greatest compliment ever

"He's like Gandhi, but better. He likes puppets"

I love the library...

I really do. I got a card at the newport beach library, right down the street from work, and it is a heavenly place. The smell of books, endless options, and free internet if you need it. I could spend an entire day there alone and serene.

I have strayed a bit from my reading list, and will continue to, but that is what happens when you enter a library.

Here is where I am at:
Slam
Me talk pretty one day
Three cups of tea
Dress your family in corduroy and denim
Blood Brothers
Report from a Parisian Paradise
The Bell Jar

I may stray further from the list and go with Revolutionary Road next... or return with some Steinbeck.
Oh Steinbeck how I love thee.

For those bored by this, I apologize. For those who love books as much as me, Im betting you are pullin from this list anything you haven't read yet and looking it up/planning to read it... and I love you for that

the child in me is so happy right now

Boston or bust...

I'm moving this summer. :)

Too excited to say much else.

Let's get in some time before i leave!

1. Even through the stresses, I ALWAYS loved my job. With all the changes 2009 has brought, I have trouble saying that now.
2. Im starting to pray now for the changes that are about to come. I should have been doing this a long time ago. Not that I didn't "talk" to God about it... but now my concerns are much more serious
3. A good live music high can numb me to everything else for at least 24 hours.


Here is the song that aided in my most recent music high, and seems to be helping me even as I come off of it... enjoy



This one's for the lonely
The one's that seek and find
Only to be let down
Time after time

This one's for the torn down
The experts at the fall
Come on friends get up now
You're not alone at all

And this part was for her
And this part was for her
This part was for her
Does she remember?

It comes and goes and waves
I...

This one's for the faithless
The ones that are surprised
They're only where they are now
Regardless of their fight

This one's for believing
If only for it's sake
Come on friends get up now
Love is to be made

And this part was for her
And this part was for her
This part was for her
Does she remember?

It comes and goes in waves
I...
Am only led to wonder why
It comes in goes in waves
I...
Am only led to wonder why
Why I try

This is for the ones who stand
For the ones who try again
For the ones who need a hand
For the ones that think they can

It comes in waves
I...
Am only led to wonder why
It comes and goes in waves
I...
Am only led to wonder why
Why I try

I love the smell of used books!

I have decided that the current "25 things" post floating around has been incredibly fun. I love the little things I learn about people. also enjoy the giggling about the ones I already knew :) sooo... as I love opening my blogs with a consistent theme (my old blog opened with lyrics), I have decided to now open my new blogs with 5 random facts. I hope you enjoy them.

1. (I feel so strongly about I used it as my title). I LOVE THE SMELL OF USED BOOKS. I could play in a bookstore for HOURS.
2. I once had a senior year break down and spent an entire day locked up in my room. I watched tv on dvd. I ate. I learned the choreography to Britney Spears "you drive me crazy". I was then informed "bri.... you REALLY need to leave this room".
3. I love planning trips so much that I have even planned one I never will take. A summer tour of european festivals. From bastille day to the tomatina to the puck fair in ireland (cause who doesnt want to see a goat crowned?).
4. I tend to use the same topic/gimmick for awhile to make my kids laugh. Currently it has to do with hippos in tutus.
5. If James ever picks on me for wanting chocolate or waffles, I tell him it's in my blood (im belgian).


I have finally formed the great reding list for 2009. Im sure it will change a bit, but I will try to stick to/complete it!
(those already completed are in bold. Currently reading in Italics)

Slam
Me talk pretty one day
Report from a Parisian Paradise
Three cups of tea
The Secret Garden
The winter of our discontent
Chuck Klosterman IV
Utopia
House of San & Fog
A million little pieces
Love in the time of Cholera
Atonement-
The Catcher in the Rye
Sherlock Holmes
Alice in Wonderland
Memoirs of a geisha
Wuthering heights
Extremely loud and incredibly close


YAY!! Feel free to recommend more

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Amen!

More to come soon. Maybe even later tonight. We will see. :)