8 is Great!

8 FAVORITE MOVIES

1. Pride and Prejudice (2005 version)
   
2. While You Were Sleeping
   
3. Big Fish
   
4. 13 Going on 30
   
5. Hidalgo
   
6. What's Up Doc?
   
7. Thoroughly Modern Millie
   
8. Ever After
   

8 FAVORITE RESTAURANTS

1. Olive Garden (minestrone soup, mmm.)
   
2. Pei Wei (lettuce wraps, mmm.)
   
3. Applebees (parmesan shrimp steak sans the shrimp, mmm.)
   
4. Robintinos (spaghetti with meat sauce, mmm.)
   
5. Jimmy Johns (beach club, mmm.)
   
6. Mimi's Café (buttermilk spice muffin, mmm.)
   
7. Jamba Juice (pomegranate paradise, mmm.)
   
8. Paradise Café (cookies, mmm)
   

8 THINGS THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY

1. Got annoyed by Gus the Cat
   
2. Learned about a fantastic new way lose weight and have more energy (after listening to my Nutrition teacher, I'm not buying it)
   
3. Scorched the milk I was boiling for instant Mashed Potatoes
   
4. Started peeling a pomegranate
   
5. Saw a teenager driving a police car
   
6. Learned about the Cabbage family and its relationship to the development of goiters
   
7. Registered for Spring semester
   
8. I pondered the demographics of the attendees of the recent NKOTB concert…All women between the ages of 25 and 35 and were there any men in attendance?
   

8 THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO

1. Getting last week's travel expenses resolved
   
2. WICKED!!!
   
3. Seeing High School Musical 3 (yes I am a nerd)
   
4. Paying off my car (or selling it, whichever comes first)
   
5. Buying a new NewBeetle.
   
6. Scratching Bachelors degree of my list
   
7. Snowflakes
   
8. Springtime
   

8 THINGS ON MY WISH LIST

1. A pair of Black Earth Shoes, size 7 please
   
2. A Canon Rebel Digital SLR
   
3. Peace on Earth
   
4. A Good and Handsome husband
   
5. Room for a desk
   
6. A lucrative career in Photography
   
7. A Month in Europe
   
8. A Wii
   

Betcha Didn't Know

You can get a goiter from eating too much cabbage (or foods from the cabbage family). I don't know if this technically includes lettuces, but those friends and relations of mine with lettuce phobias may be on to something.

Stay Tuned...

There will be more to come, I promise.

If I Had My Druthers

I woke up this morning with the desire to create. What I wouldn't give to plunge my hands into freshly mixed clay to create a masterpiece on a pottery wheel--I'm not a potter, but there's something therapeutic, almost magical in the attempt to mold a shapeless piece of earth into something like a "useful pot". I love to create things, whether it's a slightly lopsided pot or bowl that ends up holding an over-abundance of pencils, or a dainty dress for a little one.

I have no potter's wheel or clay for that matter, though I do have some play-doh, but it's not quite the same thing. Unfortunately, getting a passing grade in Nutrition takes precedence over leisure time. Then there's the grim face of Reality that seems to sop all my time like a biscuit sopping up the last tasty morsel of syrup on a plate.

If I had my druthers today would be the day I would finally set up that art studio in the garage that my flat mate and I dream of having one day--complete with darkroom, plenty of oil paints and space for painting, a pottery wheel, the works...as for Reality, I'd throw it all away and become a creator.

A Great Sadness...

Just now I realized (and confirmed my suspicions) that there will be no episode of Chuck to watch tonight. Curse those politicians!!!