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1. THIS VERY SECOND

  • time/date: 12:08 am on Thursday, December 22, 2011
  • sounds: heater, people talking in living room
  • food/drink: Hawaiian Gingerade
  • items of clothing: yellow cardigan, gray dress, red tights
  • last dream: It was stressful and I’m glad I can’t remember it
  • joy: The sunshine
  • worrying about: Waaaay too much

2.VAGUELY SPECIFIC LIFE GOALS

  • finding a nice, furry dog with a good name
  • backyard with a nice patio table and some of those round lights strung up
  • happiness
  • a library room, maybe with one of those nifty sliding ladders
  • enough money to feel secure ✓achieved
  • health
  • seeing the Annie Oakley statue in Ohio
  • a totally awesome love relationship with someone as great as I am ✓found
  • nice legs when I’m 60, like Tina Turner

3. DESPERATELY SEEKING..

  • Christian (surly, hairy, smart) ✓found
  • a rock tumbler for my Mom
  • Steven Dombrowski from Albuquerque ✓found
  • Sonya Hotaling, last seen in Portland ✓found

4. CONTENTS OF MY PURSE; c. April 2001

  • black microfiber wallet
  • makeup bag (b&w flowers – lilac silk lining) contains:
    MAC Studio Fix compact / C15
    MAC lipstick / Desire
    Bloom Lip Glaze / Glimmer
    Colourings Lightening Touch / 01
    Visine Advanced Relief
    MAC lip pencil / Spice
    Neal’s Yard Remedies Lemon & Mint Mouth Freshener
    Urban Decay eyeshadow / Midnight Cowboy
    3 glow in the dark plastic spiders
  • Hello Kitty bus pass holder (empty, serving as reminder to buy a pass)
  • mini London A-Z
  • 30 SPF Body Shop ‘sunstick’ sunscreen
  • Sony J5 mobile phone
  • pair of cheap sunglasses from Boots
  • my green framed glasses in green soft case
  • light brown canvas calendar/organizer
  • light blue compact umbrella
  • Hint Mint tin, about 1/3 full
  • nylon compact carryall bag (for groceries)
  • 1 blue ballpoint pen
  • London Underground fold up map
  • Mint Flavored ChapStick
  • 1 packet of kleenex, 1/2 full
  • 2 half moon wooden hair sticks
  • streetmap.co.uk printout for post code W1V 7FS
  • cinema stubs: Croupier (Metro), Hedwig & The Angry Inch (Camden Odeon)
  • shopping list, written on teacup stationary from Elizabeth

5. BELOVED FURRY PETS

D=Dog ; C=Cat ; H=Hamster

  • Heidi (D)
  • Rufurt (D)
  • Ivan Ilyich (D)
  • Brucey-cat (C)
  • Peaches (C)
  • Sarah Lynd (C)
  • Melody (C)
  • D’Artanion (C)
  • Shadow (D)
  • Barney (D)
  • Gilbert (C)
  • Truffle (D)
  • Emily (C)
  • Puffin (C)
  • Petunia (C)
  • Mr. Robinson (H)
  • Snickers (D)
  • Charlie (D)
  • Chloe (C)
  • Annie (D)
  • Seamus (C)
  • Pinball (D)
  • Oscar (C)
  • Ida (C)
  • Lola Valentine (C)
  • Gus (C)

6. MY FAVORITE THINGS TO EAT

  • panang (thai mild curry)
  • inari (sweet bean curd sushi)
  • falafel
  • guacamole
  • peanut butter
  • spaghetti arribiata
  • hummous & pita
  • fresh pineapple that’s not too sour
  • green chile enchiladas
  • toast w/ jam
  • samusa soup
  • honey
  • fruit salad with poppyseed dressing
  • gingerbread
  • mango and sticky rice w/ coconut sauce
  • gang pak (thai red curry)
  • cheese karni
  • dal & vegetable korma
  • oatmeal cookies w/out raisins
  • marionberry pie
  • agedashi-dofu (japanese deep fried tofu w/ daikon radish)
  • sweet potato anything


 

7. WHERE I’VE LIVED

  • Born in Ft. Hood, Texas
  • Seattle, Washington (Ballard)
  • Renton, Washington
  • Globe, Arizona
  • Pinetop, Arizona
  • Sitka, Alaska
  • Gallup, New Mexico
  • Portland, Oregon
  • Gainvesville, Florida
  • Olympia, Washington
  • San Francisco, California (Duboce Triangle, TenderNob)
  • London, United Kingdom
  • San Francisco, California (TenderNob, Inner Richmond)
  • Palm Springs, California
  • Seattle, Washington (Capitol Hill, Eastlake)

8. PLACES I’D LIKE TO VISIT

  • Barcelona, Spain
  • Tokyo, Japan
  • Edinburgh, Scotland ✓visited
  • London, England ✓visited
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands ✓visited
  • Paris, France ✓visited
  • Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Price Edward Island, Canada
  • Iceland (anywhere in)

9. 1994 DESERT ISLAND TAPE LIST

  • Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
  • Starfish – The Church
  • Disintegration or Head on the Door – The Cure
  • Greatest Hits – Simon and Garfunkel
  • Last Splash – the Breeders
  • Echo and the Bunnymen – Echo and the Bunnymen
  • Substance – New Order
  • March – Michael Penn
  • Doolittle – the Pixies
  • Green or Murmur – REM
  • Strangeways here we come – the Smiths
  • Stone Roses – Stone Roses
  • Flood – They Might Be Giants
  • Dusk – The The
  • Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes

10. I LIKE TO SMELL GOOD (PERFUMES I WEAR)

  • Comme des Garçons “Play”
  • Comme des Garçons “8 88″
  • Joya FvsS Composition #1
  • Joya FvsS Composition #2

12. FAVORITE VARIETIES OF NUT in order

  1. Almond
  2. Pecan
  3. Walnut
  4. Cashew
  5. Hazelnut
  6. Pistachio
  7. Peanut
  8. Brazil Nut

14. FAVORITE TEAS

  • Golden Moon White Persian Melon
  • Bigelow Constant Comment
  • Market Spice Tea
  • Celestial Seasonings English Toffee
  • Republic of Tea’s Vanilla Almond & Mango Ceylon
  • Stash’s Moroccan Mint
  • Eleven o’Clock (Rooibosch/Rooibos)
  • Typhoo
  • David Rio Elephant Vanilla Chai

15. THINGS I CALL MY CATS

  • Lo (Lola)
  • Gustifer (Gus)
  • Pusspuss
  • Fluffer
  • Furface
  • Purrface
  • Megadeth (Gus)
  • Slayer (Lola)
  • Kenny (Gus)
  • Enumclaw (Gus)
  • The Claw (Gus)

16. PET PEEVES

  • Christmas trees up way after Christmas
  • Tailgaters
  • Strangers singing to me
  • Loud, high noises (makes my ears go static-y)

I love a list

Whenever my brain feels like a scramble of shoulds and wannas, I make myself a cup of coffee and sit down with a piece of paper and a pen and get it all out.

What better way to keep track of your life, of your very you-ness than to keep lists? I find them convenient to write, fun to read, and I’d dare say poetic. Some lists are useful, some are out of date and should be tossed (but are kept around for remembering’s sake). Here are my tried and true.