February=Love: the 28th

(so I really did want to post this on the 28th...but I guess I am struggling with the scheduling feature of blogspot)

February=Love: the 28th

It is the last day of the month.

There are so many things still to write about.

I could make a blanket statement...

say that I love my life.

Which I indeed do.

I could say that I love that I have the ability to feel love.

It is probably the best motivation that I have in my life...

loving those around me, wanting the very best for them...

does it get any better than that?

But I think what I will end with is my lifetime love affair with reading.

I love to read.

I love books.

Many, many different books.

From different authors.

different time periods.

different genres.

I've rarely met a book that I didn't love.

and I can't really say that I've met any books that I didn't at least like.

I think that almost always you can find something worthwhile in a story...

some life lesson.

some of my most beloved...

The Power of One

Bryce Coutenay

The Great Divorce

The Four Loves

A Problem of Pain

A Grief Observed

The Screwtape Letters

C.S. Lewis

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Matilda

Boy

Going Solo

Roald Dahl

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

Written on the Body

Jeanette Winterson

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

There's a Wocket in my Pocket

The Cat in the Hat

Horton Hears a Who

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

The Lorax

Dr. Seuss

The Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Hamlet

Williams Shakespeare

The Princess Bride

William Goldman

(of course this is the version which Goldman abridged from S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

(to be read every four or five years)

The Boxcar Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Night of the Twisters

Ivy Ruckman

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

The Book of Jonah

Jonah the prophet

The Book of Ether

an account of the brother of Jared and his family abridged by Moroni

My Name is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok

Hiroshima

John Hersey

And truly...this list is never ending...

but I will stop now.

I hope you had a lovely February.

I think that March shall be March Music Madness

a little b-ball

and some tunes!

Questions for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...

Why is it that when hosting the Oscars people who are normally HI-LARIOUS, become awkward and non-funny? (seriously Anne could join SNL she is hilarious)

Melissa Leo?
(I mean she was great in The Figther, but Oscar worthy?)

Really?! You have to show the E.T. silhouette? some of us are still petrified of E.T.

How can you possibly think that Social Network's score is better than Inception's score?

Also...how many dresses are you going to make Anne Hathaway wear?

Why are there little kids singing "Somewhere over the Rainbow"?

Why are all the winners coming back on stage?

And why do we keep getting close ups of Melissa Leo?

And last but not at all least...WHY does Leonardo Dicaprio keep getting snubbed?!

February=Love: the 27th

Rebecca Louise Fischer, Sara Anne England Greener, Jessy Kay Excell Allen

and Becca Williams Doutre...

this post is dedicated to you.

February=Love: the 27th

taking a shower.

I know there are those of you out there who are probably shocked that I've never mentioned this before.

You are probably my old roommates.

So in the case that someone is doubting my deep and abiding love for taking showers...

yes...deep and abiding...

then all you have to do is ask any number of roommates that I've had.

They have definitely had some input.

If I could shower three times a day, I would.

(And no, I am NOT a germ-a-phob.)

There is nothing I detest more than when I have to take a quick shower.

To me a quick shower is ten minutes...but even fifteen or twenty is never quite enough.

Thirty minutes at least.

Unless of course the hot water is broken...

or irresponsible roommates (who are NOT those listed above) forget to pay the gas bill.

Then it is get in

rinse.

turn off the water.

soap up.

turn on the water.

rinse.

get out.

repeat if necessary for hair washing

(which happens almost every time I shower...and I still have amazing hair)

I can't believe that anyone who has read this post is all that surprised by this.

(A shower is typically part of a bathroom.)

In college I would shower at 3:00am sometimes...

because of course you're still wide awake at 3:00am when you're in college.

One of the highlights of showering for me is the fantastic singing that happens while in the shower.

My favorite song to sing in the shower is

Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam

I learned all the words by the time I was probably 3 or 4 I would imagine.

A close second is

Last Kiss.

I learned all the words to this one by the time I was ten or eleven.

My parents listened to the oldies station all the time.

Not only are showers a good time to exercise my vocal chords

but they are relaxing.

And a good time to work out the mysteries of the Universe.

While I LOVE swimming...whether it be in the pool, the ocean, a river or a lake...

NOTHING takes the place of the refreshing feeling a shower brings.

Last summer I spent many, many Fridays at Pineview.

I loved every minute of it.

One of best parts of those days was coming home after a long day in the sun and water and taking a shower.

It was the cherry on top of those wonderful summer days.

If I'm in a bad mood the shower is the perfect place to sulk and let my anger wash away (pun totally intended)

If I'm in a good mood then there is much joy and singing.

If I'm tired it is a refreshing wake up.

If I'm tired it is a soothing lullaby.

After all...we never know when a zombiepocalypse is going to happen...

so let's follow Tallahassee's advice and

"enjoy the little things"

February=Love: the 25th-a musical love

February=Love: a musical love

Adele

Yep...here is another super fantastic live performance!

And if you STILL haven't bought the album...

GO. NOW.
she sounds almost exactly the same live as on her album!

February=Love: the 24th-a musical love

February=Love: the 24th-a musical love

Adele...again

I told you...her album came out on the 22nd...so...enjoy this live performance

and then just go get the whole album.

and while you're at it download some Mumford & Sons 

and just for good measure, a little Arcade Fire