FavorFRITOS

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,
Brown paper packages tied up with strings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels,
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles,
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes,
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,
Silver white winters that melt into springs,
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad."

Sound of Music, My Favorite Things

Some of those are my favorite things... except "Silver white winters that melt into springs." Yuck. :P Spring can go away and stay away. Snow, snow, snow! Snow again! Snow again! Doooon't melt on me!

My favorite thing about snow? It covers up all of the ugly in the world. Everything is so pure and so white that you can't help but feel peaceful. So what, it's cold? Puh-lease. Livin' in Utah! Think of it as a perk.

But then you wake up the next morning to find that all of the ugly black asphalt is showing up again and all the dead lawns are showing their brown yucky fingers and the dirt is mixing with the snow in a jumbled up mess. SLUSH. :P


My Favorite Things: The List Addition! (Taaaadaaaa!)
~Snow falling when you are the only one in the street
~Rain falling when you are the only one in the street
~Leaves falling when you are the only one in the street
~Um, being the only one in the street... while something falls?
~Getting creative writing assignments at school
~Scarves
~Campfires
~Trees
~Cloudy days, especially with rain, snow, or lightning storms
~Cat's whiskers that perk when something gets their attention
~The sound of flutes
~Night shadows
~Cats that fall asleep while you breathe in their face
~Spanish Lady and Scarborough Fair by Celtic Woman
~Colorguard, flags, Corey, my fellow guard girlies, silks, poles, six foots... (YEAH!! Tryouts tomorrow! So STOKED!)
~Typewriters
~Drawing
~Letters that you don't know the author or recipient of
~Books, especially old (like, late 1800's old)
~Musicals: Sound of Music, Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia
~Shades of grey (it seems so much better spelled that way)
~Cats that like to attack inanimate objects
~Cats that wake you up right on time but insist on laying by you cutely so that you won't get out of bed
~Camping
~Inside jokes ("Hey, I just rolled my head to the back of my eyes!")
~Ludo (The friendly beast from Labyrinth)
~Winnie the Pooh movies (they're really quite hilarious, I just didn't get most of the jokes as a kid)
~Commas, and I don't even know, like, why, it's just the way of this fanciful, large, green world.
~Ellipses...
~Freaking my friends out by wearing dresses to school
~Old houses you read about in books
~Fireplaces
~Background noise (dishwasher, heating/air conditioning, ticking clocks, etc.)
~Chocolate
~Crisp blank pieces of paper
~Lists :)
~Friends and family (hey, gotta be there somewhere)
~Hats of any kind
~Ghost stories
~Smell of tomato leaves


My Un-favorite Things: The List Addition! (Dun dun duuuun...)
X Sunny days
X Cars, airplanes, roads, etc... except trains...
X Neighborhoods where all of the houses look the same (spare a coat of paint)
X Sunsets
X Gaggles of giggling girls that all have the same giggle (have you ever actually *heard* one of these??)
X Trees that are soo not accidentally there (the ones that need help from a pole to stand up straight)
X People who say I'm weird, seriously. Yeah. I got it...
X Guys... scratch that... PEOPLE who sag their pants (As I once *almost* said to someone walking slow in the hall, "Walk like you have a belt on!")
X Most organ music, excluding horror music
X Swimming pools
X Packaging
X Sharing a room with an EXTREMELY messy sister (you'd think it was her goal in life)
X Seeing trash in the gutter and knowing you are surrounded by idiots
X Slush

I'm just glad that my Favorites list was longer than my Un-favorites list. :)

These are a few of my favorite things...