Laughing out loud, reading, dancing, drinking wine, cooking, playing in dirt, shopping, the ocean, playing, my family, dressing up, decorating, building fires, singing (poorly!), movies, flowers, travelling, having parties, going to parties, antiques, art stuff, learning, the Oakland Raiders, and...
you.
There is a time and place for all of it... some of my favorites are:
Favorite overall genre: Country (please, no smartass comments... it just is!)
Best to dance to: Goth, Techno, Industrial
Fav artist: Bruce Springsteen
Fav song ever: Paradise By the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf
Songs that make me cry: Daddy's Hands, Don't Take the Girl, He Stopped Loving Her Today, She's In Love with the Boy
Songs that make me happy: Christmas songs! Happy Birthday, any songs sung with my nieces, karaoke songs
Songs that take me home: A Capella church music, camp songs, In the Pines, My Country Tis of Thee, Good Morning song
Yes, yes, yes... let's wile the day away with a Katherine Hepburn fest or go see the latest Harry Potter or peruse the Oscar winners or whatever... love them muchly!
Top 10 all time favs:
10. The Wizard of Oz
9. The Breakfast Club
8. It's a Wonderful Life
7. Raising Arizona
6. Pulp Fiction
5. The Godfather II
4. Pride and Prejudice (A&E version)
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Gone With the Wind
... and the Winner is...
1. Miracle on 34th Street (w/ Edmund Gwen)
It's all "reality tv". I prefer reality...
so, none for me, thank you.
"The peace of great books be for you. Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather."
-Carl Sandburg, For You, 1920
"When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerers and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, 'Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.'"
-Virginia Woolf, 1932
"Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens: bask in their beauty, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices and myrrh. And when your soul be weary, change from garden to garden, and from prospect to prospect."
-Ibn Tibbon, c. 1120-1190 (?)