and now for something a little more positive...

THE LOVE LIST

1. Actor-network theory (and I’m not even sociocultural emphasis!)
2. Airplanes and flying in them
3. American Association of Museums
4. Animals
5. Banana Republic
6. Barack Obama
7. Bedsocks
8. Being successful
9. Blatant creepiness
10. Britney Spears
11. Brown rice
12. Café Rio
13. Cartoons that involve talking animals (i.e. Madagascar, Ice Age, Over the Hedge, etc.)
14. Catch Phrase
15. Catch-22
16. CFL lightbulbs
17. Chapstick
18. Christmas
19. Citizens of Humanity jeans
20. Clean laundry
21. Cloudy days
22. CNN
23. Coats
24. Coldplay
25. Cooking
26. CSI
27. Cuddling
28. Daybreak in South Jordan
29. December 27
30. Digital cameras with memory cards that can store more than 40 pictures
31. Discovering something new
32. Dollar theater
33. Dressing up
34. Dyeing my hair
35. Edward Gorey
36. Eric
37. Expressing myself
38. Fall
39. Flowers
40. Google and all its components
41. Horseback riding
42. Hot chocolate
43. Ikea
44. imdb.com
45. Inside jokes
46. InStyle magazine
47. Interior design
48. iTunes and my iPod
49. Jewel tone clothing
50. Laughing
51. Learning
52. Leopard print
53. London
54. Long pants
55. LOST
56. Ludacris
57. Making connections
58. Making lists
59. Most Disney movies
60. Museums
61. My bed
62. My bike
63. My family
64. My friends
65. Mythology
66. NAGPRA (not any paperwork that goes along with it though…)
67. Naps
68. National Parks
69. Native American cultures
70. New ways of thinking about old ideas
71. Oak cabinets and furniture
72. Oregon
73. Pasta
74. people.com
75. Photo Albums
76. Photography
77. Pillows and blankets
78. Planning
79. Public transportation
80. Pumpkin pie
81. Rain
82. Raspberries
83. Sex and the City
84. Slot canyons
85. Snow Patrol
86. Swimming
87. Sydney and Paris
88. Temples
89. The beach
90. The blog “Get Rich Slowly”
91. The Devil Wears Prada
92. The gospel
93. Trashy reality TV
94. Traveling
95. Vacations
96. Warm comfy sweatpants
97. When I’m not the tallest person around
98. Wooden spoons, bowls, or cutting boards
99. Yoga
100. Zoos

lindsay did it, now i am too. haha.

THE HATE LIST

1. “In America, we have…”
2. 2-carat engagement rings
3. 6th floor girls
4. Aeropostale
5. Army National Guard commercial
6. Basketball
7. Big moles on people’s faces
8. Birth control
9. Blisters
10. Blizzards
11. Burglars
12. Burnt out lightbulbs
13. Caked-on makeup
14. Cancer
15. Car commercials
16. Cat hair everywhere
17. Caveman Geico commercials
18. Cheap extensions
19. Class
20. Clear bra straps
21. Cougareat
22. Crazy foreign roommates
23. Creepy Clearisil commercials
24. Crying
25. Deal or No Deal
26. Deforestation
27. Dirty cars
28. Ditzy girls
29. Driving in the snow
30. Eating one’s burrito in under a minute
31. Emo Polaroid pictures
32. Emotions on reality TV
33. EZ Cheese
34. Fake people
35. FaMOUSE people
36. Fishnet shirts
37. Fresh papaya
38. Girls with 8000 best friends
39. Glenn Beck
40. Guns
41. Hot Topic
42. Huge tattoos in Old English font
43. Hunting
44. Idaho
45. Ignorance
46. Interrupted naps
47. Kevin Federline
48. Kids in sacrament meeting
49. Korrie
50. Lace-trimmed clothing
51. Lurking
52. Man bands (like Daughtry, Lifehouse, Finger Eleven, Nickleback, etc.)
53. Matching outfits in engagement pictures
54. Melting ice caps
55. Mormon celebrities
56. Mormon movies
57. Mud
58. Nancy Grace
59. Onch
60. Paramore
61. Pastel colors
62. Pawn shops
63. People who stare into your car as you drive by
64. People who text while having a conversation
65. People who travel all the time
66. People who use Macs to be trendy
67. Provo all-stars
68. Puddles
69. Scene kids
70. Scion xB’s and Honda Elements
71. Scrunchies
72. Shirts with one sleeve
73. Shouting in commercials
74. Skinny jeans
75. Slugs
76. Smog/Pollution
77. Sound Warehouse commercials
78. Sparkling vampires
79. Spencer on the Hills
80. Stallions
81. Stray hairs everywhere
82. Striped polo shirts on girls
83. Stupid jokes
84. Subway
85. Tacky people
86. Temecula
87. Texas
88. The Home Shopping Network
89. The pictures on the walls
90. The Shark
91. The Wendy’s girl
92. Tila Tequila
93. Twilight superfans
94. Utah drivers
95. Utah Lake
96. Utah Valley
97. Waking up before 9 am
98. When holiday job employers actually call your references
99. Wind
100. World of Warcraft

veteran's day

I just finished reading this article on CNN about a medic who fought in WWII and was put in a POW camp for a few months before it was liberated. I think his story is amazing, not because of what he survived, but because of what he did while he was there. He felt it was his duty to record everything that happened to him, and even after the war, he wasn't allowed to say anything about it.

I am so grateful for those people who have served and do serve our country in any capacity. I obviously don't agree with war, but I am grateful that there are people who are willing to put others before themselves even if it means they will lose their own life.

"You only live once. Let's keep trucking. If we don't do that, who's going to do it for us? We have to be happy. Why hate?" he says. "The world is full of hate, and yet they don't know what they want.

Thanks to those veterans.

paris does more tricks.

We don't have children, so I am forced to write more often about my cats. Yes, it's true. Especially Paris, who actually does things. This is her latest trick (it might be sideways again):