My sister.
My family.
Backseat-driver banter.
My brother's supercool hug when I gave him a Superman T-shirt (in which his glasses got stuck on my hair and fell to the ground, with one lens popping out).
Tank tops.
Sparkly dresses.
Performing a perfect sun salutation.
Watching my littlest brother wave shiny objects in the air.

Sleeping late......

you are correct. he has a new jetta, and he left it with me when he went to japan. it was a little more than a fender bender. hydro-planed into an RV going at least 65mph. it was fixed shortly after, no worries.

Hydro-planing... I'm going to have nightmares now.

I was driving down the hill to my parents' house (after today, I think I have spent a total of seven hours behind the wheel of a motor vehicle) when my sister announced "There was another car accident in front of our house yesterday! I mean, um...." That makes two collisions this week, one of them head-on, neither fatal. And people say not to worry!

::

When I go for my weekly weigh in and theysay GOOD JOB! You lost #####!

toast.

nutella...

on just about anything.

a juicy burger and a Corona.

A beautiful sunset over the ocean to my right
and an almost full moon rising to my left.

lying on a beach, cuddling with someone, watching the sunrise.

never gotten to do that, but i think it'd be really awesome. maybe someday.

that's lovely.

photographing people's hands

drawing people's hands and feet.
parking perfectly.
contorting myself into odd shapes to mirror my hypermobile brother and making faces at strangers.
singing loudly in outdoor public places.
laughter.
grocery shopping with my sister, who is even more hyper than me. "Now I'm thinking, are the thoughts of my soul ripe and juicy?" (I'd held out some pears for her inspection, singing "are these acceptable in your sight, oh Fish?" ... only it was kind of to the tune of one of those church songs about presenting one's heart to God or whatever and... yeah.)
Not getting pulled over by either cop car I passed on the drive home. (I look like I know what I'm doing! Dude!)

I've lost twenty pounds recently.

Yoga children, unite! Seriously, it's been months since I've done a sun salutation. I really should do one tomorrow morning if I have time.

Tonight, I went to a Maundy Thursday service at a church near my school, and the congregation washed each other's feet. This absolutely blew me away.

OUTSTANDING ! Keep it up!

I didn't really know where to put this, but it's one of the things that makes life in a small town (3400) interesting (and one of my favorite things). At the noontime Holy Week services down the street at the Methodist church, the pastor was making announcements of upcoming events. She was inviting everyone to a Maundy Thursday service at the church tonight. She knew that the Pilot Club was hosting the Auburn University singers for a fund raiser at the school gym tonight, but "I promise," she said after promising a good service, "I will have you out in time to hear the singers." I realize this seems boring, but only in a small town can you have a fund raiser during Holy Week and have the Methodist minister promise to keep the Maundy Thursday service short enough to attend both. I love this place.

Oh, yeah!!

: )

I still smile and take pride in the time I was running late for a basketball game, and the only parking spot within half a mile of the gymnasium hosting the basketball game I was late for appeared to be about 12 inches SHORTER than my car ... and yet, I somehow managed to parallel park my Mercury Tracer hatchback in that space, wedging it into the parking spot with about 4 to 5 inches to spare in front and back. (OK, so the space actually WAS a foot or so longer than my car ... but still!!!)

: )

Not getting pissed off in traffic.

working 4.5 miles from home so I don't have to worry with traffic!

living next door to work so I don't even get in the car

Working 11 blocks from home so I don't have to worry with traffic!

; )

'Cept, of course, on the Public Square -- one of those no-stopsign, gun-it-and-go kinda squares -- where traffic can be one huge bottleneck, at times!!

(Theoretically, only 3 rules apply to our square: 1. One way only -- to the right!; 2. Do NOT use your turn signal when approaching or departing the square, or the townsfolk will laugh at you; and 3. Traffic should never stop -- hence, you are perpetually in "merge mode.")

Every friend who's ever come to visit me has been frightened by the square!!

And how much traffic in a town of < 4000 if you did drive?

(c:

Living in a dorm that's across the sidewalk from the English department and right next door to the library. (I'm an English major and work in the library.)

hey, now, there's a US Hwy that runs right out my front door

I was a journalism major/English minor and worked in the library!!

: )

No offense, mind you. I'm sure it's a HUGE highway.

but i can walk across the street most of the time to go to the Dairy Dee

Dairy Dee or Dairy Delite? We had Dairy Delite growing up and they had the best burgers and fried chicked and ice cream. For my kindergarten "grauduation" my parents took me there for a big parfait (so they tell me).

Well ... actually, I work for Information Technology, but one of our HQs is in the library. I worked in library acquisitions my freshman year, but between the dust and the databases I nearly went nuts.

dairy dee is shortened from dairy delite
ice cream, chicken, hamburgers, barbecue

Oh man! Do they have roasted or broasted potatos/potatoes?

yes, broasted

and where it is that you call home?

LaFayette, Alabama
county seat of Chambers County

that can't be far from Atlanta. I may have to drive over for some DD sometime.

about 15 miles west of west point, ga

come on by

I may just have to do that one weekend...

I shelved periodicals for an hour each morning of my sophomore year.

NOT the most exciting job ... espec. when I was hungover ...

: )

Eventually I moved to the upstairs circulation desk, but shortly thereafter, I dedicated almost every waking hour to Student Publications!!

More of my favorite things:

College memories ... : )

yes.yes.yes

It's been my experience (in a vacation spent riding shotgun through Ohio's entire Western half, from Wauseon to northern Kentucky) that every midwestern town has its own little dairy bar, few of which are affiliated with any franchise chain. Dairy King, Dairy Deelite, Dairy Barn... there were dozens more, but memory has swept them away.

I've lost five pounds since realizing I'd gained back fifteen. I am in love with yoga. (I walk two miles to work in ALL weather, so long as the sidewalks are clear. Woo!)

Walking is a happy thing.

For my kindergarten graduation, I wore a pink dress and a white paper mortarboard and had to recite a poem about family in French (because in Quebec, kindergarten half-day programs are conducted in French regardless of the school's dominant language). I had no idea what I was saying. As we pulled back into the gravel drivewayof the parsonage, my dad asked me if I knew what "famille" meant. I didn't. I learned a new word that night.

I do not know that the Dairy Dee has yoga.

Walking is probably the best thing to do, both for the exercise and also for escaping from the fat served up in the Dairy Dee—just walk away.

It's not the fat I have trouble with -- it's sugar. I have been known to eat jam by the spoonful and suck on sugar between meals if I don't have proper junk food on hand. This is a tough addiction to break.

On Fridays, I like that I work the night shift.... that equals beer in the afternoon since I don't have work for 3 days again. <snicker>

Cheers!

Marshmallow Peeps are great.

Nilla wafers

My town has a Dairy Queen.

; )

I can see it from my kitchen window. Looks like popcorn shrimp baskets are on special at the moment.

Pink sugar wafers.

CHOCOLATE sugar wafers!!

: )