10 on tuesday meme: 10 things i like to do alone

Ten On Tuesday: 10 Things I Like to Do Alone

1. Go the bathroom
2. Take a bath/shower
3. Sleep
4. Watch a movie
5. Read or Write
6. Paint
7. Take a walk
8. Pray
9. Organize things
10. Pluck facial hairs

This doesn’t mean that some of the things on the list I don’t like to do with others. But I'm also content to do them solo.

10 on tuesday meme: 10 childhood heroes/idols

10 Idols/Heroes When You Were a Kid

1. Amy Grant

2. Shirley Temple (Almost every Sunday after church I could be found on the floor of our house in Louisville in front of the t.v. watching a Shirley Temple movie. My favorite is The Little Princess)

3. Mary Lou Retton (1984 Olympics)

4. My 4th grade teacher, Ms. Pike

5. My babysitter, Lisa

6. Rob Lowe (one of my biggest celebrity crushes back then)

7. Wonder Woman (I had the underoos, the watch, the doll, and the Halloween costume.)

8. My cousin, Kathy (She’s 16 years older than me. I thought she was one of the prettiest girls I knew. I still do!)

9. My Mom and Dad

10. Jesus

10 on tuesday meme: 10 high school memories

I’m a day behind on with my Ten on Tuesday because I was too busy celebrating my mom’s birthday. I found it difficult to narrow down this list. While I wouldn’t want to rewind fifteen years and go back, I guess I do have some really great memories with some great friends.

10 High School Memories
1. Choir. I was and am such the choir geek.
2. High School Musicals. Annie (freshman year), Once Upon a Mattress (sophomore year), Grease (junior year), and Into The Woods (senior year).
3. The Literary Club banquet my senior year.
4. The time Monte Cassidy (who I had a huge crush on for no less than two years) said my name. He was trying to get my attention for someone else. Oh the let-down.
5. Graduation Day
6. Summers at Camp Loucon
7. Church youth group. This could be its own list. Lock-ins. Trips to Lake Junaluska. Many visits to Pizza Hut (“Can ya’ll turn up the jukebox?”). The district youth lock-in at which I ended up with a concussion. Standing around Herron’s car in the church parking lot listening to Def Leppard’s Hysteria record on his “rad” sound system. Lots of fundraising soup and sandwich lunches. Countless rides in the church van.
8. Eating way too much Baskin Robbins Chocolate and Peanut Butter ice cream and Pizza Hut breadsticks with Tiffany at Kereiakes park.
9. My gym teacher being really nice to me after he got a letter from my allergist explaining the severity of my asthma and allergies and that I understood my own limitations when it came to running laps. This was after weeks of him being a jerk to me and even calling my parents (he didn’t belive them either!).
10. School dances. Prom with Warren. Many others with Jason. “Let’s do the time warp again…”.

10 on tuesday meme: 10 things you love about springtime

10 Things You Love About Springtime

1. EASTER!
2. Greener grass (except for when it gets mowed-allergies)
3. Easter Candy (especially Peeps!)
4. Springtime *pedicures
5. Sandals/open-toed shoes
6. Strawberries
7. Tulips
8. More sunlight
9. The start of a new Indy Racing season
10. College Basketball/March Madness

*pretty toes courtesy of Bella Spa and Salon

tag: Christy and LYLASarah

10 on tuesday meme: 10 movie characters you love

There are so many ways to go with this. Okay, just go with the first 10 that come to mind.



Ten Movie Characters You Love
1. Clarice Starling (Jodi Foster)– Silence of the Lambs
2. Sofia (Peneolope Cruz) – Vanilla Sky
3. Brick Tamland (Steve Carell) – Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
4. Celie (Whoppie Goldberg) – The Color Purple
5. Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) – All of the National Lampoon Vacation movies
6. Neil (Robert Sean Leonard) and Knox (Josh Charles) – Dead Poet’s Society
7. Burnham (Forest Whitaker) – Panic Room
8. Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) – You’ve Got Mail
9. Forrest (Tom Hanks) – Forrest Gump
10. Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) – Signs


Tag: You

10 on tuesday meme: 10 things you hate doing

10 Things You Hate Doing (hate is such a strong word)
1. Spending money on car maintenance
2. Cleaning a greasy kitchen
3. Cleaning the Orchard girls’ bathhouse at Loucon after junior high assembly
4. Breathing in strong chemical smells like ammonia, paint remover, carpet glue, et cetera (upsets my delicate system)
5. Math
6. Standing in line behind someone buying lottery tickets
7. Thinking about the possibility of Hillary Rodham-Clinton becoming president
8. Listening to someone sing an uncomfortably bad solo (in person)
9. Being at work when I’m dog-tired
10. Tossing and turning when I can’t get to sleep

I'm tagging: bekka

10 on tuesday meme: 10 favorite albums

Lists like this are kind of tough, I think. How do you pick just 10 albums when there is so much beautiful music in the world? Some of the albums I have chosen albums that I may not even listen to much these days, but they played a significant role in my life and musical development and provided my soundtrack to life. These are in no particular order.10 Favorite Albums
1. Good Dog, Bad Dog – Over the Rhine
2. The Joshua Tree – U2
3. Age to Age – Amy Grant
4. Green – R.E.M.
5. Ohio – Over the Rhine
6. Love Life – Charlie Peacock
7. Disintegration – The Cure
8. This Beautiful Mess – Sixpence None The Richer
9. Indigo Girls – Indigo Girls
10. Jesus Freak – dc Talk

Honorable Mentions (No, I am not cheating)
Lead Me on – Amy Grant
Sacred Journey – First Call
The Way We Are – Fleming & John
Sixpence None the Richer – Sixpence None the Richer
Plumb – Jonatha Brooke and The Story
Squint – Steve Taylor
Out of Time - R.E.M.
Eponymous - R.E.M.
Duncan Sheik - Duncan Sheik
Achtung Baby - U2

Tag you’re it: Sumiko, Cara, and Eric.

10 on tuesday meme: 10 things you would do if you were younger

I am finding today’s 10 on Tuesday meme a little difficult. The question is, "10 Things You Would Do if You Were Younger". I’m trying to avoid falling into regret and “I’d go back and change that if I could,” thinking. Instead I hope to focus more on, “if I knew then when I know now….” But really the things I’m coming up with are things I could do NOW. So why don’t I? Do it. Do it. Especially numbers 3, 9, and 10. This makes me think of the Friends episode, *The One Where They All Turn Thirty, and Phoebe shared her list of things she wanted to do before that age. So, here goes....

10 Things You Would Do if You Were Younger
1. *Bounce 1 New York City block on a hoppy ball.
2. Be wiser in my spending/save more money (Right? Everyone’s going to say this.)
3. Learn to play the bag pipes.
4. Read more of the classics.
5. Pick a different major than Music Therapy. Well, maybe. Because I think God was guiding my decisions at the time and there were reasons. And I learned to play the guitar and I met Christy. If I had picked a different major I probably would have gone to WKU and never met her. And had no student loans. But she's worth it.
6. Dye my whole head of hair pink, at least once.
7. Shave my head. See, now Britney has ruined it for the rest of us.
8. Flirt more.
9. Take fencing classes.
10. Learn to speak Japanese.

10 on tuesday meme: 10 foods you do not like

1. soggy bread (gag)
2. liver (beef/chicken/pork/any living animals liver)
3. green peas (unless they are in something like a soup or fresh peas in some salads)
4. lima/butter beans
5. beets
6. breaded stewed tomatoes (can't stand to even see/smell them)
7. pickled ginger
8. white choclate (in large quanities. if it's accompanying real chocolates that might be okay. but it’s not really chocolate. i am not fooled.)
9. raw yellow/white onion (a small finely minced quantity in something is alright)
10. radishes

If you want to do this on your own blog then *tag* you're it.