clean air and water
46. buttonwood syrah rose
47. only non-crippling allergies
48. learning
49. my brand-new apartment room and apartment-mates; i could not be happier
50. personal growth
51. the ability to let go of things that are no longer serving me
52. being indecisive because there are too many things to love
53. delicious food made by hand
54. one word: sofia
55. cuddles with pets
56. flip flops- the really worn in kind
57. top chef
58. friends who are awesome
59. TV on DVD
60. generosity
61. trees!!! how else would we breath?
62. the people at mac tech support who give you two free calls. i just used one.
63. loved ones
64. that feeling when the sun warms you
65. my ability to do anything i set out to do
66. the polaroid camera
67. self magazine. hell, magazines in general
68. a warm bed and a nice place to live
69. my voice teacher
70. chamomile
71. e-projects
72. excedrin
73. sutton
74. my best friends, emily and pat
75. a job, even though i don’t like it
76. him
77. honesty
78. the fact that there are no longer no-smoking sections in most resturants, since smoking is banned there to begin with
79. fuzzy slippers for when i get home from a day of wearing heels
80. alisal ranch
81. never having to be hungry
82. my new york city
83. mittens
84. my career and where it is going
85. a body that allows me freedom of movement
86. the gloaming
87. good fortune
88. lists
89. twilight- when the sun is pink and orange
90. every single day

list by: ashley, other ashley, becky, hannah, katie, maura and pete
photo by ashley

places you'd like to go (and why)

2007-11-15T13:21:00.000-05:00

1. tonga (because we learned about it in 6th grade social studies)
2. cuba (for more coffee)
3. savannah, GA (midnight in the garden of good and evil, mansions)
4. taj mahal (because that place is big. seriously big)
5. atlanta (because I want to go to the aquarium and see the world's largest oil painting)
6. wales (because i read too many king arthur books)
7. the moon (because it's made of cheese)
8. india (because of the smell of spices; fabrics; temples; food; COLOR)
9. timbuktu (because it would be fun to say you’ve been there)
10. christ the redeemer statue, brazil (because jesus! that thing is big!)
11. the burgess shale fossil beds
12. china (great wall; food/spices; Buddhist temples; red/gold/communism; maybe I’ll see a phoenix)
13. all the u.s. national parks (because i love national parks)
14. petra, jordan (just google it. you’ll see.)
15. hawaii (to see volcanoes)
16. poland (because they're my people and i want to learn polish)
17. greece (because maybe I’ll develop a golden tan and a love for olives?)
18. colorado (colo-fucking-rado)
19. mont saint-michel (because i’ve spent a bunch of time in france but never made it to mont saint-michel)
20. russian (because it is the birthplace of my love)
21. victoria falls (waterfalls are awesome)
22. death valley (because it is an extreme)
23. the amazon rainforest (i went near here - the headwaters of the amazon - and already it was awesome. swimming with piranhas, making yucca bread, and avoiding the sink because a scorpion seems to have set up home there - what could be better?)
24. denali (because i was supposed to go there once but i got the flu really bad and had to stay in bed)
25. alberta and saskatchewan (because of the prairies)
26. a giant dance club (to dance)
27. prince edward island (because i didn't take enough pictures the one time i went there)
28. the north & south poles (again with the silly photo shoots, i’ve seen a photo of my friend’s grandfather standing on his head at the south pole (like he was holding up the world). if it can make an old man stand on his head, i need to go. plus - penguins and polar bears, oh my!)
29. new zealand (because it looks so beautiful)
30. fore street (because it is supposed to be the best)
31. cairo to see the pyramids (because it's the only wonder of the ancient world you can still see!)
32. soda springs, idaho (because of the oregon trail)
33. the great wall of china (it didn’t make the original 7 wonders, but i hear it is still pretty awesome)
34. vienna, austria (because that is where my family is from)spain (eating dinner at 11, siestas, paella, wine/sangria…)
35. prince edward island (because that's where anne of green gables lived)
36. bisbee, arizona (because even though i was just there, i didn't see it during the day)
37. fridgehednge (because thats amazing)
38. south of france (lavender, herbs de province)
39. alaska (because its wildness)
40. a haunted castle in ireland (ideally with central heating)
41. cuba (castro and organic farming)
42. the grand canyon (because it’s lame not to go to an amazing place in your own country)
43. nyc (because i have only been there twice and there is so much more to do)
44. scotland (for my family history and haggis)
45. redding, ca (to see the sundial bridge)
46. antartica (it is very far and very cold)
47. la (to visit jana once she is settled, because i have never been there either and it's la!)
48. anywhere i haven't been (because exploring sets my blood on fire)
49. drive cross country (because i’m amazed at how many born again christians there are in the rest of the us)
50. paris, especially with a love (because i love paris, and to be in love in paris must be amazing)
51. the prime meridian & the equator or both at once in a boat! (i spent 45 minutes trying to find a toilet on the equator, only to find out that it still spins. standing on geographical landmarks always leads to silly photo shoots)
52. monument valley, utah & arizona (because of john wayne)
53. ocean pizza in saco (because it's extremely good pizza, but who ever goes to saco?)
54. sweden (because kirsten was my favorite american girl)
55. stonehenge (the touristy part of this is supposed to be pretty lame, but still - how the hell did they build it? )
56. the science museum at harvard (to see the glass flowers exhibit)
57. uruguay (because of its amazing architecture)
58. the leaning tower of piza (because i want to take a photo from a distance looking like i’m holding it up)
59. san francisco (to visit anne and because the first time i went i didn't like it that much, and i want to give it another try)
60. the galapagos islands (i got to spend a week here in college, and i could spend another year there if i had the chance. every moment you see something amazing. swimming with penguins and sea lions, watching albatross take off, and laughing at the word boobie no matter how many times you hear it)
61. the whitney (to see the permanent calder exhibit)
62. austin, texas (because of south by southwest)
63. newfoundland (puffins!)
64. mt everest (let’s face it, i’m never really going to hike it, but still...)
65. new zealand (because i have heard from everyone i know that has been there that they never wanted to leave. and that it is the most beautiful place ever. i must go and see for myself. yes.)
66. greensboro, nc (to go to jan's diner)
67. the great barrier reef (because it's a snorkeler’s dream)
68. iceland (because of otherworldly landscapes)
69. louisville (to see my family and show jon around and go to my favorite restaurant)
70. mount fuji (are there really vending machines on top?)
71. switzerland (because it's nuetral, has lots of chocolate and reminds me of maria vontrapp)
72. italy, especially tuscany (because i need to experience food in the way that elizabeth gilbert did in eat, pray, love. also, i would really love to see olive and grape harvest, and see how
73. pompeii (as a roman history dork i feel like i’ve seen the place in so many text books, and in an awesome exhibit at the field museum in chicago that i’ve got to go to the real place)
74. south dakota (because of the badlands and laura ingalls wilder)
75. olive oil and wine are made. i hope that means i get to stomy grapes in bare feet - which has always been a romantic notion of mine ever since i saw that i love lucy episode!)
76. st. john, in february (to visit daisy and swim in the ocean and get a tan)
77. the cenote at xpu-ha, mexico (because it was my very favorite snorkeling experience even and i have always wanted to go back)
78. boston (to go shopping at h&m)
79. all of the natural wonders of the world (because they must all be amazing)
80. arabica (to get a latte with a heart)

list by: becky, darcy, hannah, kentucky, leah, lauren and maggie
photo by becky

pet peeves

2007-11-08T13:35:00.000-05:00

1. people who are negative or pessimistic all the time
2. pompous people
3. silent treatment
4. whistling
5. men who ogle or whistle at women who walk down the street
6. when people argue for the sake of arguing
7. slow walkers who take up the whole sidewalk
8. people who are idiots
9. driving through red lights
10. people who will write something borderline mean, but then follow it up with a smiley face :)
11. when someone throws something in the trash when it could obviously be recycled and there's a recycling bin nearby
12. making me talk to your boyfriend who i have never actually met when i call you on the phone, saying something like, "oh here - talk to [---]"
13. certain mispronunciations such as saying nucular (noo-cue-lur) instead of nuclear (noo-clee-ur) and fustrated (fuss-tray-ted) instead of frustrated (frus-tray-ted) etc.
14. people who don't recycle
15. people who eat with their mouths open
16. people who don't vote and then complain about the results
17. when food tastes like stale refrigerator or freezer
18. shoe stores that don't carry size 11 (womens)
19. pretension
20. people that salt their food before they taste it
21. fundamentalists
22. chronic exaggeration
23 .credit card minimums
24. those people at work who you see everyday for a year, but who will still not even smile at you, let alone say hi
25. driving while text messaging
26. when shoe salespeople look at me like i'm a freak when i ask if they have "this in a size 11?"
27. the misuse of "myself"
28. people who act like jerks
29. people who have to stop and coo over every single dog/baby on the sidewalk
30. irregradless
31. people who only get in touch with you when they want something from you
32. smoking/leaving your car running at the GAS STATION PUMP
33. answering your cell phone and having a drawn out conversation with the person on 34. it when you're supposed to be hanging out with me and i'm sitting right next to you
35. having my feet hurt from shoes that are oh-so-cute (but too painful to keep)
36. saying things like "lol" out loud in real life without any sense of irony
37. people that say they don't like a certain food before they try it, and refuse to eat it
38. bad drivers
39. the use of redundant statements like ATM Machine or PIN Number
40. using metallic utensils on teflon cookware
41. using the word "gay" to mean "lame"
42. lack of responsibility/accountability
43. people who don't return phone calls
44. poor communication, followed by blaming others
45. judgmental people who make their judgmental-ness obvious
46. singing along with the music when you don't actually know the words and therefore just sort of mumble through them
47. being called a party pooper just because you don't want to do something
48. music or tv being not loud enough to hear completely yet not muted
49. people who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom
50. guilt trips
51. unsalted butter
52. slow drivers when I'm in a hurry
53. chronic lateness
54. pickled things that contain no vinegar
55. giant suvs
56. when people from the United States visit foreign countries and don't even attempt the language
57. indecision
58. grammatical errors, like mixing up your and you're, or their and there, or misplaced quotation marks/apostrophes
59. upspeaking at the end of every phrase
60. closed-mindedness
61. when people stand right in the doorway to smoke, and you have to walk through smoke curtains to get in
62. when people are negative or pessimistic all the time
63. when people wear so much perfume/cologne that it sticks around in elevators after they've left
64. native New Englanders that don't root for New England sports teams
65. conservatives, republicans and reactionaries
66. poor-quality chocolate...the kind that is like eating sweetened wax
67. when other drivers don't turn off their blinkers and i have to drive behind them, watching the light blink for no reason
68. when people don't try new things (foods especially), or not being able to try them myself
69. people who clear their throats in a particularly disgusting and nauseating way in public on a regular basis, like the lady who sits next to me at work
70. thinking that moving to los angeles will somehow make you a more interesting person than you were when you lived in minneapolis/des moines/woonsocket, when actually you will always be lame regardless of your location
71. when people refuse to even attempt creativity because of fear of failure (ie. singing, dancing, cooking, any form of art)
72. people who eat with their mouths only slightly open and therefore cannot believe you or apparently don't hear it themselves
73. people who play their music too loud in their cars - to the point that it makes your car vibrate and/or drowns out your music

list by: alyce, ashley, becky, deirdre, hannah, kentucky, maggie, and pete

favorite/best books

2007-10-30T09:31:00.000-04:00

1. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
2. The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel
3. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
4. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
5. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
6. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
7. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
8. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
10.Independence Day by Richard Ford
11. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
12. Thursday Next Series by Jasper Fforde
13. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
14. Remainder by Tom McCarthy (new read it read it)
15. Dibs: In Search of Self by Virginia M. Axline
16. The Father Costume by Ben Marcus and Matthew Ritchie
17. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
18. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
19. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle
20. All The Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren
21. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
22. Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion
23. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
24. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
25. Any Calvin and Hobbes treasury by Bill Waterson
26. Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle
27. Harry Potter 1-7 by J. K. Rowling
28. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
29. I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
30. Fidelity by Michael Redhill
31. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
32. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
33. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
34. Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
35. All The President's Men by Woodward and Bernstein
36. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
37. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
38. #1 Ladies Detective Agency Series by Alexander Mccall Smith
39. A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
40. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
41. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
43. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
44. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
45. Skinny Legs And All by Tom Robbins
46. A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle
47. The Food Bible by Judith Wills (my one non-fiction! the food bible is really just an incredibly helpful book that tells you about nutrients and stuff.)
48. The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
49. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
50. The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay
51. The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
52. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
53. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
54. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
55. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
56. Cordelia Underwood by Van Reid
57. How He Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
58. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
59. The Macho Paradox by Jackson Katz
60. Bear by Himself by Geoffrey Hayes
61. His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman
62. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
63. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
64. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
65. Where the Girls Are by Susan Douglas
66. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
67. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
68. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
69. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
70. Capital by Karl Marx
71. Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
72. The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
73. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
74. Rare Birds by Edward Riche
75. Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill
76. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
77. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
78. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
79. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
80. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
81. How To Be Lovely by Melissa Hellstern
82. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
83. Guardians of the Tall Stones by Moyra Caldecott
84. A Sudden Country by Karen Foster
85. Alligator by Lisa Moore
86. Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
87. Mr Lunch Takes a Plane Ride by J.Otto Seibold And Vivian Walsh
88.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
89. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
90. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
91. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
92. My Sister Keeper by Jodi Picoult
93. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
94. Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda
95. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
96. Drop City by T.C. Boyle
97. Cather in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
98. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
99. Little House In The Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
100. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
101. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
102. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
103. Middlemarch by George Eliot
104. Notable American Women by Ben Marcus
105. Animal Farm by George Orwell
106. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
107. Unravelling by Elizabeth Graver
108. Franny and Zooey by Jd Sallinger
109. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
110. Spilling Open by Sabrina Ward Harrison
111. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
112. The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
113. White Noise by Don DeLillo
114. Making it on Broadway by hundreds of actors
115. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
116. Long Life by Mary Oliver
117. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
118. Ender's Game by Orsen Scott Card
119. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
120. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg
121. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
122. The Corrections by Jonathan FranzenFemale Chaevenist Pigs by Ariel Levy
123. No Exit by Jean by Paul Sartre
124. Jpod by Douglas Coupland
125. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
126. Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss
127. All of my old journals/diaries
128. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
129. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (new read it read it)
130. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
131. All of my old high school yearbooks (particularly the ones with messages from old boyfriends and friends-turned-bitches)
132. The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr
133. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
134. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
135. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
136. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
137. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
138. Patrick and Ted by Geoffrey Hayes
139. Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
140. Ancient History by David Ives
141. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
142. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
143. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

list by: allie, allyson, ashley, other ashley, chris, deirdre, hannah, jamie, katie, leah and maggie
photo by becky

potential theme parties

2007-10-24T15:11:00.000-04:00

1. moon landing cheese night
2. indoor picnic
3. one pieces (unitards, jumpsuits, etc.)
4. dead politicians, actresses, and revolutionaries
5. 40s in the 40s (dress from the 1940s and drink 40s)
6. dysfunctional family reunion
7. wedding reception (similar to the dysfunctional family party - but in formal wear!)
8. around the world
9. spy party (complete with missions and undercover operations)
10. colors party or, specifically, color dinner party
11. casino night
12. mai thai's for kai
13. national stereotypes party (ie. french beret striped shirt and baguette, dutch braids and clogs, american fat suit and hot dog)
14. literary characters
15. look like you got the shit kicked out of you on the way to the party party
16. safari theme
17. office christmas party (not at the office)
18. "the night hell froze over" (when groups with completely different interests party together)
19. michael jackson, through the years
20. art supply, music or clothing trade
21. a fancy english tea party
22. mod night
23. favorite director movie marathon with correlating snacks
24. olympic athletes (choose your sport)
25. party like its 1999
26. snowpants or no pants
27. tacky party
28. murder mystery dinners
29. gerontology party
30. redneck night (girls dress up as barefoot and pregnant etc.)
31. blockbuster hits of the 1980s theme (come as a character from an 80s movie)
32. pizza party (everyone bring a topping)
33. superhero costume party
34. trailer trash party
35. frat party
36. black and white party
37. christmas in july
38. frat party themed (baseball hats and beirut)
39. come as you wish you were party
40. progressive party (travel to different places for each course of a long meal)
41. who i might be in a parallel universe party
42. dessert potluck
43. hunting party - dress in camo and eat lots of meat
44. scavenger hunt
45. affairs to remember
46. solstice party (everything is white)
47. toga party
48. chocolate party
49. the board game party (where there is, obviously, a lot of board games to play)
50. fruit and clown party (come as your favorite fruit or a clown. anyone who didn't wear a costume had to go through an "emergency graping station")
51. dance party for any particular decade or era (less recent is better)
52. beard and/or mustache party
53. cinco de mayo
54. in-costume karaoke
55. great gatsby party
56. first thanksgiving reenactment
57. masquerade ball
58. derby party
59. people you'd meet in heaven and hell
60. video or board game tournament
61. fancy dress tea party
62. scavenger hunt
63. garden party
64. bring-your-own-art-supplies collaboration piece
65. camp party (ala wet hot american summer)
66. tacky party
67. masquerade
68. nerd night
69. pirate party
70. back in time night (pterodactyl!!)
71. bris/sausage party
72. religious iconography party (choose your religion)
73. characters from wes anderson movies
74. parisian party (french costumes, food & tons of wine)
75. cowboys and indians
76. second chance prom (or 80s prom)
77. dress like your crush (allie is going to be rob thomas)

list by: allie, amanda, darcy, hannah, jan marie, maggie, maura, rebecca

things to make by hand

2007-10-17T08:26:00.000-04:00

1. a body cast
2. a collage
3. anonymous presents
4. felted bowls
5. a personal dictionary
6. all of my dishes
7. pastries
8. pickled peaches
9. a fisherman's sweater to give to a fisherman
10. ice cream
11. wool scarves and hats
12. every meal
13. bread
14. music
15. straight lines without (or even with!) a ruler
16. embroidered underwear
17. valentines
18. gorgonzola stuffed ravioli
19. tofu
20. memento shadowboxes
21. a tiny cottage in the middle of the woods where it was always fall.
22. pies and macaroons that actually *look* yummy
23. a sewing repair
24. my own rootbeer
25. caramel
26. jewelry
27. a little cabin by the ocean
28. a quilt out of all of my dead favorite clothes
29. candies: jelly candies, marshmallows, amazing truffles, great gumdrops, licorice, turkish delight, etc.
30. long hanging lamps made out old maps
31. miniature dioramas
32. really tall vases and elaborate bowls on a potters' wheel
33. a hot air balloon
34. silkscreened wrapping paper
35. cases for mixtapes and cds
36. really fantastic dresses
37. furniture
38. a sculture out of umbrellas and fish hooks
39. a labyrinth in the woods, made with stick borders and a pine needle floor and something beautiful and sacred in the center
40. all of my silverware
41. handmade books, without getting paste all over the place (and i mean all over the place)
41. well-made clothes
42. mittens with an attaching string
43. avant-garde quilts
44. knitted gloves, legwarmers & hats
45. art
46. a shed
47. postcards and love letters
48. a jewelry box out of a box
49. a tight french braid on my own hair
50. pie crust & puff pastry
51. felt and felted animals
52. mosaics from broken dishes
53. silkcreeened scarves
54. paper that isn't bumpy and useless, unlike the bumpy, useless paper i've made before
55. moonshine
56. a bouquet of fresh-picked wildflowers
57. fitted tops sewn with interesting fabrics and patterns
58. butter
59. scented candles in vintage teacups
60. the list upon which i list
61. flavored liqueurs
62. anything that would cause delight in others
63. farmer's cheese
64. jam
65. things that keep people warm
66. halloween costumes
67. my hair behave

list by: amanda, becky, hannah, jamie, jan marie, katie, kellen, maggie, maura, michela

things to worry about

2007-10-11T13:05:00.000-04:00

1. falling down the stairs
2. the ozone layer
3. sleeping past the alarm and being quite late for something important, especially if it means I have to be the only person walking into the room late and everyone turns to look at me in silence, annoyance, or disgust
4. the reversal of roe vs. wade
5. if people judge me for my messy apartment
6. serial killers
7. that there is a wolf in the basement
8. being mugged
9. is my significant otehr having an affair because I'm not good enough?
10. people not liking me
11. getting a job
12. terrible diseases
13. not having time to make lists and therefore forgetting things
14. embarrassing myself in front of cute boys/cool people/employers
15. going over my minutes on my cell
16. the fact that our president and his comrades are in office and being the huge greedy monopic assholes that they are, they have made us the enemy of much of the rest of the world and now I imagine much of said rest of world would love to see us suffer a seriously painful demise
17. what to wear
18. having my identity stolen
19. if i can really make it to the gas station before i run out of gas
20. global warming
21. do i look fat today?
22. warm winters
23. will anyone ever love me?
24. sharks
25. relationships
26. teenagers who don't know who Martin Luther King was
27. power plants exploding
28. being a loser
29. having a very vocal and coherent sex dream about someone that is not the person next to me
30. being broke
31. losing one of my senses (and not getting to choose which one)
32. getting into school
33. family members who are ill
34. the dishwasher breaking
35. children who don't have positive role models
36. people who text while driving, and the people on the road with them
37. cancer
38. punching someone when engulfed in fury and all of the resulting consequences
39. harm coming to someone I love
40. credit card payments
41. scurvy
42. becoming an old maid cat-lady
43. figuring out what to do with my life
44. being late for things
45. failing
46. that the mice that invade my apt. in the winter will nibble at my feet while i sleep
47. the treatment of animals
48. homeless people (especially in the winter)
49. that a sea turtle will knock over the boat and eat me
50. getting fired for doing this at work

list by: becky, chris, hannah, jamie, maggie, michela

guilty pleasures

2007-10-03T08:46:00.000-04:00

1. a cappella music
2. talking about people behind their backs
3. sharp cheddar cheese ON TOP OF dark chocolate
4. eating chocolates out of the children's candy jars
5. loving baseball
6. grape soda
7. buying new (and rather expensive) clothes or shoes more often than I need them
8. piles of fried chinese takeout three nights in a row
9. myspace, facebook etc.
10. newsies (the movie, not the actual people)
11. online shopping at work
12. georgia nicholson books
13. spraypainting indoors
14. rock of love with bret michaels
15. gossip blogs
16. hanson
17. TV on DVD obsessions
18. matchbox twenty
19. america's next top model and project runway
20. eating at applebee's instead of supporting small local restaurants
21. romance novels
22. popcorn with lots of real butter
23. eating ice cream for dinner
24. obviously, a lot of bad TV shows, specifically: ANTM, the Real World, almost all of the celeb/pseudo-celeb shows on VH1, old episodes of 90210 – even in the post-college years, and OMG The Swan when it was on
25. manicures and pedicures
26. smoking cigarettes
27. cheap orange mac n cheese
28. fast forwarding CDs to the end of the song before the cool song so when people get in my car they think that song is just coming on because I've been listeing to the whole CD, not just that song over and over
29. barry manilow
30. kelly clarkson
31. movies that I watch over and over that aren't really that good: The Commitments, Good Will Hunting (yes, really), and Some Kind of Wonderful
32. eating sandwiches (when I am allergic to wheat)
33. writing somewhat crazy fan mail to actors and musicians
34. popping zits
35. kenny rogers
36. staying in the shower for 30 minutes or more
37. 2 lb bags of M&Ms
38. jennifer weiner books
39. eating huge quantities of food when I'm home alone
40. spending an entire day off lazing about while doing things that I love, which most often involves doing three or four different projects at once, and not picking up after myself the whole day
41. when a friend leaves an article of clothing at my house and I wear it happily until I'm directly asked about it
42. air supply and george michael
43. not brusing my teeth after cotton candy
44. eating the great food of the parents when I'm babysitting
45. perezhilton.com
46. excited email exchanges with ex-boyfriends
47. biore pore strips
48. eating an entire pint of Ben and Jerry's at once, so that I am forced to go out and buy a second pint, and eat only a bit out of it so that to others that frequent my freezer it looks like I have been moderate when actually I have been a complete glutton
49. not knowing how to type the proper way but faking it
50. naps on beautiful sunny days

list by: ashley, becky, deirdre, hannah, maggie, michela, rebecca, susan

favorite things to feel (texture wise)

2007-09-27T12:25:00.000-04:00

1. bare feet in mud
2. vibrating the sacrospinalis
3. soft weathered wood
4. squelching play-doh between your fingers
5. breaking up cold butter into scone batter
6. cashmere. plain and simple
7. memory foam
8. smooth wood
9. newly-hatched chicks or ducklings
10. beach glass
11. Will's stubble
12. a box of buttons – the buttons, not the box
13. warm towels
14. crisp money
15. wrinkled, heavily handled papers
16. marshmallows and fluff
17. sinking your fingers into a container full of m&ms or beans or lentils
18. the plump pad on the bottom of cats' feet, fur on cat chins, cats' tongues and cats in general
19. horse noses
20. broccolli
21. flour: a big bowl of it that you can stick your hands into or drive match box cars through
22. moths' wings
23. freshly painted nail polish
24. kite string
25. piano keys
26. the sun on your back when you are a little bit chilly
27. holding a tiny hand to cross the street
28. felt
29. anything fresh from the dryer
30. hot bathwater (with oils in it)
31. corn starch and water or cornstarch in a plastic baggie
32. standing at the shoreline while the tide pulls the sand out from under your feet
33. jumping into a pile of fresh powder snow
34. rabbit fur
35. down-filled slippers
36. hay
37. an envigorating cool breeze blowing on your face, preferably from the top of a hill or mountain, or by the ocean
38. the underside of a sea star
39. boyfriend sweater
40. the silky edge to some winter blankets
41. the cactus with the tiny pearls
42. hotter than hot water on a chilly winter day
43. pavement on bare feet
44. grass on bare feet
45. bread dough
46. hands
47. the skin on my stomach
48. those ridges you get on the top of your fingernails sometimes
49. soft, cottony pages in old books or the crisp pages of a new book
50. cookie dough (in or out of cookie dough ice cream)
51. Curious Touch™ Soft paper
52. warm sand
53. vintage feedsack fabric
54. corduroy (but really only narrow-waled; wide-wale is not as exciting)
55. freshly cut short hair on the backs of boys' necks or a freshly shaven head
56. clean sheets or very old 100% cotton high thread-count pillowcases
57. earlobes, which are very succulent
58. kitchen floor with bare feet in summer
59. reptile skin
60. white down comforter love
61. soft furry dogs, especially their ears
62. mousse (texture in mouth, not in hand)
63. hair while you're rinsing out the conditioner and it feels like a mermaid's hair would
64. mud, moss, or a carpet of pine needles beneath your feet
65. crème brûlée
66. wet leaves and crunchy leaves
67. curly hair
68. flower petals
69. caterpillars
70. sandstone
71. soft skin, especially after you have been at the beach
72. the right ballpoint pen on the right paper
73. old printing press blocks
74. velvet
75. silky hair in ponytails
76. birch bark
77. the way freshly-shaven legs feel
78. freshly sheared wool
79. the tile floor in keith's old bathroom
80. fingrepainting
81. wet clay on the potters' wheel
82. flannel (old flannel and flannel sheets)
83. the fuzzy side of sycamore leaves
84. pumpkin innards
85. ultrasuede
86. lambs ears (animal and plant)
87. glue on fingertips
88. creamy peanut butter (texture in mouth, not in hand)
89. car upholstery
90. the soap at el camino in brunswick
91. brand new baby beech leaves with fuzz
92. staghorn sumac twigs
93. turtle shells
94. my mom's elbows, when un-folded (she always hated when i was a kid and i would rub them)
95. puppy bellies
96. old t-shirts
97. glue on fingertips
98. the right person's lips
99. the inside of a brand-new sweatshirt
100. nectarines and peaches and kiwi
101. a bucket full of wet grapes

list by: alyson, amy, ashley (photo by ashley!), becky, darcy, dierdre, hannah, jan marie, lauren, maggie, michela, rebecca

amazing things to do in autumn

2007-09-18T07:37:00.000-04:00

1. go apple picking: climb trees, run around, stretch to reach the
highest apple you can pick
2. take lots of photos of you and your friends with apples
3. make a leaf pile and jump into that mofo when the sun is just right
4. rake a huge pile of leaves and jump off a swing into them
5. buy or knit new sweaters and wear them
6. wear the sweaters that have been put away all summer
7. do absolutely anything with apples [sublist: applesauce, apple cider, apple juice, apple jack (whoa), apple cake, apple jam, apple pie (please melt some cheddar on it in autumn), apple chutney, roasted apples and sweet potatoes and oh, there’s more… ]
8. fall in love
9. start school or at least plan to teach yourself something
10. make/eat thanksgiving dinner sandwiches
11. eat scuppernongs and muscadines
12. mail a box of leaves to a friend who lives in the south
13. make wreaths out of dry bittersweet
14. start rum and coke game nights (apples to apples!)
15. drink pumpkinhead (or other pumpkin flavored beers, I guess...)
16. eat pumpkin pie
17. use cinnamon in your cooking
18. go to north carolina
19. get some new pencils or sharpies
20. collect every color of leaf in your neighborhood and tape them in your journal
21. go out in the woods for a walk, observe the changes in nature that happen as we transition from summer to fall
22. fall off something (get it??? fall???? har har)
23. climb trees
24. wear socks again
25. celebrate halloween! and all that goes with it
26. start carrying tissues
27. go to lisa korf’s annual fall day
28. go on late night walks and try to take a mental picture of what the ground looks like before it gets blanketed in snow
29. re-imagine your life, accounting for the change in temperature
30. take rainy days off to drink hot chocolate and play cards
31. wear a hoodie and take a picture of your rosy cheeks
32. get a pumpkin and invite people over to help you carve it
33. watch a leaf drop from high above and try to run and catch it
34. stay home for sunday baking
35. host/attend potlucks
36. fly kites and wear scarves so you look like twins
37. go on haunted hayrides
38. wear thick, brightly colored and textured tights
39. drive on the kangamangus highway
40. swing on the swingset at school until your chest hurts from cold air
41. climb a mountain and appreciate the changing leaves from the top of the world
42. harvest vegetables and make them into yummy pickles
43. go to the cumberland fair (“it’s always in september”)
44. finally make that epic halloween costume that you’ve always wanted to make but in the past you put off until it was too late and the night before you decide to be the croc hunter or will ferrell or a barbie
45. make art
46. get obsessed with a TV show on DVD to get some down time, finally
47. wear your mike lowell jersey and get into sports
48. go on a wagon ride and swing your legs off the end
49. go school shopping even if you’re not in school
50. stand on the deck of your favorite bar, because it’s going to get a helluva lot worse really soon
51. find a great set of mittens, hat and scarf that you love so you won’t be
52. searching all winter thinking, why didn’t i get this sooner?
53. same goes for jackets, longjohns and woolen socks
54. drink hot toddies
55. celebrate day of the dead
56. visit a graveyard and try to scare your friends
57. learn to like football
58. make hot cocoa (with peppermint schnapps)
59. carve an obscene pumpkin and put it on your doorstep
60. start drinking tea all the time! stay warm!
61. wear mittens while you make pecan pie
62. eat homemade soup for supper every night
63. make hot mulled cider (with rum and cinnamon sticks)
64. open up the windows at night so you can bundle up under the covers and curl up to your honey
65. go to the boston open studios or portland’s first friday
66. stay home on halloween and watch scary movies while you wait for trick or treaters
67. visit haunted houses
68. eat homemade donuts
69. roast pumpkin seeds
70. put candy corn on your canine teeth like a vampire

list by:
amanda (who was very proud that so few things had to do with drinking), ashley, darcy, emily, hannah, jamie, jess, maggie, michela and nicole