this might be fun

I found this while reading the dream life. It comes from another fun blog sunday school rebel. You are encouraged to take it to your own blog!

Song you love: Jaime's Crying by Van Halen

Word you love: complicate

Academic subject you love: folklore or Appalachian studies and creative writing

Hobby you love: tonic: arts and music magazine

Type of baked good you love: pineapple upside down cake

Type of sky you love: the Oklahoma sky at any time

Beverage you love: chai latte with skim milk and 2 packets of Splenda

Vacation you love: Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons, Badlands, Black Mountains, Deadwood - something like that

Restaurant you love: Azur

Way of getting around that you love: My TC

Person you love: puuuuuulease, there's not just one and I won't choose

Room in your home (or ideal home) you love: sunroom (Ideal home)...but since I don't have an ideal home, I'd say my living room is about as close as I can get

Movie you love: The Sound of Music

Book you love: The Four Noble Truths, The Dalai Lama

City you love: St Louis

Future plan you love: Going to Oklahoma

Form of communication you love: email

Junk food you love: ice cream, any kind

observations

It's been a weird week. A childhood friend's dad was buried today and during last night's visitation I saw many people I haven't seen in years. That got me thinking:

1. Life is entirely too short for everybody
2. I'm probably the most blessed person I know
3. Funeral visitations are the best place to socialize (honestly...where else will you see people you haven't seen in years and actually be in a situation to sit down and talk to them beyond 'How are you'?)
4. The nicest artists are usually the most gifted (and thankful)
5. We're screwed if Sarah Palin...uh, I mean McCain, wins the election
6. Being a liberal stands in stark contrast to my increasingly conservative family
7. I'm so thankful it wasn't my dad in that solid copper coffin
8. Dogs are much easier to deal with than children...on so many levels...and they're cheaper, too
9. Doctor turned DEA agent is weird
10. Cop turned golf pro is even weirder
11. Drummer turned librarian - weirdest of all
12. What are the situations that make us feel old?
13. SEE #11
14. The Dalai Lama is very, very wise
15. Computers are overrated
16. September 11th should be a national holiday

god bless gloria steinem

Read her op-ed piece here